Bio

A Michigan native, Lily Sloan received her M.F.A. in dance at Texas Woman’s University with the Outstanding Graduate Student award, and her B.A. in Dance from Oakland University Honors College, with the Undergraduate Distinguished Scholar award. Currently, she is a Co-Director of Big Rig Dance Collective and manages community dance classes through Denton Parks and Recreation. Most recently, she has worked as an Adjunct Professor at Texas Christian University and a Coordinator of the Texas Woman’s University Community Dance Center, where she integrated her knowledge as a Certified Movement Fundamentals Artist throughout her pedagogy. As a dance artist, Lily sees dance making and performing as unique opportunities to create and problem solve in a physically complex and spontaneous way. She has performed and/or presented work across the United States and in Mexico, as well as in Italy, where she was a guest artist in site-specific dance at La Bella Vita Arts Workshops. An artist and teacher of dance improvisation, Lily is on the Coordinating Committee for the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, where her writing on the festival was featured in Contact Quarterly’s newsletter. In addition, Lily’s writing on site-specific dance has been published in the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship. Sloan continues to fuse her interests in community dance education, improvisational dance forms, and Movement Fundamentals through a dynamic range of educational, creative, and performance contexts.

Email: lssloan(at)gmail.com