teaching practices are based on years of research as a professional artist, educator, and non-traditional experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BODIES IN MOTION - Spend the morning reconnecting with somatic and improvisatory processes for BODIES IN MOTION. Together we will reconnect with our breath and each other in a communal process while exploring what connections, structures, and patterns are embodied practices. This room is designed for human expansion while moving towards, sci-fi, roots, webs, inception, and interconnectivity. Let’s experience different ways of challenging our ideas of what is possible as we move through space.

The 9 AM course during 24-25, was facilitated by LROD with adaptive, welcoming, and post-human strategies.

Course Origin: Dan Safer

SP24: 49 enrolled

Fall24: 72 enrolled

SP25: 47 enrolled

PERFORMANCE MEDIA - On Friday afternoons we will gather to explore the electric realms of synthesis in contemporary performance practices and digital media. This room provides spacious experimentation and expansion through historical grounding, deliberate curation, and performance-based encounters. Portals will range from installation, content, composition, collaboration, and somatic integration. The body will become integrated and active. Together we will examine relevant archives, film/media, and reading samples to activate a thoughtful forum. The course engages the designer, director, choreographer, programmer, performer, engineer, musician/songwriter, visual artist, performance artist, ETC.

The Friday course was facilitated during the spring 2024 by LROD with adaptive, welcoming, and post-human strategies.

Course Origin: Jay Schieb

Harvard University
2024 - 2020

2024 enrollment 55
2023 enrollment 45
2022 enrollment 44
Waitlists: 90

Top Left to Right: Jasper Schoff ’22 (left) and Jane Li spun to the music, Dancers moved in pairs, including Manyatta (left) and Djibril Rushingabigwi ’22,

Bottom Left to Right: Liliana Price ’25 (from left), Jane Li ’22, and Margaret Cote ’22 warmed up, Evelyn Manyatta ’22 spoke during the class in Farkas Hall. "'Latinx Movement' has been more than rewarding and has been such a safe space for me. I feel so refreshed, confident, and amazing after each class,” said Manyatta, an economics concentrator. “After taking this dance course, I definitely want to take more.” “Latinx Movement” [Professor] LROD (left), interim head of dance for Theater, Dance & Media, demonstrated a sequence with Athena Capo-Battaglia ’23.

The Ohio State University 2020 - 2018

2020       Latinx Movement Practice (Asked to design and teach, Graduate Fellowship 2019-2020)

2019              Minors Composition: Empowering the Choreographic Mind

2019              Direct to Teach: Pedagogy & Latina/o Studies in movement, BFA Senior thesis

2019              Jazz 3: Historic Lineages & Roots

2018 Latinx Movement Practice

2018              Tap 1/2: Tap as a Political Movement

OSU Graduate Fellowship 2018-2017

OSU courses facilitated by LROD were expanded upon base templates to broaden the practical/critical course development to further question the movement curriculum in higher education with an adaptive, welcoming, and post-human lens.