Rate My Professor Andrea Knowlton

Andrea Knowlton serves as Associate Professor of Dance at Kennesaw State University’s Geer College of the Arts, Department of Dance. Holding a BFA in Dance/Choreography from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City (2005) and an MFA in Choreography/Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts (2014), she brings extensive experience to her role. Previously, she taught dance at California Institute of the Arts, California State University Long Beach, and Pasadena City College. At KSU, Knowlton has held positions as Assistant Chair of the Department of Dance and Faculty Research Champion in Innovative Creativity for the Office of Research. She teaches a range of courses including Modern Dance (Levels 2-4), Dance Pedagogy, Dance Improvisation, Dance Filmmaking, Choreography 1, Embodied Wellness, Dance Collaborations, and Directed Studies in Taxonomy of Movement: Coding for Dance. Certified in yoga, Kaeja Elevations®, and The Body Positive®, she emphasizes somatic and improvisational practices in her teaching.

An artist, researcher, and choreographer, Andrea Knowlton works at the intersection of dance and technology. She has premiered stage works in New York City, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, and her films have been presented at international festivals such as Dance Camera West, Screen Dance International, and The Place London. Her research on movement and artificial intelligence, conducted in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology, has received significant support, including a National Science Foundation grant for “Participatory Sensemaking with Embodied Co-Creative Agents” (2021-2024, $78,714). Key publications co-authored with colleagues include “AI Meets Holographic Pepper’s Ghost: A Co-Creative Public Dance Experience” (2023, ACM DIS '23 Companion) and “Observable Creative Sense-Making (OCSM): A Method For Quantifying Improvisational Co-Creative Interaction” (2023, ACM Creativity and Cognition). Knowlton has been honored with the Geer College of the Arts Early Career Faculty Award (2023), KSU Outstanding Research & Creative Activity Award, and Recognition of Excellence in Research (2023). She has presented her work nationally, including a keynote speech at the National Association of Schools of Dance, and at conferences like the National Dance Education Organization.