"Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Dance"

Job Details

The University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance seeks an established or emerging dance professional to teach undergraduate courses in dance. The teaching focused position in a leading public research institution calls for teaching and service to be priorities for the employee. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in contemporary ballet practices, contemporary dance, and somatics, and a pedagogical practice that is evolving codified techniques. The ability to teach ballet as foundational training to support a broad range of dance practices will be considered an asset, complementing the candidate’s expertise in somatics and contemporary practice. We especially welcome candidates whose teaching explicitly integrates somatic inquiry within contemporary movement practices, situating embodied knowledge within cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary contexts. Additional areas of teaching may include jazz, improvisation, digital media, dance studies, pedagogy, or experiential anatomy/kinesiology.

This position calls for a teacher-artist whose creative research and choreographic practice informs their pedagogy and supports the School’s commitment to preparing students for wide-ranging professional trajectories in dance, performance, and creative practice.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

This position is covered by the United Faculty of Florida Contract.  You can view this employment union contract here https://admin.hr.ufl.edu/compliance/employee-relations-and-ethics/union-negotiations/united-faculty-of-florida-contract/.

Responsibilities:

• Teach undergraduate curriculum-- all levels of Contemporary Ballet Practices, Contemporary Dance Practices, Dance Composition, and Ensemble courses. Under the current curricula, typical teaching assignments for lecturers in dance are 7-9 credits (3-4 courses) per semester.
• Develop, revise, and deliver curriculum in Contemporary Dance and Contemporary Ballet Dance Practices.
• Contribute to curricular efforts in other dance-related areas (could include choreography, improvisation, dance studies, cultural studies, dance pedagogy, somatics, dance and technology, Experiential Anatomy/Dance Kinesiology, and/or production, among others, including developing new Quest courses or existing General Education courses).
• Cultivate and maintain a teaching, research, and service profile consistent with UF and unit guidelines for progress toward promotion for lecturers.
• Active participation in our learning community, finding innovative ways to connect the arts to critical discourses in other disciplines.
• Participate in the dance season, choreographing or providing artistic leadership for performances.
• Advise BA and BFA senior projects.
• Participate in shared governance through service to School, College, and University committees
• Participate in effective student recruitment, guidance, and retention.