I absolutely loved this conversation. Andrea Olsen does incredible work exploring dance, embodiment, and our relationship to the world around us.

Andrea Olsen, dance artist, author, and educator, is a Professor Emerita of Dance at Middlebury College, and a certified teacher of Holden QiGong and Embodyoga®. She is author of a triad of books on the body: Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, and The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making with colleague Caryn McHose, and numerous articles and chapters in anthologies. Recent projects include continuing the Body and Earth: Seven Web-Based Somatic Excursions film project with Scotty Hardwig and Caryn McHose (http://body-earth.org), co-hosting the first-ever arts series at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA with Tangut Degfay ’18 (http://go.miis.edu/arts18), and facilitating an Embodied Intelligence series of films and lectures with colleague Nükhet Kardam (http://sites.middlebury.edu/embody/). She is currently touring a new dance with text, Awakening Grace: Six Somatic Tools and will be a Fulbright Specialist at LASALLE College of the Arts

in Singapore in April, 2019 (http://andrea-olsen.com).