Bio

Allison Beaty is a dance artist, educator, choreographer, and researcher holding an MFA in Dance (Choreography) from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and a BA in Dance from Texas Tech University. Allison has performed, taught, and choreographed professionally throughout Texas and North Carolina. She was a performing company member and choreographer with Flatlands Dance Theatre, where she also served as the founding Company Council President. In addition, she has performed in works by renowned choreographers such as Renay Aumiller, B.J. Sullivan, Janet Lilly, Ali Duffy, Brooklyn Draper, Amanda Jackson, Trent D. Williams, Sarah Wildes Arnett, and Nicole Wesley, among many others. Allison is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor and Co-Director of Terrain Dance Project at North Carolina State University. She previously taught at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, University of Central Missouri, Austin Community College, and Texas Tech University. Her teaching and choreographic style is greatly informed by Safety Release technique, somatic practice, and her love for psychology, anatomy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is also immersed in creative and scholarly research at the intersection of artmaking, pedagogical practice, and scientific inquiry. Allison’s choreographic work focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration with other art mediums in the exploration of scientific phenomena and technology. Her choreography has been presented at the Wicklow ScreenDance Laboratory (Ireland), the Jacksonville Dance Film Festival (Florida), the Greensboro Dance Film Festival (North Carolina; Sweden), the Utah Dance Film Festival (Utah), the International ScreenDance Festival (Iowa; Mexico), the 16th Annual Modern Dance Festival at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas), the American College Dance Association Southcentral Conference (Texas), and BOOM Charlotte Festival (North Carolina), among numerous other concerts and festivals. In addition, Allison’s research on collaborative and improvisational choreographic practices, shared ownership, and dance pedagogy has been presented at conferences such as the National Dance Education Organization, Dance Studies Association, Nordic Forum for Dance Research, American College Dance Association, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, and the Southern Humanities Conference, and is published in Research in Dance Education. She remains committed to this research trajectory, seeking to redefine traditional hierarchical power structures and foster a sense of community and shared ownership in her choreographic work and teaching. Alongside her creative and pedagogical practice, Allison is also engaged in quantitative research in psychology examining memory mechanisms for dance expertise.

Area(s) of Expertise

Contemporary/Modern Dance
Somatics
Screendance
Dance Science
Dance and Technology
Site-Specific Dance