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Liz Faller, M.A. - Instructor
Academic Statement (Return to top)
For thirty-five years, Liz has devoted her life to the promotion of human potential through study, practice, and teaching. Her interdisciplinary focus, with an emphasis on embodied awareness, includes dance, nature, performance art, yoga, mindfulness, creativity, ritual, and experiential education. With her extensive background in improvisational, transformational, and West African inspired dance, Liz continues to teach, perform, choreograph and direct, with infectious enthusiasm. Her commitment to a dynamic balance of academic structure and self-directed learning, and to earth-based community, anchors and enlivens her courses. Her approach is holistic (integrating body, mind and spirit), playful, and supportive, with an intention to meet the unique learning style of each student. Her faith in the profound wisdom and creativity that lies within each one of us, guides her way.
Current college courses: Dance and Transformation, Intermediate Dance Improvisation, Introduction to Dance and Improvisation, Nature and Dance, Yoga: Philosophy and Practice, Life Centering: Meditation and Mindfulness, Opening the Creative Mind
Community courses: Mindfulness Yoga, Vipassana and Mindful Movement, Dance Improvisation Lab, Dance Awake
Private Practice: Wisdom Within: Creative Tools for Human Restoration
Background & Experience
Selected Publications (Return to top)
Faller, Elizabeth Ann, When Spirit Comes Dancing, Master’s Thesis, 1999
Curtis, Diane, “Higher Education: Declaration of Independence”, Dance Teacher Magazine, interview, January 2005: 86-88.
Faller, Elizabeth Ann, “The Dance for Wilderness Project: Interdisciplinary, Service-Oriented Education”, chapter in Teachable Moments-Essays on Experiential Education, 2005
Presentations (Return to top)
Selected Performances and Presentations
Arts & Letters Faculty Showcase, Performance Art Tribute to my Mother, 2011
Directed Dance Finale for Presidential Inauguration of Dr. Kristin Wooler, 2010
Facilitator, Ceremony Leader, Raw Spirit Festival, Sedona and Prescott, AZ. 2005-2010
Opening Ceremony, Workshops: EarthSky Yoga, Dance Awake
Presenter, Unitarian Universalist Church, 2009
Web of Life: From Theory to Wondrous Experience
Guest Artist/Lecturer, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, 2004;
Dance for Wilderness; Master Classes: Nature and Dance, Sacred Dance
Seattle World Rhythm Festival; Arizona Jazz Festival; Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation.
Research (Return to top)
Liz's current literature and applied research focuses on cultivating mindfulness, embodied awareness, intuitive intelligence, and creative expression in restoring human balance and wellness, and social sustainability. For several years, she has applied her research in several classes she teaches in the local community, including Dance Improvisation Lab: Essence of Presence and Mindfulness Yoga.
Education (Return to top)
Master of Arts in Dance, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, 1999
Master Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Heartwood Healing Arts College, Garberville, CA., 1985
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Anthropology (cum laude), Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 1974
Expertise (Return to top)
Liz's expertise is in emergent-design, experiential education, human development, movement studies, dance, and performance art, grounded in knowledge and contemplation, and open to the mysterious and unexplainable.
Coverage in News & Media (Return to top)
Selected media
Prescott College student distills music career, life experiences into multimedia concert http://theazedge.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=13&ArticleID=865
Faller speaks on, "Waking up to the Web of Life" http://www.dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=69123
How to Create an Independent Study Program at your University http://www.dance-teacher.com/content/how-create-independent-study-program-your-university
Presentation from Prescott College salutes Carbon's Canyon http://www.sunad.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=2072
African-inspired Dance Draws Students Of All Ages news.google.com/newspapers?nid=894&dat=19960222...
Prescott College Teacher's Performance Brings Work To A High Point news.google.com/newspapers?nid=894&dat=19990415...
Liz Faller : Dancer http://www.rawspirit.com/bio.php?personid=37
Academic Involvement at Prescott College (Return to top)
Programs/Degrees
- On-Campus Undergraduate Programs
- Limited-Residency Undergraduate Programs
- Limited-Residency Master of Arts Program
Areas of Study
- Human Development
- Performing Arts
- Expressive Arts
- Somatic Psychology
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