Lynn Neuman fuses her background as a professional dancer and teacher, director of a contemporary dance company with educational programs for a wide variety of populations, and vast experience as a teaching artist with her studies of imagination and learning capacities to bring a vibrant sense of curiosity in learning to the classroom and professional development for teachers and administrators.
From simple, easy to use tools to overarching strategies in planning, Ms. Neuman facilitates deeper learning by creating environments that foster a desire for knowledge and understanding. Laughter and rigor go hand in hand in her classrooms and professional development workshops.
Ms. Neuman has a BFA from the University of Michigan and a Master’s Degree from Temple University. She has been a teaching artists for the Lincoln Center Institute for 10 years and has developed programs for her company, Artichoke Dance Company (www.artichokedance.org), which integrate movement and learning for populations with particular goals such as fostering interpersonal connection and trust with emotionally unstable youths, building mathematical comprehension with elementary school children, enlivening history and cultural studies with middle and high school students, building mind/body connections with abused and battered women, and increasing mobility and cognitive functioning with semi-mobile seniors. She writes a monthly column on the role of imagination in learning for the Lincoln Center Institute Resource Center’s blog. (http://resourcecenterblog.wordpress.com)
