JAM Spotlight Series with Salve Regina University Department Chair, Lindsay Guarino

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Today we take a moment to highlight another great program in higher education, Salve Regina University. We were lucky enough to speak with Department Chair and Dance Program Coordinator, Lindsay Guarino, about this unique program. Lindsay also has had a hand in changing the program and has been involved in some incredible projects. Located in Rhode Island, this program has specialty focuses as well as flexibility. We hope you enjoy our chat today with Lindsay Guarino.
Program overview:
At Salve Regina University, the bachelor's degree in dance offers a transformative education through the study of dance in a liberal arts environment. Through the curriculum, students engage in critical dialogue, physical practice and creative production as they study dance history, theory, technique, performance, composition and pedagogy. Students develop their artistic voices across a range of styles, including jazz, contemporary, tap, hip hop and ballet. The curriculum emphasizes jazz studies with courses designed to honor, investigate and practice jazz as a historically Black American art form best understood through awareness of one's own identity and culture. Community is at the heart of Salve Regina's dance program with an environment that encourages and supports individuality, personal creativity, dynamic exchanges of energy, risk-taking and resilience - all enduring values within the jazz aesthetic.
About Lindsay:
Lindsay Guarino is a jazz dance artist, educator and scholar. As associate professor
and department chair of Music, Theatre and Dance at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI she has grown the dance program from a minor to a B.A. focused in jazz and justice. As an educator and a leader, Lindsay prioritizes community at the heart of her practice and seeks to cultivate spaces where individuality is celebrated and recognized as vital to personal and collective growth. Lindsay’s commitment to revealing and preserving jazz dance in connection to its roots led her to co-edit Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches (University Press of Florida, 2014), and the award winning text Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century (UPF, 2022). Through the National Dance Education Organization, Lindsay developed and planned two special topics jazz dance conferences (2016 & 2019) and developed and taught Jazz Dance Theory and Practice for their Online Professional Development Institute. She appears in and consulted on the documentary Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance (2020), available on HBO Max.

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