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Email: Movement Sciences
College of Education
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2401
Phone: (208) 885-7921
Fax: (208) 885-5929

MS Faculty Belle Baggs

Belle Baggs


Office: PEB 104
Phone: (208) 885-6273
Email: belleb@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address: Movement Sciences College of Education
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-2401

College of Education
Movement Science
Clinical Assistant Professor

Campus Locations: Moscow
With UI Since 2011


Research/Focus Areas

  • Choreography
  • Improvisation
  • Pedagogy
  • Dance and Social Justice
  • Laban Movement Analysis

Biography

Belle Baggs (MFA, CLMA) is a dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and advocator for the arts, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. She holds her Master of Fine Arts in Modern Dance from University of Utah and Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies/ Minor in Dance from Idaho State University.  Awarded a University Teaching Assistantship at University of Utah she was able to focus on dance pedagogy and diving deeper into the exploration of dance as a physical, aesthetic, intellectual and cultural practice. She was a continual member of the Performing Dance Company in works by Eric Handman, Satu Hummasti and has performed at the National College Dance Festival in New York City in work by Rosa Vissers. She has also danced professionally as a founding member of the Idaho Moving Project (I~Move) directed by Melanie Kloeztel. Belle has recently joined as a member of inFluxdance, a contemporary dance company based out of Salt Lake City dedicated to build community awareness and social change through innovative choreography. She is also a Certified Movement Analyst from the Integrated Movement Studies program. Her training extends through many disciplines including: choreography, improvisation, somatics, and jazz.

Selected Publications

  • Beyond Words: An Embodied Empathic Process, 2011, UMI Dissertation Publishing.

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