Associate Professor of Dance, Director MFA in Dance: Creative Practice
Somatics, Dance, Choreography, Phenomenology.
Rosana Barragan is a dance and movement artist and educator. Her graduate degree in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre/City University in London integrates three scholarly areas: choreography, choreological studies and aesthetics. Rosana is certified as a Body Mind Dancing teacher and registered through ISMETA as a Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. Rosana has worked as a professor of dance at universities in her native country, Colombia, and is currently tenure track faculty at Saint Mary’s College of California where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate dance programs. Rosana is an advocate of dance and somatics on the West Coast and owns a dance school for children, which method, is part of enrichment programs at schools in San Francisco. Her choreographic work has been awarded internationally for its success at embracing social awareness. Rosana currently serves as a peer reviewer for three somatic journals: Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Currents, and Javeriana University Arts Journal. She is also on the research and publications committee at ISMETA, serves as part-time faculty for the Dynamic Embodiment somatic movement training, and is on the Board of Moving On Center, School for Participatory Arts and Somatic Research.
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About Rosana Barragan
Somatics, Dance, Choreography, Phenomenology.
Rosana Barragan is a dance and movement artist and educator. Her graduate degree in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre/City University in London integrates three scholarly areas: choreography, choreological studies and aesthetics. Rosana is certified as a Body Mind Dancing teacher and registered through ISMETA as a Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. Rosana has worked as a professor of dance at universities in her native country, Colombia, and is currently tenure track faculty at Saint Mary’s College of California where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate dance programs. Rosana is an advocate of dance and somatics on the West Coast and owns a dance school for children, which method, is part of enrichment programs at schools in San Francisco. Her choreographic work has been awarded internationally for its success at embracing social awareness. Rosana currently serves as a peer reviewer for three somatic journals: Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Currents, and Javeriana University Arts Journal. She is also on the research and publications committee at ISMETA, serves as part-time faculty for the Dynamic Embodiment somatic movement training, and is on the Board of Moving On Center, School for Participatory Arts and Somatic Research.
| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Performing Art: Music, Dance and Theatre | |
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Master of Fine Arts in Dance | |
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Performing Arts: Dance | |
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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| Educational Program Director, Latin Ballet of Virginia | ||
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| Professor of Dance, Researcher, Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota | ||
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| Professor of Dance, Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | ||
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Somatic movement in children dance curricula, A somatic educational approach in liberal arts higher education, Biodiversity viewed from the perspective of the soma, A somatic understanding of joy to release cultural, social and intergenerational pain., Somatics and Dance Pedagogy, and The intersection of phenomenology and somatics as it applies to contemporary dance practices.
Courses
- Collegiate Seminar for Undergraduate program
- Ballet for Undergraduate program
- Research Methods for Graduate program
- Thesis for Graduate program
- Choreography for Graduate program
- Seminar in Phenomenology for Graduate program
- Somatic Movement Seminar for Graduate program
| BA Communication and Social Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | ||
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| MA Dance, Laban Centre/City University | ||
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Links
Presentations (2)
June 2020: Accepted by peer-reviewed process to present “The use of storytelling to help somatic processes in children” at the 35th Annual BMCA Conference “Resonance, Repatterning, and Revolution” at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
April 2020: Accepted by peer-reviewed process to present “Somatic Dance Pedagogy across levels and areas of study: an inclusive educational approach” at the “Future(s) of dance education(s): possibilities & challenges” International Conference hosted by the Department of Teacher Education, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in collaboration with Uniarts Helsinki´s CERADA, Stockholm University of the Arts and Center for dance practice in Trondheim, Norway.
Fall 2019: Invited by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen to develop research on the study of dancers and movers that have had a stroke and the use of somatic education and touch to regain sensation and movement.
October 2019: Presentation “The Art of Storytelling as an innovative pedagogy in Somatic Dance education for children”. Selected by peer-reviewed process for the 2019 NDEO Annual Conference “The Creative Process: Choreography, Choice-Making, and Communication”. Miami, FL.
July 2019: Two Presentations: (1) Somatic Dance Education for Children: A successful program in California where the young ones lead the trajectory of inquiry for our current and future somatic dance field; and (2) Body Mind Dancing Master Class selected by peer-reviewed process and given at International Dance & Somatic Practices Conference at Coventry University, UK.
June 2019: Presentation “Body Mind Dancing: A 35 year old somatic dance system”. Organizer and lead presenter of Panel at the International NDEO/ISMETA Conference. New York, NY. Selected by peer-reviewed process.
October 2018 & 2019: Invited to teach Body Mind Dancing as a Master Class for the National Dance Education Organization Conference in San Diego, CA.
June 2018: Presentation titled “Laban/Bartenieff applied in children’s dance pedagogy through storytelling” selected by peer-reviewed process and given during session “Laban Movement Studies: Educational Perspectives” at International Laban 2018: LIMS’ 40th Anniversary Conference in New York, NY.
July 2015: Presentation titled “Dancing at the place of space: Cellular Consciousness experienced from the perspective of Body Mind Centering® in relation to dance practice”, selected by peer-reviewed process and given at International Dance & Somatic Practices Conference “Ethics and Repair: Continuing Dialogues within Somatic Informed Practice and Philosophy” at Coventry University, UK.
March 2006: Presentation titled “The experience lived by the dance spectator: A phenomenological approach”. Selected by peer-reviewed process for Panel of Dance Studies during Dance Festival organized by Bogotá City government.
2006: Presentation “The eternal learning of soma”, based on the research project developed due to a grant received by the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Invited to speak at Distrital University, Cenda University, Javeriana University and National University in Bogotá and Cultural Institute of Bucaramanga, Colombia.
2003: Presentation at Conference titled “Hermeneutics and Dance”, selected by a non peer-reviewed process for the event “Reading Dance”, XVII International Book Show at Bogotá.