Aliya

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Number of students Aliya has accompanied since joining Superprof

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I instruct an integrated interdisciplinary movement based practice. I have an M.A. and M.F.A. degree from NYU and UCI, focusing on dance and dance education.

Dance
Choreography
Ballet
Contemporary Dance
Modern Dance

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About Aliya

WHO AM I ?

you can check out my website: aliyakerim dot com

I was a bilingual Uyghur Chinese child, growing up in three different cities in China, immersed in Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian, and Han culture. I graduated with my B.A. degree in Dance Education at the Minzu University of China, focusing on Asian Cultural dance study, specifically shining light upon underrepresented communities through teaching cultural dance with embodied history. I moved to New York City at the age of 18 to explore myriad movement practices. I worked with choreographers whose artistic productions were imbued with the reflection on inherent social structures of society.

My dedication to becoming a 21 st-century educator, being flexible and adaptable to create a student-centered constructivist learning environment that encourages self-discovery, has led me to pursue higher education. As a result, I completed an M.A. degree in Teaching Dance in the Professions at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Through collaboration, I wrote, directed, and self-produced multiple months-long experimental film and theater productions, researching and discussing human conditions through storytelling, leading me eventually to incorporate filming and writing into dance classrooms.

Moreover, my interest in movement and academic research has led me to further my journey in dance, which manifested in part as my M.F.A. study at the University of California, Irvine. My graduate research focused on building a theoretical framework for my personal movement practice which I call Ecological Performance Practice: a series of conceptual and practical approaches to Connectivity, following three contemporary intellectuals: Kimere, L. LaMothe, David Abram, and Andrea Olsen. Through designed Performative Ritual Practice(s), participants interact and interchange energy with nature through movement by activating their Empathy, Imagination, and Animal Body.

My artistic and educational experiences have grounded me in the dance classroom and rehearsal room to contextualize often neglected historical information through embodied practice. I designed syllabus and taught beginner level students on American modern and postmodern dance, by bridging its Eastern philosophical influences with a contemporary eco-somatic approach in a remote learning environment.

MY TEACHING STATEMENT:

My belief in welcoming inclusion and cultural diversity is rooted in my heritage of being an Uyghur Chinese and years of studying dance from myriad cultures. My bodily experience allows me to understand the need for providing an open, understanding, and safe space for students from all genders, gender orientation, cultural, racial, political, and socioeconomic backgrounds. My research in dance history has allowed me to appreciate cultural diversity from a wholistic perspective. In creating space for students to develop their historical literacy, I hope students will kinesthetically understand symbolic cultural gestures and appreciate respect, and welcome human cultures' diversity. Dance class is a place where individuals get to know themselves and each other within a safe community. In such a community, they learn to embody movements through imagination, empathy, researched history, contextualized information, etc. As a result, they learn to grow, listen, feel, imagine, and become aware and respect one another.

Cultivating imagination and sensory sensitivity via direct experiences are also very important in the dance classroom. Imagery-approach to movements allow students to imagine themselves in an alternative reality and experience movements beyond the abstract patterns.

I assign experiential exercises designed to explore the inner connection and disconnection between our human body and the earth we inhabit, such as observation of movement patterns from nature.

The development of sensory experiences via awakening five senses is essential because it cultivates students' kinesthetic empathy. Through learning ecological dance, I hope students will gain a new perspective on their relationship with the earth.

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My personal practice, Eco Form, is simultaneously grounded in the lineage of American Modern dance, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, The Discipline of Authentic Movement Practice, Voice Movement Therapy, Body and Earth, and woven with my research on eco-somatic approach to the concept of movement. I integrate an interdisciplinary dance practice with your active participation, including a phenomenological approach to moving, filming, lighting, and writing.

I am delighted to share the following subjects with you:

Stretching exercises

Meditation exercises (imagery, symbolic gestures, etc)

Breathing exercises

Somatic movement exercises

Strengthening exercises

American Modern dance

Somatic movement practice

Improvisation

Eco-somatic writing

Eco-somatic filming and editing

Selected Eastern Asian cultural dance

Selected Central Asian cultural dance

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Primary Series

I instruct an integrated interdisciplinary movement based practice. I have an M.A. and M.F.A. degree from NYU and UCI, focusing on dance and dance education.

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