Susan Bauer is a dance/somatics educator who has taught in
both college and community settings for the past 20 years, informed
by her extensive background in contemporary dance, Authentic
Movement, Body-Mind Centering (TM), and dance anthropology. As a
recent Fulbright Scholar to Bali, Indonesia, she has performed in
numerous intercultural collaborations in dance and topeng (masked
dance) in both the U.S. and Asia, including the International Bali
Arts Festival in 2001. In 2009, she co-led a tour to Indonesia in
the Arts and Spirituality of Bali through the Public Programs
division at CIIS. Susan is also the author of A Body-Mind Approach
to Movement Education for Adolescents, which presents her unique
curriculum in Experiential Anatomy for teens. In addition to
teaching at USF, she is also Adjunct Faculty at CIIS and
JFKU.
