Painting: Adior

“Dance making is collaborative. All the people in the room contribute. I learn about the dancers through scores, movement choices, improvisation and play. I learn about identity and value, journeys and wishes with some thoughts and movement ideas of my own. Then we take those moments, made of one another, our stories, our pasts, our present and dance, making something new with intention and purpose.”

Lindsey Bauer (she/they) is a dance artist, professor, and arts education advocate. Lindsey’s research interest centers around inclusive practice and art making that reflects process around identity, skills, intellect, criticality and JOY. Lindsey loves to work with artists and students supporting their journeys in learning and artistry. Lindsey is a member of the dance department faculty at Towson University, and a Professional Learning Community Manager for the Shirley Hall Bass Legacy Project’s National Performing Arts Initiative in the Bahamas. The Legacy Project is an organization that preserves the legacy of legendary performer, Shirley Hall Bass, and is committed to strengthening the connections within in the African Diaspora through equitable and accessible performing arts education and programming in the Bahamas, Chicago and beyond. 

Lindsey recently relocated to Baltimore after working as a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Elm City Dance Collective, a non-profit dance organization and company based in New Haven, Connecticut. The organization was a central component to the arts community in New Haven for over 16 years producing original works, offering dance classes, workshops and festivals, afterschool programs and performances.  Some partnerships include New Haven Pride Center, Mystic Aquarium, CT Capoeira & Dance Center, Yale University, Shubert Theater, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.

Lindsey has been in a longtime artistic partnership with Kellie Ann Lynch co-creating, co-leading and dancing together in works such as Re-Work: 2025 (2025), Transbody (2019-2023), Transpositions, Yale University (2021), House (2009). Lindsey has performed with and for artists Luis Antonio, Mestre Efraim Silva, Lee Sher & Saar Harari, and Rachel Bernsen. Lindsey is inspired by collaborative work with artists of other mediums and has worked with visual and media artists Àdéjóke Àdéronke Túgbíyélé in Crown for Kamala (2021), Cai Ying & Phoebe Hui in In Between: the Chaos Project (2017), and Olushola Cole in Pirate Jenny Scores (2015).

Lindsey is co-author of the online course “Gender Inclusivity in the Dance Classroom” published by Human Kinetics (2024) and teaches in the National Dance Education Organization’s Online Professional Development Institute.  Lindsey has presented research in dance education and gender inclusivity at universities and conferences nationally. 

Lindsey has a background in K-12 education, working as the lead dance teacher at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School until 2024 and contributing to the curricular development in the arts for Yale China’s Brilliant Boba: Amplifying Asian Voices, New Haven and Waterbury Public Schools.

Lindsey has a BFA from Towson University, MFA from Arizona State University, and a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. Ensuring that all students, artists, and participants feel welcome in dance experiences is most important in Lindsey’s practice.