Professional Experience

Sandra Minton, PhD was Dance Coordinator at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) from
1972-1998. She also taught dance in the public schools at the elementary and middle school
levels and presented interdisciplinary teachers’ workshops face-to-face and on-line for about 10
years. Later, Minton created and then co-coordinated and taught in the Dance Education MA
program at UNC. She has helped write the Dance Standards and Dance Curricula for the
Colorado Department of Education. Minton is a founding member of the Colorado Dance
Education Organization (CoDEO) and serves on their board along with serving on the board of
The Dance Archive at the University of Denver.

Education and Training

Minton’s MA and PhD degrees are in dance from UCLA and Texas Woman’s University
respectively. She has studied with a number of dance and dance education professionals
including: Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Merce Cunningham, Lynda Davis, Irene Dowd, Bill
Evans, Alma Hawkins, Hannah Kahn, Aileene Lockhart, Carla Maxwell and Gus Solomons, Jr.
In her doctoral dissertation, she investigated the possible effect of imagery on the body alignment
of beginning modern dancers. Minton’s research, including the effects of dance on creativity, the
operation of the kinesthetic sense and the use of mental imagery in the dance classroom has been
published in juried journals.

Honors

Minton was the 1999 National Dance Association Artist/Scholar, a 2001 Fulbright Scholar to
Finland and received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement award from the National Dance Education
Organization. She has also been recognized as a Legend of Dance in Colorado by The Dance
Archive, University of Denver.

 

 

What Others Have Said

About Teaching Workshops . . .

". . . I am indeed teaching a dance unit this year; the materials from last summer's workshop have helped emmensely!" ~ Evelyn Rodriguez, High School Teacher

 

About Awareness Work . . .

"Afterwards they [the students] seem to be much more in touch with their bodies, with how they move though space, and of how relaxation is of major importance."
~Ruth Savig, former Visual Arts Professor

 

"I enjoyed your movement exercises immensely and know from the students' journals that they, too, were thrilled."
~ Susan Bromley, Psychology Professor

 

About Conference Organization . . .

". . . you are a master planner . . . you did a fantastic job and we can't thank you enough . . ."
~ Rebecca Hutton, former Executive Director, National Dance Association

About Work as a Dance Educator . . .

"Amazing contributions to UNC and the world of dance!"
~ Tom McNally, Former Theater/Dance Department Chair

 

"I feel your dance program is very special in that it is run professionally, but with a humanistic emphasis."
~ Jan Justis, former Artistic Director, Jan Justis Dance Company, and high school teacher

 

Consulting Areas of Expertise
  Interdisciplinary teaching
 
Dance Curriculum Writing and Evaluation
 
Research on dance
 
Conference Organization
 
Manuscript Editing
 
Research on Dance and the Arts

 
 

 

 

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Sandra Minton
7586 East 148th Placet
Thornton, CO 80602
E-mail mintonsandra4@gmail.com.