Lauren Gibson
Choreographer/Instructor, Social Media, Administration

Graduating summa cum laude and with national honors (through the National Honor Society for Dance Arts [NHSDA]) in dance and a minor in social welfare from Bridgewater State University, Lauren Gibson is a passionate and enthusiastic dance and movement educator, choreographer, and advocate. During her undergraduate career, she was a member of the National Dance Education Organization Student Chapter at BSU (NSO) serving as Public Relations Officer (2020-2021), Vice President (2021-2022), and President (2022-2023). During this time, Lauren was actively involved in the campus dance community, performing in and choreographing for departmental dance concerts (Winterdance 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022; Dance Kaleidoscope 2021, 2022) as well as taking on the role of Stage Manager for Dance Kaleidoscope (2023). Her participation in these concerts was also inclusive of working in the productions’ costume shop, theater management, backstage crew, and being the sound board operator and lightboard operator. In addition, she was a member of the Bridgewater State University Dance Company performing in their annual concerts (Pops 2020, 2022) along with choreographing (Pops 2021, 2022, 2023). Lauren is in pursuit of a dance/movement therapy career with a concentration in physical rehabilitation and preventative practices within settings of long-term hospitalization for pediatric patients. Lauren's most recent accomplishment includes earning her Acrobatic Arts Module 1 (levels 1-6) Certification. She has over twenty years of dance training and experience comprised of styles such as tap, jazz, ballet, pointe, modern, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, musical theater, and Latin social dances, teaching many of these styles on both a recreational and competitive level. Her goal is to teach students about the importance of bodily and spatial awareness relating to self and others, as well as anatomical safety, through dance and movements.