Sara K. Schneider

Sara K. Schneider, Ph.D. received her undergraduate education at Yale and trained at New York University in Performance Studies, the nexus of cross-cultural studies and arts theories and practices. As theatre deviser-director, performance anthropologist, and author of Vital Mummies: Performance Design for the Show-Window Mannequin and Concert Song as Seen: Kinesthetic Aspects of Musical Interpretation, Schneider has written extensively on the meaning of the body in expressive and material culture. Her current investigative and creative work deals with the relationships among movement, spirituality, and learning cross-culturally, and she conducts professional development workshops for public servants, educators, health-care professionals, and members of the clergy in using kinesthetic, or body-based, methods, to learn across the curriculum and the professions, includ¬ing building under¬standing about global cultures using a movement-based perspective. Faculty of the National College of Education at National-Louis University, Schneider has also taught and consulted at the forefront of learning innovation projects at the University of Washington and Andersen Consulting, among others. The author can be reached at sks@thinkingdr.com, and welcomes comments and corrections for future editions of Art of Darkness.