Lynn E. Frederiksen

Lynn E. Frederiksen was born in St. Croix, USVI where she began dancing in Afro-Caribbean, Modern and Ballet. She holds a BA in Biology and an MA in Environmental Affairs from Clark University, and an MFA in Dance from Smith College. For 15 years she was on the Drama/Dance faculty at Tufts University, and is currently adjunct professor of theater arts at Clark University. She teaches "African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration,” using Pearl Primus's “Fanga” and “Buschasche” to explore the conversation between music and movement in African and African diaspora dance. With Wittenberg University professor Shih-Ming Li Chang, she co-authored a multimedia, cross-cultural educational resource entitled "Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond." She has also published poetry and prose in The Caribbean Writer, and was recently short-listed for the Marvin E. Williams Literary Prize for her poem “The Courage of Egrets.” Her abiding interest lies in the concept of learning as a legacy of the animate human body and in bipedalism, rhythm and balance as the key metaphors of human experience.