Nancy Romita (MFA, AMSAT, RSME, RYT) educator, author, and dance artist is a Senior Lecturer at Towson University. Romita will be releasing a book this December: Functional Awareness and Yoga: Anatomical Guide to the Body in Reflective Practice, Oxford University Press, 2018. This book is preceded by: Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers, Oxford University Press, 2016. (available on amazon.com)

Romita has presented workshops and keynote speeches on her research in movement efficiency and embodied anatomy to movement educators, doctors, physical therapists, and dancers worldwide from New York City to San Diego, from Florence Italy to Hong Kong China. She has presented workshop sessions at the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE), the American College Dance Association (ACDA), the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS). She was a keynote speaker for the Somatics and Dance Conference and the Maryland Dance Educators Association.

She has taught at the American Dance Festival at Duke University in Durham, NC, Connecticut College, State University of New York at Purchase, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Stevenson University, and is currently on the faculty of Towson University. Ms. Romita has facilitated workshops in embodied leadership for The Private Industry Council, JP Morgan Bank, IBM, and Center for Poverty Solution, and The Annie E Casey Foundation.

Through her work at Towson University, she is currently involved in collaborative research with Johns Hopkins Medicine, entitled Strategies for Balance: Engaging the Mind to Balance the Body through Anatomical Visualization & Reflective Practice to be presented at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science in Helsinki Finland in October 2018.

Finally, Nancy’s over 30 years of choreography and artistic work often combines humor as well as somatic and reflective processes as seen in her collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to design and build a labyrinth at the medical center to support a reflective movement process to support wellness and healing.