Bethany J. Hansen, a graduate of Brigham Young University (BA) and Jacksonville University (MFA), is a sought-after teacher, choreographer, and performer. Bethany is the Dance Assistant Chair at Westminster College and the Artistic Director and Dance Department Chair at the Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts. Previously she taught at Ricks College and Brigham Young University – Idaho. She has guest performed with Bay Area Dance in San Francisco and Repertory Dance Theatre’s Emerge and Charrette performances. As a choreographer, her work has been performed throughout the United States and Canada. Bethany has received many awards, but her greatest achievement is watching her students become brilliant human beings through the study of dance. Focused on the choreographic process which allows her dancers to embody the space in which art is experienced, they learn the psychological connection and the kinesthetic attentiveness to self and others are both experienced in different ways and understood in different layers as they traverse the topography of dance movement.
