Joan Van Dyke is an Associate Professor of Dance and affiliate faculty for Women’s and Gender Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Joan was appointed ballet master of the former Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. She serves as the director of the dance at IUP and Artistic Director of IUP Dance Theater and was awarded the University Dance Teacher of the Year award for the Eastern District for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Joan is the Artistic Director for the Mahoning Valley Ballet and director of curriculum at Van Dyke and Company. Her interests include quantitative and qualitative research in dance, cast-based approach to choreography, dance kinesiology, feminist theory, somatics and has been involved with the Alexander Technique for over a decade. She is an invited choreographer, lecturer, and educator nationally and internationally.