Interview with Lindsay Giedl

My name is Lindsay Giedl and I am originally from Waycross, Georgia. I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from The University of Georgia. I was a founding member of CADE:NCE - Contemporary African Dance Ensemble: New Conscious Explorations under the direction of Tamara Thomas. I have had the pleasure of dancing at Rex Nettleford Arts Conference in Kingston, Jamaica and DANCE Africa in Brooklyn NY as well as presented choreography at the American College Dance Association Conference. I co-founded Counterpoint Dance Company, a pre-professional dance company at The University of Georgia in 2015 and served as the Artistic Director from 2015 - 2018. In 2017, I created the professional company Linds&co., as a branch off my undergraduate thesis project where I creating works with post-modern socio-political contemporary and improvisational movement. I have been an dance educator for about 10 years and am currently teaching for Tolbert Yilmaz School of Dance and Roswell Performing Arts. I also currently reside as the Administrative Director/Faculty for the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive Programs - Joffrey South GA and Joffrey Colorado Springs. In my free time, I love to do yoga and to go hiking with my dog, Pearly Mae!

What inspires you?  
Feelings and emotions inspire me as a choreographer. I love tapping into what is going on in my life or my current environment and creating and exploring movement. 

How do you plan to implement math/ science into your choreography?
I am implementing math into my choreography by using line, point, and rotational symmetry within one's personal body as well as in juxtaposition to the dancers physical location in the plane.  I am also using the Bartenieff Fundamentals Basic Six to compare and contrast movement while exploring shapes and symmetry.

What are the benefits and advantages of combining dance and math?
Combining dance and math has opened up a whole new experience of choreographing for me. It has gotten me out of my personal choreography box and allowed me to explore a brand new style of movement. It has been very fun to take movement that is familiar to me and then pick one of the Bartenieff Basic Six movements and play with the different types of symmetry. 

What focus of math is your work on?
The focus of math my work is on is geometry using line, point, and rotational symmetry.