An enthusiastic presenter, Sandlos has been invited to share her expertise at various conferences, educational and training programs and festivals in locations including Theatrum Mundi in Paris, France The University of El Paso, Texas (UTEP) The University of California Polytechnic, Pomona The University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados and Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA) in Ontario, Canada. Another branch of her work is accomplished through Soma-City, an organization that uses interdisciplinary methods of research and teaching to explore the intersection of human movement and landscape design. Sandlos’ research focuses on the sexualization of young female dancers and the impacts of this trend on dance education, public perceptions of dance, and girls’ psychological and social development. Sandlos holds a PhD in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, an MA in Dance, and she is qualified as a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) These qualifications equip her to work with a diverse range of students in educational or coaching contexts. Lisa Sandlos has been a faculty member at York University since 1998, teaching in the Department of Dance, the School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and the Faculty of Education. She coordinates the Halton Dance Network together with Alan Faigal.ĭr. Recently Kate began working with autistic children in an educational setting. She volunteers in several schools helping with their Dance and Drama programmes, choreographing musicals and developing original dance and drama pieces for festivals.
Kate is a dancer with Burlington Footnotes (a senior’s performance troupe), also designing and constructing costumes. She was part of the planning team which developed HDSB’s Creating A Scene held annually at Mississauga’s Living Arts Centre and was creator/founder of HDSB’s annual dance festival Florescence celebrating International Dance Day for which she received an Award of Merit. Kate directed and choreographed numerous school musicals and coached school dance teams. She also wrote programmes and curriculum and ran workshops for colleagues. Kaylynne (Kate) Lowe is a retired Halton District School Board teacher who taught Dance and Drama to intermediate students for many years.
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