Stephanie Gottlob is a movement improviser, scholar, and educator whose work explores the intersections of embodiment, ecology, creativity, and environmental ethics. In 2019, Stephanie embarked on a three-and-a-half-year journey to live and dance as remotely as possible across the ten biomes of North America: deciduous forest, lake, swamp, grasslands, river, desert, temperate rainforest, boreal forest, ocean, and reef. During this time, she explored movement improvisation, somatic experiences, and the creative process on and with the landscape. After each biome, she created dance videos of her improvisations with the landscape and reflective essays describing her somatic and aesthetic experiences with the biomes.
After this artistic inquiry, she earned her master’s degree in Movement, Mind, Ecology at Schumacher College in England. For her thesis, she designed Dancing the Biomes, an indoor/outdoor, transdisciplinary, eco-embodied pedagogy that offers higher-education students affective encounters with environmental ethics. Currently, she is researching and teaching Dancing the Biomes as part of her PhD in Prescott College’s sustainability education program. She aims to graduate in Spring 2027.
She is particularly interested in how movement, creativity, and more-than-human relationships can open new possibilities and deepen our capacity to respond to the ecological challenges of our time. Her scholarship, teaching, and artistic work invite us to remember that the body is not separate from the Earth but one expression of its living intelligence.