Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Natalie Gotter

ngotter@bates.edu
207-786-6367

About

Natalie Gotter (she/her) is a dance performer, choreographer, filmmaker, educator, researcher, and Director of Training Programs at Bates Dance Festival. She received her MFA in Modern Dance with certification in Screendance and Gender Studies from the University of Utah and BA in Communication, Music, and Dance from Tulane University.

An educator and researcher who is deeply invested in interdisciplinary and collaborate teaching experiences, dance offers her a way of engaging with socialization of the physically gendered body and questioning human limits, whether inherent or self-imposed, with dance offering physical and somatic insight of possibilities.

Her practice centers dance as a liberatory practice of community building and reclaiming of social identity. Natalie has taught at the University of Utah, Westminster College, Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College, Weber State University, and was an Assistant Professor and co-Director of Dance at Muhlenberg College, where she designed and co-taught dance and science workshops for Youth-in-Probation, received her certification in the Inside-Out prison abolition teaching program and was awarded the 2023 Muhlenberg Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Award for Community Engaged Coursework.

A Selection of Relevant Prior Work

• Presentation: Gotter, N; Koepke, K. “Looking Back and Leaping Forward with BDF.” 2025. National Dance Educators Organization National Conference.
  Presentation: Bufield, L; Flynn, M; Gotter, N. “Embodied Practice of Coordinated Teaching and Collaborative Learning.” 2022. Lilly Conference, Miami University
  Conference Presentation: Busfield, L; Flynn, M; Gotter, N. “Making Dances: The Pedagogy of Embodied Co-Teaching.” 2022. SoTL Summit virtual conference, Kennesaw State University.
  Conference Panel: Natalie Gotter, et al. “Reimagining the First Year College Dance Experience.” 2022. National Dance Education Organization National Conference.
• Choreographic Work Developed: Gotter, Natalie. “Last Call.” 2022. Philadelphia Fringe Festival, WEMOVE Philadelphia Dance Festival, Going Dutch Art Festival, PopConference. A process examining feelings of safety and belonging in femme experiences in mainstream gay night-life spaces. The work comments on a desire to remove social conditioning and the processes necessary to achieve a sense of removal and the real-world implications of that event.
  Workshop Developed & Facilitated: Collett, C; Gotter, N; Wilson, L. “Science Linked with Art at Muhlenberg.” 2022. These workshops focus on the interdisciplinary nature of a variety of science and art topics, exposing students to new ways of engaging with education and demystifying higher education.
  Workshop Developed & Facilitated: Gotter, Natalie. “STEM Community Alliance Program.” 2019. In collaboration with the University of Utah Biology program and local scientists, this program developed and presented dance and biodiversity, dance and robotics, and dance and genetics workshops for incarcerated youth in the greater Salt Lake valley.