Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Lauren Woodward is a Senior with a B.S.B. and B.F.A. in Marketing and Modern Dance from two nationwide, top-ranked programs at Indiana University: The Kelley School of Business and IU Contemporary Dance Program. Over the past few years, Lauren has gained experience as a student mentor, teacher, sorority member, intern, creator, performer, choreographer and leader.

Lauren has performed in the annual productions of the dance program at Indiana University in professional works under Selene Carter, Katie Phelan, Justin Sears Watson, and Iris Rosa. She has also performed as Snow Queen and Dew Drop in Toledo Ballet’s annual Nutcracker and she has also been featured in Toledo Museum of Art performances accompanied by the Toledo Symphony. Over the past few years, Lauren has studied under the remarkable Elizabeth Shea, Christian Claessens, Evelyn Wong, Beatrice Capote, Cameron McKinney, Soili Arvola, Alvin Ailey, Renato Penteado, Maya Orchin, Stephanie Nelson and many more.

During her previous Summers, Lauren has interned under Everwild and Libbey Inc. where she gained exceptional experience with new industry insight, expanding media coverage in target media publications, growing industry sales through CRM strategies and developing and analyzing email campaigns. On the side, Lauren has taught at local dance studios in Toledo, OH where her ballet and modern dance training first began.

Lauren enjoys cross training in hot pilates and received her Pilates Certification at Indiana University under the training of DJ Gray. After graduation, Lauren is pursuing a professional career as Marketing Development Program Analyst at Emerson Electric to prosper her individual strengths in leadership and innovation. One day in the future, Lauren hopes to utilize her professional experience in the business world to create a chain of studios that specialize in a profound technique that merges the art of ballet and pilates.