Clare Tallon Ruen is the founder of LakeDance. Since 2007 Clare has worked with Evanston public school teachers and administration to seek ways in which to integrate Great Lakes education into existing curricula. The program, called Pipes and Precipitation, is now district-wide. Partners include School District 65 , the Alliance for the Great Lakes , Chicago-based experts on Storm and Sewer Reclamation and Environmental Education, and the City of Evanston.
Tallon Ruen earned a master's degree in dance from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and has focused since then on the creation of dances that talk about the Great Lakes. Most recently her focus has been on the creation of Movement Models which she defines here: A Movement Model consists of human bodies moving through space, generally walking but sometimes in stillness or running, to express the organization of parts of a whole that are either too small (water molecules) or too large (weather) to be observable other than via a model.
Tallon Ruen earned a master's degree in dance from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and has focused since then on the creation of dances that talk about the Great Lakes. Most recently her focus has been on the creation of Movement Models which she defines here: A Movement Model consists of human bodies moving through space, generally walking but sometimes in stillness or running, to express the organization of parts of a whole that are either too small (water molecules) or too large (weather) to be observable other than via a model.
