2024 recipient

Ty Lewis

Ty Lewis is a movement artist, choreographer, teacher, scholar, and activist, born and raised in Houston, TX, and currently resides in Urbana, Illinois. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Dance from Sam Houston State University and a Master's Degree in Dance with a concentration in performance, choreography, somatic, and interdisciplinary practices from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ty has been teaching dance for 12 years and began studying somatic practices such as Pilates and yoga in 2015, and since then has become certified in both. She has been teaching Pilates for seven years and yoga for a year. She is excited to start her new journey as an Alexander Technique trainee and looks forward to the knowledge she will obtain, and how it will influence and collaborate with her current movement expertise.