Janice Baker is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology department in Lowa State University. Janice Baker is an Assistant Professor in Dance, holding a B.F.A. from the University of Utah and an M.S. from Kansas State University. A Des Moines native, Janice's activities in the world of dance have influenced and nurtured all corners of the state and all ages and populations of Iowa's moving human community. Janice presents lecture demonstrations and performances for a variety of campus and off-campus events, including university extension programs, chatauquas, and the Iowa public schools. Janice's teaching career encompasses a vast array of experiences. She teaches for the New Visions Dance Project and represented Very Special Arts Iowa at the International Festival of Very Special Arts at the Kennedy center. In association with her work in the public schools she is the recipient of a grant to update Iowa's dance curriculum for the Iowa Department of Public Instruction. Choreography, direction and performance in dance and musical theatre are as central to Janice's daily life as breathing and driving. She has been instrumental in taking dance to such diverse locations as halfway houses, special education classrooms, nursing homes and prisons.

Kinesiology, Dance