What is dance? Are you a dancer—and why or why not? Alison Leonard thinks that we all dance in different ways but that we might not recognize it as such at first. Alison E. Leonard, Ph.D. is the Assistant Professor of Arts & Creativity in the College of Education at Clemson University. On campus, you can often find her teaching dance, drama, music, and visual arts to education majors in the Arts & Creativity Lab, a unique space that she designed for exploration in arts education. Dr. Leonard’s research focuses on arts education, particularly dance in education. With a team of professors and researchers, one of her projects involves National Science Foundation-funded research, creating a virtual environment for teaching computational thinking through choreography, VEnvI (Virtual Environment Interactions). Recent arts education publications can be found in the Journal of Literacy and Language Education, Studies in Art Education, and the Journal of Dance Education, among others. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx