Nathalie Jonas is a teacher, choreographer, performer, and scholar. She is a PhD candidate in dance studies at Texas Woman's University where she is researching the efficacy of performances of mourning in constructing identity and sustaining communities in the context of social and environmental collapse.  Nathalie has been on faculty at Rutgers University, Barnard College, Middlebury College, and Sterling College, where she has taught theory, technique, choreography, improvisation, and pedagogy. She is also a Feldenkrais practitioner with certification from the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, a training that strongly grounds her specific approach to movement and the body. In 2022 her essay "Fire and Futurity: Riot, its Object, and Queer Potentiality in the George Floyd Uprising" was published by Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.