Stephen Loch

Teaching Assistant Professor
Contemporary Dance
Email: loch@ksu.edu
Office: 117 Nichols Hall

Biography

Stephen Loch is a movement artist, choreographer, and educator whose work explores choreography as a form of embodied research and collective inquiry. Rooted in both classic modern and contemporary techniques, his movement aesthetic emphasizes fluidity, precision, and the expressive potential of collaboration in class and on stage.

Their professional career began in Atlanta, Georgia, performing and teaching before earning his MFA in Choreography from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. His choreography has been presented across Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina, engaging questions of connection, belonging, and shared experience.

Stephen studied at the Alvin Ailey School under Ana Marie Forsythe and faculty, completing the Horton Teacher Training Program at both the beginner and intermediate/advanced levels. Currently, he is deepening his study in Safety Release Technique with B.J. Sullivan, a relationship spanning over a decade of investigation and discovery.

His current creative research investigates choreography as practice-based inquiry, an evolving framework that uses the choreographic process to build community and enhance social cohesion through embodiment.

Stephen currently serves as Regional Director for the Central Region Board of the American College Dance Association and teaches Ballet, Contemporary, Musical Theatre Dance, and Dance as an Art Form at Kansas State University, where his teaching and research continue to interlace artistry, accessibility, inquiry, and care.