About
Dr. Giguere graduated magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania earning both a BA in psychology and an MS in education in four years. She earned her PhD in dance from Temple University, where she was awarded the Emerging Doctoral Scholar award. Her dissertation was recognized nationally by the American Educational Research Association with their 2009 National Dissertation Award for Arts and Learning. She is a frequent presenter at the national conferences of the National Dance Education Organization amd her research has been published in Research in Dance Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Journal of Dance Education, Dance Education in Practice, Arts & Learning Journal, and International Journal of Education and the Arts among others. Dr. Giguere was the keynote speaker for Dance Education Conference 2010, Singapore, an invited presenter at the Dance and the Child International conferences in Taiwan in 2012, Denmark in 2015 and Australia in 2018. She is an associate editor of the journal Dance Education in Practice where she writes a regular column entitled Dance Trends, and has guest edited three special issues of that journal Community Dance (2017), Choreography in Education (2019) and Virtual Dance(2021) . Dr. Giguere is also the author of the textbook Beginning Modern Dance, published in 2013 through Human Kinetics. She is currently the President of the Pennsylvania Dance Education Organization, the state affiliate of the National Dance Education Organization.
Dr. Giguere directed the dance program at Drexel University from 1992-2015, before becoming Department Head for Performing Arts in 2015. She was also the Director of the Drexel University Dance Ensemble, a 55 dancer company, and FreshDance, a freshmen only company of 35 dancers, from 1992-2020, having guest directed and/or choreographed on the company in 1990 and 1991. She currently teaches academic dance classes in Dance History, Dance Pedagogy, Dance Appreciation and Dance Criticism and Aesthetics.