Fellow – Edie Stubblefield - Pseads
Edie Stubblefield is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has recently returned to the Twin Cities, where she is dancing in a professional training program in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She is a graduate of Dominican University of California, where she earned her BFA in Dance through the Alonso King LINES Ballet Program. Edie was one of the inaugural Pseads Fellows and helped inspire the first Lambert Light Fellowship cohort. She also helped create the first Pseads poetry anthology, published in 2025.
Edie is pursuing a professional career in contemporary dance and hopes to continue her academic journey through graduate study and research in neuropsychology. She is particularly interested in how dancers learn, process emotion, and perceive their bodies, especially in relation to the mirrors. She finds joy at the intersection of writing, movement, and science. Outside the studio, Edie loves to dance, swim, attend concerts, spend time at the beach, and paint.
Fellowship Project Description
Edie’s fellowship research explored how dancers perceive, experience, and interpret their bodies, particularly in relation to the mirror. Through ethnographic interviews and analysis, she examined how dancers talk about embodiment, emotional processing, and the quiet choreography of attention that unfolds in front of the mirror. Her work sought insights that could strengthen mental health advocacy within the dance community, especially for young dancers navigating identity, confidence, and self-perception.
Rooted in advocacy, curiosity, and care, Edie hopes her future work will help identify the neurobiological roots of self-perception and embodiment, illuminating how movement, emotion, and the brain interact. She hopes to expand her work and research in ways that will support mental health and well-being for dancers and non-dancers alike.
