Victoria Quine

Biography
Victoria has a wandering soul and has been said to, "live on the precipice of every emotion's extreme." She believes that love was the first extreme sport.

Academics
Victoria is a Div III studying child development, cognitive psychology, interpersonal learning, and creative movement/circus arts. She's teaching a year-long after school program to elementary school students that focuses on creative movement and circus arts. They're really keen to do a performance, so she's working on that. She'll also be teaching similar material as an EPEC course in the spring (2010) as a practical application of the differences between the two groups. Meanwhile, she's reading and writing a lot about interpersonal learning.

She studied at the University of Melbourne in Australia in fall 2008. In the last issue of the 2007-2008 The Omen, Lindsay Barbieri encouraged her not to die, because lots of things in Australia are deadly. As luck would have it, she didn't die.

Classes
Div I

Fall '06: 


 * The Fictional Child
 * Modern Dance Technique 1
 * Ancient Ireland
 * Judgements and Decisions

Spring '07


 * Adolescent Development
 * Writing Theatre for a Child's Voice
 * Myth and Myth Theory
 * Field Methods in Animal Behaviour

Div II- Cognition and movement: Learning about learners

Fall '07:


 * Ballet III/V
 * WWII &amp; U.S. Popular Culture
 * Youth, Sexuality, and Education
 * Cognitive Development

January '08:


 * Tai Chi

Spring '08:


 * Merging Minds and Motion
 * Intermediate Modern Dance IV
 * Group Improvisation
 * Cognitive Psychology
 * Sex on the Brain

Fall '08: Field study at the University of Melbourne, Aus


 * Working with Animals
 * Language and Literacy Development
 * Education in Natural Landscapes
 * From Mateship to Mardi Gras

Spring '09:


 * Growing up American Adolescent and Their Educational Institutions
 * Beginning Contact Improvisation
 * Laban Movement Analysis

Div III- Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Circus

Fall '09: 


 * Childhood, Youth, and Learning Div III seminar
 * Experiential Education
 * Dance Div III seminar


 * Somatics (audit)

Spring '10:

Community Involvement
She likes circus and thinks cancer sucks, so she's a signer for Circus Folk Unite! and does the Five College Relay For Life. You should ask her about it. It's kind of her thing.

She also thinks of The Omen as being that younger sibling who is kind of a jerk. It's complete and utter trash and she will defend it viciously with her life. Or at least a rusty spoon.

After graduation this spring, she's going to go on a bike tour with her circus troupe, The Downside-Up Circus in western Washington state.

Things I learned how to do after paying $50k/year
Victoria can do/attempt with relative success the following:

-static trapeze

-flying trapeze

-juggle (balls &amp; clubs)

-powerizers (bouncy stilts)

-puddle jumping

-acrobatics

-have people stand on her

-convince small children to jump off of high places

-paint faces

-hula hooping

-public speaking

-sew

-knit

-wiggle her ears

-win at Wink

Signer
Circus Folk Unite: Signer S07-Present

The Faerie Project: Signer F09-Present