Janice Lancaster celebrates and secures the space for students to reflect upon the many systems of thought, problem-solving, and representation that dancing can occupy. Emphasizing dynamic alignment, clarity of choice, freedom of interpretation, and interdisciplinary curiosity, she is thorough in her warm-ups and modalities for making connections and finds pleasure in attuning knowledge to the pace of students' unique needs. Her aim is to help students cultivate a body and worldview of agency and choice as they locate themselves within their personal artistry, careers, legacies, and world-making.

Janice has taught at Shen Wei Dance Arts company classes, professional intensives, and through the company's arts-in-education program in New York City's public schools, and continues to guest for their open class series at Gibney Dance Center. 

Over the past few years at the University of NC School of the Arts, she instructed Dance Composition and Improvisation, subbed Contemporary technique for both contemporary and ballet majors, and served as faculty at both the Summer and Professional Studies Programs.

As a three-year Postgraduate Teacher-Scholar at Wake Forest University, she taught dance minor and divisional courses such as Modern/Contemporary Techniques, Improvisation, Composition, 20th Century Modern Dance History, History of Dance, Movement For All, and choreographed for the Fall Faculty Concerts. With the support of WFU’s Office of Sustainability Magnolias Curriculum Project, she developed a Dance and Ecology course that was cross-listed with Environmental Studies, the Graduate School of Divinity, and Dance. 

As a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hollins University, Janice worked with both graduate and undergraduate students in Movement III and Composition I, assisting the Spring Dance Concert, speaking in the Visiting Artist Series informal dialogues, and responding at open showings.

Her technique classes are influenced by Shen Wei's Natural Body Development Technique, Cunningham Technique, Countertechnique, Improvisation, Experiential Anatomy, and Hatha and Restorative Yoga. She is most specialized in Shen Wei's Natural Body Development Technique. This hybrid modern-contemporary movement practice reflects Shen Wei's diasporic, corporeal alignments with traditional Chinese Opera, calligraphy, qigong, Tibetan Buddhism, American modern and contemporary dance, and western art. His endeavor to articulate a "natural body" practice negotiates transcultural aesthetics, interactions, and tensions, straddling polarities such as individualism and collectivism, Eastern and Western. She is versed in how the technique and repertory propose distinctions between internal/external energy and designate pathways of momentum, continuous flow, rotations, weight shifting, and bouncing.