Becky Valls, Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Houston, teaches dance education, dance history, arts integration, and modern technique. As an independent choreographer, she produced the Memoirs of the Sistahood series (2007-2013)– four evening-length, multi-disciplinary performances with sculptor Babette Beaullieu of New Orleans and filmmaker Deborah Schildt of Anchorage, based on her large Catholic family in Louisiana. Her choreography has toured to New Orleans, Temple, Chicago, New York City, Atlanta, Tampa, and Houston. As a Teaching Artist for 30 years with Young Audiences of Houston, Valls designs movement lessons with cross-curricular links for elementary schools and conducts professional development workshops for teachers. She is the director of Becky Valls and Co. that tours dance/science performances in schools which include Dance of the Insects and For the Birds. Valls' research focuses on arts integration practices. She worked with science teachers at the UH Charter School through the Science /Dance Project. An article on the research was published in 2019 in Research in Dance Education international journal, titled "Five Years of Integrating Science and Dance: A Qualitative Inquiry of Constructivist Elementary School Teachers" She also was a founder of the Arts for Learning Lab, a partnership between UH and YA that trains professional artists in arts integration. Valls received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, NY.