Arianne MacBean currently teaches Dance History, Modern Technique, and Yoga at Glendale Community College. She has also taught graduate seminars in Dance Management and Modern Technique and Composition at Cal State University Long Beach. She led Memory Writing Workshops at Casa Treatment Center in Pasadena for women in recovery from drug and alcohol misuse and has spent many years working with U.S. military veterans leading free Memory Writing & Movement Workshops. She is a firm believer in the healing powers of creative writing and movement.

Arianne created and developed Scripting the Body curriculum with the DURFEE Scholarship, which integrates writing and movement studies as a means for creating dance-theater compositions. Workshops explore the relationship between the language of movement and the language of text, their inter-connectivity and infinite reflective possibilities. Arianne has taught Scripting the Body workshops and Artist Residencies at Scripps College, CalArts, Los Angeles Valley College, LA Contemporary Dance Co. Summer Intensive, and numerous National Dance Education Organization conferences across the nation. Her article, “Dancing into Diversity – curriculum for self-discovery, empathy and creative leadership” was published in the 2014 Teacher’s Special Edition of the Journal of Dance Education. Arianne’s essays “Site-Specific Dance: Promoting Social Awareness in Choreography,” was published in 2004 and "Scripting the Body: The Simultaneous Study of Writing and Movement" was published in 2001 and cited in the National Endowment for the Arts Report on the Impact of Dance in the K-12 Setting in 2013.