Luna Dance & Creativity

APPLY NOW for Luna's Summer Institute 2025-26! https://lnkd.in/gCakMrWw Are you a dance teaching artist poised to take your curriculum to the next level of creativity and inquiry? Or a seasoned classroom practitioner ready to infuse dance into your curriculum? Are you hungry for a collegial community that will help you invest in your practice? No cost for selected applicants. $30 application fee. Application due April 1st.

https://lnkd.in/gS2CFz-3 Join us for a FREE family dance class, story time, and cupcakes in celebration of Luna's 33rd Birthday on Saturday March 8th. Family dance has been a part of Luna since the organization's beginning, with the first family dance class held on March 8, 1992 at Luna's grand opening. 33 years later, family dance continues to be a core part of Luna's programming, harnessing the power of families moving together to build trusting relationships. Story time will follow family dance, featuring author (and Luna board member) Carina Ho reading her incredible book Mighty Mara, which celebrates diversity, inclusion, and the power of dance as a form of self-expression. Patricia Reedy, EdD Nancy Ng John-Mario Sevilla Jochelle Perena Moriah Costa Carina Ho

Join us for Practitioner's Exchange today! https://lnkd.in/gnVWy_4Z Dance & TK Tuesday, February 25, 4:30-6pm Pacific, via Zoom Co-hosted by OUSD TK teachers and Luna alums Bernadette Lanoue and Natalie Tran. We'll be asking questions like:?Who are 4-year-olds? How can we meet them where they are and extend their natural impulse to learn by moving? What does Dance look like in the TK Classroom? Patricia Reedy, EdD Nancy Ng John-Mario Sevilla Jochelle Perena Moriah Costa

Happy Lunar Year of the Wood Sssssnake! We join those who mark the end of one and the beginning of another Lunar New Year. For this Lunar New Year of the Wood Snake, to honor the sixth animal sign in the twelve-year calendar cycle, we offer an improv (undulate, flexibility, twist, head-tail, shed) and SIX auspicious WISHES of RESILIENCE (traits of the Wood Snake) for you, your family and our community. TENACITY We wish to cultivate stability and determination with a deep, fearless sense of purpose; find the bounce or rebound in the gravitational pull of stubbornness and skepticism. MOBILITY May we respond to mystery and adapt to complexity with fluidity and ease. Be curious. Inquire. What can we learn from our dance improvisations and creative research? SHEDDING Transform challenges—whether unexpected or unavoidable—and debilitating habits into chances for renewal, rebirth and discovery. Let knowledge emerge from change. CREATIVITY We wish for phenomenal dreams and rigorous play to inspire new ideas, elegant plans and beautiful inventions. Allow intuition, insight and intellect to let wisdom flow. CHARM Evoke grace, depth, nuance, wit and beauty to communicate and build bridges (not walls!) with others. Encourage collective dancing and learning grooves. HAPPINESS May we dance with abundant joy, empathy and compassion. Forego isolation and possession. Generate laughter. Let’s illuminate belonging and brightly shine!

Practitioners Exchange: Leadership?in?Dance?& Community Thursday January?30th 4:30-6pm Pacific, via Zoom Details and Registration?here Email?[email protected]?with questions ? What does?dance?leadership?look like today? How can we nourish our local and global communities and nurture?future generations in sustainable, fulfilling ways? If you are a?leader?in your own community, or wanting to cultivate your?leadership?potential, join this discussion with?Luna Alums and?Dance?Teaching Artists and Consultants GiGi Tonye' Garley Briggs (SI '22) and Tamara Irving, MA (SI '13), both of whom are visionaries and?leaders?in their communities (Chicago and Atlanta, respectively). Please join us with your own experiences and inquiries - and share about this event with your friends!

Teacher as Creative Practitioner-Scholar: Action Research New start date! The course will now be starting on Saturday 2/1 - there is still time to enroll! During these challenging times, coming together in community to reaffirm our values and inspire one another is more important than ever. Join us. https://lnkd.in/gkdjG4Th Patricia Reedy, EdD Nancy Ng John-Mario Sevilla Jochelle Perena

Get inspired with new ideas and perspectives, ask for help with your challenges, and share your own expertise. Each month the roundtable discussion centers on a different topic and is hosted by Luna alumni. In 2024-25?Practitioner Exchanges are held on Zoom, generally Thursday afternoons (days and times may vary). Next Up: https://lnkd.in/gyCP7kv5 Leadership in Dance & Community January 30, 2025 Thursday, 4:30-6pm Pacific via Zoom $15 Register?here: https://lnkd.in/g7MZS_hy Patricia Reedy, EdD Nancy Ng John-Mario Sevilla Jochelle Perena

What do you know from your lived?experience that you want to share with others? What questions are swirling in your head that you?want to clarify and investigate? There is often a schism between research and practice.?Action Research?connects the two, legitimizing and uplifting practitioners' knowledge by providing them with a methodology to collect, synthesize, and articulate their experience.?Your knowledge is important to the world and should be shared! This may be the?last time this version of the course is offered.?Grab?this great chance to work with dance and pedagogy scholar and Luna founder Patricia Reedy, EdD. There are still a few spots left! https://lnkd.in/gkdjG4Th

Summer Institute Applications coming soon! Are you a seasoned classroom practitioner ready to infuse dance into your curriculum? Or a dance teaching artist poised to take your curriculum to the next level of creativity and inquiry? Are you hungry for a collegial community that will help you invest in your practice? Then consider applying to our nationally acclaimed Summer Institute, which includes an in-person, week-long summer intensive (July 7-11, 2025) at our new, state-of-the-art, ADA-accessible home in Berkeley. Keep an eye out for applications in early 2025. Meanwhile, feel free to reach out to?our Professional Learning Manager, Kimiko Guthrie ([email protected])?with?any questions. Happy Holidays! https://lnkd.in/gzZPfUxv Patricia Reedy, EdD Nancy Ng John-Mario Sevilla Jochelle Perena

Join the last practitioner's exchange of 2024!! This roundtable conversation will be co-hosted by Luna SI alums and Special Education Teachers Daniel De la Rosa and Jessica Kershner. Patricia Reedy, EdD Nancy Ng John-Mario Sevilla Jochelle Perena Moriah Costa