Luna Dance Institute

Twitter Moves turns 400

preedy — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:52:12 +0000

TwitterMoves posts its 400^th creative dance prompt this week. See samples from prior posts and examples of how to use them. Also, follow us yourself twitter.com/LunaDanceInst

Bring Contact Improvisation to your students

preedy — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:46:02 +0000

Come participate in a FREE workshop on Contact Improvisation taught by Rossana Alves on Saturday, May 18, from 10-12. Class includes movement and discussion about how to teach to students of all ages. RSVP arasera@lunadanceinstitute.org. Stick around after lunch and see the work of 2012 Summer Institute participants.

Raise For Women-halfway in

preedy — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:07:45 +0000

This Wednesday marks the half-way point for the Raise for Women Challenge. Luna is the only arts organization participating in this crowdrise campaign and we are honored to be among so many fantastic organizations serving women and girls. Our internal goals were to reach 100 individual donors–the point where Huffington Post talks about us. THANKS to donors bonnie, joann & lou, melissa & bob, bonner, julie, emily & anna, deb & gary, pat, sheri, the romes, chris, emily, andrea, alice, tomoko, anna, the kyburg family, kathryn, laura, borinstein family, chantal, claire, deborah, stephanie, leila lilia, jose, luna ora, nancy, torri, laura, janice, jochelle, ashlie, felix, viola & iris, mountain yoga, geimer/vance, gail, 1038 crowd & patricia. Consider joining these generous folks:

check out our link http://www.crowdrise.com/LunaDanceInstitute/fundraiser/lunakidsdanceinc & give if you feel inspired
like our posts about the challenge on facebook, and share on your own page
if you tweet, tweet the link

As you know, we put the funds to good work–our goal now is 100 individual donors on the site to start receiving those prizes!

2013-14 Professional Learning Calendar now available

preedy — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:46:48 +0000

We have loads of things in store for 2013-14 Professional Learning at LDI. Check out the course calendar and reserve your spots now!

Master teachers booked for 2013-14

preedy — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:31:22 +0000

Very excited to announce that we have just booked Peggy Hackney and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen to guest teach in early 2014. Bonnie will be offering two half days during our Winter Family Dance Intensive and Peggy will teach us some Bartenieff Fundamentals for a full day in March. The brochures will be mailed at the first of June–stay tune for an exciting year of professional learning!

Luna Dance Institute is hiring for 2013-14

preedy — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:52:47 +0000

Please see our hiring notice at http://lunadanceinstitute.org/employment/ ‎

Professional Development for Educators of Students of Disabilities

preedy — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:14:31 +0000

As a national leader in arts education, Luna has been sharing the most current practices of teaching dance to children of all abilities, as well as Universal Design for Learning principles, to teachers and dance educators for more than a decade. Currently, under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, we are bringing these best practices to the forefront of our work through comprehensive professional development. Our PL services and Model programs work in tandem to generate thoughtful approaches to classroom techniques and teaching strategies to improve student performance. Teaching artists, classroom teachers and para-professionals partner together to support student learning in advanced dance concepts using an inquiry approach that continues to “push the envelope” of what creativity might look like in inclusive dance settings. This year we are working with three classrooms at Grass Valley Elementary School, Oakland Unified School District. We also continue our work at West Lake Middle School, presently teaching twice weekly classes. The classroom teachers and para-professionals receive active coaching to keep dance alive in the school setting, as well as integrate arts curriculum as makes sense in the classroom. This is truly paying off! At West Lake, the special day students are the stewards of dance learning at the school and have presented their original work in public settings such as at the Lake Merritt Pavilion. What we learn from our practice supports the theory and approaches shared in our PL offerings–workshops, lesson studies and consultations. In fall of this year we had the pleasure of a full panel of professionals addressing dance and disability, followed by workshops on neurological patterning and dance, UDL and cultural competency and individual consultations to dance educators working with classrooms of children who are deaf, blind or autistic and adults with Parkinson’s. The interest in this work continues to grow and we are looking forward to similar offerings in 2013-14. Read MORE about Luna’s work with children with special needs in the Tilden Case Study.

Summer Dance Camp schedule available

preedy — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:08:06 +0000

Registration is open for Luna’s week-long dance camps for children 5-17. Visit our Summer Dance Camp page for details about your age from mini-camp for 5-7 year olds to two weeks of teen camp and our popular Luna Kids Dance Camp for 8-11 year olds. Find out more here.

So-Cal Family Dance off to a powerful start

preedy — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:48:14 +0000

Ruth Torres, Maya Luz Gordon, Meg Glaser Teran and Rosemary Robertson spent a day together planning multiple sessions of family dance in three southern California counties: LA, Ventura, Orange. It is a pleasure to be working with them to develop leadership and program planning skills thanks, in part, to a generous donation from the Dizzy Feet Foundation.

Make Dance Education a Right of Every Child

nng — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:19:20 +0000

Make your dance voice heard for the next four years and beyond by signing this petition to the Obama administration. This petition in accordance with the The Child’s Bill of Rights in Dance, compiled by the National Dance Education Organization, requests that all children in the United States of America have as their right, access to quality dance education at all levels of schooling. 99,000 signatures needed by 2/15/13, so please sign now: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ then click on open petitions and filter for the key word “education”.