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Patricia Reedy is the Director of Teaching & Learning of Luna Dance Institute. Since founding Luna in 1992, Reedy’s roles in the organization have included: designing all program components; writing and implementing professional development (PD) curriculum; developing staff; providing consultation & coaching to PD and community clients; directing program evaluation, assessment and research and direct teaching. Reedy has been a dancer, choreographer, educator and performer her entire life. She founded her own dance company in 1994. Reedy was on the dance faculty at the University of California-Berkeley for five years and currently serves on the Mills College Dance faculty. For 30 years, she has worked directly with youth in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings. Reedy won the 2008 Outstanding Educator award given by the National Dance Education Organization and won their first award for dance mentorship in 2003. She received her MA in Creativity and Education from Mills college and authored Body, Mind & Spirit IN ACTION: a teacher’s guide to creative dance ©2003. preedy@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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Nancy Ng is the Director of Community Development of Luna Dance Institute and serves on the faculty of the Professional Learning Component. She was co-creator of Luna’s MPACT program and currently manages it as she develops interns and other professionals to expand the work into their own communities. Ng has worked as a performing artist, choreographer and educator for her entire life, including a long tenure as choreographer, performer and administrator for Asian American Dance Performances. She received her teaching credential from San Francisco State University and her MFA in Performance and Choreography from Mills College. In addition to her many accomplishments and awards for her work at Luna Dance Institute, Ng received recognition as an artist by the California Arts Council and received the first national award for mentorship from the National Dance Education Organization in 2003. nng@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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Alisa Rasera coordinates Luna’s Summer Institutes and other activities of the Professional Learning Component. She also teaches and heads the as Middle School Inquiry team. With Sullivan, Rasera also leads the Special Needs Inquiry team. She began teaching at Luna in 2007, following 8 years with Oakland’s Physically Integrated, AXIS Dance Company. Rasera worked at AXIS in the roles of Dancer/Performer, Education Director, Teaching Artist, and choreographer. She has also created a small repertoire of her own choreography that has often gravitated toward the musical theater genre. Rasera holds a BFA in Dance from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from New York University. arasera@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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Erin Sullivan Lally works at Luna as a teaching artist in the SCA, MPACT and Studio Lab programs and is the Family Services Coordinator. She and Rasera lead Luna’s Special Needs inquiry team. Lally served as a dance specialist and teaching artist for over six years in New York City, including as the Education Director of RIOULT, a professional modern dance company based in Manhattan. As co-founder and Dance Specialist at Bronx Charter School for the Arts, Lally created the dance curricula for K-5. She received her BFA in Modern Dance Performance from University of the Arts and holds certificates from 92nd Street Y’s Dance Education Laboratory, The Language of Dance©, City Center’s Stage to Classroom and Luna Dance Institute. elally@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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Bonner Odell is Public Relations Coordinator at Luna and a Teaching Artist in the SCA and MPACT programs. A dancer, choreographer, and dance educator from Beaufort, North Carolina, she moved to California in 2003 to pursue an M.A. in Dance at Mills College. She has taught courses in dance and theater at California State University-East Bay and dance classes for children through Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Summer Insitute for the Gifted, and East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. Bonner has presented choreography at multiple San Francisco Bay Area venues including Dance Mission Theater, John Sims Center for the Arts, Climate Theater, and NohSpace. She currently co-creates improvised and choreographed works with Honduran dance artist Diana Lara. Bonner previously worked as editor of In Dance, a publication of Dancers’ Group in San Francisco, and writes about the performing arts for publications including the SF Weekly and Dance Studio Life Magazine. bodell@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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Jochelle Pereña hails from Vashon Island, Washington where she grew up watching the choreography of birds in flight and forests in windstorms. She has trained in the studios of Seattle, the farmlands of the Lost Coast, the nightclubs of West Africa, and more formally at Laban, London (Professional Diploma in Dance Studies, 2005), and at Mills College, Oakland (MFA in Choreography and Performance, 2011). A choreographer, dancer and educator, she has performed and presented works internationally and has taught dance, drama and performing arts education to children and adults at Cornish College of the Arts, Mills College, Laban, Artis, and West County Community High School. Jochelle joins Luna as a teaching artist in the SCA and Studio Lab programs. jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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Leila Anglin, a Philadelphia native, received her fine arts degree in dance from Temple University. Leila’s passion for the arts has led her to work with renowned artists such as Dr. Kariamu Welsh (Kariamu and Company: Traditions), Charles O. Anderson (Dance Theatre X), and Tania Santiago (Aguas Da Bahia). She joins Luna as Executive Assistant, bringing a commitment to keeping art accessible through education and community partnership. langlin@lunadanceinstitute.org |
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