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Announcements

Luna is hiring ECE Dance Teaching Artists

We are seeking two experienced dance teaching artists for part-time positions starting in August. If you honor the spirit of young children and love the sense of discovery through movement play, check out the job description here.

Jochelle Pereña
May 23, 2023
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Job opening at Luna: ECE dance teaching artists

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Jochelle Pereña
May 16, 2023
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Join Us: Radical Research deepening + disrupting dance practices

Luna Dance Institute presents Radical Research: deepening + disrupting dance practices, a free virtual panel presentation on Saturday, June 24, 2023, 5:00pm (PT). The program will share the alternative artistic approaches among four distinguished BIPOC dance practitioners, Crystal U. Davis, John-Mario Arcilla Sevilla, Pei-Ling Kao and Rosy Simas. The presenters will also address comments and questions from the live audience.
 
“Artists, like scientists, approach their work from a place of inquiry. Sometimes the research question is fully formed, but more often curiosity spurs intuition that leads to discovery through rigorous creative practice.”
– Patricia Reedy, Luna Co-Executive Director
 
By valuing, supporting and celebrating the inquiry of BIPOC artists, whose perspectives are often overlooked, Luna seeks to amplify their embodied research and center their dance creativity as inspiration for a more equitable, robust and holistic cultural ecosystem and society.
To learn more about our panelists and their research
visit here.
Details & RSVP
Luna Development
May 15, 2023
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Pop-up Family Dance Classes all year! June dates added!

Come dance with us outdoors in community and at the library while our studio is being renovated! Our family dance classes are a fun way to shake up your mornings. We’re offering classes all year as pop-ups in Berkeley parks and at the Berkeley Central Library. Discover more about these free classes here.

Jochelle Pereña
May 10, 2023
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What’s moving us: Unpacking Trauma-Informed Teaching

“Effective, trauma-informed education is a full ecosystem, not a list of strategies. While it is tempting to just look for the most effective strategies … strategies without adequate trust-building and context can easily fail.”

Jennifer Gonzalez

Trauma-informed teaching has become a hot topic these days. Cult of Pedagogy‘s recent podcast digs into it via an equity lens in its latest podcast. No surprise, connecting with students is a big part of it. Listen here and consider how these practices can exist in the dance classroom.

Luna Development
May 5, 2023
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Coming up: Practitioner Exchange Dance & Language Learning

As a kinesthetic, non-verbal language, dance can offer another way for humans to communicate, express themselves, and connect with others, and a medium through which to learn a new verbal language. What have you observed about language learning and communication in your dance teaching and in your students? How do you support emerging multilingual children in the dance classroom – in school, studio and community contexts? What structural challenges have you faced in supporting students classified as English Learners, and how have you overcome them? Join bilingual dance educators Kitty Conlon Macías and Andreína Maldonado as they dig into these questions and more. Bring your questions too!

Thursday, June 1

4:30-6pm Pacific via Zoom

$15-40, or $28 for unlimited Exchanges for 12 months

free for PL Users – RSVP to jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org

Details here

Dance educators, Practitioner Exchanges are a place for you! We hold these collaborative community roundtables each month around different inquiry topics. Bring your questions, your reflections, your experience to these conversations. All welcome.

Read about the impact of Practitioner Exchanges in Director of Programs Jochelle Pereña‘s research article, Through the Lens of Improvisation: Dance Educators Find Voice and Agency through Transformative Conversations.

Luna Development
May 5, 2023
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Dance educator position at De Anza High School, Richmond, CA

Our friends at De Anza High School are seeking a dance educator for the 2023-24 year and beyond! Check out the job posting:

High School dance position, De Anza High School in Richmond, CA

Currently 0.67 FTE (4 classes), encompassing three levels of dance courses (Jazz Dance 1, Jazz Dance 2, Dance Production).

De Anza’s dance program strives to create well-rounded dancers, with equal emphasis on technique, traditional dance forms, and creative work / composition. The ideal candidate would have experience in one or more culturally-specific traditional dance forms; jazz dance including its history as an African-American social dance, and modern dance and/or ballet; and be comfortable with teaching the principles of choreography through improvisation.

Requirements / Qualifications:
Must currently possess a Single Subject Dance Credential (or PE Credential if issued prior to 2022). Must also be qualified to administer the California Physical Fitness Tests – if a candidate does not hold a PE credential, must pass the CSET for PE.

Specific Responsibilities:
– Teach three levels of dance courses, including Jazz Dance 1, Jazz Dance 2, and Dance Production.
– Plan classes to achieve a balanced study of concert dance technique, traditional and vernacular dance forms, and creative work / composition.
– Collaborate with colleagues in the Visual and Performing Arts department to plan and co-direct department-wide arts events including the Fall VAPA Showcase.
– Plan and direct Spring Dance Production concert.
– Organize casting and rehearsal schedule for student-choreographed dances for Spring Dance Production concert.
– Choreograph teacher-led dances for fall and spring Dance Production performances.
– Assist in locker room supervision and collaborate with PE department colleagues.

Reach out to Avilee Goodwin to express interest, agoodwin@anyways.com

Jochelle Pereña
May 4, 2023
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Opportunities in the community

Many of our colleagues in public education and community studios are seeking teaching artists for the 2023-24 school year. Check out postings from:

San Francisco Unified School District

Berkeley Unified School District

Oakland Unified School District

Lafayette School District

De Anza High School in Richmond, CA

Luna Development
May 3, 2023
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Resource: Afrocentric SEL Through the Arts

Black Teaching Artist Lab and Ingenuity recently released their free virtual guide to Afrocentric Social Emotional Learning through the Arts. It’s designed to support Black teaching artists, artist educators, arts administrators, and arts education organizations in exploring their own cultural identities through art, in order to connect with Black learners. Check it out here.

Luna Development
April 12, 2023
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Fund arts in the classroom – visiting artist & excursion grants

Want to bring more dance into your classroom, or your classroom to more dance? Teachers in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and San Francisco counties can apply for a Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Visiting Artist Grant of up to $500 to cover artist and material fees for TK-12 Title 1 school classrooms, or an Excursion Grant to cover up to $1,000 of expenses for field trips. Rolling deadline but apply ASAP.

Luna Development
April 11, 2023
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