As you get back into teaching, how are you restarting, and re-imagining your curriculum, your classroom, your practice? How are you holding space for yourself and your students as artists, as co-learners, as community members? What new goals do you have for yourself for this New Year? Connect and reflect with fellow dance educators in this casual conversation hosted by teaching artists Genoa Sperske and Alisa Clayton.

• Thursday, September 28
• 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

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Dance educators, Practitioner Exchanges are a place for you! We hold these collaborative community round tables 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 is thrilled to expand our team by welcoming teaching artist Moriah Costa. A Bay Area choreographer, performer and educator, Moriah’s creative and teaching inquiries investigate identity and belonging, and are sparked by a spirit of curiosity. “There is always something new to uncover when it comes to the way we move and interact with the world around us,” she explains.

“Moriah’s joyful enthusiasm for teaching is matched by her quest for learning and self-reflection,” shares Director of Programs Jochelle Pereña. “It’s this combination that really aligns with Luna’s values, and excites me as we develop dance partnerships in the community.”

Moriah brings her love of connection and play to Luna’s newest partnerships with Kaiser Early Childhood Center, where she teaches weekly dance classes in all classrooms, and at Berkeley Unified School District, where she’s helping to build a dance program at Franklin, King and Hopkins Preschools over the next two years. Accessibility and inclusion is core to both of these partnerships, and Moriah teaches in special ed, inclusion, and general ed classrooms so that all children can engage with dance.

You can meet and dance with Moriah at our free Pop-up Family Dance classes, and at our upcoming Renovation Celebration, November 11.