Online Resources for Dance Educators during COVID-19

Teaching artists, dance educators, and dance leaders are sharing so many tools to help us stay connected and creative right now. Here are some produced by Luna, our alumni, and our community partners and teachers. This list is not exhaustive! We know you may be bombarded with so much through email and social media, and so we are curating this collection with our Luna dance educator community in mind. However, if you’d like to share a resource that is helping you, please share by emailing Jochelle, jperena@lunadanceinstitute.org. We’ll be updating regularly.

Luna’s Professional Learning Resources

You can still access professional development with Luna!

And, we’re curious – how can we support you as dance educators right now? What questions do you have, and what kind of services are you longing for? Please take our super-short survey.

Dance Teaching/Arts Education Resources

Summer Institute Alumni Videos

Several of our SI alumni are sharing videos of themselves leading dance activities for children and families from home! Join in – or give yourself a break and let your kids be led by these amazing teachers.

Note: Some of these videos were created for specific class communities, as you might notice from the prompts, but these teachers are generously sharing them with all of us!

Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area

AEABA is offering free membership for individuals and organizations and holding regular free virtual meet-ups and think tanks for arts educators.

The National Guild

The National Guild for Community Arts Education is offering free webinars responding to the needs of arts leaders and educators during COVID. You don’t need to be a member to participate.

California Alliance for Arts Education

California Alliance for Arts Education is hosting free and low cost Local Advocacy Webinar Series, with topics including: Student Role & Participation in Advocacy, Arts Providers & Teaching Artists in a New Paradigm, Creative Action Planning, Importance of Local Advocacy in School Board Races, Rural Arts Education Strategies, the Arts and Special Education, and more. See here for details.

NDEO

The National Dance Education Organization is sharing a series of webinars by dance education professionals during COVID, free for members and non-members.

Teaching Tolerance

Check out Teaching Tolerance‘s series of articles, Supporting Students Through Coronavirus as you consider how to continue teaching and connecting with your students.

The International Association of Dance Medicine & Science

IADMS’s new initiative Helping Dancers Help Themselves provides webinars, live panels and other resources addressing dancer mental health, safe dance practice and more through COVID-19.

Online Classes, Performances, Video Archives & Dance-Making

Dancing Alone Together

Discover dance films and filmed performances and connect with other dance-makers through choreography prompts and communities through this central online resource for dance artists.

Social Distancing Festival 

Explore live-streamed & recorded performances of works that were (for the most part) cancelled due to COVID here.

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

One of Luna’s guest facilitators and local dance leader pioneer of Body-Mind Centering, Bonnie shares over 100 free video clips through her YouTube channel. They are a wonderful way to study with Bonnie from your home. Let her lead you through an embodied movement exploration that can help you find a meditative calm, or a sense of reconnection.

Jacob’s Pillow Interactive

Offering archival footage of dance artists performing at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s-today, along with illustrated essays. Explore the collection here.

The Performances That Went Online, via Dance Magazine

Choreographers and companies from all over the world shared their online dance performances on this now archival platform, a tribute to the artists whose works could not be performed live during COVID. While new content isn’t being added now, you can still discover exciting footage.

The Performances That Went Online, via Dance Magazine

Choreographers and companies from all over the world shared their online dance performances on this now archival platform, a tribute to the artists whose works could not be performed live during COVID. While new content isn’t being added now, you can still discover exciting footage.

Friday Film Break, via Dance Magazine

New dance films, curated each Friday by Dance Magazine here.

UbuWeb Dance

An eclectic collection of dance videos by internationally renowned choreographers. Want to expand what you’re viewing? Ask local choreographers to share their performance videos.

Other Great Resource Pages

No Going Back: A COVID-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide for Artists and Activists

The Center for Cultural Power developed this guide, breaking down ways creators and movement groups might do the “what” and “how” of activation now and into the year ahead.

COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources

Check out this list of free tools and resources supporting freelance artists.

COVID-19 Resources from Teaching Artists Guild

This collection of resources from our friends at TAG includes a webinar video, labor laws by state, questions to ask your employer about compensation, emergency funds/grants, online teaching tools & ideas, and more.

Dancers’ Group’s COVID-19 Information & Resources

Reopening guidelines & information, webinars, funding resources, and more are listed on this page by Dancers’ Group.

Intersection for the Arts

Tools for Bay Area artists grappling with the repercussions of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Emergency Funding & Relief for Artists

Mini-grant for SF-based artist from Untitled, Art deadline March 31 and quarterly until further notice

Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts COVID Response Grants June, September and December 2021 deadlines

Theatre Bay Area’s Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund  reviewed weekly

Arts Administrators of Color Network Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund 

CA’s Pandemic Unemployment Insurance

CA’s Small Business/Organization Assistance

Emergency Funds for Freelancers, Creatives Losing Income During Coronavirus

Coronavirus Housing Resources

What You Can Do

Do what you can to support local artists and arts organizations

Sharing ways to donate to local artists and arts organizations – or donating yourself – can help these vital members of our community stay afloat!

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