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Online Resources for Dance Educators during COVID-19

Janine and Jen chopstick

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!

Luna's Online Resources During COVID-19

Listen to The Dance Inquiry Podcast

We have a new podcast! The Dance Inquiry Podcast is made by dance educators, for dance educators,...
February 26, 2021
Luna's Online Resources During COVID-19

Practitioner Exchange Series: Teaching Dance from a Distance

This year we’re offering 1-3 Zoom Practitioner Exchange conversations...
September 9, 2020
Luna's Online Resources During COVID-19

Free Phone Consultations

Free phone consultations are continuing! Get one-on-one support from Luna...
September 9, 2020
Luna's Online Resources During COVID-19

Enjoy an engaging dance read!

Read Luna’s articles, written by our faculty of teaching artists on our own...
April 15, 2020
Luna's Online Resources During COVID-19

Perfect/Imperfect Lessons Video Series

Our Perfect Imperfect Video Lessons take you through the teaching and...
April 15, 2020
Luna's Online Resources During COVID-19

Body, Mind & Spirit in Action ebook

Order an ebook copy of Body, Mind & Spirit in Action by Luna’s founder...
April 14, 2020

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.

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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!

COVID video shares Luna COVID videos

Dance Storytime – From Head to Toe

August 3, 2020
COVID video shares Luna COVID videos

Dance Storytime – Wiggle

August 3, 2020
COVID video shares Luna COVID videos

Dance Scavenger Hunt

August 3, 2020
COVID video shares

Erica Rose Jeffrey’s Dance for Parkinson’s Videos

Erica shares three videos on the Dance for Parkinson’s Australia site. VIEW HERE
May 7, 2020
COVID video shares

Maura Whelehan with SF Ballet on the SF Loves Learning Show

San Francisco Unified School District is broadcasting a daily learning show and including short...
May 7, 2020
COVID video shares

Aiano Nakagawa – Good Morning Brain Dance (11 min)

ECE Good morning brain dance with Aiano from Luna Dance Institute on Vimeo. PW: keepdancing
April 16, 2020
COVID video shares

Jochelle Perena – Dance Storytime with Where the Wild Things Are (14 min)

Dance Storytime – Where the Wild Things Are from Luna Dance Institute on Vimeo.
April 16, 2020
COVID video shares

Luna Teaching Artist Tips for Body-Centered Self Care (6.5 min)

Luna Teaching Artist tips for Body-Centered Self Care from Luna Dance Institute on Vimeo.
April 16, 2020
COVID video shares

Rachel Barna – Brain Dance (8 min)

April 5, 2020
COVID video shares

Ashlie Kirby’s YouTube Channel

Ashlie has created a YouTube channel with several short dance activities for children. VIEW...
April 1, 2020
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!

Dance Joy & Inspiration (because laughter + movement = good medicine)

COVID inspiration & joy

“Using the Wisdom of Dance to Find Our Way Back to Our Bodies”

July 21, 2021
COVID inspiration & joy

‘Slowing Down to Feel’: Moving Our Minds Around Our Bodies

February 19, 2021
COVID inspiration & joy

Pina Bausch’s Nelken Line

For a little joy, and in the spirit of play, join us in learning the iconic choreography of Pina...
January 8, 2021
COVID inspiration & joy

There’s Dance All Over, No Matter Where You Look

January 8, 2021
COVID inspiration & joy

Rosas danst Rosas with Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker

When space and partners are limited, dance with a chair! Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker revisits her...
December 4, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Mark Morris Dance Group’s Sunshine

A minimalist dance play to an iconic song.
December 4, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Basement Gang’s “Take On Me”

What is it about this TikTok clip that’s so addictive? Maybe it’s the sheer joy these...
November 19, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Fenomenos de Semba’s Jerusalema Dance Challenge

Angolan dance studio Fenomenos do Semba – Dança inspires dancers worldwide to jam with a...
November 4, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Dance Theatre of Harlem takes to the streets

When the theaters closed, Dance Theater of Harlem brought their performance into the public...
November 4, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Dancing in the COVID ward with Dr. Senapati

While certainly not the first doctor to bring dance to the hospitals, Dr. Arup Senapati in Assam,...
November 4, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Swan Lake Bathtub Ballet

Conceived by interdisciplinary choreographer Corey Baker and commissioned by the BBC this...
July 29, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

“Dear Dancer” – If Cities Could Dance Chain Letter

From New York to San Francisco, 16 dancers from across the country, representing a range of...
May 27, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Garrett Williams & housemates bounce it out in quarantine

The simplicity of a dance. Who knew bouncing could be so mesmerizing? Comedian Garret Williams...
May 20, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Norah, Yarah & Rosa L E T I T H A P P E N

Here’s another kind of family dance party. Dutch sisters Norah, Yarah & Rosa of L E T I...
May 16, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

A Merce Cunningham solo anyone can try – at home!

April 22, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

A D.I.Y. Dance for Your Home from Yvonne Rainer

April 20, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Family Lockdown Boogie by Jack Buchanon

Join Kiwi actor Jack Buchanon and his family in this fun quarantine-inspired home...
April 17, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

Handwashing Dance “GHEN CO VY” | by Quang Dang

Learn the TikTok dance by Quang Dang that spread faster than the coronavirus.
April 17, 2020
COVID inspiration & joy

“I Been Buked” with Alvin Ailey Dancers

Alvin Ailey company dancers filmed themselves dancing at home to share an excerpt from...
April 2, 2020

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