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!
Practitioner Exchange Series: Teaching Dance from a Distance
Free Phone Consultations
Enjoy an engaging dance read!
Perfect/Imperfect Lessons Video Series
Body, Mind & Spirit in Action ebook
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!
Erica Rose Jeffrey’s Dance for Parkinson’s Videos
Maura Whelehan with SF Ballet on the SF Loves Learning Show
Aiano Nakagawa – Good Morning Brain Dance (11 min)
Jochelle Perena – Dance Storytime with Where the Wild Things Are (14 min)
Luna Teaching Artist Tips for Body-Centered Self Care (6.5 min)
Ashlie Kirby’s YouTube Channel
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
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!