Luna Teaching Artists reflect on teaching and learning at Luna during 2019-20.
“Dear Dancer” – If Cities Could Dance Chain Letter
From New York to San Francisco, 16 dancers from across the country, representing a range of street dance styles and contemporary dance, move as if they are a single being, with each dancer’s actions flowing naturally into the next. Poet Chinaka Hodge narrates the seamless expression of dancers from all corners of the United States as we shelter-in-place. Inspired by Mitchell Rose‘s Exquisite Corps chain letter, each dancer begins in the last pose of the dancer before, passing movements across time and space.
Listen to an inquiry podcast
Curiosity and lifelong learning drive the creative teaching and operations at Luna, and each year our faculty design inquiry projects that inform our field research. Listen to Cherie Hill, Aiano Nakagawa, and Patricia Reedy share recent projects in this recorded podcast, and check out their resource list. Their inquiry topics include child-centric instruction, and researching and defining organizational culture.
Discover more about Luna’s culture of inquiry in Patricia Reedy’s article Using Inquiry to Improve Your Teaching Practice.
Garrett Williams & housemates bounce it out in quarantine
The simplicity of a dance. Who knew bouncing could be so mesmerizing? Comedian Garret Williams and his housemates created this dance video in quarantine to Daði & Gagnamagnið’s “Think About Things”. Try your own version!
Day 17: morale is weird pic.twitter.com/TW4Xdv0qJH
— Garrett Williams (@badboygargar) March 30, 2020
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 T H A P P E N funk it up as a tribute to James Brown. Watch it to catch some new inspiration, analyze for choreographic tools, or for a dose of dancing joy.