We are super excited to announce this year’s Summer Dance Camps. We will have three different types of camps during four weeks of summer at our Luna Studio in Berkeley. Find more information about the times, days, and age groups of each camp below. We’re offering special early bird discounts before March 31st, so act fast today to secure your spot!
Classes are filling up soon so register TODAY to secure your spot!
The Fall studio lab session is coming to an end soon, and we’re excited to announce open registration for Winter and Spring in 2025.
As the days are getting shorter and the weather is getting cooler and wetter, what better way to keep our kids and teens active, and their bodies and minds moving, than our Creative Dance and Dance Improvisation classes?
Please find the class details in the links below, and look for the Winter, Spring, or both Winter and Spring sessions in the drop down menu to register.
Creative Dance (3-8 year olds)
Dance Improvisation (7-11 year olds)
Teen Improv & Choreography (12-17 year olds)
Through our free consultation services Luna faculty listens to your questions, addresses your concerns, helps you develop action plans, and shares our expertise gathered over three decades of working in the field.
Held on the last Tuesdays of most months
3:30-6pm Pacific
Contact **@*****************ty.org to inquire or to book a session.
It’s an election year, and time to keep arts in the minds of our candidates. Advocating for dance at the governmental policy level can be intimidating if you don’t know where to start or what kinds of small steps have impact. Americans for the Arts has some resources that can help, including ones that are state-specific. Find out what’s happening in your state, who your arts representatives and supporting organizations are, and how to get involved here.
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Are you ready to stand for dance education in California? April 30 will be an exciting day in Sacramento! It will include student performances and legislative visits, and we want you and your students to be represented.
Click here to submit an interest form before February 21! Please fill out the form about your group if you are interested in bringing your students to Sacramento to perform as part of this year’s Stand Up 4 Arts Education event on April 30.
A moving body is a learning body, and a playing body is a learning body.
Play is central to how children learn—the way they form and explore friendships, the way they shape and test hypotheses, and the way they make sense of their world. Much is known about how play supports learning, yet little empirical research has explored what it might mean to put play at the center of formal schooling.
In 2015, Harvard’s Project Zero Pedagogy of Play (PoP) research project began investigating the nature of playful learning in schools. Their new publication, A Pedagogy of Play (free PDF available) shares their findings from asking three questions: Why do educators need a pedagogy of play? What does playful learning look and feel like in classrooms and schools? How do educators set up the conditions where playful learning thrives?
California’s Prop 28 ensures more public school access to the arts, and 80% of Prop 28 funds will go towards hiring arts teachers. But because the dance credential is still new, there are not enough credentialed teachers to fill the positions that will open. How can we bridge the gap? What are the pathways to being credentialed in dance?
Check out these two new resources to understand your options, and share with your administrators:
Prop 28: What We Know (So Far) from Create CA
School Districts Need Arts Teachers from California County Superintendents Arts Initiative
TCAP’s (The California Arts Project) statewide and regional arts education network communities support TK–12 through post-secondary dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts educators. Their every-other-month, free virtual network sessions provide opportunities for teachers and administrators to stay informed of statewide and regional arts education news, issues, and to engage in dialogue with others on critical arts education topics. Join to expand your advocacy network! First session is September 28, more details here.
