Jen Liu: GHOST__WORLD: a performance for 4 dancers

GHOST__WORLD: a performance for 4 dancers is built on choreography originating in first-hand interviews with electronics and e-waste workers in South China (conducted by Liu in fall 2022). An overwhelming sense […]

Vivalon: Dance Around the World workshop facilitator

Would you like to facilitate a dance workshop at Vivalon? Vivalon is a non-profit organization in San Rafael that provides a wide range of services to adults ages fifty and […]

Welcome, Jan/Feb 2014

THE PERENNIAL CRAVING for new beginnings—creative, practical, success or health-based—are abundantly present at the start of each new year. This universal desire to move forward comprises the imaginative impulses that […]

Parya Dance: Dancing with Hafez

Starting with the poetry of Hafez, one of the most famous Iranian poets of the 14th century, choreographer Parya Saberi considers “every word as a jewel.” During the pandemic, with […]

Welcome, Mar 2014

CAN WRITTEN DECLARATIONS adequately express dance? The response: depends on the writer and the reader. Words on a page might be more definitive than movement on stage, yet the former […]

Motion Arts Center: K-Pop Classes

In our K-Pop classes at the Motion Arts Center, we dive into this cultural phenomenon, offering students an immersive experience where they can learn the latest dance moves, connect with […]

Grace; Revisiting a Definition

An essay examining the historical evolution of grace as a concept and its application to integrated dance.

Health Care Volunteers Work to Keep You Dancing

Are you aware that there is a Healthy Dancers’ Clinic (HDC) at ODC Dance Commons for the Dance community? The clinic is open to all ages, disciplines of dance and […]

Universal Design for Learning: Why Does it Matter to Dance Teaching?

SINCE INCEPTION, Luna Dance Institute has investigated strategies for bringing all children to dance, including providing access to children who learn in various ways. We’ve worked with the physically-integrated dance […]

Welcome, Sep 2013

Often, Opulent Opportunities co-mingle with high/low art and do-it-yourself sensibilities, mixing cultures and movements—figurative and literal—that collide and complicate the total truth of the occasion. At some future time, the […]