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The devastating effects of climate change are increasingly evident in our local and global communities; they are the crises of our time and for future generations.
We can perceive the effects of global warming with our senses, aesthetically and effectively. What are ways that dance educators and learners can expand perceptions, ultimately affecting behaviors in response to environmental injustices? This workshop incorporates lenses of indigenous dance practices, hula, and Native American dances, that honor interconnectedness, as well as participants’ personal experiences, stories, and movement practices.Through these ancient dances, we attune the contemporary dance teacher and learner with his/her/their/our space and environment, the beautiful world.
We will explore, experience, appreciate, and advocate for Earth as part of our dynamic, living, and sacred embodied selves. We will be inspired by these indigenous cultural perspectives and values as models to reflect, move, and expand our kinesthetic research and practices in dialogue and dance-making. Participants will leave with tools and techniques to encourage students to initiate constructive actions toward addressing environmental justice in their communities. We will develop models and pathways to honor and care for the Earth, and therefore, empathically, for ourselves and one another.
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John-Mario Sevilla (92Y Harkness Director of Professional Development and Performance; MA, Teachers College; MFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) hails from Ka’ehu, Maui. Formerly the Director of Harkness Dance Center, Manager of School Programs and Director of Education at New York City Ballet, he has been a teacher both here and abroad to dancers of all ages and levels. From 1988 to 1996, John-Mario was a performer, choreographic collaborator, rehearsal director and teacher for Pilobolus, for which he toured internationally and appeared on several national telecasts. He has also ...
John-Mario Sevilla (92Y Harkness Director of Professional Development and Performance; MA, Teachers College; MFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) hails from Ka’ehu, Maui. Formerly the Director of Harkness Dance Center, Manager of School Programs and Director of Education at New York City Ballet, he has been a teacher both here and abroad to dancers of all ages and levels. From 1988 to 1996, John-Mario was a performer, choreographic collaborator, rehearsal director and teacher for Pilobolus, for which he toured internationally and appeared on several national telecasts. He has also worked with choreographers Rebecca Stenn, Lisa Giobbi, Nikolais and Louis, Shapiro and Smith, Janis Brenner, Anna Sokolow and Bill Cratty, juggler Michael Moschen, film animator Laura Margulies, drag performing artists Sherry Vine, poet John Unterecker and Navajo sandpainter and healer Walking Thunder. Mr. Sevilla’s choreography has appeared in New York City at Movement Research/Judson Church, LaMama, Dance Theater Workshop, St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bouwerie, Columbia University, ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, The Asia Society, Riverside Church and Bronx Academy of Art and Dance. He currently is a student of the hula with kumu hula Hōkūlani Holt of Pā‘ū O Hi‘iaka on the island of Maui. He has also studied with kumu hula June Ka’ililani Tanoue.
DEL Dance & Environmental Justice
Megan J. Minturn, MA, RYT is a New York-based dancer, educator and choreographer. She loves sharing her passion for movement. Her company of investigators/choreographers/dancers, MJM Dance, performed at 92nd Street Y, New York’s Dance New Amsterdam, HERE Arts, Dixon Place, NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theatre, Miami University of Ohio, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Stand4 Gallery and Ailey’s Citigroup Theatre among others. They investigated and performed their first evening length performance, Monopoly: The Landlord’s Game in April, 2017 to two sol ...
Megan J. Minturn, MA, RYT is a New York-based dancer, educator and choreographer. She loves sharing her passion for movement. Her company of investigators/choreographers/dancers, MJM Dance, performed at 92nd Street Y, New York’s Dance New Amsterdam, HERE Arts, Dixon Place, NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theatre, Miami University of Ohio, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Stand4 Gallery and Ailey’s Citigroup Theatre among others. They investigated and performed their first evening length performance, Monopoly: The Landlord’s Game in April, 2017 to two sold out audiences at Mark Morris Dance Center.
Megan dances with Bessie Award winning, Joya Powell’s Movement of the People Dance Company and Catherine Gallant/DANCE. With Joya Powell and Catherine Gallant she has performed at venues including Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, St. Mark's Church, BAM, La MaMa, throughout the tri-state area, and internationally. Megan has performed the works of Mabingo Alfdaniels, Frederick Curry, Carolyn Webb, Dianne Duggan, Deborah Damast, Rainy Demerson, Saya Hardako, Jacques Heim, Jenny Brown, and Charles Ahovissi. Megan teaches at the Brooklyn International High School. Her students have performed throughout New York City. In 2016, Megan was awarded the New York State Dance Education Association’s Outstanding K-12 Educator of the Year and in 2015 Education Update’s Outstanding Educator of the Year at NY’s Harvard Club. She was a guest artist teaching movement and improvisation in NYU’s Graduate Music program for four years. Megan worked with the ARTery teaching Dancing Classroom’s ballroom dance to 5th graders, Charles Ahovissi’s African Culture Connection performing and teaching West African dance, the Diavolo Project: Nebraska dancing and teaching athletic contemporary dance, and participated in a Kennedy Center funded Teaching Artist Initiative. She has taught and written curricula with Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Little Red Schoolhouse Summer Program, The School at Peridance, Notes in Motion, Action Arts at Columbia University, and HB Studios. She has led workshops and sat on panels at the National Dance Education Organizations annual workshops (2012-2016) and has written curricula and mentored new dance teachers with the New York City Department of Education’s Office of Arts and Special Projects.
Megan received her 200 hour Yoga Alliance Certification at Sonic Yoga in New York City. Most recently, she studied dance and dance pedagogy in Havana, Cuba at Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, received the Don Quixote Grant (2019) to study dance with Rosangela Silvestre in Salvador, Brazil and is a Fund for Teachers Fellow (2019). Megan holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University.