Andrea StoneAndrea Stone, passionate dancer and artist, grew up in a home filled with music and dance where she was inspired to explore her artistic expression. She has performed with The Malibu Improv Troupe, a diverse improvisation dance collective which furthered her love for improvisation. She joined Desert Movement Arts in 2019 producing collaborative and site-based dance movement performances.
Andrea is excited to continue pursuing her love of dance here in the rich culturally diverse arts community. Eve GradillaWe all have potential to create & we all have the ability to heal. Healing is an elevated art.
Eve believes creating is intrinsic to healing. Her current contributions include poetry, singing & songwriting. She is interested in creating connection, and paradigm shifts through storytelling in its various forms & performance arts. Bonni RossBonni Ross likes to tell stories; utilizing ideas and symbols from the various philosophies she has studied. At this stage of her life, being able to express through dance, music and art is fun, playful and she’s having a “blast” doing it!
Bonni has also authored a book, workbook and audio series – “Creativity and Success,” which evolved as a result of Ross’s creative spirit and her many years of teaching. |
Constance Clare-NewmanConstance Clare-Newman is a somatic educator and performer whose work is inspired by her training in the Hawkins technique, improvisation, Continuum, and Alexander Technique. Her performance work and teaching have been presented at festivals and seen in the environments of the California desert and the dunes of Cape Cod.
She has performed in the work of Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, Purple Moon Dance Project, Westwind Folk Ensemble, Ruth Botchan and Dancers and Desert Movement Arts Kitty ChristensenKitty Christensen is a lifelong dancer. She loves more than anything getting everyone on the dance floor to sense their connection to each other and the Divine through movement. She has dabbled in ballet, sacred circle dancing, Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms, and swing and social dancing; not to mention, dancing all night at discos, raves and jazz clubs. Most recently, Kitty taught Nia, a barefoot fitness practice, combining dance and mindfulness. You can often hear Kitty saying, “Hey! I think we could dance to this.”
Margaret Baladi
For many years Margaret has shared her time between her loft in artsy Tribeca, NYC and her home in Palm Springs. She has, through out her life, been drawn to art and popular music since childhood. Post a Wall Street career, as a trader, she has studied on and off at the Arts Student’s League, The New School, The Parson’s School and The New York Academy of Art. More recently, Margaret has been drawn to The Mind Body Connection, spearheaded by Dr. John E. Sarno’a approach to pain and she has experienced the healing power of the brain over the body. She deeply believes that we all must keep moving our bodies in order to live life to its fullest and welcomes every opportunity to do so.
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Guest Artists:
Jamie Grace Davis is an LA artist, working internationally. She concluded her first MFA program at Otis CAD, January 2015, with the exhibition: Points of Departure. She is currently engaged in an ongoing project “Points of Connection.” Her interests lie in pictorial construction through movement, patterns, geography, and prescience. She has devoted time to visual and kinesthetic areas of study to produce further understanding of how these two ways of knowing influence and inform one another, both in a painting and a choreography. Jamie works post studio, with site specific locations and collaboratively with other artists.
Emily Jane Steinberg
Emily Jane Steinberg is a social artist, activist and alchemist. Whether as a visual storyteller, public listener & scribe, or while fostering congruent expression in herself and others through workshops and channels ranging from music and movement to the written word, she is devoted to the sacred work of waking up. Emily collaborates with individuals, organizations, and teams who engage with the business of life and the lives of their business through the layered lenses of social, spiritual, artistic and environmental justice. Learn more at www.emilyYES.com