Luna Dance & Creativity
Luna Dance & Creativity, 931 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, CA 94710
About
Luna Dance & Creativity offers dance, family dance, and parent-child classes, along with Dance in Early Childhood teacher workshops. The program also includes a Summer Institute, monthly Practitioner Exchanges, and the Teacher as Creative Practitioner Scholar program. Studio Lab-Kids is described as the only choreography-centered children’s dance program in California.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: Class and program options are available Monday–Friday during daytime hours and Saturday mornings
Luna Dance & Creativity operates Studio Lab-Kids, Studio Lab-Artists providing rehearsal space and piloting residency programs, and Studio Lab-Community offering public education through showcasing artistic research and scholarship. Luna’s mission is to bring creativity, equity and community to every child’s life through the art of dance. The organization hires dance teaching artists as salaried employees with benefits. The leadership team includes Patricia Reedy, Executive Director Creativity & Pedagogy. Established in 1992 as Luna Kids Dance and later known as Luna Dance Institute, Luna Dance & Creativity has been in business 33 years.
Luna’s Professional Learning department supports dancers, teaching artists, classroom teachers, and other professionals through workshops, institutes, and communities of practice. Luna has worked with teachers to implement family dance in their communities, and Family Dance programs were integrated into cultural organizations in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Early learning partners include Head Start and Early Head Start programs in multiple communities, Berkeley and Oakland public school early learning sites, and collaborations with organizations such as San Francisco Ballet to bring dance to multiple early childhood education sites in San Francisco Unified School District. Luna’s work in schools began in 2003 in partnership with Oakland Unified School District. Inclusion of children with and without disabilities is a key component of their model program work in schools. Luna uses a practice-to-policy and policy-to-practice approach to champion systemic change in arts, education, and social justice, and hires dance teaching artists as salaried employees with benefits to professionalize the field of dance education.
Luna co-authored Oakland Unified School District’s Blueprint for Dance Learning K–12 (2009). Luna was instrumental in the adopting of the California Theater and Dance credential, the California Standards for Dance, and the California Preschool Learning Foundations. Luna Dance & Creativity is described as a nationally recognized dance education organization.
Parent, student, teen, and teacher comments about Luna Dance & Creativity include: “Dance has become my escape… When I dance, I feel everything but human. I almost feel god-like. When I dance, I feel like I matter.” A teacher shared that their confidence in deciding to incorporate movement into distance teaching came from a summer with Luna, and described students “moving and grooving and smiling for 15 minutes” and remembering “these twenty minutes of breath and freedom and imagination.” One parent said, “It’s super important to feel comfortable with yourself, with your body and dancing really makes awareness in young children. Class like yours is so essential.” A student said, “We have dance class? This is the best day of my life!” Another parent said, “I hope that this connection to herself and ability to take feedback/prompts without triggering that deep wound can continue to flourish and provide another way for her to navigate being a learner.” A student commented, “I love to move so much that when everybody has to sit down when we discuss things it is really hard for me to stop moving.” A teacher described the Practitioner Exchanges as “an encouraging flame” and “a fresh spark during this strange time in history.”
Last updated June 19, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: Class and program options are available Monday–Friday during daytime hours and Saturday mornings
Luna Dance & Creativity operates Studio Lab-Kids, Studio Lab-Artists providing rehearsal space and piloting residency programs, and Studio Lab-Community offering public education through showcasing artistic research and scholarship. Luna’s mission is to bring creativity, equity and community to every child’s life through the art of dance. The organization hires dance teaching artists as salaried employees with benefits. The leadership team includes Patricia Reedy, Executive Director Creativity & Pedagogy. Established in 1992 as Luna Kids Dance and later known as Luna Dance Institute, Luna Dance & Creativity has been in business 33 years.
Luna’s Professional Learning department supports dancers, teaching artists, classroom teachers, and other professionals through workshops, institutes, and communities of practice. Luna has worked with teachers to implement family dance in their communities, and Family Dance programs were integrated into cultural organizations in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Early learning partners include Head Start and Early Head Start programs in multiple communities, Berkeley and Oakland public school early learning sites, and collaborations with organizations such as San Francisco Ballet to bring dance to multiple early childhood education sites in San Francisco Unified School District. Luna’s work in schools began in 2003 in partnership with Oakland Unified School District. Inclusion of children with and without disabilities is a key component of their model program work in schools. Luna uses a practice-to-policy and policy-to-practice approach to champion systemic change in arts, education, and social justice, and hires dance teaching artists as salaried employees with benefits to professionalize the field of dance education.
Luna co-authored Oakland Unified School District’s Blueprint for Dance Learning K–12 (2009). Luna was instrumental in the adopting of the California Theater and Dance credential, the California Standards for Dance, and the California Preschool Learning Foundations. Luna Dance & Creativity is described as a nationally recognized dance education organization.
Parent, student, teen, and teacher comments about Luna Dance & Creativity include: “Dance has become my escape… When I dance, I feel everything but human. I almost feel god-like. When I dance, I feel like I matter.” A teacher shared that their confidence in deciding to incorporate movement into distance teaching came from a summer with Luna, and described students “moving and grooving and smiling for 15 minutes” and remembering “these twenty minutes of breath and freedom and imagination.” One parent said, “It’s super important to feel comfortable with yourself, with your body and dancing really makes awareness in young children. Class like yours is so essential.” A student said, “We have dance class? This is the best day of my life!” Another parent said, “I hope that this connection to herself and ability to take feedback/prompts without triggering that deep wound can continue to flourish and provide another way for her to navigate being a learner.” A student commented, “I love to move so much that when everybody has to sit down when we discuss things it is really hard for me to stop moving.” A teacher described the Practitioner Exchanges as “an encouraging flame” and “a fresh spark during this strange time in history.”
Last updated June 19, 2026.
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