SpectorDance Classes and Youth Company
SpectorDance, 3343 Paul Davis Dr, Marina, CA 93933
About
SpectorDance Classes and Youth Company offers dance classes that include contemporary movement workshops and live performances. The program features issue-based multidisciplinary works that blend visual media, verbal material, and music with dance. Projects begin with the selection of a topic about a critical social issue that affects the community, and use interviews with experts woven together with visual images and a music mix.
SpectorDance’s mission is to “Create and Present Dance That Makes A Difference,” and its vision is “A world where everyone can be connected, informed, and inspired through the beauty and power of dance.” The program’s works use dance to address topics such as climate change, gang violence and juvenile justice, agricultural history, military family sacrifice, ocean health, California agriculture, the Coronavirus experience, and Indigenous knowledge sustaining healthy forests. These works use a signature style that weaves together factual and aesthetic elements, blending music, spoken word, and visual media with dance.
Artistic Director and Founder Fran Spector Atkins is the lead artist for SpectorDance and has collaborated with media artist William Roden, a nationally recognized media artist, for over 25 years. The leadership team includes Artistic Director and Founder Fran Spector Atkins, lead artist Fran Spector Atkins, and media artist William Roden. SpectorDance forges partnerships with non-arts organizations such as the Monterey Aquarium Research Institute and Rancho Cielo, an award-winning vocational training program for at-risk young adults, and offers free live performances and contemporary movement workshops in under-resourced parts of the community.
Colleen Bailey, Former Executive Director of the National Steinbeck Center, described Fran Spector Atkins’s work as “intelligent and creative” and stated that Fran’s collaborative work is “of the highest caliber.” Paulette Lynch, former Executive Director of the Arts Council for Monterey County, called Fran Spector Atkins “a tour de force in our community and throughout the country” and described her work as “gorgeous, daring, innovative and powerful.”
Last updated April 5, 2026.
SpectorDance’s mission is to “Create and Present Dance That Makes A Difference,” and its vision is “A world where everyone can be connected, informed, and inspired through the beauty and power of dance.” The program’s works use dance to address topics such as climate change, gang violence and juvenile justice, agricultural history, military family sacrifice, ocean health, California agriculture, the Coronavirus experience, and Indigenous knowledge sustaining healthy forests. These works use a signature style that weaves together factual and aesthetic elements, blending music, spoken word, and visual media with dance.
Artistic Director and Founder Fran Spector Atkins is the lead artist for SpectorDance and has collaborated with media artist William Roden, a nationally recognized media artist, for over 25 years. The leadership team includes Artistic Director and Founder Fran Spector Atkins, lead artist Fran Spector Atkins, and media artist William Roden. SpectorDance forges partnerships with non-arts organizations such as the Monterey Aquarium Research Institute and Rancho Cielo, an award-winning vocational training program for at-risk young adults, and offers free live performances and contemporary movement workshops in under-resourced parts of the community.
Colleen Bailey, Former Executive Director of the National Steinbeck Center, described Fran Spector Atkins’s work as “intelligent and creative” and stated that Fran’s collaborative work is “of the highest caliber.” Paulette Lynch, former Executive Director of the Arts Council for Monterey County, called Fran Spector Atkins “a tour de force in our community and throughout the country” and described her work as “gorgeous, daring, innovative and powerful.”
Last updated April 5, 2026.
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