Ryan Huber (he/him) is a multimedia artist with over a decade of experience providing musical and visual services for Bay Area dance and theater groups. He works at UC Berkeley and is a member of the San Francisco-based band, Battlehooch. In addition to music and video editing, he is passionate about yoga and biology.
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Dr Erica Rose Jeffrey believes in the power of movement connected to positive social change. A ‘dance activist’, she seeks to create positive ways of seeing, participating and collaboratingin, around, and through dance. Involved in multiple communities, she has worked internationally as a peacebuilder, facilitator, performer, educator, and arts leader. Erica Rose co-founded the Dance for Parkinson’s Australia program with David Leventhal in 2012.
Erica Rose is the first Dance for PD® certified teaching artist in Australia. She holds a PhD in Creative Industries, focusing on Dance and Peacebuilding from Queensland University of Technology, a M.A. in International Relations-Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Queensland, and B.S. degrees in Dance and Mediation and Conflict Resolution from Indiana University.
She is a Director of Dance for Parkinson’s Australia working in Partnership with Dance for PD®. Erica Rose has presented workshops with Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, the Sydney Opera House, The Australian Ballet, Ausdance, the Belconnen Arts Centre, and other organizations throughout Australia. Working with Dance for PD®, she is supporting the expansion of training and class opportunities in China, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Japan.
Erica Rose is also a co-Director of Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia, implementing and researching peacebuilding projects in the Asia and Pacific regions. Her research has included work in the Philippines, specifically in Mindanao, Fiji, Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), and the United States. As a Director of PaCSIA, she is currently engaged in community level peacebuilding projects, including many with arts and culture components in Australia, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea. Her recent publication, Dancing through the dissonance: Creative movement and peacebuilding was published in 2020 in Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Ben Juodvalkis composes original music for a variety of industries. He has created over 50 scores for dance companies across the United States. In addition to composing for film, museum installations, and theater, Ben works from his studio in San Francisco as well as on location with his mobile custom built electronic instruments.
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Erin Carper has dedicated her life to the study of the body in motion. In the Bay Area, she had the pleasure of dancing in the works of Tomi Paasonen (Kunst-Stoff), Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Kara Davis (project agora), and Antoine Hunter (Urban Jazz).
In 2014, Erin Carper studied with Dance for PD® program founder David Leventhal at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York. She also is mentored in Dance for PD® by Susan Weber at Berkeley Ballet Theater. Erin holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Liberal Arts from the Saint Mary’s College of California LEAP Program. Her teaching is informed by her work as an instructor of GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®, as a student of Body Mind Centering® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and her offerings as a somatic ecotherapy and wilderness rites of passage guide.
Erin believes that dance is everyone’s birthright. She brings her extensive background in dance, improvisation, theater, and somatics, as well as her deep love of music and nature, to each class.
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Marika Brussel has been teaching dance to people of all ages since 2002. She teaches movement to seniors and people with disabilities all over the San Francisco Bay area, including classes at The Institute on Aging, On Lok, Richmond Senior Center, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum. She trained to teach dance for people with Parkinson’s disease through Mark Morris Dance and has been teaching Dance for PD® since 2010.
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