This is a participatory community workshop where we examine trauma and how it manifests in our bodies through guided movement exercises, writing, drawing, and sharing. After the tragedy of the fires in Los Angeles, this will be a workshop centered on healing from these events.

No prior movement experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes that you can move in.

Donna Sternberg has professionally premiered over ninety works since 1975 throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Mexico; frequently collaborating with artists of other disciplines including composers, visual artists, poets, actors, and digital media as well as scientists. After dancing in the companies of Donald Byrd, Mary Jane Eisenberg, Yen Lu Wong, and Dance/LA, she founded Donna Sternberg & Dancers, a contemporary dance company based in Santa Monica, CA, in 1985. Her choreography has been critically acclaimed for its “exceptional ability to communicate through pure movement” (Los Angeles Times). She has choreographed nine full-evening works, most have been inspired by science. Ms. Sternberg has been commissioned to create works for the California Science Center, SIGGRAPH, Dance Moving Forward Festival, California Choreographer’s Festival, Catlin Gabel School in Oregon, Valley College, and the Alleluia Dance Theatre.