Julie Emden, Halprin Practitioner, is a movement artist and educator who invokes the creative spirit to support young people as they grow into adulthood, and to support adults in realizing their visions. A student in dance, yoga, and movement improvisation, she combines these studies with the expressive arts to playfully and joyfully explore Jewish themes.
Julie guides and teaches in a variety of settings, including Midrasha in Berkeley, Kehilla Community Synagogue's Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program, and various congregations and organizations throughout the Bay Area. For four summers, Julie worked as a movement and art specialist at Building Bridges for Peace, a three-week summer intensive in Colorado for Palestinian, Israeli and American teens. In addition Julie has brought movement and the arts to secular settings, including body esteem and empowerment workshops for teenage girls in San Francisco, and she has performed improvisation with Interplay's Multicultural Performance Ensemble.
Julie is a graduate of teacher training programs in Expressive Arts Education at Tamalpa Institute and in Dance Midrash, and she holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of Michigan.
The Halprin Life/Art Process is an integrative approach to the expressive and therapeutic arts for personal, interpersonal and social change. The vision of this work is based on the belief that dance and the expressive arts when connected with the life concerns of the individual, the community and the environment, have a creative and healing role to play in the lives of all people. |
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