Sarah Artha NegaraTitle: Adjunct Professor
Degrees: M.F.A., Mills College, B.F.A., Long Beach State University, A.A. Cabrillo College
Teaching Experience: Since 2001
Career Highlight: Fall 2010 Residency with Suar Agung in Bali, Indonesia
Hobbies: Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Balinese arts & culture, fitness, art, travel, nature, volunteerism, disability awareness
Quote: "The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”
– Agnes de Mille
Kendra BarnesTitle: Adjunct Professor
Degrees: M.A. Golden Gate University, B.A. San Francisco State University
Teaching Experience: 20+ years Nationally & Internationally
Career Highlight: Running a dance company for 15+ years, traveling, producing the Black Choreographers Festival
Hobbies: Reading, bike riding, volunteering, taking movement classes (Bikram Yoga, Pilates, Brazillian Dance, Haitian Dance, West African Dance)
Quote: "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
Denaya DaileyTitle: Adjunct Professor
Degrees: M.F.A., Mills College, B.F.A., UCLA
Teaching Experience: Since 2006
Career Highlight: Choreographing and producing performances all over the West Coast
Hobbies: Choreography, modern dance, jazz dance, ballet, yoga, Pilates. Challenging students to reach for new heights and helping students to find their personal voice.
Quote: "Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.” – Alvin Ailey
Kenneth DelmarTitle: Adjunct Professor
Degrees: Masters Degree Equivalency (Dance), Skyline College
Teaching Experience: 34 years
Career Highlight: Toured the world with five major dance companies,
dancing in the most beautiful theaters between San Francisco and the Baltic sea.
Hobbies: Cuban Folkloric Dancing and singing
Quote: "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." – Friedrich Nietzsche
Joan WaltonTitle: Adjunct Professor
Degrees: M.F.A., Stanford University, B.S., University of Cincinnati
Career Highlight: There have been many, and more are yet to come...
Hobbies: 10th century British authors, history museums, thrift shops, 19th and 20th century vintage consuming
Quote: "They who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music" – Friedrich Nietzsche