About Alliance Action Arts
Mission
The mission of Alliance Action Arts is to inspire artists of all ages to explore the creative forces within and around them through embodied arts education programs. To that end, Alliance Action Arts programs and projects for adults, children, families, and intergenerational groups are somatic and site-specific, creative and collaborative.
Vision
Alliance Action Arts is dedicated to building connections between creativity and sustainability, envisioning a community that collaborates, communicates, conserves, creates, and critically reflects in order to engage in environmental action.
Values
Collaboration - Working together and including diverse experiences and insights increase the likelihood of success.
Communication - Expressing ourselves and actively attuning with each other helps us understand the meanings behind the messages.
Conservation - Reducing the use of, reusing, and recycling our limited and precious resources ensure sustainability.
Creation - Inventing new and meaningful ways of doing things helps us to remain energized and excited about our work.
Critical Reflection - Questioning assumptions helps us imagine alternative ways of perceiving ourselves, others, and our work.
Director, Founder
Natasha Alhadeff-Jones founded Alliance Action Arts in 2021.
Natasha Alhadeff-Jones is a dance educator, ecologist artist, and practice-based researcher/consultant. She holds a Masters of Arts in Dance Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and is a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Her post graduate studies include health education (Teachers College) and somatic dance education (Dynamic Embodiment™). She has taught all ages, in the fields of dance, environmental education and health education, in public schools, private schools and non-profit organizations in the U.S.A. and Switzerland.
Currently, she serves as the Director at Alliance Action Arts, Co-director of Global Water Dances - Geneva & Educational Consultant at Global Water Dances, and Associate Director at the Sunkhronos Institute.
Natasha is ever-curious about the relationships between embodied arts and environmental action, as well as individual, communal, and systemic transformation. She promotes transformation by teaching movement workshops, producing site-specific dance, and facilitating conversations informed by theories and practices related to dance education and embodied ecology. Click here to learn more.