Local Dancers in Hudson

Monday, August 30th, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Hudson Hall, West Room
327 Warren Street
Featuring: Donna Barrett, Sondra Loring, Anna Mayta, Jamie Stiller, Alaina Wilson

Elena Mosley - In her community of Hudson, Elena Mosley was the founding member and current Director of Operation Unite New York, a not-for-profit that provides programs for youth and community members. She also founded the Kuumba Dance and Drum Academy. The program offers a variety of African music and dance classes, as well as performance opportunities for all ages.

Sondra Loring is an interdisciplinary queer witch, sharing somatic practices, yoga, meditation, science, poetry, farming and dance, with a strong sense of play, and a nurturing of community. She lives on Feathertail Farm, a small shared garden.

Donna Barrett performs belly dance in the Hudson Valley. She teaches belly dance in Columbia County, most recently at Columbia-Greene Community College. Donna previously taught at Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts, where she led the Wild Roses Belly Dance Troupe, best known to Hudson audiences for Winter Walk and CCCA Arts Walk appearances. Donna has performed belly dance at Hudson Hall, Club Helsinki, Olana, and Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson; Taghkanic Hills Performing Arts Center in Craryville; Bridge Street Theater and Greene County Council on the Arts in Catskill; Rokeby Estate in Rhinebeck; Colony in Woodstock; the Arts Society of Kingston, BSP, and Green Kill in Kingston; and numerous private events in NYC. In addition, Donna is a dancer and percussive member of Kuumba Dance and Drum Academy.