MpowerDance Project

MpowerDance Project is a member of the San Francisco non-profit dance community through Independent Arts and Media. We've been making dance since 1992. Our Project offers interdisciplinary performance works, dance training, process and performance opportunities, collaborations with dancers, artists, writers and film makers, musicians, and connects community experience through dance and media. In 2012, MpowerDance created the Global Dance Project (GDP), a virtual choreographic endeavor that develops both local (San Francisco) and global community participation using dance and media, with the artistic emphasis on relationship and sustainability to all life on planet earth.  MpowerDance Project explores Dance and Film in San Francisco. Dance with camera entices the viewer to feel and find meaning, without words first, instead with movement of both dancer and camera. Our project maintains high artistic content through Butoh-influenced contemporary dance, multidisciplinary innovations. We explore interactive manifested production to comment on human-centric views. We are committed to inclusion and social awareness. Mary Power, founder and artistic director of MPOWERDANCE PROJECT, a San Francisco based dance art performance group since 1992, holds a Masters of Arts in Exercise Science and Kinesiology with an extensive background in Sports/Dancemedicine. Power published a new choreography book, Visionary Dance Oracle, A Book of the Soul (2021). Most recently, Mary curated a yearlong art exhibit, MOTHERpeaceMOTHERwar, at the San Francisco Theosophical Society (SFTS) from 2021-2022. Her choreography is sourced from Butoh, Contemporary Dance (Modern, Ballet), African, Flamenco and other mind-body systems: Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Martial Arts and body leverage for partnering/TRX. MpowerDance Project workshops and classes include dance training specific to choreographic intent, repertoire, improvisation, vocalization, use of camera/dance and film, use of Visionary Dance