India Harville

Artist Bio
India Harville is an African American, queer, disabled, femme of center, performance artist, somatic bodyworker, social justice activist, and educator. India has danced professionally with Liz Lerman’s Dance Exchange, based in Washington DC, DanceAbility, based in Eugene Oregon, and is a company member in the Dance Sing Drum Company and Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensembles at Cal State Hayward and Sins Invalid based in Berkeley California. India has had the privilege to travel and perform across the United States. India's performance work addresses racial justice, queer identity, survivorhood, disability and chronic illness. In addition to choreographing and performing, India is dedicated to supporting people with personal and collective healing and transformation from a place of embodiment.

Artistic Discipline
Dance

Education

DanceAbility Master Teacher Training Trier, Germany September 2017
DanceWheels Wheelchair Ballroom Instructor Training Oakland, CA 2016
DanceAbility Teacher Training Austin, TX 2015, Eugene, OR 2016
KiVo Dance Instructor Training Oakland, CA 2015
Sins Invalid Mixed Ability Dance Workshop Participant, Oakland, CA 2014
Dance Exchange Mixed Abilities Dance Workshops, Washington, DC 2014
Zumba Training, Sacramento, CA - Zumba Instructor Training 2013
Dancing Freedom Teacher Training, Santa Cruz, CA 2012
NIA Instructor Training, Portland, OR 2010
BA in psychology, MA in Integrative medicine with an emphasis in movement education

Professional Experience:
Selected to be in the National Queer Arts Festival in 2018 for further developing my one woman show, Art and Accessibility Grant recipient 2017 for one woman show Enough, Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom performer for Sins Invalid in 2016.

Teaching Experience
Yes.

DanceAbility Master Trainer 2017 - 3 weeks of advanced training on teaching inclusive dance and teaching new instructors basic skills for teaching inclusive dance
DanceAbility Instructor 2015 and 2016 - 8 weeks of instruction on teaching inclusive dance
NIA Instructor - training completed 2010

Accommodation Needs

Wheelchair accessible space
no fluorescent lighting when possible
low scent when possible

Ethnicity
Black/African American

Disability Description
Physical/Mobility disability

Address
San Leandro, CA 94577

Phone: 510-381-9923

Email: india@embracedbody.com

Website: https://www.embracedbody.com/

Artistic Discipline:

Dance

Disability type:

Physical/Mobility disability

India Harville, African American woman barefoot with black locs in two ponytails and face glitter dancing against a gray background. She is wearing a long black/white dress dancing in her manual wheelchair with both face and palms facing forward with all fingers spread out.

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India Harville, African American woman barefoot with long black curly locs wearing a black dress with a red/black face mask and a red flower on the right side. She is kneeling on a brown wooden floor surrounded by white electric candles and a gray/black wall. She is dancing with her hands on her thighs.

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India Harville, African American woman barefoot with black locs wearing a loose white dress. Against a dark background, she is dancing in her manual wheelchair posing sideways with hands reaching towards the sky and left knee bent.

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