MpowerDance Project

MpowerDance Project is a member of the San Francisco non-profit dance community through Independent Arts and Media. Our company has been making dance since 1992. 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. From 2009-2020, Mary successfully ran Nob Hill Pilates and Gyrotonic Studio for athletes and dancers until the 2020 COVID pandemic shuttered its doors. That following year, author Mary Power published a new choreography book, Visionary Dance Oracle, A Book of the Soul (2021). She continues to teach mind-body arts including Pilates, Gyrotonic, TRX, Contemporary Dance, Martial Arts. Most recently, Mary curated a yearlong art exhibit, MOTHERpeaceMOTHERwar, at the San Francisco Theosophical Society (SFTS). The MpowerDance Project collaborative effort involved ten local artists, featuring two works of installation art, photography, dance performance, spoken word and live music (2021-2022). Mary contributed an installation art piece and two different choreographed twenty-minute dance performances. Movement sourced from Contemporary Dance influenced by Butoh, Modern, Ballet, African with bodymind foundation in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Martial Arts and body leverage systems/TRX.