dNaga FAM

Yael Berrol has danced since she was seven, exploring styles such as ballet, modern, hip hop, jazz, and composition. Yael began working with dNaga Dance Company in 2013. She has been a part of the PEACE, FREEDOM, and GIRL Projects and attended the 2016 and 2019 World Parkinson’s Congresses in Portland and Kyoto. Inspired by her work with dNaga and Parkinson’s Disease, Yael is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science at UC Davis. She continues to support dNaga as rehearsal director.

Seosaimhín Black grew up doing Irish dance and quickly turned to other styles such as ballet, modern, and hip hop. She has been dancing at Danspace for nine years and with dNaga for seven years. She attended Berkeley High, and during her junior and senior years she participated in Dance Production where she picked up most of her hip hop experience. Currently, she is majoring in Psychology at Berkeley City College and aspires to transfer to CAL in the coming years. After many years of dancing with dNaga, she remains inspired by the passion and love that comes from this intergenerational work. Most recently she has been supporting the company as a make-up artist.

Roz Aronson got her start as a dance accompanist at a summer camp for girls in the Adirondacks, NY with Margery Mazia (Margery Guthrie). She worked at Purdue University and in the West Lafayette, IN public schools. She has studied theory and composition and written scores for several plays for children’s theater and University theater. Roz has two sons and four grandchildren, one of whom, Bebe Aronson, studied at Danspace and danced with dNaga. “It is my joy to play for Claudine and the dancers of DFPD, to be with their creativity, their spontaneity, and their courage in self expression.”