About

Jayne has been teaching dance and yoga for 35 years. She is the owner of Yoga On York (www.yogaonyork.net) which specializes in ground and aerial yoga. Ms. Bernasconi is the founder and artistic director of Air Dance Bernasconi based in Baltimore and has danced with Frequent Flyers Productions based in Boulder, CO. She has also worked with aerial pioneers Terry Sendgraff and Robert Davidson. She has taught and participated in the Internationally acclaimed Aerial Dance Festival from it’s inception in 1999 until the present to teach, perform and in 2008 launched her new book/DVD “Aerial Dance” co-written with Nancy Smith and Foreward by Murray Louis. She received her B.A. in Dance at UM College Park, and an M.A. in Dance Education (1986) from Teachers College, Columbia Univ. in NYC where she studied at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab and danced with several leading NYC post modern choreographers including Stephen Petronio, Pooh Kaye and Bil T. Jones.