About the Author
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Carla De Sola is a pioneer in liturgical dance, the Founding Director of the Omega Liturgical Dance Company at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and creator of the Omega West Dance Company in the Bay Area. She has a Diploma in Dance from Juilliard, and an M.A. in Theology & the Arts from the Pacific School of Religion. Carla has danced, choreographed, taught, and written about sacred dance for half a century. She created Omega to express the spiritual, social, and healing dimensions of dance, as well as be a place to explore inner aspects of movement integrated with the world’s spiritual resources. Omega has brought dance into religious observances and in concert for all settings including liturgical frameworks. Carla was inspired by her time at the Catholic Worker in New York City, which has led her to keep an abiding interest in dancing for peace.
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About the Editor
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Diana Wear has served several communities in the Bay Area for the past forty years—as an activist, minister, and worker. Her education includes a B.A. from UC San Diego, a Master’s in Public Health, Biostatistics from UC Berkeley, and a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology. She was a managing editor for an academic journal and books and served as Assistant Director for the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at UC Berkeley for three decades. She has been active in faith, social justice, and political arenas spanning worker justice, nonviolence, antiwar activism, and women’s ordination. She is part of A Critical Mass: Women Celebrating Eucharist, among other spiritual groups. Her current political involvements include co-founder of Women in Politics (WIP), a group committed to electing local women to public office and she is an activist with the Richmond Progressive Alliance. Diana is married to Butler Nelson and they live in Richmond, California.
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About the Designer
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David W. McCauley, Jr. holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. David enjoyed fifteen years with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, as student, instructor, and performer. He has performed with the Pearl Primus Dance Company and was a member of Omega Liturgical Dance Company. After moving to San Francisco, he joined Carla in forming and dancing with Omega West Dance Company. Concurrently, David performed with Wing It! Performance Ensemble. In 2001 David inaugurated and directed the Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances at the University of California at Berkeley, where he led the program for nearly two decades. In 2020, David officially passed the torch to new leadership at AileyCamp. He is now stretching his creative wings over other fields of art including painting, book illustration and book design, and being mindful that a kairos moment is a portal and possibly a call to use his creative energy in ways not yet known.
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