Meet the Work with Joy Cosculluela and Iu-Hui Chua
Joy Cosculluela, RSME, MFA, CMT is a performing artist, choreographer, bodyworker, and somatic movement educator. Joy is a Filipino immigrant working with themes of belonging, identity, home. She is the artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a multicultural group of artists in San Francisco, and has presented numerous works in various venues. She has performed with Anna Halprin & The Sea Ranch Collective (Seasons, Spirit of Place, Parades and Changes). She continues to find joy and inspiration through collaborations with various Bay Area artists (Diana Lara, Christine Germaine, Laurie Buenafe, Stacey Goodman, and many more). Joy is the director of Performance Lab SF, where she offers classes to encourage creativity, and is also a co-director of EAR to the Ground Productions, an organization that holds street performances in response to current events. Joy holds a Master’s in Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute.
Iu-Hui Chua, MFA, RSMT, RSME, CPC
Iu-Hui Chua choreographs, performs, directs, and devises physical theater, dance, and video performance. Simultaneously experimental, performance art, installation, physical theater, sculpture and memory, her work encourages connection, curiosity and change. She has been a member of Anna Halprin’s Sea Ranch Collective and an associate teacher for Ms. Halprin. Others she’s danced for include Ledoh and Salt Farm, Dandelion Dancetheater, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Ellen Bromberg, Sherwood Chen, Headmistress and Disneyland. Iu-Hui has presented her award-winning work nationally and internationally at the San Francisco International Arts Festival, Videoholica International Video Art Festival Bulgaria, SomaFest, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Mondavi Studio, and various site-specific locations in North America, Asia, and Europe. She has also taught dance, theater, and the Tamalpa Life/Art work internationally to people aged 15-85 for over a decade. Support from national grants and awards include the Cass Calder Smith Artful Harvest Circle Fellowship, Quick Grant Center for Cultural Innovation, Consortium for Women and Research Grant, and the UC Davis Dramatic Arts Fellowship. Artist residencies include Penasco Theater Company, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, CounterPulse and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Iu-Hui has presented at the Northern California Performance Platform at Stanford University and taught as a Lecturer at UC Davis. Currently she is teaching dance for her 10th year at Tamalpais High School, continuing her coaching practice specializing in career development and presence, and working on collaborative projects with her favorite multi-disciplinary artist colleagues.
DATE:
August 4, 2019TIME:
1:00 PM - 4:00 PMPRICE:
$45LOCATION
Held at the historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, California15 Ravine Way
Kentfield, CA 94904
