3 Mondays: November 3,10, 17, 2025 | 10:00 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
Cost:
$70 early registration by October 20th & grads anytime
$77 regular price after October 20th
QUESTIONS OR ISSUES: Email Workshops at Tamalpa
Stemming from Anna Halprin’s innovative dance approach, this workshop is dedicated to the creative process of finding art and wonder in the everyday.
Over many decades, Anna Halprin sourced dances from everyday movement. Through improvisation, dance shifted from traditional stylized movements to more open-ended exploration and expression.
What if the actions we perform everyday, such as eating, dressing, or cleaning, become rich material to enliven our creative lives?
Task-based movement, imbued with somatic awareness, feeling states, and imagination, can transform our everyday experiences.
Participants will experiment with what happens when something familiar becomes more-than-familiar. We’ll heighten our kinesthetic awareness through our sensing bodies. We’ll open our imagination to play, to welcome something new. We’ll expand our perception by improvising with others.
What/ who shows up in our dances? Participants will have an opportunity to share their experiences and discoveries.
Have a comfortable space to move and drawing/writing materials on hand.
To get the most out of this online class, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device and reliable internet service. If you are using a handheld device, such as a pad or phone, please be sure to use a stand for your device so that it is held securely in place. You will want to have your hands free and be able to move freely and safely during movement exercises without worrying about your device falling. Have art supplies ready at hand for the drawing activity and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.
Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.
Photo by Tamalpa Institute
Please note: Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect participant privacy.
Joy Cosculluela (she/her) RSME, MFA, CMT, resides in the ancestral lands of the Ohlone people, otherwise known as SF Bay Area. Joy is a performing artist, somatic educator, and artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a multicultural ensemble of artists in SF. She was associate teacher and dancer with Anna Halprin and The Sea Ranch Collective. Joy has collaborated with numerous Bay Area artists and has worked as a guest teacher at San Francisco State, University of Washington, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Nature Talks, and Body-Mind Centering Association. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, is artistic director of Performance Lab San Francisco and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, California. wayfindingperformance.com
Registration will take place on Eventbrite. Upon payment you will be given access to register for the class series through Eventbrite and emailed instructions on how to receive your Zoom link for the class. If you do not receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite, please email Workshops at Tamalpa immediately.
Payment
Deadlines:
- REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Registration will close 1 hour prior to the start time of the first class.
- REFUNDS: will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the first class. No partial refunds or transfers available. Eventbrite’s registration and processing fees are non-refundable.
