Making Dances: Scoring & Performance with Iu-Hui Chua and Joy Cosculluela

Held at the historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, CA

This workshop introduces participants to the scoring process and the RSVP Cycles, developed by renowned dance pioneer Anna Halprin and distinguished architect Lawrence Halprin. This unique process is designed to generate individual and group creativity, what energizes it and how it functions. It was further expanded upon by Anna Halprin in the performance realm to become an essential method for generating and devising original performance work.

Through scoring, participants will experience working with somatic movement and Tamalpa Body Part Mythology. Participants will have the opportunity to explore, perform and reflect on the process through creating their own dances.

Participants will take home new resources for personal and/ or professional creative use.

     All levels welcome!  Please wear comfortable clothing. Bring a journal. 

Joy Cosculluela, RSME, MFA, CMT is a performing artist, choreographer, bodyworker, and somatic movement educator. She is artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a multicultural group of artists in San Francisco and has presented numerous works in various venues (Homing Devices, All that Remains, and a work-in-progress The Space Between.)

Joy is a Filipino immigrant working with themes of belonging, identity, and home. She has performed with Anna Halprin & The Sea Ranch Collective (Seasons, Spirit of Place, Parades and Changes).  She was a guest artist with internationally renowned BodyCartography Project at SF MOMA and lead artist in Daria Martin’s film Minotaur.  She has collaborated with various Bay Area artists Diana Lara, Christine Germaine, Laurie Buenafe, Stacey Goodman, and has performed in both indoor theatre and site-specific outdoor environments. Joy delights an exploring what new possibilities our bodies can discover through movement and art. She is director of Performance Lab SF, where she offers classes to encourage creativity and is also co-director of EAR to the Ground Productions, an organization that holds street marches/ 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 10^th 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.

Payment

Online registration for this workshop is closed, but we do have one spot left, please email info@tamalpa.org if interested.

Cancellations

• Refund with 48-hour cancellation notice, except for $15 service fee.
• No refunds for late cancellations.

CEUs

Pre-registration required to receive CEU-s.

Provider number: 75903.

This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For additional information about CEUs for this course contact us at office@tamalpa.org or 415-457-8555.

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