Remembering the Body, Creating Healing Art Performances w/ Joy Cosculluela

Founded in 1978 by dance and expressive arts therapy pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, Tamalpa Institute is internationally recognized for its unique approach to movement, dance, and expressive arts therapy and education. We offer classes and programs throughout the year for people who wish to incorporate the embodied creativity of the arts into their personal lives and professional practices.

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In honor of Anna Halprin’s birthday, we invite you to join us in a process of remember-ing the body as a way to open and catalyze creativity

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Founded by Anna and Daria Halprin, the Tamalpa Institute offers classes and programs throughout the year for people who wish to incorporate the embodied creativity of the arts into their personal lives and professional practices.

6 Mondays, ONLINE: July 10, 17, 24, 31, Aug. 7, and 14th, 10am - 12pm PTRegistration: To support the community-oriented nature of this course, space is limited.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 student privacy.“As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression, we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.”- Anna Halprin“Scores are a means of revealing alternatives, of disclosing latent possibilities and the potential for releasing total human resources.” - Lawrence HalprinIn honor of Anna Halprin’s birthday, we invite you to join us in a process of remember-ing the body as a way to open and catalyze creativity and well-being.Bringing together the innovative RSVP Cycles of Lawrence Halprin with Anna Halprin&#x27;s Life/Art approach to movement/dance and performance, participants will design a score for a performance piece dedicated to a theme, an experience, a relationship that matters to them.This special oﬀering is a great opportunity for those who are familiar with the Life/Art Process, for those who wish to dive deeper into the work, and a wonderful introduc-tion for creative practitioners, teachers, artists, community organizers, and anyone in-terested in embodied approaches to creating and performing for health and well-being.Participants will work with the following tools and methods of the Tamalpa Life/Art Pro-cess to generate dances, writings, drawings, and oral narratives to be gathered and shaped into performance scores:•	RSVP CyclesDeveloped by Lawrence Halprin and shaped by Anna Halprin for her choreographic pro-cess, a system to generate resources for creative thinking, designing and experiencing•	Integrative Dance &amp; Three levels of Awareness and ResponseOur foundational movement approach that integrates the physical, emotional, mental ex-perience with creative art expression•	Psychokinetic Imagery ProcessExploring relationships between body, feeling, and imagination by shifting between art mediums•	Improvisation and Body Part ExplorationBeing fully in the present, spontaneous, and open to the unknown as we explore move-ment metaphors and themes related to body parts•	Witnessing and Active ListeningCo-creating a mindful and empathic community space, practicing non-judgmental aes-thetic communication and feedback that honors the individual experience•	PerformanceAs a metaphor for coming forward, for honoring our stories, for connecting with the col-lective, a ritual dedicated to our creative wisdom and humanityAt the end of the series, participants will present their performances in a ritual space, receive the gifts of witnessing and aesthetic responses from classmates, and reﬂect on their experience.Please have a comfortable space for moving and have writing and drawing materials on hand.Joy Cosculluela (she/her) 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 guest teacher at SF State, University of Washington, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Nature Talks, and Body-Mind Centering Association. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from God-dard College, is artistic director of Performance Lab SF and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kent-field, CA.NOTES: Refunds will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the class.

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