A special series to honor Anna Halprin’s birthday
6 Mondays, July 8 – August 12 | 10AM – 12PM PT | $175 /series
Registration: To support the community-oriented nature of this course, space is limited to 8 people.
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 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 Halprin
In honor of Anna Halprin’s birthday, we invite you to join us in a process of remembering 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’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 introduction for creative practitioners, teachers, artists, community organizers, and anyone interested 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 Process to generate dances, writings, drawings, and oral narratives to be gathered and shaped into performance scores:
- RSVP Cycles
Developed by Lawrence Halprin and shaped by Anna Halprin for her choreographic process, a system to generate resources for creative thinking, designing and experiencing
- Integrative Dance & Three levels of Awareness and Response
Our foundational movement approach that integrates the physical, emotional, mental experience with creative art expression
- Psychokinetic Imagery Process
Exploring relationships between body, feeling, and imagination by shifting between art mediums
- Improvisation and Body Part Exploration
Being fully in the present, spontaneous, and open to the unknown as we explore movement metaphors and themes related to body parts
- Witnessing and Active Listening
Co-creating a mindful and empathic community space, practicing non-judgmental aesthetic communication and feedback that honors the individual experience
- Performance
As a metaphor for coming forward, for honoring our stories, for connecting with the collective, a ritual dedicated to our creative wisdom and humanity
At 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.
To get the most out of this online series, please prepare a comfortable space to move in with access to your online device. Also, have art supplies ready at hand for drawing activities, and paper and pen for journaling and creative writing exercises.
Photo: ” The Space Between” by Joy Cosculluela and Wayfinding Performance Group . Photographer: Victoria Montero
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
$175/series
- Registration closes 8:00AM Pacific Time the first day of the series.
- Refunds will only be given if cancellation is received at least 48 hours before the start of the class.
