Online Series: Rediscover Wonder: Dance as Finding the Art in the Everyday with Joy Cosculluela, RSME/MT
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.
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.
Member
Tamalpa InstituteEvent MemberTamalpa Institute, founded in 1978 by dance and expressive arts therapy pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, is a non-profit organization internationally recognized for its ground breaking training programs & workshops in a unique approach to movement based expressive arts education and therapy.
We offer expressive arts training programs and workshops for healing, education, and social transformation. Our innovative work has been brought into classrooms, businesses, hospitals, mental health care settings, hospices, prisons, and disadvantaged communities, among others. The Tamalpa Life/Art Process®, which combines movement, dance, drawing, and writing, has influenced the fields of dance, environmental design, theater, movement therapy, and art-based psychology. Our approach is based on the theory that people’s own life experiences are the most meaningful sources for artistic expression and social change.
Tamalpa has worked with over 10,000 people from more than 50 countries, including students, educators, therapists, artists, social workers, and health care providers. Today our movement-based, expressive-arts training programs are ranked among the best in the world. And our public and social engagement programs serve diverse communities from all walks of life, including children, elders, and virtually everyone in between.
Tamalpa Institute’s programs are recognized by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) and the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA).
