Bring Your Imagination to Life: An Introduction to Scoring & Performance with Joy Cosculluela

Held at historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, California

This workshop is part of Friends of Tamalpa ArtCorps, a series of workshops that feature very special guests and whose proceeds benefit ArtCorps, Tamalpa’s social engagement program.

What if you had an idea that you wanted to explore in making a dance or a performance piece? What if you had a map to guide you along the way and bring your imagination to life?  

If you experience the arts as a non-linear process and want to explore ways to shape your creativity, join us for an introduction to scoring and performance.  This workshop draws from Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s prolific body of work, including the Life/Art Process and the RSVP Cycles. Participants will be introduced to the basics of scoring and performance-making: generating resources, themes, intentions, and activities.  In this workshop participants will be grounded in somatic practice and movement-based expressive arts. Writing and drawing are integrated in this approach. Participants will design and perform their scores and take home resources for further discovery and personal use.

This workshop is designed for everyone. No previous experience in dance/art needed.

Art materials provided.

Joy Cosculluela, RSME, MFA, CMT is a performing artist, choreographer, bodyworker, and somatic movement educator. She is the 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 in exploring what new possibilities our bodies can discover through movement and art. She is the director of Performance Lab SF, where she offers classes to encourage creativity, and is also the 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.

Payment

Full payment of a $100 fee is required to reserve your space.