Composting Dances: Embodying Creativity for the Fall Season
Schedule
Sun Oct 26 2025 at 11:45 am to 02:45 pm
UTC-07:00Location
The Finnish Hall, Meeting Room | Berkeley, CA
About this Event
Composting Dances: Embodying Creativity for the Fall Season
with Joy Cosculluela, RSME/MT
How does your body transition and thrive during the fall season?
Class size is limited. Save your spot!
"Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten." - Anna Halprin
This workshop is an invitation to explore Earth’s sensuous aliveness — mirrored in the aliveness of our own bodies.
In a world of rapid change, we turn to Earth’s wisdom and healing forces to guide us.
Fall is a fertile season of deepening and becoming, a time when letting go creates space for renewal.
Through embodied awareness and creative practices, we attune with the cycles of release, regeneration, and transformation.
Together, we will dance through nature's rhythms of decaying, activating, and fertilizing — breathing life into our potent healing bodies and towards co-creating a space for everyone's creative possibility.
Our intentions:
To cultivate somatic wisdom for resources in life
To expand movement capacity and creative expression
To transform old tensions into fertile creative nutrients
To deepen interconnection with ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human
Our resources:
Movement-based expressive arts from the Tamalpa Life/Art Process
Anna Halprin’s creative work in the natural environment
Eco-somatic/animistic practices for deep listening
The transformative exchange of witnessing and being witnessed.
With curiosity and care, we will engage in both individual and collective practices, remembering and reimagining our potent creative aliveness.
Who it’s for:
This workshop is open to all who wish to explore creativity through movement and art-making, and to experience the richness of witnessing and being witnessed in community.
No prior dance or art experience is needed, only a willingness to explore!
Please bring:
Drawing and writing materials
A small, personal object that symbolizes transition for you to place on our collective altar.
Getting there:
Accessible and walking distance to BART
Please give yourselves extra time to find parking as this is a busy neighborhood.
Contact: [email protected]
Joy Cosculluela. RSME/MT is artistic director of Wayfinding Performance Group, a multicultural ensemble of artists in SF. She has directed full-length dance-theatre works Homing Devices, All that Remains, The Space Between, and Soil. She has presented at NOH Space, Z Below, Foolsfury Festival, YBCA, and many more. She worked and performed with Anna Halprin in Seasons, Spirit of Place, and Parades and Changes. Joy has collaborated with numerous Bay Area artists and taught as guest teacher in various schools: University of Washington, SF State University, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, Nature Talks, and Body-Mind Centering Association. Currently she is artistic director of Performance Lab SF and teaches at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, CA.
As a Filipino immigrant, she explores themes of migration, home, memory and belonging against a backdrop of decolonization. Joy loves bringing her students out in the natural environment to expand creative experience. Joy weaves her practice of collaboration and shared human experience with courage, compassion, and curiosity. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, CA.
https://www.wayfindingperformance.com, https://performancelabsf.weebly.com
Where is it happening?
The Finnish Hall, Meeting Room, 1970 Chestnut Street, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 65.87
