Spring Awakening: Dancing with Ease, Pleasure, and Excitement

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Mondays, March 10, 17, 24, 31, 2025 | 10 am-11:30 am PT | $120 for the series

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“Movement is basic to all life. Imagine how exciting and alive you would be if your kinesthetic sense were to be heightened and cultivated beyond its present consciousness.” - Anna Halprin

Let’s welcome springtime by bringing more awareness to how we move and inviting ease, pleasure, and excitement to our dances.

Working with Anna Halprin’s kinesthetic approach and the Life-Art Process, we’ll explore gravity, inertia, and momentum through our dancing bodies. We notice how we are shaped by these forces and how we can also shape them ourselves. What dances show up when we yield, when we resist? What happens when we ignite momentum? How can a stretching dance release flow and energy?

We’ll use imagery to help enliven our range of movement. With curiosity, we’ll explore various movement qualities that open up fresh ways of expression.

What dances awaken you this spring, the season of rebirth?

We draw and write to integrate our experiences.

No dance experience needed, only a willingness to explore!

Please have a comfortable space to move and have drawing and writing materials ready. Participants will be invited to bring other objects as part of the creative process.

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 BodyMind Centering Association. She holds an MFA Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, is artistic director of Performance Lab SF and is core faculty at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, CA.

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.

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