Where Fertile Darkness Meets Emerging Light: Dances for the Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, a natural pause that invites us to listen to the fertile darkness and to welcome the emerging light.

How do we let our body guide us through this season of transition?

Through somatic movement, expressive arts, nature's wisdom, and the Tamalpa Life-Art Process, we explore the shifting rhythms of dark and light as they emerge through our bodies, offering pathways toward creativity, clarity, and renewal.

In a time when life can feel turbulent or fragmented, we come together in this living space to reconnect with ourselves, each other, and Earth's aliveness.

Through this journey, we will

• Awaken sensory awareness and embodied imagination
• Weave movement, touch, nature, and art via metaphors of darkness and light
• Explore trust, connection, and presence through individual and group practices
• Create, witness, and be witnessed with curiosity and care

You will leave with

• Creative resources for being in relationship with darkness and light
• A deepened sense of our body as nature
• A renewed feeling of community connection, shared presence, and possibility

Who it’s for

This experience is open to all, to anyone who wishes to restore connection and embodied clarity as we move into a new season.

Preparation & what to bring

• A response to: What teachings do darkness and light each hold for you right now?
• Something from nature to nourish you in your journey, for our collective altar
• Drawing and writing materials
• Water and snack

Questions? Email: [email protected]

Joy 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 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. Currently she is artistic director of Performance Lab SF and teaches at Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, CA.

As a Filipino immigrant, Joy explores themes of migration, home, and belonging against a backdrop of decolonization. She 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. www.wayfindingperformance.com, performancelabsf.weebly.com

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