Movement-based expressive arts is a practice that integrates movement, visual arts, and writing to support personal development and change. I am trained in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, the expressive arts approach developed by dance pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin. From my studio, I offer small groups and private sessions. I also offer workshops in larger settings and in educational settings, I offer creative process workshops. No previous training in dance/movement is needed. Appropriate for adolescents to seniors, able-bodied and aging-bodied. Please visit my website to see if expressive arts is right for you.
Served areas
- Upstate SC
Associations and certifications
- Tamalpa Institute
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The common phrase "the dance of life" hints that life can be artful, that life and art go together, that creativity can be an integral part of everyday life, work, and community. To that end, an embodied arts practice can arouse the spirit, breathe warmth into stuck places, and generate creative possibilities.
This course is happening in fall 2021 for the Clemson Honors College at Clemson University as one of three seminars in a cluster on the topic of sustainability. Our textbook: Andrea Olsen, Body and Earth. Other readings and influences: Robert Yagelski, Writing as Being: Writing Instruction, Nonduallity, and the Crisis of Sustainability; William Cronon, "The Trouble With Wilderness"; Wendell Berry, "In Distrust of Movements."
To embody is to integrate or incorporate something, to give tangible form to a quality, feeling, or idea. To fully inhabit this single information system that is the body/mind is to embody a sense of self. You do body work as part of personal growth work to integrate and relate to what you know. Like C.G. Jung's active imagination, it gives external form to what is happening internally, which you may or may not be conscious of. During movement sessions, the most important thing is to be present with what is for you in the moment -- and to work from the heart.
Experience the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, a unique approach to integrated movement developed by movement/healing arts pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin. The process takes you into the sensing, feeling, imagining body. Explore movement as a tool for self-discovery, and personal and collective creativity.
The Dancing Place is a short art film, conceived and directed by me, made using the Tamalpa Life/Art process. Filmed by Elizabeth Stehling Snell at the rustic northern Greenville County, SC dance hall, River Falls Lodge, this non-narrative film is made from one day of filming the environmental experiences of six performers who range in age from mid-30s to mid-70s.
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