Dancing the Threshold: Performance Lab, Improvisation, Collaboration

As the new year begins, we find ourselves at a threshold, a moment between what has been and what is not yet known.

How do we enter a space that asks for attention and response?
How do we join another person’s dance?

Guided movement improvisation becomes a way to listen closely to the body, develop creative impulses, and meet the unknown with curiosity, courage, and imagination.

Come as you are, explore the threshold, and invite movement to open you, to be witnessed and shaped in relationship.

Participants explore:

• Stretching habitual movement patterns, opening curiosity for fresh possibilities.
• Navigating surprise, cultivating both steadiness and nimbleness.
• Movement as a living metaphor for how we choose, adapt, and create, on the dance floor and beyond.

Embodied practices:

• Grounding through sensation
  Tuning into physical sensations to orient and ignite the body
• Expanding movement vocabulary
  Exploring dynamic qualities of tempo, space, weight, articulation, integrating feeling and imagination
• Improvisation scores
  Solo and group movement scores that invite listening, responsiveness, and emergence
• Performance sharing & witnessing
  Informal performances as a vital part of the practice, offering movement to be witnessed within a welcoming space.

Who This Is For

This Performance Lab is open to those willing to explore movement, improvisation, and collaboration with curiosity and presence.

Come as you are, witness, and engage with others in a shared creative process.

Questions: [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 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. wayfindingperformance.com, performancelabsf.weebly.com

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing, 245 5th Street, San Francisco, United States

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