Sri Louise & Juliana Coles
Dance Journal: the fusing of Yoga, Visual Journaling and Performance

Dance Journal - The fusing of Yoga, Visual Journaling and Performance Transport yourself from a three dimensional inner space of creative voices to a tangible, theatrical, external, three dimensional plane. This workshop is the vehicle or tool for authentic, expressive performance. (No prior art, writing, dance or yoga experience required. Come as you are.) Sri Louise, a renowned yoga teacher and free-lance performing artist, joins with her sister, Juliana Coles, founder and director of Extreme Visual Journaling, to create a Coaching Project that fuses yoga, creative journaling and performance. The project will be divided evenly between these three objectives and will use yoga as a way of grounding the artistic exploration with the last third of the day spent lifting the two dimensional visual journalism page into a three dimensional performance reality. Inherent in the journal, which is collage based, is text, character, image, costume, set, lighting, gesture, action, archetype and an abundance of metaphor that will be used as a blueprint for your performance. Through very specific journaling assignments we will create images, representative of the musings of your inner world, which will be used to create solo and group material. The intention of this process is to give you the most personal way to access your work. You will leave with a book, your very own dance journal, as tangible evidence of your creative journey. Sri Louise is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and independent performer. Sri was most recently seen performing in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Myth and is now dedicating the value of her artistic efforts to her own projects! She is of the seventies mind set that the personal is political and sees her work as an opportunity for philosophical change. www.undergroundparlour.com Juliana Coles is an internationally esteemed visual artist who is known for extending the personal and artistic boundaries of her students to reveal a more authentic self-expression. She is a creative Shaman widely revered for her unconventional approach to visual journaling. To view some of Juliana!s artwork, please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/julianacoles and also view www.meandpete.com Together they will create an inspiring climate that afirms the depth, importance and wisdom of your artistic quest, whether you use it for personal growth, performance or both. These sisters together form a highly eccentric creative powerhouse, and they are both known for their radical teaching styles, so be prepared for a life changing experience! Sri Louise Sri Louise is an independent, internationally recognized yoga teacher who began her practice at the Jivamukti Center in NYC in 1993. In 2001 she created the UNDERGROUND YOGA PARLOUR for Self-Knowledge and Social Justice in San Francisco where in addition to on-going classes in both asana and philosophy, she designed and conducted two rigorous teacher training programs. Her force as a teacher is in her keen understanding of alignment as it pertains to both asana and ontology. Sri is a disciple of Swami Dayananda Sarasvati, under whose tutelage she studies Vedanta, Sanskrit, Vedic chanting and Vaidika Dharma. Sri Louise currently resides and teaches in Europe where she is pursuing her career as an autonomous, contemporary dance artist. She is ecstatic to be collaborating with her sister, Juliana Coles, on a coaching project that fuses yoga, creative journaling and performance. To view her embarrassingly out of date website, Please visit: www.undergroundparlour.com Juliana Coles Juliana Coles, award winning artist and pioneering Extreme Visual Journalist, recieved her BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a minor in English and Dance. Coles further studied at SMU in Dallas, Columbia College in Chicago, The American Academy of Art in Chicago, and California's New College. She has studied with well known Illustrator Barron Storey who encouraged her Mixed Media Journals, and muralist Juana Alicia Montoya whose passion as an artist and activist convinced Coles to define her own style of Contemporary Expressionism. Coles received the Wildine Fund grant for Artists for her Expressive Visual Journals Workshop at ArtStreet, an Art Center for the homeless, in 2000 and is 2002's recipient of the Madonna Fund for Artists. Coles, based on her expression as an artist, developed Extreme Journaling as a workshop in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society of San Francisco, and has taught and refined her unique creative process that combines journal writing assignments with art making explorations in the safe container of a book ever since. Her Visual Journals are featured in Making Journals By Hand, by Jason Thompson, and The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery, by Karen Michel, and many others. She has written articles for the prestigious American craft magazine, Cloth, Paper, Scissors, and has compiled numerous Booklets on her process which can be purchased at http://www.julianacoles.etsy.com. Coles has been keeping journals for 34 years. www.destinyvoyages.com