Creating Joy with Joy
Free Reserve your spot
May 30, 5 PM
Circuit-Est
Studio A
60 min
This workshop will be held in English.
Marbella Carlos, also known as Joy Rider, offers a hybrid experience that blends conversation and movement, exploring the creation of joy, art, and play, even in heavy, dystopian times. Together, participants and artists experiment with giving themselves the permission to create moments of lightness and pleasure—a shimmer in the face of the end of times—and reflect on whether, and why, this dance of joy is essential to our freedom.
Fusing Filipino cultural traditions with neo-burlesque, Marbella crafts performances that are sensual, playful, and politically engaged. For her, burlesque is a way to reclaim the body and sexuality, while dance, costumes, and Filipino storytelling provide a rich vocabulary and inspiring cultural heritage. Her work weaves together humor, sensuality, and subversion. As an art therapist and performer, she interrogates colonial narratives, examines acculturation, and celebrates diasporic identity, all while opening a space for dialogue about identity, belonging, and freedom.
Workshops, conversations, readings, experiments, and work-in-progress showcases: these gatherings offer a window into their dramaturgical research, creative methodologies, and current questions. These multifaceted moments encourage the cross-pollination of practices and the circulation of ideas.
These activities are free and open to all.
