Selected Solos
Some Ways to Continue? Iteration 1, Los Angeles
Photo by Charles Han
This 12-hour solo performance aimed to produce a dance that:
+offered time rather than demanded it
+operated in radically humble mode
+breathed as an anthem to the limits of empathy culture, AND also aspired toward mutual recognition
+attended to a painstakingly precise compositional score, and dropped it to say, “i love you; welcome; thank you for coming; you are more important than the work, that is the work.”
+could be infinitely renewable
For this project, I transcribed aphorisms/proverbs onto my body. The score placed vernacular wisdoms on an embodied collision course. Occasionally, one or two aligned or emerged triumphantly.
Lighting design by Arsenio Apillanes
An excerpt from process writings
Say Less (or from the inside of a Serra)
The earth is hard. My lungs are hard. It's quiet. I am quiet.
I am surprised by the debris, but mostly by the quickness with which the surface changes.
I have been here two other times. The first time. I was lost. There was an eclipse.
Cloudlessness.
Vitreous humor.
The wetness of seeing.
Glitter. Pinecone. Shard.
Half-buried. You arrive.
I swat desire with drama. You are writing. We look. You ask.
My capacity for consistency is eroding. I wrap myself in the hand-foot puzzle. It takes me somewhere.
I collapse.
The sky is unbearable.
Shell-less. Gelatinous. Oozy.
I go kitsch.
Still. I continue.
There was a swirling; a helicopter; an anxiety.
the sensation of my nose following an unbroken surface to emptiness and back again.
Still. I continue.
Evidence of Things Unseen
Work in progress for Bits and Pieces curated by Victoria Mora
Photo by Sarah Lutzky
Here, Now
duet with composer, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)
Commissioned by Miami Light Project Here and Now Festival