Hello supports of the arts,
josie speaking. For supporters of our Indiegogo you will have access to selected documentation of divinebrick current and past works . These are b-sides with some gems (do to quality of the footage).
Today you will have access to the latest performance at Bare Bones Butoh in San Francisco. BBB has been produced by Bob Webb since the early 90's. It was wonderful being part of this community.
My thoughts about the work,
"Primaries Clipped, I Still Smell the Salt"
Sound by Mike Meanstreetz
I realize that my practice needs 360 access. Video and stage have a different vocabulary. One in which I am learning. I prefer the audience to find their view. I have debated the access to my face by viewers. A critique I often hear is to show my face more. It is a valid critique. It's a behavior I try to adjust and often wonder why it still emerges that way. There is one thing that does occur. There are times in which I am in my image and I find that an action like showing my face goes against what I am feeling and seeing. Part of my form I think comes from the importance and the right for autonomy and privacy. I also wish to be a body not my own. I don’t wish to be a rock star. My face is mine, not an image. Why then paint the face, and spend the time to make a separate work that is not seen? To me the viewer sees. Sees you and beyond you. Sometimes they see something no one else sees.
Each work opens something in me I have been knocking on.
In this piece I see clarity, but feathers that just need alignment and grooming.
I have also found that my sacred dance is different from my “secular” dance. I do feel that the dance is always sacred due to its age in the body, but the variables of performing: stage, captured audience, duration, make the performing arts sacred in ritual.
I want to soon share clips from my studio practice. Share my “secular dance”.
Thanks for your support,
-josie j