https://jose.dance/workspage daily 0.75 2024-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1595900981150-XCLIR8EYV21ZLC1U31ZU/image-asset.octet-stream Works - "The Last Strike of Gold" The title comes from a dream. The piece comes from a reality. Entering an intimate space, the dancer willingly becomes vulnerable and open to an experience while the brain limits and the heart exudes. Lightness, tenderness, and unfolding in movement questions why this is the last of anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1607626425984-Q00PB7EXXTP0OS00M9KY/image.jpg Works - What Will Remain (2021) A prelude to "Remains". Knowing the primal versions of ourselves allows our bodies to be seen in a different light. The lens people see our impulses influence our decisions, but what will remain is a fundamental part of our being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1607133331718-4KKD6F835Y4JSCI3U4B4/image-asset.png Works - Here (2021) This body holds versions of myself. Calm, restless, young and grown. Masculine with feminine, spontaneous and focused. I'm tired of shifting between them. So I learn to let these inner pulses escape. Revealing a balanced and reclaimed body. This is 29. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1639690452298-YWNA4XWJ31JK423YWY4I/image-asset.jpeg Works - Prism III (2021) In search of an improv based work, this piece continues to live in whichever space it is performed. The known and revealed score in this work allows me to find comfort in the unknown spectrum of performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1639689168256-6HWW8JYT1D5OGBA5PUZF/image-asset.jpg Works - Lunas/Moons (2021) In preparation for my evening length work, this piece was composed with that end in mind. Integrating text as a thread, these dance pieces orbit the essence of who I am as a person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1597110857963-A0LLWO1OKXUVWU7GFGEU/image-asset.jpeg Works - The Last Strike of Gold (2018) The title comes from a dream. The piece comes from a reality. Entering an intimate space, the dancer willingly becomes vulnerable and open to an experience while the brain limits and the heart exudes. Lightness, tenderness, and unfolding in movement questions why this is the last of anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1597111073622-50D8J1M9AKPIDY331PZT/image-asset.jpeg Works - Undertow (2015) In collaboration with Sean Ellis Hussey (sound). A self-reflective piece, the dancer sees himself arrive, retreat, exhaust, and collect himself through time. Originally about the choreographer’s fear of open water at night, one can still see the turbulence, pull, and break in movement; all while attempting to becalmed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1597111228232-7FJM2EGEE1CEUG2FY3Z4/remains-2.jpg Works - Remains (2014) In collaboration with Warren Enstrom (sound). The work dives into our primal instinct driven by curiosity. A pursuit for answers starts as a “want” and subconsciously becomes a “need”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1597111286193-PGUAMRQ6DV66QOZD33PJ/image-asset.jpeg Works - Ego (2013) In collaboration with Kellie Bronikowski (video) and Warren Enstrom (sound). Definition: The “I” or self of any person distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought. Inspired by Lacan’s “Mirror Stage” in which an infant’s dependency and underdeveloped motor skills (recognized through a mirror) leads him/her/them to a create an ideal self which the subject will strive throughout his, her, or their life. “Ego” encompasses the removal, search, and journey for this “ideal self”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1597111358429-OP68MPN5LZ59G4PP6NQN/image-asset.png Works - Nosotros (2012) In collaboration with Elliot Patros (Sound). Nosotros or “Us” , explores the nostalgic need and want of “us”. The piece developed from introspection and influenced by two perceptions of what or who separated “us”. Original performance: Quinn Dixon; understudy Brooke Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1606857556897-N57WADJRH9BW9257VJ3Y/image-asset.png Works - Floreciendo (2012) In collaboration with Kellie Bronikowski (video). Floreciendo examines the need for serenity, stillness, and harmony from our routines. Most of us would walk away from the unfamiliar layers of introspection. However, the body and spirit flourish once we settle, no matter how far we are from our norm. 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Make it stand out Sometime during my junior or senior year in high school. A weekend when I was hanging with a "friend", but really it was my secret boyfriend. Me, underage and him 5 years older. I had chosen to pursue dance by this time. I dreamt fearlessly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/969568a6-63a0-4d4e-a00f-4c50e4311c6a/IMG_3133.jpg OMNIVERS - Make it stand out 11/30/23 at 8pm after a 6hr rehearsal for M.T. Exhausted and making the effort to get some materials for E.G. as I said I would. Keeping my word is important to me nowadays. I don't think I'm dreaming since my last dance work (metaphorically). It's a good thing because it means I have made things happen, unapologetically. https://jose.dance/reflections daily 0.75 2025-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/ac2cde64-8ffd-40f0-84a0-86b689cfdffe/DSCF8660-2-1638x2048.jpg Reflections (all) - Taja Will (They/Them) is a queer, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist and Healing Justice practitioner. Taja’s approach integrates improvisation, somatic modalities, text and vocals in contemporary performance. Their aesthetic is one of spontaneity, bold choice making, sonic and kinetic partnership and the ability to move in relationship to risk and intimacy. Will’s work explores visceral connections to current socio-cultural realities through ritual, archetypes and everyday magic. Taja is a recent recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, in the dance field, awarded in 2021. Will’s work has been presented throughout the Twin Cities and across the United States. Including local performances at the Walker Art Center Choreographer’s Evening, the Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks, the Radical Recess series, Right Here Showcase and the Candy Box Dance Festival. Will is the recipient of a 2018 McKnight Choreography Fellowship, administered by the Cowles Center and funded by The McKnight Foundation. Will has recently received support from the National Association of Latinx Arts & Culture, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and was a finalist for Queer Art’s(NYC) Eva Yaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists. Taja maintains a dynamic Healing Justice practice that includes consulting with individuals, organizations, and communities in the context of workshops, conflict mediation, one-on-one somatic healing sessions, nervous system triage, board development and organizational cultural competency, and individual coaching on unwinding from white body supremacy culture. They ground their work in indigenous solidarity and decolonization as a means to undo white body supremacy and its pervasive relationship to capitalism, Taja is committed to working for healing and liberation of Black, Indigenous and people of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/4dd1060b-0071-4d10-9f78-5ef3747b4a05/TWEDisaster.jpeg Reflections (all) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/da726299-3447-4a16-9814-38229ff28498/val.jpg Reflections (all) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/52dd0f7c-dd38-446e-9318-4456e3ccfc0b/VAO_0464.jpg Reflections (all) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/fd2e29a1-771a-441a-8219-8f10d52ce058/tigerbalm.jpg Reflections (all) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/a4a64f33-8fa2-4d56-ad8f-274f441500ca/sky.jpg Reflections (all) - Skye Reddy “How do you feel a week later?”. Skye responds with comfortability and general “at peace” in sharing a work with the public and in a format inviting feedback. She mentions historically sharing work with a more intimate group of people. Thus this work feels complete and in a singular version. In later versions she would “pull apart” by re-ordering the sequence, recording the Bengali song and using it in the background or expanding it, and/or using the same prop to develop a longer version of this solo. I inquire if there is any desire to work with more dancers, to which she mentions welcoming the idea, but wanting to take time to fully understand the fusion of her ballet background and integration of South Asian dance forms. Thus, solo allows for a research period to reflect her approach. Similarly, she is in active conversation with family members to understand more of their histories. Skye mentions the irony in hearing so many of these stories as a child, but showing no interest to this point in her life where she sees the impermanence of life by the passing of loved ones. I ask how and if these stories reflect in her work. The stories are helpful to “understand the self; it helps to know where I fit in among these histories.” Bengali being her first language, Skye is in a state of incorporating more of her family’s history without feeling the pressure to do so “correctly”. Her mom’s lineage stretches from the hills of Bangladesh while her dad’s to South India. Thus the pressure to honor family in one’s work can be a factor. Skye however finds a freedom that her family does not fully understand or can miss some of her live performances. Not to say there is no acceptance or support, rather quite the opposite. A common misconception of distance or compartmentalizing between family and art, it actually can be a sign of trust given from loved ones.* A trust Rye feels, helping her investigate her own path in the kaleidoscope of identities and stories. *When I heard Skye comment on the acceptance of distance between her family and art, it resonated with me. Generally it may with a lot of BIPOC artists, especially those with immigrant origins. I want to spend some extra time on this because in my experiences I have felt unwelcomed sympathy from people who feel that family not attending one’s events is “sad”. Though I understand this perception, I also understand the freedom our parents or guardians have sought for us. In searching for new land, easier life, and/or a support system outside their own experiences of seeking a better life for those they love. A level of unconditional love perhaps. Where the artist is able to explore their own definition of lineage knowing their family is in proximity to return to and learn from directly. The creation of art is vulnerable, adding layers of homage can make it difficult with a sense of pressure. Distance between art and family can actually be welcomed in these experiences as a minority in the art field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/a292547e-5563-41ac-9293-aaf669ab0ec6/yukina.jpg Reflections (all) - Yukina Sato On facetime with Yukina, we reflect a whole week later on her “Disciplined Body”. “An idea held for a year. Created in two months.” Emerging from her education in Tokyo (elementary to freshman year in college), she was drawn to the idea of the chair+desk combo found in classrooms. Difficult to get a hold of, a folding chair had to suffice. I asked how she navigated the ideas of “discipline”, “education system”, and usage of a chair to find an ending to her piece. Being in rehearsals determines when a piece feels complete. A place to play with one chair and its different orientation in space for instance, determines more are needed. One to have its “proper” typical use. The second, to find a tunnel or “exit” in the back of the chair to develop ways to navigate through constructs. A third one to feel the authoritativeness and power and how the individual pushes against those ideas. Growing up in Japan, she reflects on “collectiveness”, where individualism is less apparent. I inquire on these ideas and its relation to the format of her dance — a solo. “The solo is a reflection of the discipline I grew up in and with. Being in Japan, you don’t know you’re part of the collective.” I inquire if she has plans to visit and what it would be like. Though she plans to do so during the summer, she notes it has been around five years. So her relationship to the country will be different, a sort of alienation which she embraces. “The distance of Tokyo allows a reflection to know who I am.” “Polarity” is expressed in this work. The setup of the chairs and herself, from the opening and the end. She navigates the dance with intention and embraces the balance of the chairs as collaborators and her as the individual. The idea of being part of a system (a dancer/choreographer sharing their work to an audience) and the awareness of the self in space, being watched. Ultimately invoking her own power as an individual to express the scale and potential of her work to us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/c6877ab8-652b-494a-8c9e-5d789004d65a/image05.jpg Reflections (all) - Margaret Ogas is a choreographer, performer, teaching artist, and arts administrator based in the Twin Cities. She makes innovative and heartfelt dances about the absurdities of the everyday. Ogas’s choreography has been presented by the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Candy Box Dance Festival, Minnesota International Dance Festival, FD13, Mizna, Center for Performing Arts, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, Skewed Visions, and others. Margaret is a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She was a 2021 Naked Stages Fellow at Pillsbury House + Theatre and has received grant funding from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Margaret has been a core collaborator and performer with the Taja Will Ensemble since 2018. She has performed in works by Pramila Vasudevan/Aniccha Arts, Laurie Van Wieren, José A. Luis, Chris Schlichting, and others. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/c96f6329-c115-44cd-9119-24cddb9375de/IMG_3601.jpg Reflections (all) - Make it stand out Held at MODUS LOCULUS Expansion. https://jose.dance/nw4w24 daily 0.75 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/5917430a-97e3-4e15-8e4b-f5eebf17c922/download+%281%29.jfif NW4W'24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/85292cb3-1ed2-4b89-991e-c7b5b195d28e/RedEyeWIP.jpg NW4W'24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/5256f052-4382-49d1-9d7a-091253206d74/NW4W.png NW4W'24 https://jose.dance/atlrs daily 0.75 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/08781b40-8e36-459f-8e4f-515de156127f/L%2BN+Cliff+Kick.jpg After the Last Red Sky - Body Watani Leila Awadallah ليلى عوض الله (she/her) Leila is a dancer, choreographer and community collaborator based in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce and sometimes in Beirut, Lebanon. She dances with roots that hold firmly to Palestine and softly to Sicily, born on Turtle Island – living in an Arab American context with mixed Mediterranean ways and waves. In 2021 she founded Body Watani Dance project which she holds as Artistic Director along with her sister Noelle. Body Watani is a body-as-homeland research practice that seeks to create, and work with movement from a Palestinian diasporic lens, asking how to find the dance practice and creative process that emerges with ancestral intuition, cultural folk experimentation, land-based attunement, and political clarity. TERRANEA, Body Watani’s first evening length work was created through transnational collaborations across Lebanon, Palestine, Sicily and Mni Sota. Her solo YISSH has reached the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon (where she works & collaborates) as well as festivals in Palestine, Egypt, and across Mni Sota. She is a McKnight (2023), Jerome (2021), and Daring Dances (2019) fellow and was mentored by Dr. Ananya Chatterjea as a company member of Ananya Dance Theatre for 5 seasons (2014-2019). In her free time, Leila delights in practicing Tai Chi, Aikido, playing ukulele and swimming when possible. Noelle Awadallah نوال عوض الله (she/her) Noelle Awadallah نوال (she/her) is a Palestinian-American dancer, improviser, choreographer, and farmer residing in Mni Sota Makoce (Minneapolis). Her work as the Co-Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance is underscored by five years (and counting) of dancing with Ananya Dance Theatre, a BFA from Columbia College Chicago (2018), and her daily pursuit of a “land-based life,” which emerges from sumud — a Palestinian ideology guiding steadfast perseverance and rootedness in land. For Noelle, sumud drives her commitment and artistic approach to multidirectional attention, storytelling, resistance and liberation practices, futuristic imagination as a strategy, and tending to her reciprocal relationships with land and non-human beings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/e31732f4-4bf0-4cac-a9cd-cf56e37a9ed2/_MG_8658.jpg After the Last Red Sky - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Pat Berrett (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/89855ef2-e7aa-4165-aa5b-26ac65b9b680/Sun+Peaking.jpg After the Last Red Sky Sitting with Noelle and Leila in their St. Paul studio, I first wanted to know when this project started. They recall the spark of this piece in March of 2023 by leaning into a footnote in the book “Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folk Tales” by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana. Specifically, an image of a whale swallowing the moon and only the screaming and drumming of the community could stop the whale. Folk and mythology passed down through history is woven with present reality in “After the Last Red Sky”. Complexities of navigating home as passed down by ancestors to the centering of the community has been the space created by Body Watani. Leila and Noelle now ask us to navigate grief and emerge on the other side by being active community members. The title of the piece emerged for Leila after reading a poem* asking, “Where do the birds fly after the last sky?” (“red” being added later by the sisters). Where some may romanticize the questions with a red dusk or freedom of birds to fly wherever, others feel the reality for the past 75 years. The sound barrier breaking is a reminder, an act of psychological warfare. A reminder not only can land be occupied, but the sky itself. When the ground is not free, neither is the sky. Israel has made this statement. Palestine has felt it. The red you see in the sky is a reflection of the red on the land. The tilting of our heads back, looking upward, and exhaling is experienced by those in freedom, by us in the United States. Palestine experiences this action not in freedom, but grief. “After the Last Red Sky” is a title emerging from a question to become a call for action. It urges us to look straight ahead, lengthen our spine, and use our voice to scream, sing, speak. *“Earth Presses Against Us” by Mahmoud Darwish. https://jose.dance/plantulary daily 0.75 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/42f81d17-ce8b-47d9-9676-6fc013c111c0/IMG_6750.jpg Plantulary - Plantulary Pramila Vasudevan (she/they) is of Tamil descent, and is a movement-centered artist, culture worker, and maker of community-rooted/routed transdisciplinary work in Mni Sota Makoce. Vasudevan is the founder and artistic director of Aniccha Arts (est. 2004), an arts collaborative producing site-specific performances that examine agency, voice, and group dynamics within community histories, institutions, and systems. They are an artist associate of Pillsbury House Theatre. They have been honored with Mcknight (2024, 2016), Joyce Award (2022), United States Artists (2022) and Guggenheim (2017) fellowships in choreography. Their current practice involves gardening, hosting conversations and gatherings, and developing improvisational movement sessions inspired by growing practices in gardens and greenhouses and by plant cycles in urban areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/339f37d1-6669-46c8-afb8-ebd9ff7afe34/IMG_6549.jpg Plantulary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/d4fbf094-ffe0-4a4f-b80b-84eb666281b1/IMG_6804.jpg Plantulary - Make it stand out I enter Red Eye again with the intent to reflect with Pramila. As she gets ready, I inadvertently pull out to clementines and start to peel off the outer skin. My fingernails press into the orange exterior and I work my way around to remove it in one strip. Enough so that if I were to reform just the skin without the fruit it would still have a spherical shape. I repeat with the second one. I ask Pramila how she slept and she says just fine compared to Saturday. She notes the sound elements are loud at night. Her mind considers how to continue invigorating life into the mostly improved score of the performers. How to acknowledge patterns and how to shift them. Patterns, in the realm of habit, but I also consider geometric patterns of the space itself. I ask Pramila on the decision of these geometric lines of the grow lights and the hanging plant hives in specific. Visually they draw the eye in and logistically there is an element of precision, mathematics. A contrast to the world of nature in my mind. Pramila points out the negotiation of the outside and inside landscape. Where the lines of buildings meet concrete slabs on the floor, or bricks are stacked on top of each other, and where plant life emerges in between cracks. Further is the relation of the sun shining inside a room, painting and highlighting existing shapes on a wall and then distorting them as the sun begins to set. These observations of light, lines, and time are easily held in a sundial. An inspiration for the visuals installed at Red Eye. A container for elements, a border for ideas, and a playing field for life force to move through. Pramila points out the learning that has occurred. From shifting the angle of which the plant hives are in relation to north (the corner of the room, “centering” the performance stage) to the biodome inside the space itself (plants in the east side of the stage are thriving more than those in the west). The plant hives themselves are growing life and only in the re-layering them occurring between performances do the outer layers of the hives fall to reveal the lush green life hidden from our eyes. Pramila has listened and felt the moisture levels be high as much as they have dried out. Bags, misting, saran wrap are used to help retain moisture in the dry space. As Pramila notes, there is truth happening. In each observation from performers, personnel, or audience members, these plants are a testament of life force in their respective stage. The performance itself leans into this occurrence and is returned. Today for instance, I see how Jeffrey’s bean sprouts have flown in performance or placed intentionally on the plant bed and now they are sprouting. In this line of truth, I ask Pramila if she has imagined what “winter” in this piece would have looked like. She tells me she hasn’t thought of it. The solstice begins December 21st and this work began to materialize in April of 2023. So the process has never and will not exist during winter. Through and through the idea of interconnectivity is the foundation of “Plantulary”. Of course there is tension, but that is only at the forefront when there is no active listening happening. “Vibration is the connection between all of it, between life and death.”, Pramila tells me. Vibration felt by plant life, but also our own internal vibrations. Of our hearts, our pulses, our energy moving us through life. Independently and together. I hear Pramila speak and I also let my mind wander to that idea of mathematics, geometry, and precision. Of course these things also exist in nature. Pramila and the “planties” (performers) observed the occurrence of numbers during their plant walks. I vaguely remember the possible origin of numbers and mathematics to have already existed in nature and come into fruition and into language because of these same observations. Then shortly, made into figures we now use every day. “Plantulary” is a connected world to that history, living now. As Pramila and I close this reflection, we know there are more things to do in this work. A big part of that is clearing out the space. For me is this continued image of life emerging from the cracks of this space, no longer cement from the outside, but wood from the sprung floor. An inopportune thing for future performers in the space, but what if? I pick up the skins of my clementine and just as quickly Pramila offers her hand for me to pass them on. We may know their future, but the gesture speaks of this connection we have formed in working together. I am grateful, and still learning. https://jose.dance/nw4w25 daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1747010024583-YRSY0ZE29NU21GT0TAWS/Shui%2BXian%2BCampebll%2BHorizontal.png NW4W '25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1747010024370-6OMO2Y48VUGIO9H5Q889/WIP%2BHorizontal.png NW4W '25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1747009727400-KBQDNRTKSAU5D4O27Q7P/Lieberman%2BAkiko%2BHorizontal.png NW4W '25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1747009727768-XQOYCK2YJNQ5YPH9TOCW/Ogas%2Bray%2BHorizontal.png NW4W '25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/85292cb3-1ed2-4b89-991e-c7b5b195d28e/RedEyeWIP.jpg NW4W '25 https://jose.dance/masymore daily 0.75 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/7fec968a-2671-4f4c-b07e-fa927d5a3487/DSC02671.jpg más y more Photo(s) - Nic LaFrance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/9f4e9ad0-a03f-446b-ba1f-ee120f9d3966/mas-y-more-draft-selects-42.jpg más y more Two beings. Two stages. Two simultaneous solos. Who are they? Where are they? What are they doing? I haven’t found a definite answer. My intuition tells me, both of them are me. But in this instant of performance, it isn’t. D holds their own. In each performance, D and I are at a club. Amidst a forest. In a gym. On a runway. Across a river. In a room, staring at the mirror. Walking towards the mirror, and away, and so beyond the mirror. These characters are trying. They are blending what they know, what people know them to be, and what they know to be true — they are limitless. They can be anything they want to be, with no borders. They draw a space and move through it. They mix. They layer. They rest like paint on a canvas, abstractly and oh so clear for you to see. How close can you get? Will you come back to them? To see how much more they have changed? How deep into themselves they go? How much you have changed? How much more you can? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/5a108ffd-c361-44bc-b4ff-a8db6e3ef51c/mas-y-more-draft-selects-47.jpg más y more - “José’s notations of the movement live somewhere between practical and poetic, a blend of metaphor and concrete steps. What is the essence of the dance?” - Emily Gastineau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/64234e6f-ce4e-427d-8238-203aa89c590b/rainbow.jpg más y more part of the score in making the solo phrase "forest" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/a72112bc-dbd2-4663-b417-b244d17b5403/describe.jpg más y more part of the score in making the solo phrase "forest" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/c190d076-c997-4464-89f1-afda58806660/DSC02713.jpg más y more - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1757363255557-V1RMGQ1HYWJIB9P8FE0Y/legacy_logo_rgb.jpg más y more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1757363254911-PWDQ6FO2D1S59CGMSY39/MSAB%2BArts%2BTour%2BLogo.jpg más y more https://jose.dance/mymprogram daily 0.75 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/ebb69b27-ed20-42ac-b56a-6aaaca837eaf/DSC02728.jpg más y more Program from a journal entry 5/7/25 This piece is trying harder. It is a feeling from fall and winter of 2023. It is wanting to be loved romantically. It is wanting to work the rest of my life to make a partner happy— to place myself second. It was accepting the truth. It won’t happen. It is questioning my own, “Am I not enough?”. It is looking at myself again and looking to rebuild, to look at what I have and be grateful. And I am. What I’ve done as an artist. Who I am as a son, as a brother, as an uncle. It is being grateful for the close friends, the deep connections built on trust (and ofc, tea). Yet, what I’ve done and what others celebrate with me is somehow not enough. It is also saying “I’m not happy.” These two things exist simultaneously. It is wanting to sleep past 5am, to stay awake past 9pm. This work is wanting to rest. To stop. To say “no”. To say “yes”. To let go and to cry. Because I know I want to. Because I know I can, and won’t. This work is wanting to release. To be seen in this state of conflict, of who I am and know of myself: if I rest, if I stop… If I rest, if I stop, it means I’ll miss it. The work. The “struggle”. Maybe I am the drama. No, it is engrained in me. I’ve seen my parents do it—work. This is the Mexican immigrant experience. No, the immigrant experience. No, the minority experience. This work wants to rest. But it can only exist by coming from work. So, how do I embrace the work, can I just “werk”? I want to. I want to push myself and I want to bring you with. I want us to “werk” to rest. I want más y more. More love, more love for work. The love to rest. The love waiting for me and the love I’ll work to give. The rest I find, and the more rest I want to earn. More and more. More celebrations. More unconditional love. Mas amor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/957fa3d3-528c-4d3d-981b-b8a5ca382b51/DSC02694.jpg más y more Program - Thank you… -Red Eye Theater’s OMNIVERS Program. -Keshet Arts (Albuquerque, NM) for the opportunity to develop this work through their “Makers Space Experience” residency in February 2025. -Anonymous donor for covering the additional expenses beyond grant money. -To you, the audience for coming out and supporting independent artists. -Sixty Inches From Center, Wordsworth Prescott Musinguzi, and Emily Gastineau for collaboratively putting together the written piece of this work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1757624676969-405M0ZC346S2012I6PQ8/legacy_logo_rgb.jpg más y more Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1f842b611c5e1cefd3efdd/1757624676414-5L9SADGHG6PMTU9Y4LBD/MSAB%2BArts%2BTour%2BLogo.jpg más y more Program