Talented Sickness - Dress Rehearsal

Talented Sickness was an experimental movement piece which incorporated paint alongside our choreographed movements.  Being a painter, I felt very cautious about this idea of mixing these two mediums.  Movement/dance... with painting...  It was a hard but exciting process.  How can we express this combination in the most honest way? We explored the journey from breathing, to the idea of rebirth,  relearning, rediscovering the colors, contrasting the differences of one's being with different colors/patterns.... conflicts... resolutions... 

Talented Sickness

Today June 17th (Sunday) at Sai Kun Bamboo Theater around 3:30pm,  my friend Amy and I will be performing our piece "Talented Sickness".  We decided to join this Annual Dance Collage Carnival and experiment our dancing paint idea!  It was a challenging process. First of all, the method gets super messy, cannot expect what will happen with paint the next moment, and yeah.... How do we paint and move?  Ok, result of our work in progress performance will be shown in Sai Kun open area. :)

G Hoffman Soto

The Performance Lab presents Self Portrait Process explores individual and collective creativity through a strong movement base, voice and language. Much of the work is based in improvisation and developing material that comes out of the improvisation process through recycling and reworking materials. However, The Self Portrait Process will stem from movement exploration & drawings of body part(s). Form that body part, the self is creatively represented through exploration and creative expressions.
Students are encouraged to bring to the Lab their personal stories and myths as a vehicle to share and enlighten themselves, and others. Ultimately, each body part and the stories which give rise to self will be woven into mini performance known as the self portrait. The Self Portrait Process is a intimate reflective journey to getting to know our selves better and our own humanness through a creative process.

More info about Soto:http://www.sotomotion.com

Self Portrait Process

I took a workshop called Self Portrait Process by G Hoffman Soto. There were about 18 participants. It was a nice time where I could focus on breathing and 'being in the moment'. It was such a wonderful time to meet other performers and artists. So inspiring... Again, I learned how to be honest with my work and be comfortable with who I am. 

Headshots

It was time for me to update my head-shot.  I had been using my old ones, which I took in New York about 3 years ago~!  My talented friend Nell took my photos, she claims its her hobby,  but she is a professional!