“Unmade Beds” by Paula Josa-Jones — Photo:  George Sakmanof

This is a photograph from a VERY early solo that I made.  What I love about it is what is there and what is not there.  What is revealed and what is concealed.

Reveal/conceal is a favorite theme for me.  When I am teaching movement classes, I will often ask a performer to reveal one thing while concealing another. For example: reveal falling down and getting up while concealing a specific movement phrase.  It challenges the mover to dig deeper and makes the performance more mysterious, more layered.  I want them to surprise me with something less obvious.

Each day in the writing, I look to uncover something fresh..  Writing and publishing each day is a way of outing myself, of being sure that I show up, that I offer something meaningful. Daily publishing makes my art-making less theoretical, more immediate.

At the same time, I am very aware of what I am revealing and what I am concealing.  Of how I am shaping my digital presence.  Being a performer my whole life means that I have always played with identity and mask.  As I started to plan a shoot for a new headshot, I made a list of things to bring, and realized that I was costuming myself for another role.  Figuring out what to reveal and what to conceal.

So I am curious:  What do you revealing?  What are you concealing?  How do you play with those boundaries?