Tag Archives: Paula Josa-Jones

Apr19

new site coming!

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For the past three months, I have been working with Robert Schaufleberg and Elizabeth Lord, the excellent designers at Deko Design in New York on my new website.  When I started taking photographs, I wanted the site to be more dynamically visual and hold more of my work and my offerings in one place.

I have had the fun of developing the language and choosing the photographs for each page.  The site is  BEAUTIFUL and  I am very excited.  It is in the hands of Mannix Marketing at the moment.  They are tweaking its search engine friendliness.  We are hoping to launch by mid-May.  Stay tuned for the launch party.

 

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Feb17

cookbook for the bonehouse: upcoming workshop

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I don’t usually do an out-and-out pitch, but for those of you who have been wanting a non-digital, deeply physical experience, this is it.

MOVEMENT FOUNDRY presents

COOKBOOK FOR THE BONEHOUSE

an improvisation workshop for dancers and performing artists

 

with PAULA JOSA-JONES, MA, CMA, RSME/T

 

SUNDAYS, March 25th & April 1st,  3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 A two-day workshop that takes a playful and strategic approach to movement, voice and performance. For the past twenty-five years, Paula Josa-Jones has developed a “cookbook” of wild play “recipes” that she uses to challenge and focus dancers. Techniques include: development of personal, kinetic imagery; the power of stillness; the palette of dynamic space; internal phrasing; initiation and beyond; a thousand voices (a “chunking down” practice that brings greater clarity and differentiation to the body); shape shifting; listening and responding.

CLASSES TAKE PLACE AT

The Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave. Cambridge 02139

COST
$30 for both classes / $18 a la carte

HOW TO REGISTER
Please email movementfoundry@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

You will be asked to pre-pay for your classes by check. Mailing address will be provided.

PLEASE NOTE
Participants interested in taking both classes will be given registration preference.
Maximum capacity: 22 students per class

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT
WWW.MOVEMENTFOUNDRY.YOLASITE.COM

Dec4

Capprichio!

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I’d like you to meet my ride and my friend.  This is Capprichio, the black Andalusian stallion that is the great (equine) love of my life and my favorite dance partner.

He is ridden here not by me but by his former trainer, the brilliant Sabine Schut-Kery.  If you watch the video on her site, he is the one wearing the yellow polos.

We don’t live in Florida.  This is just where he and I got to know each other a bit.  That was six years ago.  He is nearly 20 now.  Sexy as ever.

Our riding these days is shaped by how he is feeling. That means that I have to pay attention, to wake up to the being that is carrying me, and to work within his limitations.  That is another piece of the ongoing dance.

In the burgeoning storm about horses and slaughter, there is this:  horses possess a sensitivity and delicacy that is beyond our comprehension.  They are defenseless.  They are companion animals, like dogs and cats.  They are our work and play partners.  Slaughter is never, never humane.

I am feeling despair and a deep sadness about this issue.  I want us to do better, as humans;  to be more feeling, more loving in our choices.

 

 

 

Nov25

the performative face

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Photo:  Pam White;  Paula Josa-Jones in DIVE

This week in The Journal, I am writing about identity and what I call the cage of concealment.  What came up for me when I went to have new head shots taken.

It is about that dance between what we conceal (from ourselves, from others) and what we reveal.  How I (we?) edit the details and tweak the image.

This photograph is part of a series that was taken during a shoot for a videodance performance.  I am deep in that dance here – showing and not showing.

More about that Sunday.  In The Journal.

What are you revealing today?