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Julio Medina Jay Carlon BREAKING GROUND FEST Features International Dance Talent By Jenna Duncan Two L.A.-based dancer/choreographers, Jay Carlon and Julio Uribe, open up about their inspirations and projects. Jay Carlon As a young dancer who travels the world touring with Strange Fruit Circus Company (based in Melbourne, Australia), Jay Carlon finds himself sitting alone in airports quite a lot. During one layover in Russia, he decided to switch on his cell phone video camera and work on some moves. This inaugurated his “Dance Film Selfie” series, which he’s been working on four years. “The project started out just as a silly, record-myselfand-post-online thing,” Carlon says. “But then, upon returning back to America, I found myself really excited about it.” As an archival series where he can document his travels, it also records the ways his body moves at a certain time in his life. It has also encouraged Carlon to take long, solitary walks. He’s not looking for an audience, but just the right location. “It’s not like I’m busking; it’s not like I’m asking for tips. I’m just activating a location.” Carlon recently founded a performance company in L.A. and staged a large show at the beach in Santa Monica this past October. He worked with 40 performers and had them emerge from the ocean. He will bring his “Dance Film Selfie” live to Breaking Ground, dancing to songs he chose because they evoke emotion, carry nostalgia and feel familiar to him. “I put my phone down, I walk out, I dance, and then I come back to my phone,” he says. “I like that there is a DIY aspect, but this is also ritualistic.” Julio Medina Medina, who currently teaches dance full-time at California State University Long Beach, says he grew up in a Hispanic community, and dancing was always part of the social fabric of his life. From childhood, he remembers dancing merengue, cumbia and salsa at family and social events. But he didn’t get serious about dance as a career path until late, he says. In college, he started out studying business and physical therapy. “Towards the end of high school, I was meeting with some breakers, and they were teaching me how to break and how to krump,” Medina says. When he went away to Atlanta for college, he became even more immersed in the scene. He founded an all-male hip-hop group, TrickaNomeTry (TNT), pronounced like the word trigonometry. Through his kinship with these dancers he really got to know the world of breaking and street dance culture. “One of my research interests is of hip hop on the concert stage. One day in the studio I was looking at a move called the Windmill. It’s what you would consider a power move. It demands a lot of physical strength and momentum.” Medina describes the piece he will be performing at Breaking Ground as something like a deconstruction of the Windmill. Though he didn’t intend the piece to be funny, people sometimes react with laughter. There is also a spoken text element to his performance. “It goes from movement and text to something bigger. I wouldn’t consider it a poem, I would consider it more like storytelling,” he says. Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance Festival takes place at the Tempe Center for the Arts Jan. 19-20. For more information, visit conderdance.com. 18 JAVA MAGAZINE
Photos: Airi Katsuta ROSSITZA TODOROVA Time Turns Geometry into Beauty By Ashley Naftule I wish I had Rossitza Todorova as a math teacher. Listening to her talk about the “inexhaustible” qualities of geometry reveals a poetry about lines and angles that my public school education never even hinted at. “Geometry is a metaphor for the manmade,” Todorova said. “When I think of nature, it’s as a circle. Nature creates circular systems, while man is always making straight lines – roadways, infrastructures. Geometry enhances our ability to control our place, our environment.” Todorova has a pool shark’s eye for angles. It’s how she’s able to describe a diamond as “three perfect squares that have been folded in half” or break down books as a series of “repeating squares.” Her appreciation and mastery of geometric form is on full display in her latest show at eye lounge, Distance Is Measured in Time. Born in Bulgaria, Todorova has been a prolific and active artist in the Phoenix arts scene. She’s worked as a fundraiser and done art administrative work for both the ASU Art Museum and Phoenix Art Museum. It’s her job to create connections, to draw lines between groups and individuals to keep the art world growing. No wonder she’s so good at artistic geometry. In person, Todorova’s work looks like industrial origami: smooth metal and alloys folded immaculately into shapes that look like they are in a state of becoming something else. Todorova talks about lines as a form of compressed time (a road isn’t just a road, it’s also a physical embodiment of the amount of time it takes you to get from your home to the gallery or supermarket). Looking at her sharpangled structures, you get a sense that every threedimensional fold represents some kind of journey or effort in the artist’s life. Psychedelics might help one to see another side of time in Todorova’s sculptures – time dilation. Her geometric forms look like fractals or half-forming crystals, the kind of shapes that might flicker and fade behind your eyelids while on a particularly strong psilocybin or ayahuasca trip. The shadows they cast across the gallery as the sun sets heighten the feeling that you’re looking at a warping of reality. Everything solid breaking down into the eternal flow of geometry. It feels like time itself has stopped within these four walls. Distance Is Measured in Time also adds a new wrinkle to the veteran artist’s work – video. “This is the first time I’ve added video to my work,” Todorova said. “I make compositions that have a lot of movement. These video pieces are literally moving, whereas with my drawings, paintings and sculptures, it’s the composition of them that creates the impression that they’re moving.” Todorova’s exhibition creates the kind of environment you want to linger in. Look at her work long enough and you can feel it start to fold your mind into strange new shapes. Distance Is Measured in Time Through January 14 Eye Lounge eyelounge.com JAVA 19 MAGAZINE
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