Self-love savior @dance loft
Self-Love Savior is a performance I've done repeatedly and most recently adapted for the space at the Dance Loft. It was first performed as a merging of how my friend Eames Armstrong and I viewed love. I took to heart what I had learned at the time from Stuff You Should Know that kissing in general releases endorphins for yourself and so it is a way of giving love to oneself. Next it was performed with Emma Jane Goodman who was inspired by my self-love and would help me when I couldn't quite reach the parts that needed love the most.
This most recent performance was done on the day with the most pressure for kissing someone, anyone, or anything which was New Year's Eve. I was thankful that I could perform this piece at the Dance Loft where fellow performance artist, Katie Macyshyn recorded video and fellow photographer Corrie documented. Here I was in "the fishbowl" as they call it which is a room with a mirrored wall and surrounded by glass. The DC acro-yoga friends were next to us and the crowd from the dance floor came to fill up the glass panels before me. I started under the guise of darkness and then like a seed that's finally found the light was able to sprout up and save myself. Through the help of lipstick and the audience I was able to distract myself from the fact I had no one to kiss but myself.
Self-Love Savior, Dance Washington, DC
This most recent performance was done on the day with the most pressure for kissing someone, anyone, or anything which was New Year's Eve. I was thankful that I could perform this piece at the Dance Loft where fellow performance artist, Katie Macyshyn recorded video and fellow photographer Corrie documented. Here I was in "the fishbowl" as they call it which is a room with a mirrored wall and surrounded by glass. The DC acro-yoga friends were next to us and the crowd from the dance floor came to fill up the glass panels before me. I started under the guise of darkness and then like a seed that's finally found the light was able to sprout up and save myself. Through the help of lipstick and the audience I was able to distract myself from the fact I had no one to kiss but myself.
Self-Love Savior, Dance Washington, DC
