Larissa Velez-Jackson/LVJ Performance Co.

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, performer, and teacher who uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation, focusing on personhood and the dancing, sound-making body.

A Boricua-American originally from Newark, New Jersey, LVJ currently survives multiple myeloma cancer. She is committed to the healing and transformative potential of art and integrated body/mind practice, as well as advocating for accessibility in the arts.

While in residence at The Yard, LVJ Performance Co. will share a late-stage-in-progress excerpt of their current work, Protecting Complexity with the Star Pû Method. Protecting Complexity reveals the multiplicity of the cast members’ approaches to movement, their own embodiment, and the task of performance. With healing as a core facet through movement, breath, communal connection and vocal sound, LVJ asks whether the performance encounter provides a space that makes healing actually possible. With an openness to the lessons accrued by failure, the Star Pû Method makes any attempt at healing and connection a form of blessing.

For more please visit

Website: www.larissavelez.com
Instagram: @lareesa_lvj
Facebook: /larissa.velezjackson

Protecting Complexity with the Star Pû Method is commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater.Supported by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts’ Caroline Hearst Choreographer-In-Residence Program, a Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Production Stipend and a NYSCA Individual Artist Commission. Also supported by Dancy/NYC’s DISABILITY. DANCE. ARTISTRY. RESIDENCY Program, made possible by the Craig H. Nielsen Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, CreateNYC Disability Forward Fund, and The Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation.

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