October, 10-12, 2024

JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson

A collage of Polaroid square images of the artist, deer, and various scenes

JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson, a new performance work by Niall Jones, is a site breach, a collapsing of memories, sensations, and bodily coordinates — a dance and its noises, moving from one place to another operating, in parts, as a system of continuous retrieval. 

 

LET ME HELP YOU 

SHOW ME 

 

ANOTHER WAY 

TO BE                 A     disarrangement         of hallucinatory         maternal

presences         indeterminacy     &dissonant structures 

crashed.symbols (failed)(flailed) images chatter         repetition but what about the choir 

sound [ing] was mainly our dreaming knowingly and unknowingly caressing loss as a conceit while 

specters haunt the church’s architecture. 

 

The Church Sexton:

• Sits, stands, bends, reaches and moves intermittently during work.

• Is subject to frequent interruptions.

• Works beyond normal hours for planned functions of the church and emergencies.

• Communicates with supervisor and other church staff, volunteers, members and guests.

• Is exposed to slippery conditions, odors, outside weather conditions, etc.

• Keeps whistling. 



Improvisation is key****

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A photo of dancers lifting another up in the air in a studio of a Summer MELT workshop. There is a standing lamp off to one corner as the lifted dancer reaches up in the air. Photo by Rachel Keane.

 

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