Sunday, Dec 14
3pm

Monday, Dec 15
7pm

“I wish to tap into the stream of thought of the collective consciousness. In this seeking I wish to develop a stream of collective conscious fever dreams, A voyage into the inner worlds of Being. Imagine a philosophical visual and audioscape through the deep centers of an internal scifi/ pseudo spiritual world.” -josie j

This year, the Dance Resource Center’s @drc_la Homegrown residency was granted to Neoma artist collective. This residency provided studio space at Fusion Dance Academy @fusionpdacademy. Studio time was spent conditioning together and exploring movement. From themes captured in their group experience a collective poetic verse was constructed. This container of collected thoughts provided a strange loop that is a microcosm of a collective dream.

Neoma is a loose collective of multidisciplinary artists formed through the search for a practicum and community-based mindfulness practice. The group originated in josie j’s monthly butoh workshops at the Philosophical Research Society. We gather under the name Neoma — the new moon — signifying a cycle of regrowth and renewal. Our work grows from these workshops into collaborative performances where dance, live sound, and visual storytelling intertwine. We create nonlinear narratives that embody survival, memory, and transformation, drawing from butoh, improvisation, and myth-making as shared practices of reimagining

Artist participating:

Albert Ortega (Legg Lake)
annakai hg
Arden Stern
Echo
Hermonie Byrdb
Joyce Ha
josie j
mai ishikawa sutton
Maiko Okajima
Mica

short bio

annakai hg practices unclenching the jaw after years of tightening it. she lives nearby.

Legg Lake(Albert Ortega) : Legg Lake unravels imaginary ecosystems made real through gestural sound

Arden Stern is a scholar, labor activist, and artist who conducts creative experiments in the unceded ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash people.

Echo is an intermediary to the spirits.

Hermonie Byrdb is an interdisciplinary artist radical intersectional-antiestablishmentarialist mortal.

Joyce Ha Joyce Ha is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and clown. Her work often lives where the absurd and tender meet.

divinebrick (josie j) is a self iconoclast search for the sacred primordial being. divinebrick name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and care taking the grander whole. Decolonizing the self is the remembering of the soil the self is made of. The name “josie j” is the further erasure of the colonized self accepted for autonomy.

mai ishikawa sutton (they/them) [https://maisutton.net/] is an organizer, writer/editor, and artist born, raised, and based in Los Angeles. Their work is primarily focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy as the lead editor of COMPOST magazine and as a senior organizer with DWeb. In their movement practice, they explore the possibilities of situation through breath, presence, and improvisation.

Maiko Okajima is a dancer, choreographer, and performer who’s interested how minimalistic body movement effects and creates relationship and narrative to the powerful and energetic movements. My work is influenced by mother earth nature and Butoh (Japanese theater performance) which is a simplistic but complex relationship between the body movement and space.

Mica is a Brazilian migrant artist whose practice navigates the intersections of body, land, memory, and resistance. Guided by questions and influenced by intergenerational wisdom, their work explores how we shape the world—and how, in turn, the world shapes us. Their practice continually returns to the body as a space of connection, transformation, and possibility.