| Description | Josefina Báez’s trilogy texts—Dominicanish, Levente no. YolayorkdominicanYork, and Comrade, Bliss ain’t playing—make their last appearance as a doula-ing act of beginnings and ends. As Báez’s farewell celebration to her main text trilogy, this is a performance highlighting voice and visuals from the artist’s journey in the form of repetitions, cacophonies, and silences, braiding the formats together. The end of this trilogy marks both an opening for new texts as well as the following performance, Vital Presence. Josefina Baez (Dominican Republic/USA) Celebrant. Creative expressions shared: Storyteller, ArteSana, performer, writer, theatre director, educator, devotee. Founder and director of Latinarte/Ay Ombe Theatre (April 1986). Creator of artistic/creative life process, Performance Autology© (creative process/live creating/creative life based on the autobiography of the doer in conscience; In life phases -youth, elderhood, illness and death). Joy is the vital element present in her narrative, practice and teachings; Baez’s sublime “radical joy” immersed on the quotidian. Baez's archives are hosted at Columbia University Rare Books & Manuscripts Library’s Latino Arts and Activism (LAAS) collection.
Photo credit: Giovanni Savino |
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