jana jacuka

I imagine you reading my words.
Sitting behind a laptop, browsing the web. Maybe you found me in a brochure, maybe you will come to my performance if this artistic statement is sparking your curiosity.

This is an attempt to catch your attention.

I’ll keep it simple:

I like choreography, but the one that goes beyond body,
– words, but the ones that go beyond meanings
– rhythms, but the ones that are felt, rather than understood.

I like an old school performative presence. A presence of being together; you and me, performer and audience, writer and reader.

I like to vomit sounds out of my body.
I vomit memories, thoughts, observations,
things that are there, not there or might be there.
I like to vomit, but not on you - with you. It’s not about, but with.

I like the mundane — unnoticed gestures, the questions that only come when we stop to truly observe. That’s why I like performances. The focus they bring, giving us space and time to encounter something offered to us. I am not interested in transmitting a message to you, but my focus is on the exchange in our
encounter. About what emerges from this encounter:

Do you still follow me?

I’ll tell you simply:
I don’t aim for clarity. I aim for resonance.
I invite you to feel what was so simple that it was ignored.
I’m not here to explain.
I’m here to be simple — to move you, and be moved
even in stillness.

I will come empty handed.
It’s just the space,
me and you,
and suddenly
something.