Coco Villa - Chapter Four
Coco Villa at Revolve, by lydia see
CHAPTER FOUR: Armadura + Toca
Armadura translates to armor in Spanish. Armadura is about the ability of being a little reckless, clumsy, and playful with a child-like sense of invincibility. We equip ourselves with armor so that we can engage in something of playfulness, which is not always a lighthearted endeavor. With the understanding that channeling joy is a true act of vulnerability, we voluntarily give ourselves to the motion of falling. Equipped with protection, we learn how to fall so that we know how to collapse gracefully then rise again. The practice and performance itself looks like systemic movements that then transitions into silly whimsical gestures.
Toca translates to touch in Spanish. The desire to touch life is much greater the desire to protect oneself from harm.That’s so touching. To come into contact. To play an instrument. I have been touched by this. Stay in touch. Stay in soft touch. The idea of touch can be literal; touching yourself, touching your fingers as a form of speaking with your hands, thinking about your body in the physical world. This is an access point to understanding the world inside of us and the world outside of us.
There is a loop quality in relation to touch. Toca, the practice, has no beginning or end. It is a cyclical experience guided by a form of witnessing the process of play and connection. We find clarity when we allow an obsessive thought to cycle through until one can cleanse the self of it. Toca, the performance, is an iteration of the ways in which we have the tendency to expand and contract. Like elastic fibers, we have the ability to stretch, compress, shapeshift, adapt, then resume back to a normal state. We are consumed in creating order and control then relieved by this elasticity amidst moments of seemingly inescapable repetition.
besos,
coco