Pt 1: Bone Theory
dyeing process image by Ruqayyah Alzona Al-Baari
Pt 1: Bone Theory
By Ruqayyah Alzona Al-Baari
May 2021
To begin dwelling on how I arrived at bone theory I must be honest about my struggle with dialogue as communication, or more so my lack of trust towards it. Often times I felt limited with what I could say, that it might be misinterpreted and my overall intention would be lost.
I felt intention was more important to me than what was said, and that intention was something I could feel more than decode through language. It was an intangible vibe. I wanted to explore other ways of transmitting the vibe of intention and ultimately exploring those methods as new forms of communication.
If my faith was lost in language, it was regained through my ability to dance, to respond to sound. I felt understood and could understand others through movement. My obsession with movement as communication led me to connections between instinct and rhythm. It was the instinctual impulsive response to music, (that being dance) which led me to feel this was a more truthful style of expression. As a dancer, I found myself in unconscious states of instinctual movement where it seemed I was authentically responding to the vibe of sound. My instinctual response to sound was even more tested in authenticity when I found myself unable to integrate with others’ choreography if I was unable to feel/connect with the music. I expanded this personal phenomena by carefully filming myself as well as watching other free style dance forms, such as Memphis Jookin especially, and decided to begin drawing the contortions of the body in those states into 2D shapes.
scans from Ru’s sketchbook
At first, I wasn’t sure what the shapes resembled or came from until others around me noticing my drawings said they looked like bones. These weren’t necessarily bones that were anatomically recognizable, which made them feel alien or of an unknown origin and thus fitting as a script version of the physical communication style I was experimenting with.
Reflections on Bone Theory:
Bone as our base self, the “structural support” in our 3D materialization. The remnants post departure – the evidence of the mission completed.Truth & Bone
Truth – (personal) as our essence, our intention, what is understood vs what is explained.Bone – as what is beneath the surface of self. Exists in us all, and what’s behind the mask of skin. The great equalizer. A physical resemblance of our own undeniable truth and vulnerability.
Exercising new ways of communicating truth via the kinesthetic practice of freestyle dance.
Music → Rhythm → Instinctual Response = Dance
(Instinct = Truth )
Truth functioning in physical unconscious form released of language offers greater connection, and at its highest – understanding.
Understanding releases us from the realm of duality consciousness, rejecting preference and instead offers acceptance for “what is”, raising our collective vibration in turn, and moving upwards away from a reality of resistance into the flow of a universal existence.
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Moving upward as the goal of evolution, a raise in frequency to lessen the density of our
Earth paradigm.