Performance at 7PM

Los Angeles choreographer and visual artist Jay Carlon presents Dances on Paper, a one-night performance and exhibition at Human Resources on Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 6-8PM.

In this new body of work, Carlon turns from the stage to the page, exploring charcoal, graphite, and sweat on expansive 30-foot paper landscapes. With the body as both vessel and instrument, Carlon transfers movement onto the surface, capturing the raw traces of dance as gesture, mark, and memory.

Rooted in vulnerability, grief, and joy, Dances on Paper flirts with failure, absorbs the mess of being human, and wrings it out as visual language. Carlon reflects: “I am foremost a dancer. I approach all my work—on stage, on screen, on paper, in community, and spiritually—from that lens. This practice is a way to preserve my body, to create sustainable futures for my creative work, and to continue searching for what it means to hold, to reflect, and to release.”

The evening includes a live performance at 7PM, where Carlon embodies this dialogue between movement and mark-making, channeling ancestral memory and contemporary presence into work that is both intimate and expansive.

Dances on Paper is presented at Human Resources Los Angeles, an artist-run space committed to experimentation and dialogue located in Chinatown at 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012.