“We created this movement based on multiple art forms such as yoga meditation, acrobatics, dance, break-dance and infused it into a movement that is healing people and that’s why we are all here. We are setting in a new way on how we can introduce art and concise entertainment that is charging you and raising your vibrations even from watching and being in the presence of it.” says Rubis.
Self-expression through movement has the ability to transform the soul. From classic ballet to contact improvisation, performance art has a deep history of being expressive as well as cathartic. For most contemporary dancers, a fleeting moment of TV time or uploading a routine onTikTok is equivalent to dancing on a corner in Time Square.
Today, performance artists who package their live performances as NFTs utilize online storefronts where they can sell what is basically a digitized performance, just like a painter would sell a digitized painting.
Each NFT is essentially a digital blank canvas, where any artistic medium is feasible as long as the file type is supported. Dance NFT creators like Neosutras take the all-encompassing concept of synchronized kinetic expression, film it, digitize it, and then sell it to collectors all over the world.
After the live event I later arranged an online interview and spoke with Rubis of Neosutras, the Los Angeles based producer who is originally from Moscow, Russia.
Tony Fantano: What is your inspiration behind the NFTs and how do you conceptualize that into what Neosutras creates?
Pola Rubis: Our biggest inspiration is the sacred geometry; it’s everything that we can find in nature. It’s the geometry of nature, its patterns, and also the architecture that human beings create. So by dance we’re creating energetic body codes that get activated during the movement. We are energy. We all are moving energy and dance metaphorically speaking is the energy code we are creating in a space.
TF: How do you convey that energy into your choreography?
PR: If we are going to take shapes of different plants, or even like palms and the texture of our skin, we are going to find the similarities in the trees. The cover of the tree and our skin are very similar in patterns, same as the texture of plants etc. We can study it so that our forms are a visualization of those patterns through our bodies. We receive these these ideas intuitively through the observation of the beautiful nature that is surrounding us.
TF: What is unique about NeoSutras NFTs compared to other performance artists?
PR: We are literally pioneers and the first people in the world who are combining not just dance but wellness yoga art and the latest technology. We are creating this symbiosis where all of this generates art and dance together.