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Mischief Artistic Director, Achinta S. McDaniel and the raucous dancers of blue13 return to entice audiences with their latest dance theatre adventure - 3 nights of Bollywood induced flashbacks, frivolity, melodrama, and sexy, scandalous behavior not befitting good Indian girls and boys. Expect a show filled with blue13’s signature Bollywood-Tech style, celebrating the diversity of its cast and techniques from Jazz, Contemporary, and Hip Hop, to Bhangra, Kathak, and Tap, all fueled by the power and drama of Bollywood. |
Assimilations The premiere of a new evening-length dance theater work that explores the stages, types and unconscious notions of assimilation. Dorcas Román Dance Theatre (DRDT) is a multidisciplinary organization created to explore social, racial and gender issues through the use of dance and theater. DRDT incorporates Contact Improvisation, Release, Latin Jazz, West African dance as well as Horton and theatre technique in their work. Artistic director, Dorcas Román has a BA in theatre from UPR and an MFA in choreography from UCLA dance department. She has traveled in and out of United States teaching, choreographing and performing for the past 20 years. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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Mémoire-en-Ciel Anchored by the namesake work by choreographer Dani Beauchamp and composer Randy Gibson, Mémoire-en-Ciel features a collection of multidisciplinary collaborative performances that explore the nature of memory itself. Avant Media supports the production and performance of collaborative artistic projects. Focusing on live performance, film, and installation, Avant Media promotes a method of parallel collaboration that engages all members of the creative team from concept through realization. |
4-Headed Dance Having danced for others globally, choreographed for all sorts of sites and audiences and directed both trained and untrained performers, a quartet of LA’s highly respected movement artists rendezvous at Highways and explore a unique palette of theater, performance and dance colors as they bend the corners of the art form, each in their own particular way. Ilaan Egeland Mazzini blends movement and performance in “In Record Time,” a send-up of quirky chanteuses, record players and whipped cream. Flipping through her family's vintage record collection with adult eyes, Egeland Mazzini discovered mommy's surprisingly provocative musical tastes! Nudie album cover models and risqué songs clearly seeped into the artist's childhood consciousness and now explode into this lo-fi, hi-kick extravaganza! Working with an intergenerational and multicultural cast of six, Keith Glassman explores the concept of legacy and how gestures, mannerisms, movements and life choices are translated from one generation to the next. Against an eclectic assortment of accordion music pieces, performer-created texts and a smooth and shaky movement vocabulary, “Repeat After Me” whimsically unearths the roots of some of today’s idiosyncratic patterns and quirks. Carmela Hermann’s new “untitled solo” considers the structure of a day. Using a few social gestures along with some basic dance vocabulary, the piece mines elements of time frames, content and rhythm that are a part of each 24-hour period. The resulting investigation modifies, re-configures and re-awakens the original source material until new and surprising events take place. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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Silver Years of Dust Canale's "Snow (a study)" is a dance theater piece that explores the beauty and the sinister qualities of snow and reveals how a relationship can simply disappear in the cold. It merges two late night walks: a drunken man walking down the street who was sprayed by a group of friends with Lysol to erase his drunkeness; and an American woman wandering the unknown streets of Vienna in the snow. Canale is a performer, choreographer, and teacher who has collaborated and performed with the Bessie and Obie award winning company Big Dance Theater since 1995. Her choreography has been presented in New York City through the Catch series, AUNTS, in a Mainstage production of Bertolt Brecht’s A Respectable Wedding, at New York University, and in Tristan Tzara’s The Gas Heart for Big Dance Theater, which toured internationally to the EXIT Festival in France. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
Encore L'Amour Mixing theater and dance, Broizat creates a poetic and metaphorical world with French cabaret influences. Live music by the stylish, soulful accordion led combo Mad Alsacians. Fri + Sat 8:30pm Sun 7:00pm $20/$15 |
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Shift Johnston leads her company of six dancers in three dances works targeted at externalizing the veiled internal self communicating through the kinetic experience. Shift is an evening of entangled bodies tackling the boundaries Thur - Sat 8:30pm & Sun 4:00pm $20/$15 |
6TH ANNUAL HIGHWAYS POETRY FEST A diverse, exciting three-day examination of the many ways poets present their work. Thur - Sat 8:30pm $20/$15
Made possible in part by the City of Santa Monica CAP Grant Program, a project of the Santa Monica Arts Commission. |
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Creative Provocateurs Vol. 2 Due to popular demand from last year’s sold-out 20th anniversary celebration, Creative Provocateurs returns for its second volume with a collection of new dramatic & satirical stage works by writer-producer J.M. Morris, and Special Guest Artists. Fri (Part 1) + Sat (Part 2) 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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SANS SOUCI FESTIVAL OF DANCE CINEMA With an expansive definition of dance and an appreciation for highly experimental and interdisciplinary forms, this unique festival exposes diverse audiences to a variety of film, video, and performance possibilities. Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema started in Boulder Colorado in 2003 with the support of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. To this day Sans Souci has been co-produced by Highways; Texas State University, San Marcos, TX; Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; Stadttheater Giessen, Germany and other reputable venues and Festivals around the world. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
Langue/Parole From Maybeck Studio in Berkeley, Gregory Moore brings new experiments in vocal refractions and text collage. Strange and happy and dangerous, queerly bold and fearfully funny, his music digs deeper than meaning, exhuming the strata of what Barthes called the Grain of the Voice. Sunday 7:00pm $20/$15 |
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Walk Through Walls Walks Through Walls is a transcendent installation / performance piece investigating the human condition as an expressionistic landscape of continually disappearing experiences of agony and ecstasy. An immersive moving portrait of memory and desire created by boldly physical actors enmeshed in a canvas of beautiful theatrical imagery and sound. Caleb Hammond's work as a performer and director has been presented at various venues internationally, including the Public Theater in NYC and The National Theater of Hungary in Budapest. Walks Through Walls is his premiere production in Los Angeles. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
Virtually Yours In a new collaborative project, choreographers Charlotte Adams and Jennifer Kayle mix risky, visceral dancing with internet/video technology to collapse the distance, straddle the border, and become “Virtually Yours.” In a performance of real-time border-crossings, (both embodied and e-bodied) they invite you to experience the personal, political and poetic acts of leaping across to make contact. In this transgression of national and cultural borders, you will be advised to take care with “over-head-baggage,” as ideas may shift in flight. Prior to Virtually Yours, Adams and Kayle will introduce themselves through signature works featuring live musicians, and original sound scores by Carlos Cuellar. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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Afterlife North America's renowned producer of dynamic South Asian diasporic art, now in its 10th year, partners with the venerable Highways Performance Space in presenting the freshest in Cultural-Art-Collision, food and family fun. Classically grass-roots in nature but modern in form and context, Artwallah's fringing of music, dance, solo performance/stand-up, literature, poetry, film and visual art, digs deeply into its ethnic roots: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to find its fusion in a uniquely American expressionism. Fri + Sat 8:30pm Sun 7:00pm $20/$15 |
Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon Written by Aaron Henne. The 800 year-old German text, Das Nibelungenlied, served as inspiration for Wagner's Ring Cycle. Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: THE NIBELUNGEN also references this tale of magic, love, loyalty and revenge, while deconstructing the original source material in a wild, collaged, mash up performance piece. Bringing together traditional and digital animation sequences, video art, original musical composition, live performance, dance, puppetry and lyrical language, this workshop presentation turns the ancient text into a modern multimedia extravaganza. Presented with an exhibition of artist Michael Manning's work from the Illustrated Novel, The Nibelungen, in the Gallery. Fri + Sat 8:30pm Sun 7:30pm $20/$15 |
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