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Blondeniumiddlenowhere Santa Monica born, NYC based choreographer Anspaugh and San Francisco born, NYC trained and Los Angeles-Detroit-New York based danz group MGM present an evening of synthesized proscenium work. Work made in relation to the other, in relation to making work, in relation to being born 1979. Both create work from occurring interpersonal dynamics and unknown future archetypes. "We Are Weather" by Vanessa Anspaugh Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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Happy Ending L.A. surrealist Sinner and his Theatre Revelation premiere this dark and disturbingly funny cocktail mix (equal measures Buñuel, Balzac and Lucille Ball) about an apocalypse-fearing family and their metaphysical histrionics, bathed in Sinner's lyrical language, highly stylized choreography and hallucinatory visual/sonic landscapes. Home as fall-out shelter. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
Dismantling Self Inspired by the by the writings of OSHO, emerging artist Yalj navigates a team of collaborators in an expedition of the dichotomy of self in an evening filled with suggestive and illustrative ideas, manipulating the clichés with both humor and sensitivity. Collective Movement develops a unique style of performance combining live music with a recorded sound score. These profound meditations on an ever-changing human landscape mix abstraction and stylization, surrealism and realism, dance and theater. Dismantling Self is a Collective Movement Project with multimedia attributes in collaboration with Artist’s Gone Awry director Annika Kay and direction by Vincent Tula. It features live original music by Alex Sadnik. Sadnik’s music is political and irreverent, thoughtful and simplistic, grooving and meditative. Although rooted in jazz, he gains inspiration from classical, rock, hip-hop, and ambient electronic. The movement is enacted by Yalj, Lavinia Findikoglu, Jodie Mashburn, Rachel Butler-Green. Sun 7:30pm $15 |
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4X4: Latino New Works EDGE IT OUT: Transgressive Ritual, Fragmented Identity, and Taboo Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
Conversation Piece Forti, Terrence Luke Johnson, Sarah Swenson and Douglas Wadle, with Kristen Smiarowski as dramaturg, interweave structured conversation, circles, furniture, dance and calligraphic deconstruction in a whimsical, thoughtful, theater piece. With over 150 years of combined experience with improvisation, this premier Los Angeles dance/theater ensemble returns to Highways for two consecutive Sundays. Sundays 7:30pm $20/$15 |
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Meditations: Eva Hesse A new play and interdisciplinary performance work inspired by the life and times of the influential mid-20th century artist. Mediations takes us through the last day of the artist’s life with a Dying Eva laboring to complete her final exhibit. Moving in and out of memory, Hesse’s life plays back in a series of episodes reflecting earlier incarnations--including Young Eva confronting a traumatic childhood, and Adult Eva’s complex relationship with her husband, artist Tom Doyle, and an intensely focused creative process. In the end, an unlikely angel of death appears to help her make peace. Through the expressionistic evocation of Eva Hesse’s story, Meditations explores the profound human desire to create meaningful work. Eva Hesse’s life was marked by extraordinary professional achievements as well as heart-breaking personal challenges. Escaping Germany in the 1930s on one of the last Kindertransports, she was reunited with her family in New York. After studying at Yale, she and her husband Tom Doyle, were invited to live and work for a year in an abandoned German textile mill, surrounded by remnants of the Nazi industrial machine. In that environment, filled with shadows of her old life, Eva began making some of the 20th century’s most beautiful and influential sculptures. She died of a brain tumor at age 34, just as her work was being widely recognized. Fri + Sat 8:30pm |
4th Annual SOMA Fest: Artists from USA, UK and Mexico weave dance, multi-media and somatic movement in this kinesthetically charged evening of subtlety, fluid power and refined articulation. Catch the somatic workshops during the week! Friday 8:00pm $20/$15 |
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Chimera These new fairy-tales set on the farm, in the woods, and at sea, are of love, heartache, sorrow, and the absurdity of human nature. Woven together by the accordian-driven music of MRS. HOBBS (aka Diana Hobstetter), the dance of NAKED WITH SHOES (Anne & Jeff Grimaldo), the video/performance of AMY KAPS, the clowning of EVERYBODY NOSE, and the puppetry of POLI MARICHAL. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
An nth of an Inch Funsch, Mayo, and Roginski move An nth of an Inch to the stage for two evenings of both emotionally raw and refined performance works. An nth of an Inch explores the intersection of the imagination and the everyday highlighting distinctly personal perspectives, which combine on-the-spot creation, dramatic landscape, and fluid consciousness. Funsch, Mayo and Roginski will each share new work and together will present their ongoing improvisational trio exploration. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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6 Degrees A dynamic representation of the interwoven dance community in California, 6 Degrees brings together performers and choreographers of various disciplines and aesthetics, showcasing the broad range among the state's divergent dance culture. As Dandelion Dancetheater tours this project up and down the California coast, they will be joined in each city by six local companies -- three invited by Dandelion, and three invited by Dandelion's invites. The groups will rehearse together for one day, producing an evening length performance that, while maintaining threads of movement and arch, is specific to each location. Directed by Eric Kupers, 6 Degrees will feature a dance/theater work performed by all ensembles as well as short pieces made by each. Sunday 7:30pm $20/$15 |
SEXORCISM: Eyelashes of The Damned Join us for low morals on the high seas aboard The Discount Cruise to Hell, a living musical art manifesto in action and a fabulous freak fest for all! Embark on our brand new glitter glam sex-blast voyage to the other side and dance onto the poop deck for debauchery, mayhem, savage transcendence, hot pant hallucinations, lively libations, show stopping musical numbers, and a flesh eating zombie chorus of attractive unscrupulous performers. Come get juiced up for Halloween and steal our costume/make-up ideas! All Aboard for sweaty satisfaction and the pungent thrill of blazing art! This show is Mild to Wild and Versatile. Costumes Encouraged! Thur + Fri 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens' Moderator: Veronica Hart Sunday $15/$10 |
Dia De Los Muertos Join us in Ritual and Celebration for the Traditional Mexican Dia De Los Muertos. Come honor our ancestors and recently departed with altars, ofrendas and performance. Wednesday, Nov. 3 Friday - Sunday, Nov. 5 - 7 |
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SWEETS d'Onan “Family values” as a tempest of nymphomania--thwarted desire--self-annihilation--and the fatal contagion of sexual guilt. The most secret expressions of one’s private sphere revealed in 13 Tableaux reframing the drama of Polish writer Tadeusz Rózewicz’s Mariage Blanc. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$10 |
Billy, The Kid, and What He Did. A cool take on some bad breaks: dead guys, guns, guitars, and no girls. Aided and abetted by Jesse James Rice and Glen Martin, Littell and Larsen patrol the lawless border between this mean ol’ world and the next. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
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Bahu-Beti-Biwi With powerful dance, stirring vocalization and percussive text, Sheetal Gandhi’s magnetically rhythmic Bahu-Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife) wraps North Indian music traditions and family characters into a contemporary tour de force that glides between humorous portraiture and active resistance. Gandhi mines the texts and subtexts of centuries-old women’s songs to create an arresting vision of generational shifts that are reshaping our definitions of freedom and compromise, desire and longing, duty and love. Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
Our Word is Our Weapon: From the youth of One Imagination, Our Word is Our Weapon: Critical and Conscious Expression by Youth Artists is a raw and deeply moving show that interweaves spoken word, slam poetry, storytelling, and music to explore the lives of youth living in the Los Angeles area. It is One Imagination’s belief that everyone has a story to tell, and every story is worth telling--stories of struggle, stories of lived experience, stories of the imagination, stories of pain, stories of love, stories of resistance, stories of war and violence, stories of hope, stories of today and now, of our generation. As artists of different backgrounds, experiences, and identities, these youth come together in Our Word is Our Weapon to share their stories with each other and with the community of greater Los Angeles, and to embrace and cultivate their weapon of choice: words. Sun 7:30pm $15/$10 |
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Red Shoes Anatomy (Chapter 2) Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15 |
