PERFORMANCE LAB

The Highways Performance Lab builds on the Highways mission to cultivate art that expands the frontiers of aesthetic traditions and plays a vital role in creating more evolved social worlds. It serves a diverse range of student/participants, from performance artists, choreographers, directors, writers and composers (both experienced and novice), as well as communities and constituents in crisis.

The Lab fosters a belief in the importance on studying with working artists who embody the experimental vanguards of their fields. Those teaching artists are encouraged to simultaneously deepen their practice as they expand it, reveal it, and share it with others. Through workshops, showings and discussions, the University cultivates new work, new leadership and dialogue between communities that overlap and converge at Highways.