Events from April 1 to April 7
Experimental Los Angeles performing artists offer adventurous new works and works-in-progress in this ongoing series. This edition of Studio was curated with guest curators Laurel Kishi and Melanie Rios Glaser, and features works by Alexx Makes Dances; Brian Getnick; Brzytwa, Lewis & Robinson; Lux Aeterna Dance Company; Pappas and Dancers; and Alexander Vassos.
Poet, essayist and filmmaker Abigail Child sees her creations as a curious and particular intersection, often humorous, sometimes alchemical, between sound and image. Bodies, fetishes, symbols, icons and relics are reinvented and refitted to new realities and new desires. Child’s film cycle, Is This What You Were Born For (1981–89), is a landmark of contemporary avant-garde cinema.
With an incongruous movement style that incorporates gestures from professional sports and ’70s television, celebrated choreographer and director Dayna Hanson blends live rock music, idiosyncratic dance and inventive theatrics to smartly remix events that set a country in motion, and the motivations and meanings that continue to be debated today.
