GIRLSCHOOL Collaborates With LA Phil For BREATHEWATCHLISTENTOUCH: The Work And Music Of Yoko Ono

GIRLSCHOOL announces its first collaboration with the LA Phil for BREATHEWATCHLISTENTOUCH: The Work and Music of Yoko Ono at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday, March 22. Throughout this exceptional evening, Ono's art and music will be performed by a diverse group of artists - whose work is informed by Ono's legacy - in a concert-length celebration of her 60-plus year career produced by GIRLSCHOOL. The concert is part of the LA Phil's season-long Fluxus Festival.

Special guests for this performance include experimental R&B violinist and vocalist Sudan Archives, singer, songwriter, and former Dirty Projectors member Amber Coffman; songwriter and vocalist Miya Folick; Juilliard-trained composer, songwriter, and producer Shruti Kumar; La Marisoul, lead singer of GRAMMY Award-winning Mexican-American band La Santa Cecilia; electronic music artist and activist Madame Gandhi; Shirley Manson, lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Garbage; one of the most innovative and enigmatic presences in modern music, and 2019 GRAMMY Award winner, St. Vincent; choreographer, visual artist, and creative director Nina McNeely; scholar, queer community organizer, multifaceted artist, and activist Kamil Oshundara; composer, activist, entrepreneur, bilingual singer, and Chilean pop artist Francisca Valenzuela; and We Are KING, who were nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album in 2017.

Imagine Grapefruits: An Idea Exchange Market will take place before the concert throughout Walt Disney Concert Hall, starting at 6:30 PM. Imagine Grapefruits is a pre-concert marketplace of ideas where a wide scope of local arts programs, DJs, book presses, and artist collectives led by people of color, women, and non-binary creators will be on hand to share their work and show off the scope of the scene.

Yoko Ono is one of the most influential artistic figures of the 20th century. Her work as a performance artist and musician is conceptually bold and politically confrontational, but it's delivered with a lyrical touch - one informed by her dedication to peace and spirituality - giving it a great sense of warmth and humanity. That warmth has inspired an incredible range of artists and musicians, and continues to resound today.
Produced in partnership with LA Phil, this concert is named after Ono's Dance Piece X, a Fluxus score that is a fitting summation of the grace, love, and sense of peace that permeates her career:
"Breathe
Watch
Listen
Touch
and move between
the Earth."

Fluxus was a wily, nebulous - and deeply influential - anti-establishment art movement that emerged in the 1960s. Comprised of an international collective of artists, composers, and poets, Fluxus aimed to collapse what it considered the false wall between art and life. The LA Phil's Fluxus Festival is a survey curated by Christopher Rountree, in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, in which the often humorous, frequently challenging music and performances of Fluxus will be presented on and off-site. This exploration will include a combination of live events, printed materials, and symposia, including surprise appearances, installations, and performances throughout the LA Phil's 2018/19 Centennial season.

For more information about Fluxus Festival please visit: laphil.com/fluxus

Tickets are available at laphil.com/breathewatchlistentouch, in person at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office, or by phone at 323 850 2000.

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