LAX Festival, 5th Edition Opens 10/5
Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) announces the full program for the Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival, 5th Ed. Presented October 5-15, 2017 at multiple locations across downtown Los Angeles, the LAX Festival puts Los Angeles-based artists front-and-center, presented in dialogue with projects by guest artists from a select city of exchange-this year with artists and organizations based in Mexcio City. Launched in 2013 and now in its fifth edition, the LAX Festival gathers adventurous audiences for ten days of inspiring performances, including new dance, experimental opera, interactive theater, literary performance and much more.
Beginning this year, LAPP focuses each Festival on an exchange platform with a selected city. In 2017, the platform highlights current artistic practice in Mexico City with three projects developed with artists based there, and programs that connect audiences, curators and organizations through performances, dialogues and artist-to-artist interactions that encourage reciprocal inquiry. The exchange platform sparked the re-naming of the festival from Live Arts Exchange to the Los Angeles Exchange, placing exchange at its core, while maintaining our signature LAX Festival shorthand.
DATES
:: Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival, 5th Ed.
:: October 5-15, 2017 VENUES
:: AUTOMATA // 504 Chung King Court, Los Angeles, CA 90017
:: BOB BAKER MARIONETTE THEATER // 1345 W 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
:: BOOTLEG THEATER // 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057
:: LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER // 514 S Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
:: THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL // 933 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
LAX FESTIVAL 2017 // ARTIST & PROJECTS
Milka Djordjevich // ANTHEM
Oct 11-13 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Oct 7 at Bootleg Theater In two sections of her current untitled work-in-progress, Jessica Emmanuel confronts the way the viral circulation of violences can both illuminate and belie the profound personal impact of each confrontation, each bullet and each chalk outline. FULL DETAILS d. Sabela grimes // ELECTROGYNOUS
Oct 13-15 at Bootleg Theater Through a synthesis of ancient AfroFuturistic soundscapes, video projection and kinetic poetics, ELECTROGYNOUS circulates speculative realities that counter historically imposed notions of femininity and masculinity, while placing liberated Black bodies at the center of the works "now."FULL DETAILSSylvan Oswald + Jessica Fleischmann // HIGH WINDS
Oct 9 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater Writer Sylvan Oswald makes his Los Angeles performance debut with an live adaptation of his new book, High Winds-a collaboration with graphic designer Jessica Fleischmann-about a trans man whose insomnia sparks a fantastical search for his estranged half-brother through hallucinatory desert landscapes.FULL DETAILS Poor Dog Group // GROUP THERAPY (preview)
Oct 14 at Bootleg Theater L.A.'s fearless and frenetic theater ensemble previews a new work of documentary theater that delves into 16 hours of the Group's actual transcribed therapy with a licensed professional in an uncensored-often funny, sometimes poignant-work of live art. FULL DETAILS Tamara Cubas + Teatro Línea de Sombra // LA BRISA
Oct 12-15 at Los Angeles Theatre Center In a work that resists the conventions of both dance and theater, director Tamara Cubas and her cast of four women excavate the elusive history of La Brisa, an infamous bar in Ciudad Juárez that served as a haven of cultural resistance and fierce activism in the 1990s.
Zoe Aja Moore + Liz Toonkel with Amanda Jane Shank // LULU
Oct 3-9 at Automata This multi-platform performance adapts Frank Wedekind play Lulu into a series of episodes that explore sexuality, intimacy and domestic locations. Different each time, Lulu offers a voyeuristic access to the bedrooms of women across Los Angeles, staged as a photo shoot that further explores the male gaze.FULL DETAILSGraham Reynolds + Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol // PANCHO VILLA FROM A SAFE DISTANCE
Oct 10 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds leads a rousing experimental chamber opera that pays tribute to a revolutionary figure, and sonically traverses both Mexican and American perspectives to create a borderless dialogue about the shared histories of Mexico and the United States.
Co-presented by the Skirball Cultural Center.
FULL DETAILS Pentimento / Isabel Toledo // PLAYOct 12-15 at Automata Created by Mexico City based ensemble Pentimento, PLAY is an interactive audio-guided performance that invites 10 audience members into a playfully accelerated process of actor training. In just eight brief lessons PLAY asks: Can an untrained viewer be transformed into a prepared actor in a mere 45 minutes? szalt dance co. // MARSHMALLOW SEA
Oct 6-8 at Bootleg Theater
MARSHMALLOW SEA, the latest evening-length work from choreographer Stephanie Zaletel and her company of six dancers, reflects on water and its symbols to explore fluidity and force, sustenance and submission-offering an overwhelming surge of memories, disrupted.
HUMAN STAGES PRESENTS // No)One Art House + Amie Cota and Anna B. Scott
Oct 8 at Bootleg Theater Curated by Jessica Emmanuel, this evening of music and movement features two new works. Amie Cota and Christopher Bourdenave trace themes of home and identity in a tale of The Great Migration. Anna B. Scott excavates the cursed product of sugar, and seeks to understand its code. FULL DETAILS
Gina Young + Guests // SORORITY: OUT
Oct 11 at Bootleg Theater
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