Performance
What Properly Addressing the Migrant Crisis Might Look Like
Artist Alicia Grullon performs the role of a UN representative for refugees to address the migration crisis at the southern US border.
Performance
Performance
Performing the Legacy of Caribbean Junkanoo
Through “Junkanooacome” (“Junkanoo is coming” in Jamaican patois), Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow offers an adaptation of a pan-Caribbean festival with a parade of masked dancers.
Performance
A Political Opera With Big Ambitions Feels Off-Key
Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang's prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.
Performance
How Performance Art Leans Into the Unknown
At the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, performances by Mia Habib and Ligia Lewis stood out for their engrossing contributions to the ever-evolving medium.
Art
Restaging 1970s Performances That Borrowed From Hollywood Melodrama
The Box is restaging three performances by Guy de Cointet, whose approach would influence fellow Angelenos like Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.
Performance
The Complicated Staging of Experimental Music in Art Spaces
Veteran musician Onyx Ashanti’s performance prompted larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess and consumption.
Art
A Public Performance in Hollywood Will Celebrate Intersectional Gender Identities
Along a two-block stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, over 35 artists, performers, and collectives will turn the sidewalk into a stage for performance art, dance, music, comedy, and even karaoke.
Film
Two Dance Projects Meld Hungarian and Romani Traditions
The documentary Three Dances and the stage musical Hungarian Nights approach modern Central European culture from vastly different standpoints.
News
In DJ Performance, Artist Asks Hudson Yards to “Decolonize” the Shed
Ushka called out Shed board member and real estate mogul Stephen Ross, who recently came under fire for planning a Southampton fundraiser for President Trump.
Art
Catch Live Performances and Screenings at This Drive-In Theater
This month’s programming at FLAX Foundation’s Drive-In Theater features a group meditation, live performance, and a movie starring Julianne Moore.
Art
A Tribute to LA’s Once-Major Trolley Network
Performers respond to Sandra de la Loza's installation at LACE, which examines bygone layers of Los Angeles, looking at how waves of development have destroyed and obscured what came before them.
Performance
For Six Hours, Four Performers Freeze in the Act of Falling
In Just a Blink of an Eye, the performers lean backwards, appearing as victims of an unseen violence.