Blondenimiddlenowhere: Experimental, Dance-Based Performance Art Movement
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404)
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The last date listed for Blondenimiddlenowhere was Saturday September 4, 2010 / 8:30pm.
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Description
Highways Performance Space, Artistic Director, Leo Garcia presents Blondenimiddlenowhere, an evening of cinematic, formalist, structuralist, post-everything, re-conceptual, re- archetypal dance-based performance art movement from Santa Monica born, NYC-based Vanessa Anspaugh and San Francisco born, NYC trained and Los Angeles-Detroit-New York based danz group MGM Grand.
Vanessa Anspaugh’s “We Are Weather” is a theatrical dance work that explores the ways we resist and simultaneously desire the dynamics of power and surrender that lie at the heart of intimacy. A trio, the piece subtly shifts the roles in this struggle between its three performers. By never declaring a single narrative center, the work underscores the plurality of meaning and experience at the heart of all human interactions. Through a continual wrestling with the temporal and spatial moment, the piece speaks of our attempts to manipulate and control the present in the face of an unamendable past and an unknowable future. At times wry and heartbreaking, We Are Weather works to expose the terror and the pleasure of transcending our own subjectivity as we look to each other to find ourselves.
Performed by Aretha Aoki, Lindsay Clark and Katerina Miller.
MGM Grand’s “Oneness: Making It With Love”:
Dwelling quietly in dino-Land
Not permanently bonded
Once I step off
It’s very American
Narrated by the head,
the face
Up and down on the toes
In modesty with morals
Performed by Vanessa Anspaugh, Biba Bell, Jmy Leary
About the Ticket Supplier: Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.