More Information About Conversation Piece by Simone Forti & The Sleeves

Website

http://www.highwaysperformance.org

Description

Simone Forti, along with Terrence Luke Johnson, Sarah Swenson, Douglas Wadle, and dramaturg Kristen Smiarowski present a whimsical, thoughtful dance/theater work that explores the art of conversation through a variety of structures and scores.

With over 150 years of combined experience with improvisation, this premier Los Angeles dance/theater ensemble returns to Highways to approach meaning by interweaving structured conversation, furniture, dance, and projections of calligraphic deconstruction. With the art of conversation as its center, the process of building the piece involved each member of the group contributing a unique score or approach, and the group collaboratively weaving these into a dynamic whole.

Simone Forti is an internationally acclaimed artist working in dance/theater and writing. She is the recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in dance and a 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles, acknowledging her years of innovation including her influence on the historical Judson Dance Theater Group. In 2001, The New Yorker called Forti “the liveliest of the original mavericks of postmodern dance.“

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.