CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora at Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora is a festival and symposium featuring dance, music, theater, media and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation. The evening features works-in-progress by Dulce Capadocia's Silayan Philippine-American Dance Company, Ana Maria Alvarez's CONTRA-TIEMPO, Gema Sandoval's Danza Floricanto, Prumsodun Ok and Sri Susilowati.
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CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora is a festival, residency program, commissioning program, and symposium featuring dance, music, theater, media and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation. Created in partnership with several local and statewide organizations, Performing Diaspora is a two-year initiative challenging artists and audiences to explore the evocative questions associated with this work.
The Performing Diaspora Residency offers the competitively selected artists several opportunities to share the developing work and process with the public. The Work-in-Progress performances allow audiences to engage in the creative process through feedback, and to follow the work through development to completion when the final work will be shown in November at the Performing Diaspora Festival.
Dulce Capadocia examines the cultural phenomenon of the "Hip Hop Tinikling," with a dramatic, thought-provoking dance theatre expression of the Philippine-American experience. CONTRA-TIEMPO explores the interchange and conversation between dance and food, the fundamental voids in our cultural and societal relationship with our own history, and our connection to ourselves and each other. Prumsodun Ok draws upon beliefs of reincarnation and the ritualistic, meditative language of Cambodian classical dance to illustrate a relationship transcendent of form and image, gender and sexuality. Sri Susilowati’s new work combines contemporary dance and spoken word with traditional classical Balinese, Javanese, and Sundanese movement vocabularies telling stories of food ritual for dancers. Using text, video projection, and dance movements, the piece will explore the contrast of how dancers in the West (US) and Indonesia value food.
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.
