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Die Muthafuckah Die!!!: Humor and Compassion for the Perpetually Brokenhearted.
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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Conceived and directed by Los Angeles-based performance artist Gregory Barnett, Die Muthafuckah Die!!! features an army of dancers, actors, strippers, and sex workers who exist in a world where intimacy and pain are inextricably linked, the characters surviving in purgatory with hopes of eventual fulfillment.
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Highways Artistic Director Leo Garcia presents DANCEGOOD.DAMNIT’s Die Muthafuckah Die!!! (a eulogy), a night of performance for the perpetually brokenhearted. Jackie Onassis, mass suicide, and karaoke team up with Tina Turner and collected love letters in a failed attempt at acceptance of love's relentless persistence and the inescapable reality of constant death.
Conceived and directed by Los Angeles based performance artist Gregory Barnett, Die Muthafuckah Die!!! Features an army of dancers, actors, strippers, and sex workers who exist in a world where intimacy and pain are inextricably linked, the characters surviving in purgatory with hopes of eventual fulfillment. Featured pieces include, "I Scream So Loud You'd Think My Hymen Was Intact," "Suite Like A Sucker (sucker like an idiot)," and "I Love The Way You Keep Your Eyes Closed During Sex."
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.
