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Description

Having danced for others globally, choreographed for all sorts of sites and audiences and directed both trained and untrained performers, a quartet of LA’s highly respected movement artists rendezvous at Highways and explore a unique palette of theater, performance and dance colors as they bend the corners of the art form, each in their own particular way.

“Leaving Lessons”is a series of short dances and scenes about the desire for, and the failure of, words and movement to bring understanding. Working with one non-dancer and one non-actor, Arianne MacBean examines how language and action clash in this funny and gut-wrenching dance theater work.

Ilaan Egeland Mazzini blends movement and performance in “In Record Time,” a send-up of quirky chanteuses, record players and whipped cream. Flipping through her family's vintage record collection with adult eyes, Egeland Mazzini discovered mommy's surprisingly provocative musical tastes! Nudie album cover models and risqué songs clearly seeped into the artist's childhood consciousness and now explode into this lo-fi, hi-kick extravaganza!

Working with an intergenerational and multicultural cast of six, Keith Glassman explores the concept of legacy and how gestures, mannerisms, movements and life choices are translated from one generation to the next. Against an eclectic assortment of accordion music pieces, performer-created texts and a smooth and shaky movement vocabulary, “Repeat After Me” whimsically unearths the roots of some of today’s idiosyncratic patterns and quirks.

Carmela Hermann’s new “untitled solo” considers the structure of a day. Using a few social gestures along with some basic dance vocabulary, the piece mines elements of time frames, content and rhythm that are a part of each 24-hour period. The resulting investigation modifies, re-configures and re-awakens the original source material until new and surprising events take place.

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.