More Information About Highways' 5th Annual Latin@ New Works Festival

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http://www.highwaysperformance.org/

Description

Highways Performance Space Artistic Director Leo Garcia presents Highways 5th Annual Latin@ New Works Festival with three nights of radical new performance works, headlined on Friday + Saturday night by procliTvities, a collection of original works written and performed by Karen Anzoategui, Maceo Cabrera Estévez, Raquel Gutierrez, Lizz Huerta, and reina alejandra prado. These artists and poets share their humorous and thoughtful take on sexuality, eroticism and the centrifugal force of their clítoris. Sunday evening features a preview of Butchlalis de Panochtitlan + LaMariColectiva’s upcoming show Queer Economy, an exchange of politically and sexually transgressive experiences of queer/joto/undocumented/indigena/chunti/immigrant communities overflowing on stage.

In procliTvities, Racquel Gutierrez confronts her own proclivity for hot and damaged females with “Pink Room,” becoming more aware that damaged girls aren’t born, they're made. Performing an excerpt from her critically acclaimed solo show “Amor Cubano,” Maceo Cabrera Estévez imagines the possibilities of revolutionary love. Karen Anzoategui takes you on a melodic and mysterious journey through a Porteña’s tango in “El Tango de la gente.” Hailing from San Diego, Lizz Huerta premieres a new body of erotic work in “The Exhibitionist in Me. reina alejandra prado explores the intricacies that trigger a woman’s central nerve in “El Nervio.”

Guest artist Marcus Kuiland-Nazario and his alter ego and spirit guide, Carmen brings an interactive performance installation to the gallery that investigates femininity and sexuality. Carmen and her assistant Marcus are creating this work in collaboration with artists and community members including FITLA, Alex Donis, Nao Bustamante, Elia Arce, Kristina Wong, Rossana Martinez, Juanita Chavez and Debra Winski.

In “Queer Economy,” Butchlalis de Panochtitlan teams up with an over-the-top, sexy, radical, hilarious xueer jota La MariColectiva to distribute new literary works. BdP is a sketch-driven performance ensemble that maps Los Angeles on racialized female-masculine bodies, as both characters and caricatures. La MariColectiva was born out of a necessity for queer two spirited chicano/latino gender non-conforming immigrant voices to be heard. This collective of jotas aims at giving voice to those that come from undocumented displacement, from un mundo que no nos quiere by creating a homeland using palabra, teatro, drag y joteria.

This festival is made possible in part by the City of Santa Monica CAP Grant Program, a project of the Santa Monica Arts Commission.

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.