Highways Celebrates its 20th Birthday with Two Intermedia Parables for the 21st Century
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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Celebrating 20 years of developing and presenting of new work, Highways presents a fusion of dance, theater, puppetry and animation in this evening of two intermedia parables for the 21 Century. Director/choreographer Mira Kingsley and playwright Sibyl O'Malley team to present Oh My Tiger, and innovative theater director Chi-wang Yang stages Ocean/Flight.
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Katrina Lenk, the acclaimed star of the rock opera Lovelace, visits Highways Performance as her alter-ego moxy phinx in The Wanting. Blending music, dance and theater, The Wanting showcases phinx's original songs and intense vocal performance, which has been described as a blend of Bjork, Marlene Dietrich and Prince. The show also features puppets, six dancers, and film projections. Learn More
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<p>Director/choreographer Mira Kingsley and playwright Sibyl O’Malley continue their adventures in materials of a humble, human scale that are capable of astonishing and courageous transformations with “Oh My Tiger.” The limits of our compassion are challenged by this story of radical activism in which a young man feeds himself to a starving mother Tiger. “Ocean/Flight,” created by innovative theater director Chi-wang Yang, uses the story of Charles Lindbergh's revolutionary solo flight across the Atlantic to examine our modern-day bond with technology, and how much of ourselves we are willing to surrender in the name of progress. </p>
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.
