Highways Performance Space and Gallery
Highways Performance Space and Gallery
1651 18th Street Santa Monica CA 90404- Phone:
- (310) 315-1459
- Website:
- http://www.highwaysperformance.org
- Capacity:
- 90
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Current Events on Goldstar
Note: Some events offered through Goldstar at this venue are only available via email. Please refer to your past emails to view these events.
Multimedia Mashup Archipelago Remixes Cultural Myths
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Using a stirring, thought-provoking combination of video, monologue and music, Archipelago takes a bold look at ancient origin myths of Okinawa and the American Southwest, bringing them forward for... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
Highways Hosts the Ultimate Multimedia Halloween Party
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Highways Performance Space presents the ultimate antidote to the cool kids Halloween party with this anti-art-house of horrors for adults, entitled PHREEQUES! aka DE-ART(H)!! aka THE UNTITLED!!!. Experience... Learn More.
Mixed Marriages / Homestretch: Dance, Fillm, Movement Vignettes
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Two different couples take a look at their own relationships through this duo of performance pieces, which include dance, comedy, film and more. Second-season Project Runway designer Andrae Gonzalo and his... Learn More.
Highways Toasts the Life of Musician-Poet Gil Scott-Heron
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Gil Scott-Heron, who died earlier this year, was a revolutionary poet and musician whose spoken word and jazz-influenced performances were powerful influences on the hip hop genre. Kevin Spicer, curator of... Learn More.
4x4: Latina/o New Works -- Socially Progressive Performance Art
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Highways presents a two-night event featuring emerging, mid-career and established local Latina/o artists as part of an ongoing series. The Friday night performance program includes Marcos Najera, with a... Learn More.
J.M. Morris' 9/11: Perspectives & Pretensions Performance Piece
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
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- $10.00
Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Highways presents a reprise of J.M. Morris' collection of multimedia performance pieces, exploring the wide-ranging aftereffects of that tragic... Learn More.
Gay Hist-Orgy! Pt. 2: The Search for Gay Love!
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents Ian MacKinnon's Gay Hist-Orgy! Pt. 2: The Search for Gay Love! as part of Highways' BEHOLD! A Queer Performance Festival. The cyber-sexual time traveling hot-pants have... Learn More.
Sean Dorsey Dance's Uncovered, Inspired by Transgender Diaries
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
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- $10.00
Sean Dorsey Dance's Uncovered: The Diary Project comes to Highways Performance Space after sold-out runs in San Francisco and New York. The award-winning show was created by transgender choreographer Sean... Learn More.
Catherine Scott Burriss' One-Woman Show What Comes Naturally
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents performance artist Catherine Scott Burriss' one-woman show What Comes Naturally as part of its two-month-long BEHOLD! - A Queer Performance Festival. What Comes Naturally... Learn More.
Dale Madison's My Life in 3 Easy Payments: The Quest for Fame
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents a new one-man show by critically acclaimed spoken-word performance artist and former QVC shopping host Dale Madison. My Life in 3 Easy Payments speaks to the pop culture... Learn More.
KDUB Dance in Liminal Bust, Premiere of New Contemporary Work
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
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- $10.00
The latest experimental piece by choreographer Kevin Williamson and performed by his KDUB Dance company debuts at Highways. Set in a waiting room, five people must decide whether to stay put or take action,... Learn More.
Decades Apart: Reflections of Three Gay Men Starring Ryan Pulos
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Writer-performer Ryan Pulos stars in a multimedia theatrical performance, using video, live action and more to tell a trio of stories, tracing the social, political and personal issues affecting the lives of... Learn More.
Show Ho: Sara Moore's Boundary Defying One-Woman Show
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Sara Moore's gender bent Show Ho is the story of Rhonda Hammerstein, a character so disarmingly honest and authentically funny looking and sounding, it is safe to say she that becoming a circus clown was a... Learn More.
Multi-Media Dance Comedy Love, Connie Celebrates the '80s
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
John Cantwell is back as Connie Slocum, the dancing bikini queen he created with his comedy trio The Nellie Olesons. In Love, Connie, Connie must defeat a nemesis from her past and save her beloved cat,... Learn More.
Latina/o Arts Now! Features Dance, Performance and Theater
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Highways Performance Space continues its commitment to developing and presenting new work by emerging mid-career and established local artists with Working Titles: Latina/o Arts Now! This weekend's... Learn More.
Artists Dan Kwong and Iu-Hui Chua's Physical Performance Piece Once We Wanted
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Once We Wanted explores human closeness and connection through a mix of dance, performance art, poetry, puppetry and striking video imagery. With unflinching honesty and a sense of humor, Chua and Kwong... Learn More.
The Los Angeles Rock Opera Company Presents Works by the Who, L.A. Punk Legends in Push Play
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The rock opera is back for this "mixtape" program of short pieces presented by the Los Angeles Rock Opera Company. The show sports works both new and classic, from the Who's rock operetta A Quick One While... Learn More.
Silken Veils: A Puppetry and Performance Piece by Leila Ghaznavi
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Playwright, actress and puppeteer Leila Ghaznavi's Silken Veils melds puppetry, poetry, live performance and animation to tell the story of a woman struggling with the concept of love as she relives a war-... Learn More.
Leopold Nunan's Orixas - Gods of Candomble Celebrates Brazilian Carnaval
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Brazilian performance artist Leopold Nunan celebrates Carnaval with Orixas - Gods of Candomble, a visual feast featuring high-energy singing and dancing with samba-infused electronic beats, influenced by... Learn More.
Fabulous Monsters' Multimedia Cabaret Forced Vacation (Terra Incognito)
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents the performance group Fabulous Monsters' multi-media cabaret Forced Vacation (Terra Incognito). Featuring live music, puppetry and dance, it's a dreamlike journey through... Learn More.
One-Act Play Broken Willow Based on the Life of Historian/Author Iris Chang
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
In honor of Women's History Month, Highways Performance Space Artistic Director Leo Garcia presents J.M. Morris' new one-act play Broken Willow: Interpreting Iris Chang, starring Yaping. This cutting-edge,... Learn More.
Contemporary Dance from African Dancers/Choreographers Michel Kouakou & Panaibra Canda
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Internationally renowned dancer/choreographers Michel Kouakou (from the Ivory Coast) and Panaibra Canda (from Mozambique) present an evening of contemporary dance work. Kouaku presents "A Story at 120 mph,"... Learn More.
Mona Rogers in Person: One-Woman Play Starring Joan Spitler, Written by Philip Dimitri-Galas
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways presents acclaimed performance artist Joan Spitler in Mona Rogers in Person, the late playwright Philip Dimitri-Galas' humorous solo show about a California woman's delusions of her life in the mid-... Learn More.
State of Incarceration Explores the Social and Personal Costs of Incarceration
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)'s experimental new work actively involves the audience in exploring the costs of incarceration on society. The show takes place in a prison-like space that confines even... Learn More.
somatic SENSOR: Performance, Media, Art and More Exploring the Gay Experience
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
A wide variety of digital, traditional, experimental and performance artists combine to create somatic SENSOR, with works exploring gay culture and more through media, drawing, sculpture and performance.... Learn More.
Cult & creed: Dance Works by Choreographers Sam Kim and Nancy Sandercock
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Billed as a "movement conversation" between two choreographers, Cult by Sam Kim explores what happens when two bodies unnaturally extend and grow, eventually coming together in hyper-communion. Nancy... Learn More.
Billy, The Kid, and What He Did: A Play with Music from Philip Littell and Libby Larsen
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Billy, The Kid, and What He Did is a new stripped-down play with folk/cowboy/punk rock songs by internationally renowned artists Philip Littell and Libby Larsen. After the creators' opera, Every Man Jack,... Learn More.
SWEETS of Onan, a Performance Installation about the Dark Side of Family Values
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents Sonia Aria Oleniak's SWEETS of Onan, a performance piece that turns family values on its head, revealing the lust, guilt and desire at its core. It exposes our most hidden... Learn More.
The First ECOSEX SYMPOSIUM HoneyMOON Reveals the New Sexual Identity of "Ecosexuality"
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Annie Sprinkle, feminist porn star/artist, along with UC Santa Cruz art professor and environmental activist Elizabeth Stephens, started the "ecosexual" movement as an effort to combine environmentalism with... Learn More.
The Discount Cruise to Hell - SEXORCISM: Eyelashes of the Damned
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents The Discount Cruise to Hell in their 6th annual Highways voyage, SEXORCISM: Eyelashes of the Damned. It'll be a night of low morals on the high seas aboard The Discount... Learn More.
Dandelion Dancetheater's 6 Degrees, a Collaboration of California Artists
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents Dandelion Dancetheater's 6 Degrees, their newest project bringing together dance artists from across California for an exchange of ideas and collaboration. 6 Degrees... Learn More.
Performance Piece An nth of an Inch at Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Christy Funsch, Julie Mayo and Sue Roginski present their performance piece An nth of an Inch at Highways. A raw, emotional work, An nth of an Inch combines on-the-spot creation with distinctly personal... Learn More.
Chimera: The Mrs. Hobbs Experiment -- An Accordion-Led Performance Art Mash-Up
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Accordion-playing cabaret performer Mrs. Hobbs (aka Diana Hobstetter) leads a collaboration between dancers, puppeteers, video artists, clowns, and more to create Chimera. These new fairy-tales -- set on the... Learn More.
Dance and Theater Combine For a Conversation Piece by Simone Forti & the Sleeves
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Acclaimed post-modern choreographer Simone Forti, a Guggenheim Fellowship winner in Dance, brings her ensemble group The Sleeves to Highways for a whimsical Conversation Piece. Developed through individual... Learn More.
Meditations: Eva Hesse: A New Play Inspired by the Artist's Life
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways presents Marcie Begleiter's new play, Meditations: Eva Hesse, the first theatrical piece to examine the life of the noted 20th-century sculptor and painter. The performance work depicts the last day... Learn More.
4x4: Latino New Works -- All-New Alternative Performance Art
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Emerging Latina/o artists present all-new edgy and original alternative performances over the course of two evenings. The first is a collaboration between Claudia Rodriguez and Mistress Anna examining BDSM... Learn More.
Alexandria Yalj's Collective Movement Performance Dismantling Self at Highways
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Dismantling Self is a Collective Movement Project that uses multimedia, dance, theatre and live irreverent political music by Alex Sadnik. The show employs a unique style of performance combining the live... Learn More.
John Sinner's Theatre Revelation Presents Happy Ending (Who Will Live, Will See)
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Surrealist John Sinner's Theatre Revelation returns to the L.A. area with the premiere of their new theatrical extravaganza, Happy Ending (Who Will Live, Will See). This dark and disturbingly funny cocktail... Learn More.
Blondenimiddlenowhere: Experimental, Dance-Based Performance Art Movement
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents Blondenimiddlenowhere, an evening of "cinematic, formalist, structuralist, post-everything, re-conceptual, re-archetypal dance-based performance art movement" from Vanessa... Learn More.
The Emmett Till Project: A Series of Performance Pieces Exploring the Civil Rights Movement
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman while buying some candy. The event mobilized the civil rights movement, which united behind the tragic... Learn More.
Creative Provocateurs, Vol. 3: New Theatrical Works from Acclaimed Writers
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Creative Provocateurs, Vol. 3 is an evening of new dramatic works from Dennis Greene, Nancy de Los Santos, and J.M. Morris. Greene's The Forgotten presents a fictional meeting between great historic African-... Learn More.
BEHOLD: A Queer Performance Festival: Presented by Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
A full array of performance art forms, including spoken word, dance, song, theater, dramatic monologue, and multimedia, come together for a two-week festival at the Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica... Learn More.
Arabesco - The Dancing Men of Arabia - Male Belly Dancing at Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Highways Performance Space presents Saleem's Arabesco - The Dancing Men of Arabia, a homoerotic journey of exploration and experience through the exotic and intoxicating realms of Arabic fusion dance,... Learn More.
Appenzeller: Live Performance Art Across Three Cities at Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Performance artists Brooke Smiley (in London) and Wanda Gala (New York) combine with composer Bob Bellerue on this transcontinental performance piece. Using live video streams, dance, noise, amplified piano... Learn More.
Multimedia Production Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: The Nibelungen
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents Ring Festival LA partner collision/theory's new multimedia performance of The Niblungenlied, the epic poem upon which Wagner's Ring Cycle is based. Blood Red Lost Head... Learn More.
Video, Performance Art Hybrid Walks Through Walls at Highways
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
New York-Based interdisciplinary artist Caleb Hammond stars in his premiere L.A production. Walks Through Walls explores the human condition through theater imagery, video, poetry and sound. Performers... Learn More.
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema to Feature Live Performance and Film
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
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- $10.00
As conceived by a pair of Colorado artists in 2003, Sans Souci (translation: "without concern,") is a niche film festival incorporating live performance with a variety of short films and video featuring... Learn More.
(IL)LEGAL CONSENT: Highways' 21st Anniversary Celebration
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Highways celebrates its 21st year of presenting diverse contemporary artists in daring and innovative theater, dance and multimedia performances with an evening hosted by John Fleck. The show will feature... Learn More.
Highways' 6th Annual Poetry Fest - Transblucency: Poems in the Key of Joy
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents their 6th annual poetry fest, Transblucency: Poems in the Key of Joy. Poets and musicians break the boundaries between poetry, music, movement and visual. See the full... Learn More.
Silver Years of Dust - Theatrical Dance Pieces from Tymberly Canale and Stacy Dawson Stearns
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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Highways Performance Space and Gallery presents Silver Years of Dust, dance performances from Tymberly Canale and Stacey Dawson Stearns. Canale's Snow (a study) explores the beauty and the sinister qualities... Learn More.
Four Headed Dance III: New Dance Works at Highways
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
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- $20.00
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- $10.00
Highways Performance Space presents Four Headed Dance III, a quartet of world premieres by unconventional Los Angeles choreographers. The program includes Arianne McBean's exploration of language and action... Learn More.
Map and Directions
Highways is located within the 18th Street Arts Center. There is a parking lot and street parking available.
Handicap Information
Wheelchair access
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.