Performance
Whether in theater and drama or performance art and dance, poetry is captured in bodies in motion. Performance takes many forms. The black box theaters of Los Angeles provide an antidote to Hollywood largesse with intimate and experimental performances; Shakespeare gets a new twist when performed in the woods of Topanga Canyon; and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña investigate border politics. Dance is an orchestra of opposites; shoring kineticism with stasis, creating narratives with movement, and channeling music into action. In high school parking lots and backyard parties, new dances are born and broadcast to the world in online videos. Warehouse operas infuse old school drama with new energy. Performance is an extension of language and an expression of what lies within.
Tijuana-born, L.A.-based artist Tanya Aguiñiga is known for her furniture that is covered with felt. For her "performance crafting" collaboration with Artbound, she trades place with her objects, and invites a group of workers to cover her from head-to-toe in felt.
Trolley Dances, a multi-site, site-specific performance event will debut in Riverside October 20, under the direction of choreographer Julie Satow Freeman.
Jacques Heim, artistic director of L.A. based Diavolo Dance Theater, talks about his company's latest work, Transit Space, which has its west coast premier at the Broad Stage on Friday, September 28.
At the Pagan Fancy Dress Ball and Benefit, the artists, musicians, eccentrics and oddballs who populate the close-knit community of Joshua Tree are building their own renaissance, high in the desert.
San Diego drag queen Grace Towers has championed the art of drag and elevated it to new levels of self-expression.
The Nation Wide Museum Mascot Project, or NWMMP, attempts to transfigure our every day relationship with art institutions by way of Allan Kaprow and Sid and Marty Krofft.
Drama students at Saint Bonaventure High School in Ventura are working on "The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border," a play that straddles the fault lines of the deepest social and economic crises facing the Americas today: immigration.
Choreographer Benjamin Millepied talks L.A. Dance Project, collaborations and future projects.
In south Orange County, there are few traditions as long running (and spectacularly surreal) as the Pageant of the Masters, a two-month-long display where actors pose as well-known works of art.
JumpBrush: Pacific Coast Dance Convergence, which runs Aug. 8 through 11 at the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo, seeks to make the Central Coast a dance destination.
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Noah Purifoy spent the final years of his life in Joshua Tree creating the monumental "Outdoor Deser
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After violence desolated the city center of Tijuana starting in 2007, artists and musicians began to
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Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
