Jasmine Orpilla’s ORASYON: A multilingual experimental operatic installation, is sung and danced in solo, sound-activated courtship choreography, inspired by the poetry of Jasmine’s grandmother’s Ilokano call & response dallot love-song tradition and the protective incantations of Jasmine’s albularyo-practicing grandfather from the Philippines.
Beck+Col, Los Angeles based artist duo, worked on their piece Cyber Forest drawing the connection between a for-profit system that is not in our best interest as a species, and the depletion of essential natural resources that has directly led to the current climate crisis and loss of biodiversity.
Also, an inaugural artist participating in Research + Development: For Parents/Guardians, Mireya Lucio, shares a Conversations with my Descendants via Sci-Fi Space Odyssey: a screenplay for the stage. This live multimedia performance fuses speculative fiction, memoir, and post-colonial essay as an embodied future archive of inheritance concerned with the body/mind/spirit as technology.
One of the inaugural artists participating in Research + Development: For Parents/Guardians, Daria Kaufman, shares about her new performance piece ma ma. Kaufman uses movement, sound, and text to explore what it means to make and shape a person.
LAPP is excited to announce the two artists participating in our first Research + Development Residency for Parents/Guardians: Daria Kaufman and Mireya Lucio.
We are excited to introduce you to the three Los Angeles-based projects participating in our 2022 Research + Development Program: Beck+Col, Jasmine Orpilla, and Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan.