RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT RETURNS FOR 2023!
Los Angeles Performance Practice is excited to announce the next round of RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT (R+D): EARLY PROJECT SUPPORT. This...
2022 Research + Development: Touch Praxis // Nina Sarnelle & Selwa Sweidan
Touch Praxis is a collaborative project exploring touch as a time-based medium and co-creative knowledge practice. Through workshops, reading groups, interviews and touch improvisation, we research and practice different dimensions of tactility, from the high stakes context of viral transmission and police violence, to the consent negotiations woven through every part of our lives.
2022 Research + Development: Jasmine Orpilla
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.
2022 Research + Development: Beck+Col
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.
2022 Research + Development: For Parents/Guardians // Mireya Lucio
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.
2022 Research + Development: For Parents/Guardians // Daria Kaufman
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.