LAX Micro Fest 2025
MAY 30-JUNE 1 @ PIETER
The LAX Micro Fest is a three day blitz of bold, brave performance. Showcasing over 15 Los Angeles artists in an experimental format, the LAX Micro Fest offers up a powerful convergence of artistic vision when we need it most.
Curated around the themes of RADICAL FUTURES | LIMINAL CROSSINGS | ORIGIN STORIES, the fest amplifies artists making interdisciplinary work at the edges of possibility and within the liminal realities and risks of border navigation. An infusion of radical futuring amidst the grounding force of lineage and origins, the LAX Micro Fest calls in live performance as a luminous lifeline.
Through opening and closing rituals, exchanges with the artists, a participatory Dance Church class, and a line-up of short and long-form performances, the LAX Micro Fest invites audiences into a space of witness, interactivity, and revelation. With new and returning artists, the LAX Micro Fest lifts up groundbreaking aesthetics and performance practices and highlights the innovative contributions of Los Angeles artists to the field of contemporary performance.

DaEun Jung, Photo courtesy of Loghaven by Shawn Poynter
FRIDAY MAY 30 | 7PM-9:30PM
Opening Ritual with Lindsey Red-tail
Micro performances from Anuj Bhutani, Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu, DaEun Jung, Paul Outlaw, and Nina Sarnelle followed by an Audience Exchange

Vanessa Hernández Cruz, Photo by Whitney Browne
SATURDAY MAY 31
11AM-1PM
Writing by Noura Alhariri and Elizabeth Metzger
Performances from Wesleigh Gates, and Vanessa Hernández Cruz
3PM-4:30PM
Performance by Toogie Barcelo + Joe Berry
Audience Exchange
5PM-6PM
California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellows Catalogue Release + Reception
7PM-10PM
Performances by Lindsey Red-tail and Yozmit the DogStar
Audience Exchange
Micro Celebration with drinks and mingling

Dance Church, Photo courtesy Dance Church
SUNDAY JUNE 1 | 2PM-5PM
Closing Ritual with meital yaniv
Performance by rafa esparza
Dance Church: Sweat It Out!
The LAX Micro Fest is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture. Los Angeles Performance Practice is also supported, in part, by The Mellon Foundation, The Perenchio Foundation, and the California Arts Council.