LAX FESTIVAL // Past Programs
Our Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival launched in 2013, as a collaborative event produced in partnership with dozens of Los Angeles-based artists and producers, including Katelan Braymer, Nichole Disson, Jessica Hanna, Lars Jan, Christopher Kuhl, Miwa Matreyek, Zoe Aja Moore, Poor Dog Group, Show Box L.A., Rachel Scandling, Timur & the Dime Museum, Chi-wang Yang, Miranda Wright and many others.
Festival partners have included the Bootleg Theater, Automata Arts, Center Theater Group, MOCA, The Theater at Ace Hotel, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Skirball Cultural Center, WESTAF, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, New Music USA, Los Angeles County Arts & Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
DaEun Jung
NORRI
Thursday-Friday, November 2 & 3, 2023 8:00 pm at L.A. Dance Project
ACCELERATEDDDDDD: Works In Progress
Sunday, October 29, 2023 6:00 PM at NAVEL LA
Moriah Evans
Remains Persist
Saturday-Sunday, Oct 28 & 29 and Thursday-Saturday Nov 2-4, 2023
at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Spenser Theberge
Intimates
Saturday, October 28, 2023 8:00 pm at L.A. Dance Project
Elisa Harkins
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ
Friday, October 27, 2023 8:00 pm at L.A. Dance Project
Marsian De Lellis
Model Killer: Giant Crimes + Tiny Cover-Ups
Saturday-Sunday, October 21 & 22 2023 at Automata
Marissa Brown / Lone King Projects
How lonely sits the city
Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:00 pm at L.A. Dance Project
Roger Q. Mason
Hide & Hide
Friday, October 20, 2023 8:00 pm at L.A. Dance Project
San Cha
Asunción: A Workshop
Thursday, October 19, 2023 8:00 pm at L.A. Dance Project
Gabrielle Civil
Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique)
Saturday, October 14 - 8:00 pm & Sunday, October 15, 2023 2:30 pm at Automata
Anna Luisa Petrisko
All Time Stop Now
Friday September 29 and Saturday September 30, 2023 8:30pm at Roy And Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)
Cassia Streb
The Unchecked Desert
Sunday, October 23, 2022 8pm
at FRANKIE
Community Chat with LAPP
Community Chat with LAPP
Sunday, October 23, 2022 6pm at FRANKIE
Tova Katz & Diana Wyenn
See You at the Funeral!
Saturday, October 22, 2022 8pm
at FRANKIE
CASUAL – Ajani Brannum + Vanessa Hernández Cruz + Jennifer Jonassen
CASUAL
Saturday, October 22, 2022 1pm
at FRANKIE
Spotlight On: Touch Praxis
Spotlight On: Touch Praxis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 11am at FRANKIE
Mireya Lucio
Conversations with my Descendants via Sci-Fi Space Odyssey: a screenplay for the stage
Friday, October 21, 2022 8pm
at FRANKIE
JASMINE ORPILLA + MARK GOLAMCO + JOBEL MEDINA
LAX Festival at MOCA
Thursday, October 20, 2022 7:30pm
at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Chelsea Zeffiro
Abstract Human Support Positions
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 8pm at FRANKIE
CASUAL – Magnolia Yang Sao Yia + Lydia Li
CASUAL
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 8pm
at FRANKIE
Paul Outlaw & Joe Seely
DUET
Monday, October 17, 2022 7:30pm at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Amy O’Neal
The Hybrid Lab: Conversations in Merging Dance Culture
November 14, 2021 at FRANKIE
Dorian Wood
20/21
November 13, 2021 at FRANKIE
Olivia Mia Orozco with Alexa Eisner
The Messenger and Atom Cycle
November 12, 2021 at FRANKIE
Anu Yadav
Healing Through Story
November 11, 2021 at FRANKIE
Anna Luisa Petrisko
ALL TIME STOP NOW
November 10, 2021 at FRANKIE
Liz Toonkel
Magic for Animals
November 9, 2021 at FRANKIE
Lauretta Records
Lauretta Records & Friends Night
November 7, 2021 at FRANKIE
DaEun Jung
Byoul Part 1: 246 at 40
November 6, 2021 at FRANKIE
Gina Young
STRAIGHT PLAY (a queer beach blanket musical)
November 5, 2021 at FRANKIE
Odeya Nini
A Solo Voice
November 4, 2021
at FRANKIE
Cristina Fernandez
Work in Progress: I'm just happy to be here.
September 29, 2019 at The Vortex
Scarlett Kim + Parch Es
Work in Progress: Portals to the Alter-Culture
September 29, 2019 at The Vortex
Selwa Sweidan
WORKSHOP: Speculative Human-Machine Choreographies
September 29, 2019 at The Vortex
Cordelia Istel + Chris Tyler
WORKSHOP: Cultural Work Is Work
September 29, 2019 at The Vortex
Austyn Rich + Guests
BITE
September 28, 2019 at The Vortex
Amy O’Neal
The Hybrid Lab: Conversations in Merging Dance Cultures
September 27, 2019 at The Vortex
CASUAL
Hosted by d. Sabela grimes
September 25, 2019 at The Vortex
BRUNCH CHATS
Bootleg Theater
October 13, 14, 20, 21, 2018
LATE NIGHTS at THINK TANK
program by Duncan Woodbury
October 13-20, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Greg Wohead
Call It A Day
October 14, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Tiffany Lytle
QNOUM KAUN KHMER (I AM A CAMBODIAN CHILD)
October 20-21, 2018 at Bootleg Theater
Estela Garcia
REMEDIOS VARO: LA ALQUIMISTA
October 20-21, 2018 at Think Tank Galllery
CHAMELEON (work in process)
Chameleon (work in progress)
October 20, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Susan Simpson
A Machine for Living
October 19-21, 2018 at Automata
Daniel Corral
Polytope
October 17, 19, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Dorothy Dubrule + Brian Getnick
Cowboy
October 12-13, 15, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Rebecca Bruno
Procession Relic
October 11-12, 14, 2018 at Bootleg Theater
Meg Foley
The undergird (solo)
October 18-19, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Sara Lyons
I'm Very Into You
October 143-21, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
jumatatu m. poe + Jermone “Donte” Beacham
Let 'im Move You: INTERVENTION
October 12, 2018 around Los Angeles
Edgar Arceneaux
Until, Until, Until...
October 17-20, 2018 at Bootleg Theater
Nichole Canuso, Lars Jan + Geoff Sobelle
Pandæmonium
October 19-21, 2018 at Los Angeles Theatre Center
Marsian De Lellis
Object of Her Affection
September 27-October 13, 2018 at Automata
2018 LAX FESTIVAL LAUNCH
Queer Slow Jam Party
October 11, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
Poor Dog Group
Group Thearapy (Preview)
October 14, 2017 at Bootleg Theater
Gina Young
Sorority: Out
October 11, 2017 at Bootleg Theater
Amie Cota
Any Place But Here
October 8, 2017 at Bootleg Theater
Sylvan Oswald + Jessica Fleischmann
High Winds
October 9, 2017 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Jessica Emmanuel
Witnessing Her
October 7, 2017 at Bootleg Theater
Zoe Aja Moore & Liz Toonkel with Amanda Jane Shank
Lulu
October 3-7, 2017 at Automata Theater
Pentimento / Isabel Toledo
Pentimento / Isabel Toledo
October 12-15, 2017 at Automata Theater
szalt dance co.
Marshmallow Sea
October 6-8, 2017 at Bootleg Theater
d. Sabela grimes
ELECTROGYNOUS
October 13-15, 2017 at Bootleg Theater
Milka Djordjevich
ANTHEM
October 11-14, 2017 at The Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Graham Reynolds + Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance
October 10, 2017 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Tamara Cubas + Teatro Línea de Sombra
La Brisa
October 12, 14, and 15, 2017 at Los Angeles Theatre Center