New work in process from LA artists
Originally piloted in 2019, CASUAL provides Los Angeles artists with an opportunity to show a work in process. CASUAL supports artists who are looking to engage in a critical exchange with audiences by presenting their work in the early to mid stages of development. The new work can be loose. Anything between the spark of an idea or an excerpt from a new performance that is ready to be tested for the first time. CASUAL creates a space for experimentation with an engaged and enthusiastic audience that feels useful to the artist’s practice and process.
CASUAL 2024
Co-Presented with Los Angeles LGBT Center – October 19, 2024
LAPP fills the gaps in the creative infrastructure for LA artists with a focus on contemporary performance. CASUAL was an evening of excerpts from new works in development by choreographer Vic Marks, interdisciplinary dance artist Cayla Mae Simpson, boundary-pushing performance duo CadeMoga and Ironstone, and experimental musician Anuj Bhutani.
From Vic Marks’ mash up of projected text, live narration, movement, and meaning that at every turn shifts from deer to human to sparrow to king – to Cayla Mae Simpson’s presentation of new mythologies about menstruation and reproductive care – to CadeMoga and Ironstone’s body horror and psychosexual overtone-imbued brash queer narratives with a live DJ – to Anuj Bhutani’s genre-fluid, memory-bending psychedelic mix of screamo, electronic, and Indian classic music – these four works-becoming formed a beautiful interdisciplinary evening.
Experimental musician Anuj Bhutani at CASUAL 2024. Photo by Argel Rojo.
CASUAL is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.
PREVIOUS CASUAL EVENTS
October 19, 2024 at LA LGBT Center
Featuring work from Vic Marks, Cayla Mae Simpson, CadeMoga and Ironstone, and Anuj Bhutani
October 22, 2022 at Frankie
Hosted by Anna Luisa Petrisko
Featuring work from Vanessa Hernández Cruz, Jennifer Jonassen, and Ajani Brannum
October 18, 2022 at Frankie
Hosted by Anna Luisa Petrisko
Featuring work from Magnolia Yang Sao Yia and Lydia Li
November 19, 2019 at The Bootleg Theater
Hosted by Marike Splint
Featuring work from Selena Caffey, DaEun Jung, Anya Cloud and Justin Morrison
September 25, 2019 at The Vortex
Hosted by d. Sabela Grimes
Featuring work from Maya Gurantz, Kate Ladenheim, Jinglin Liao, and Isaac Schankler