Sharon Chohi Kim is a voice artist, performer and composer and a 2023 R+D artist. Haenyeo is an emerging interdisciplinary performance reflecting on the relationship between the decline of the free-diving women of Korea called haenyeo and the rise of industrial development and marine habitat loss.
Shauna Davis is a creator, dancer, and filmmaker and a 2023 R+D artist. Her emerging work SEEDS is an investigation of her family’s history against the backdrop of Miami, posing questions of collective dreaming. Through Shauna’s R+D fellowship, she began to record interviews with her family while seeking out clues in the archives that will inform the next project phase of film and performance
Jennifer Bewerse is a multi-media performer and a R+D For Parents/Guardians artist. Her work in progress, Double Spaces, is an ongoing, posthumous collaboration with artist and close friend Heather Barnes. Jennifer investigated more of inner-workings of the piece through a residency and workshop performance at Antaeus Theatre as part of her R+D fellowship.
L.A. Performance Practice is excited to introduce the Los Angeles-based artists selected for the 2023 Research + Development and R+D: For Parents/Guardians Program.
MULTICHANNEL_CHATROOM is a transmedia duet which follows the story of two performers searching for modes of presence and connection while taking a DIY or lo-fi approach to repurposing and reconstructing the conditions, materials, and space of self and reality.
Xiaoyue Zhang’s R+D Residency project uses studies on transgenerational trauma and Chinese Medicine Psychology-a study on the interrelationship between body and mind rooted in ancient Chinese medicine philosophy-as theoretical supports and inspirations.