[microsound] Call for New Works [Highways Performance Space]

[Patrick Kennelly]

HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE
Southern California¹s Boldest Center for New Performance
 
 
Seeks submissions for new works for its July-December 2010
season.
 
 
Highways is inviting submissions from performance artists,
dancers/choreographers, theatrical practitioners, sound + new music artists,
and interdisciplinary artists who are creating new works addressing pressing
questions in the social, sexual, psychological, and political spheres that
blur traditional aesthetic borders, finding unexpected solutions to
traditional performance/theatrical practices.
 
All levels of intent, scale, length, and development are encouraged.
 
Highways co-presents with its artists,
and offers one + two week presenting opportunities.
 
 
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E-mail: 
submissions at highwaysperformance.org
 
+ include a short description of the work, the time frame in which you'd
like to present, and any support materials (including website links).

Deadline:  January 1, 2010
 
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Highways Performance Space is Southern California¹s boldest center for new
performance. In its twenty-first year, Highways continues to be an important
alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new
artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
 
Recently described by the Los Angeles Times as "a hub of experimental
theater, dance, solo drama and other multimedia performance," Highways
promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art
forms.
 
Throughout our twenty-one year history, Highways has presented some of the
nation's outstanding performance artists, including: Karen Finley, Annie
Sprinkle, Ron Athey, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Tim Miller, Sir Ian McKellan,
Quentin Crisp, Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Osseus Labyrint, Margaret Cho,
Simone Forti, Levan D. Hawkins, Dan Froot, Elia Arce, Dan Kwong, Denise
Uyehara, Jude Narita, Spiderwoman Theater, Keith Antar Mason + The Hittite
Empire, Luis Alfaro, Michael Kearns, John Malpede + Los Angeles Poverty
Department, Paul Zaloom, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, Cornerstone Theater,
Mariel Carranza, Charles Phoenix as well as hundreds of other contemporary
emerging artists.

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Patrick Kennelly
Associate Director
Highways Performance Space
310-453-1755