The public is invited in to witness the simultaneous practice and performance of clearing scores by a group of Los Angeles dancers and performers. Witnesses may come and go as they need during the evening.

clearing scores is a free, movement workshop for dancers. kirsten michelle schnittker guides participants in clearing scores -- their relational and shared practice of creating improvised dances from past and present, prioritizing solo investigation and self-recognition through being witnessed and witnessing each other.

Practice a space for performing artists of different disciplines to come to together and focus explicitly on process over product. Led by dance/theatre duo, Andersmith (Arletta Anderson & Adam Smith). Practice is a space without the any pressure to make anything final, entertaining, meaningful, or even good. Each session focuses on collaborative choice-making and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Participants can expect to move, to talk, and to create with others. And it's always free.

Limit: 12

clearing scores is a free, movement workshop for dancers. kirsten michelle schnittker guides participants in clearing scores -- their relational and shared practice of creating improvised dances from past and present, prioritizing solo investigation and self-recognition through being witnessed and witnessing each other.

clearing scores is a free, movement workshop for dancers. kirsten michelle schnittker guides participants in clearing scores -- their relational and shared practice of creating improvised dances from past and present, prioritizing solo investigation and self-recognition through being witnessed and witnessing each other.

A night of improvisational sounds, sweet smells, odd body postures, delightful creatures, friendly attires and your gracious presence.  

This is an open studio style session, come as you please and enjoy leave when you want. 

clearing scores is a free, movement workshop for dancers. kirsten michelle schnittker guides participants in clearing scores -- their relational and shared practice of creating improvised dances from past and present, prioritizing solo investigation and self-recognition through being witnessed and witnessing each other.

New contemporary performance by Daria Kaufman, with Arletta Anderson and Carolyn Chen

An evening of cross-genre performance centered on domestic rhythms, motherhood, power and play, including: evolving set design, task/object scores for dance and sound, and spoken prose-poetry.

Ghostly Practice is an advanced embodied workshop structured as a slow, sustained movement meditation that guides participants through durational states of sensing, listening, and ritual attention. The practice unfolds through a sequence of guided conditions including grounding, collective breath-work, blindfolded micromovement, somatic visualization, and periods of stillness and waiting, initiating movement from the breath.

Taste! is a performance salon showcasing bite-sized time-based works from emerging and established artists.

Get a multidimensional solstice hug. For one day only, an Astrologer and an Akashic reader team up to converge around your chart and soul records, helping you turn the page for the new season. Put your trickiest questions or curiosity for self-understanding through two divinatory processes to help sharpen the dart of your path.

Led by Salty Xi Jie Ng + Crystal Sasaki

This workshop explores dreams as a form of listening, drawing from IONE’s Listening in Dreams, Oliveros’s Quantum Listening, Ng’s ancestral dreamwork, and Sasaki’s somatic movement work. Through sonic meditations, including vocalization, interpretive movement, reflective conversation, writing, and drawing, we will explore connections between the dreaming being, the listening body, and collective experience.

Meditations is a solo performance rooted in butoh (舞踏), a spiritual, intense, and fully embodied artistic practice which merges and evolves elements of acting, dance, and performance art. Within a setting that emphasizes the communal and ritualistic nature of live performance, the piece will explore a dense array of primordial matters, including the final journey of an elderly grandmother and the psychedelic distension of time.

Performances by:

Wesleigh Gates

Kirsten Michelle Schnittker 

Ajani Brannum

Moodzi Mudgerikar

Sam Wentz, with Jacob Wolff and Amelia Charter

jeremy de’jon guyton

Dance Party DJed by Jesse Perlstein 

This event serves as a fundraiser to raise money for next year's FIRST DRAFT programming!

Immersive and intensive training in the fundamentals of butoh (舞踏).  

While this workshop is suitable for those new to butoh, it is designed for performing artists with an ongoing professional or pre-professional practice.

Substantial People (working title) is emerging as both an excavation and dictation of our behavior, performance obsessions, interiority, and memories. The work revolves around questions of authority, value, and influence. Who decides? Who witnesses? 

First Date brings together movers from dance, theatre, and clown to team up with composers, musicians, and sound artists. Each pair will have about 10 minutes to perform together for the first time, in front of a live audience.

An intimate dance performance + party hosted featuring Maya Kell-Abrams, Kearian, Chelsea Roquero, Owen Scarlett, kirsten michelle schnittker, and music by Chong the Nomad.

Ghostly Practice is an advanced embodied workshop structured as a slow, sustained movement meditation that guides participants through durational states of sensing, listening, and ritual attention. The practice unfolds through a sequence of guided conditions including grounding, collective breath-work, blindfolded micromovement, somatic visualization, and periods of stillness and waiting, initiating movement from the breath.

ANAHITA is a live performance in which Amy Rose Khoshbin channels the Persian goddess of fertility and healing, guiding audiences through a collective ritual of release.

Extraterrestrial Kink is a dark comedy about a woman seeking meaning in her earthly form after having mind-altering sex with a perfect alien being. The play follows Maura to the middle of nowhere Vermont where she seeks solace in an alien encounter support group.

In this workshop, we will learn how to build a show fast by building a show fast! Using foundations of physical theatre devising techniques inspired by Frantic Assembly, Moment Work, the legacy of clown, and more we will create an ensemble-based show in 3 weeks!

April 14, 21 & 28; 630pm - 930pm

Curse Breaking Ritual is a participatory, ongoing art work by Ashley Eva Brock of one-on-one rituals to identify and break “curses” (or harmful false beliefs given to us by others) and transmute them into truer, more beneficial beliefs. The private ritual consists of a guided meditation, an intuitive counseling session, and a glass breaking ritual. A week or so after the session, you’ll receive a custom made transmutation vessel out of the melted shards of your broken and transmuted curse.

A shared evening of work-in-progress showings by Ajani Brannum and Andersmith

approx 70 minutes

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Encounter is a periodic, site-specific performance event that changes location with each iteration. Performances span multiple disciplines and genres; work can be durational or discrete, interactive or observed, indoor or outdoor. The event is donation-based, with all proceeds after expenses divided equally among participating artists. Encounter is produced by Layna Fisher and Adam Smith.

Tickets $5 - $25

Encounter is a periodic, site-specific performance event that changes location with each iteration. Performances span multiple disciplines and genres; work can be durational or discrete, interactive or observed, indoor or outdoor. The event is donation-based, with all proceeds after expenses divided equally among participating artists. Encounter is produced by Layna Fisher and Adam Smith.

Tickets $5 - $25

Braided Soundis a series of improvisational site-specific experimental ensembles that operate off a graphic score designed by Jesse Perlstein. The performances draws on a deep familiarity with graphically notated score history, from that of Cage and Cardew and Stockhausen among many others, BraidedSOUND distances itself from the aesthetics and behaviors of “concert music” almost entirely—we are rather seeking to explore and define a contemporary use of the graphic score as a map, the compass and legend of which must be figured out with every single new performance, by every participating artist, together as a unit, in every new space and every different city, and using the hybrid sonic avenues of electronic and acoustic elements as its toolkit.

Every performance is a chance to rethink the very building blocks upon which my compositional practice is founded, but invitational opportunities to perform with new creative collaborators in far away countries welcome both excitement and logistical challenges. 

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time + space presents tarot readings and a selection of collages by artist Amy Rose Khoshbin to mark the beginning of her fellowship, as part of Chinatown’s First Fridays.

Khoshbin will offer one-on-one tarot sessions throughout the evening while her collages are on view. Through performance, installation, social practice, sculpture, collage, and music, she creates participatory worlds where sensory experiences open pathways toward liberatory futures. Her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, LACMA, the Brooklyn Museum, Times Square Arts, and The High Line, among others.

NOON Projects is honored to present SUPERCORN / DEAD DIVA DISCO, an evening of music and performance curated and hosted by experimental musician and video artist Ciriaco. Presented in conjunction with David Shull’s exhibition Where there is Great Love there are always Great Miracles, the program celebrates and pays tribute to the late Jack Doroshow, also known as Mother Flawless Sabrina, and his collaboration with Shull on their book of the same name.

Performers: Emily Barasch, Wesleigh Gates, Cora Laszlo, William Ruíz Morales

Original Sound Composition: Jesse Perlstein