Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

Academy Academy ~ a school for shenanigans presents:

BOUFFONSEMBLE - Teacher Grayson Morris

(An Ensemble-Focused Six Week Class in the Art of Bouffon)

September 22nd- October 27th

Tuesdays 7-10pm 

Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

For the last twenty years Jesse Perlstein has been making sound art and music under various monikers and with collaborators. He scores a pastiche of recontextualized moments captured from the field, using tapes, vocals and other manipulations to create meditative sonic tapestries. Echoes of Field is a celebration of his work, inviting two movement  artists, Kensaku Shinohara & Arletta Anderson, to perform original scores to his past works, providing new context and interpretations. In addition, Jesse will be performing a new solo work for sound and movement. These performances are bespoke for time + space and 1-night-only. 

Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

A monthly Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® class, led by Kirsten Michelle Schnittker.

Three locations will house an interdimensional village, desire lines bleeding out to rivers that will connect. Autonomy creating patterns that mold meaning. 

Through unity and confusion we make a place.  In the struggle we build our stories. The undulating echo of proximity nests houses inside of houses, dissolving into homes. Being bonded/ tribal and still living in the mountain cave.

logan wolfe performs his solo durational work WHENTONGUESARELIKEKEYS Sunday, August 30th.

Originally performed in 2024, logan performs an abbreviated version of the work.

The Lab is a weekly recurring event to help us stay committed to the work. We meet every Sunday rain or shine. It is a day dedicated to process and experimentation. We are investigating what it means to be in Ensemble, Develop presence as a performer, and how to create new work. 

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.