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.
Doors 730pm / Performance 8pm
$10 - $20 sliding scale
Bios:
Daria Kaufman is a movement artist, performance maker, and educator. From phone-based audio oration to domestic object scores, to immersive performance installation, her practice is rooted in the body, with influences including ballet, sound art, Butoh, and Nova Danca Portuguesa. Daria’s work has been presented throughout Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Europe, including: Automata, WIP LA, LAX Festival, Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Joe Goode Annex, NOHspace, Curtas de Dança (in scope of Festival Dias de Dança), FAKI Festival (Croatia), and RAAK / Transport Artspace (The Netherlands). Her projects have received support from the Gulbenkian Foundation, GDA (Portugal), and Zellerbach Family Foundation. Recently, she was commissioned to create a sound film for MFYI (Music For Your Inbox), to premiere in 2027.
Arletta Anderson is a Los Angeles-based dance artist, performance maker, and educator. She has enjoyed a robust career as a freelance dancer working in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Additionally, Arletta makes performance work in collaboration with writer/theater artist Adam Smith. She is currently on faculty at Loyola Marymount University and OCSA, is part of the Ground Grooves teaching staff, and guides yoga/movement classes for non-dancers.
Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday through sound, story, light, and movement. Her studies of the guqin, a Chinese zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature, have informed her thinking on listening in social spaces. Recent projects include a music, poetry, and movement collaboration at REDCAT and commissions for Klangforum Wien and the LA Phil. Described by The New York Times as “most consistently alluring,” her work has been presented in 25 countries and supported by the Berlin Prize, Fulbright and ASCAP’s Fred Ho Award. In the last couple years, she co-taught Choreographers and Composers at CalArts with Dimitri Chamblas.