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Performance artists create whole worlds. See how performance is able to bring people into a story and bring out society's larger issues.

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Still leading a weekly performance lab, octogenarian choreographer Rudy Perez was once praised by the L.A. Times as "the conscience of Los Angeles dance."
Kalani Queypo and Hong Lei, "Stand-Off at Highway 37." | Photo: Jean Bruce Scott.
Native Voices at the Autry puts the spotlight on American Indian playwrights, helping them transition their culturally-inspired works into full-scale productions.
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Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's mobile "Duck Truck" brings site-specific performances to various locations in Los Angeles.
Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose.
Sheree Rose, the 70-year-old legend of multiple L.A. underground scenes, returns to her role as a performance artist with a 24-hour durational work.
Five local bands from the Coachella Valley chat about their takes on the local music scenery, the desert as influence, and the Coachella Music Festival.
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"ITSOFOMO: In the Shadow of Forward Motion" is considered one of the most intense works of art produced during the years that the AIDS crisis cut through the art world.
Balanchine Festival 2013, hosted by the Los Angeles Ballet, celebrates the work of George Balanchine, one of the greatest choreographic masters of all time.
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New York artist Michael Smith inserts his two recurring characters -- Mike and Baby Ikki -- into particular scenarios, either real or constructed, in ways that can be seen as responses to broader issues in contemporary society.
Can you bring a work to an audience instead of an audience to the work? Heidi Duckler is connecting private and public space through performance.
UCR ARTSblock and Queer Lab, an initiative supporting queer studies at UC Riverside, is sponsoring a performance of "The Holo Library," a play between performance art and theater, at The Culver Arts Center on April 11.
Four Trisha Brown site-specific performances, including "Man Walking" and "Roof Piece," were performed around Los Angeles this past weekend.
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Elana Mann's "Listening as (a) Movement" project consists of three outdoor sound sculptures inspired by pre-radar sonic technologies, giving people the opportunity to listen to their neighborhood in a different way.
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