by Victoria Looseleaf | Nov 17, 2018 | Performance Art
Fifty years and counting! The Beyond Gala: A Bohemian Bacchanal celebrated half a century of Beyond Baroque – and what a night it was. Councilmember Mike Bonin’s office literally put the roof over revelers’ heads – some 300 partygoers –...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Nov 12, 2018 | Performance Art
Where else could one find a yogini singing Mozart’s Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute but in John Cage’s 1987 Europeras 1 & 2 , as staged by the brilliant Yuval Sharon, he of the avant-garde opera troupe The Industry, and in collaboration...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Apr 23, 2018 | Interviews, Performance Art
It was a cold, wet morning in February of 1997, when I walked into a 3,000-square-foot Northridge warehouse that was sandwiched between Al’s Auto Body and a stretch of doughnut shops and nail parlors. Bundled up to ward off the rains that were then pounding...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Dec 26, 2017 | Performance Art
If ever there were a time when art was needed, this is it. The year that began—and continues to this day—with a Twitter-happy and some would say, deranged lunatic sitting in the Oval Office could only, at every twist and turn, benefit from the grace, beauty and power...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Dec 4, 2017 | Performance Art
Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener Tesseract REDCAT November 30 – December 3, 2017 No matter how many bells, whistles and special effects are deployed in a dance, if the choreography isn’t there, the exercise/event borders on being pointless. To wit:...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Nov 20, 2017 | Performance Art
War of the Worlds Siren Site 3 Photos by Phantom Street Artist November 18, 2017 It’s just another ordinary November day in Los Angeles: sunny, partly cloudy with a hint of danger in the air. How else to explain the presence of General Lansing (Hadleigh Adams)...