ENDURANCE

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LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

ENDURANCE presents performance art and interdisciplinary work by elder artists.

L.A. Dance Project

ENDURANCE Friday and Saturday, May 16–17, 2025, 7–10 PM L.A. Dance Project 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90021 Free parking available on site, wheelchair accessible Free admissionENDURANCE presents performance art and interdisciplinary work by elder artists. This series is a companion program to LACE’s 2024 performance series, ABUNDANCE, both featuring often invisibilized bodies.Through their longstanding committed and engaged practices, artists in ENDURANCE transmit wisdom and experience while embracing the challenges and opportunities that come with age and aging. Held over two nights at L.A. Dance Project, ENDURANCE showcases re-stagings and new commissions by legacy performance, dance, and literary artists Gloria Enedina Álvarez, Kamau Daáood, Anna Homler, Jeff Schwartz, and David Javelosa, Ulysses Jenkins and The Dark Bob (“who dat” band), Juanita and Juan (Alice Bag + Kid Congo Powers), Sharon Kagan, Hirokazu Kosaka, Oguri, Sheree Rose, Barbara T. Smith, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. The program also features films by Eiko Otake and Joan Jonas on May 16, and Marnie Weber on May 17.These artists share groundbreaking contributions to their disciplines with multiple generations, changing exclusionary narratives, and becoming ancestors in life.ENDURANCE is curated by Selene Preciado, LACE Curator and Director of Programs. <h5>Performance Schedule:</h5>Friday, May 16, 2025 7:00 PM: Eiko Otake and Joan Jonas film, With the Earth at My Waistline (2021) 7:30 PM: Kamau Daáood 7:50 PM: Sharon Kagan 8:15 PM: Sheree Rose 8:40 PM: Hirokazu Kosaka 9:05 PM: Awilda Sterling-Duprey 9:30 PM: Juanita and Juan Saturday, May 17, 2025 7:00 PM: Marnie Weber film, The Cabin of Mothra Crone (2021) 7:30 PM: Gloria Enedina Álvarez accompanied by Greg Hernandez 7:50 PM: Awilda Sterling-Duprey 8:15 PM: Oguri 8:40 PM: Ulysses Jenkins and The Dark Bob 9:05 PM: Barbara T. Smith 9:30 PM: Anna Homler, Jeff Schwartz, and David JavelosaIn addition to the performances, artist Sharon Louden's newest publication Last Artist Standing will be available for purchase. Last Artist Standing presents essays on the lives of thirty-one artists over the age of fifty, which explore how they have sustained their creative lives and the different paths they have taken throughout their artistic careers.

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