Highways Performance Space & Gallery

02/26/2025

re-posted from : “From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU to each and every one of you who came out and supported TANZ TANZ REVOLUTION’s very first full-length show at Highways Performance Space. ❤️ Your presence, energy, and love means the world to us. We are so incredibly proud of our dancers and their amazing talent that truly brought this piece to life. This is just the beginning, and we’re beyond excited to continue this journey with all of you. There’s so much more to come, and we can’t wait to share it with our community. Thank you so much for these beautiful photos!! ”

02/25/2025

🔥 This Week @ Highways! 🔥

🚨 WEEK 1 of NEW SHOES 2025 is HERE! 🚨
📅 Friday + Saturday, Feb 28 & March 1
🕗 8:00 PM
📍 
🎟 Tix & Info in Bio!

Imagine a space where the human body becomes language—each movement a syllable in a visceral, unspoken dialogue. Now multiply that by seven. NEW SHOES 2025 is a two-week collision of raw energy, innovation, & fearless storytelling, curated by Patrick Kennelly since 2011. 💥

✨ WEEK 1 ARTISTS – SWIPE LEFT ✨
👠 Gia Bella & Casey Shea – Cabin of Pleasure: A deep dive into the terrain where desire meets imagination. 🔥
🚗 Caitlin Javech / T O R R E N T – Drive: Peeling back the psychic cost of ambition—what really fuels us? 🏁
🦋 Melissa Younker – Elytra: A mesmerizing solo within a synthetic exoskeleton, a haunting dance of metamorphosis.

This is the launchpad for the next wave of contemporary dance. 🚀 Past artists have skyrocketed to global stages—who will be next? Be there to witness it FIRST. 👀

WEEK 2 (March 7 + 8) shifts from the personal to the mythic, as Beth Huelsenbeck, josie j & Wendy Zhuo, Lindsay Lykins, and Northern Star Dance Company take the stage with works that weave fate, tradition, freedom, and philosophy into movement. Don’t miss the second half of this groundbreaking series!

02/21/2025

Please join us for the opening of our sound sculpture, DRIVE. There are over 1000 squares of painted and torn watercolour paper hanging in columns from the ceiling to the floor of the gallery. This piece consists of eight-channel audio, using transducers driving the squares of paper within the larger sculpture creating 2 simultaneous soundscapes; a creek and the 110 freeway.

At 7:00pm, there will be a 30-minute live performance moving audible “pixels” around the gallery, via small speakers loaded with sounds abstracted from those in the sculpture.

Drive
A sound and visual art installation
By Cassia Streb and Tim Feeney

Saturday, February 22nd
Opening Reception
5:30-7:30
6:30pm performance
Highways Performance & Gallery
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free admission

02/21/2025

It was great to be back at last Sunday to perform “The Covid Hotel Welcomes You to the Future,” especially with an audience full of thoughtful and engaged people who are finding ways to make a difference in their own neighborhoods. If you haven’t had a chance to see the performance yet,watch this space for more upcoming events in other neighborhoods of LA County, and for highlights from our panel discussion!

02/18/2025

🚀🔥 Dare to Fall, Rise in the Unknown 🔥🚀
What happens when a community stops fearing the fall—and instead, embraces the descent? Tanz Tanz Revolution’s electrifying debut evening-length work propels its performers headfirst into transformation. 🌊💫

Through waves of resistance, surrender, and revelation, movement becomes survival, struggle turns into rhythm, and chaos finds its own harmony. Blending diverse movement styles with an honest, physical exploration of change, this piece invites performers and audiences alike to navigate the unknown together.

📅 Performance Dates & Details
📍 Highways Performance Space & Gallery ()
🕘 Friday + Saturday, February 21 + 22 @ 8:00pm
🎟 Tickets available via the link in our bio!

💡 Founded by Anna Kazwell, Eva Silverton, & Emily O’Rourke, TTR thrives on fusion—melding movement, emotion, and connection in a bold new vision for contemporary performance.

✨ Catch them in motion. Follow the revolution.

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02/17/2025

02/11/2025

🚨 NEW SHOES 2025 IS HERE! 🚨
A performance series, yes, but one that resists easy categorization—Highways Performance Space presents NEW SHOES 2025, a collection of brand-new, movement-based works by some of SoCal’s most compelling choreographers and companies. Conceived and shaped by Highways’ Artistic Director, Patrick Kennelly, this series ignites the body as a vessel for seduction, upheaval, and revelation—where movement becomes language, and every gesture tells a story.

🗓️ Feb 28 – Mar 8

📍 Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Santa Monica

WEEK 1: The Personal, The Psyche, The Pulse
✨ Gia Bella & Casey Shea – Cabin of Pleasure examines the space where desire and imagination overlap, shaping their own logic.
✨ Caitlin Javech / T O R R E N T – Drive unpacks the unseen costs of ambition, the tensions that move us forward.
✨ Melissa Younker – Elytra situates the body within a synthetic exoskeleton, considering metamorphosis as both transition and constraint.

WEEK 2: The Mythic, The Abstract, The Collective
🌟 Beth Huelsenbeck – WYRD threads together movement and fate, tracing unseen forces through space.
🌟 josie j & Wendy Zhuo – por tal blends ancient tradition with contemporary identity, dissolving distinctions between past and present.
🌟 Lindsay Lykins – Infinite Circuit explores the shifting balance between structure and freedom, where sound and motion converge.
🌟 Northern Star Dance Company – Polaris reinterprets kung fu as an embodied archive, merging philosophy with movement.

NEW SHOES 2025 offers performances that are as much about experience as observation—works that ask questions, suggest possibilities, and linger beyond the moment.

🎟️ Tickets + Info: Click the links in our bio!

02/05/2025

🚨 The year is 2075. The world has changed. Drag has evolved. And May, the world’s first AI Dragbot, is ready to SLAY. 💿✨ But does she serve… or does she rule?

🔥 invites you to Dragqueen 2075 at Highways, where a futuristic speakeasy, a visionary showman, and an artificial diva collide in a post-apocalyptic world. This dazzling spectacle questions what it means to preserve art, history, and identity when the future is anything but certain.

🤖💄 Will May obey… or overthrow? Find out Feb 7 + 8 @ 8PM!

🎟️ Grab your tickets now—link in bio!

02/01/2025

✨ ’ UARHÁN - Tonight! ✨

📅 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 8PM 📅
🔥 Experience foster-adoptee advocacy like never before—through powerful dance & an animated triumph story! 🔥

🎭 Interactive moments, mind-blowing performances, and a night to remember! Don’t miss out! Grab your tickets NOW at the link in bio 🎟️

💥 Exclusive Deals! 💥
🪩 Bring A Friend – Use code UARHANII
🪩 15% Off – Use code UAR15

Tag your crew & let’s make this a night of movement, meaning, and magic! ✨🔥

01/31/2025

🚨🔥 UARHÁN I II III (Dance 1 2 3) – LIVE 🔥🚨
Get ready for an electrifying fusion of street dance & P’urhépecha culture! Gabriel “MoFundamentals” Gutierrez brings you a high-energy performance that weaves resilience, identity & movement into a powerful call for generational healing.

💥 House. Breaking. Hip-Hop. P’urhépecha traditions.
💥 One stage. One story. One unforgettable night.
📅 Friday, Jan. 31 + Saturday, Feb. 1
⏰ Showtime: [Insert Time Here]
📍 Highways Performance Space & Gallery

Don’t miss this groundbreaking performance—tag your crew & pull up! 🎭🔥

01/23/2025

Opening Tomorrow Night, January 24th @ Highways! ’s NOTE: Exïstant. FOR MORE INFO + TO BUY 🎟️ CLICK ON THE 🔗 IN OUR BIO. / Fresh off the runaway success of last year’s NOTE (None of This Exists)—a groundbreaking Black American sci-fi showcase that turned Highways into a portal to another dimension—Darrel “Friidom” Dunn and Stephen “Swizz” Banks are back. This time, they’re detonating the boundaries of dance with a movement art installation that feels like a high-voltage transmission from the future. Think street-style battles colliding with unapologetic futurism—an electric redefinition of what comes next, where choreography is less about steps and more about stepping into a new reality.

01/21/2025

This Week @ Highways! FOR MORE INFO + TO BUY 🎟️ CLICK ON THE 🔗 IN OUR BIO. / Fresh off the runaway success of last year’s NOTE (None of This Exists)—a groundbreaking Black American sci-fi showcase that turned Highways into a portal to another dimension—Darrel “Friidom” Dunn and Stephen “Swizz” Banks are back. This time, they’re detonating the boundaries of dance with a movement art installation that feels like a high-voltage transmission from the future. Think street-style battles colliding with unapologetic futurism—an electric redefinition of what comes next, where choreography is less about steps and more about stepping into a new reality.

01/15/2025

In light of the ongoing devastation and loss that is impacting the LA community, we have decided to postpone our show with Highways until February 21st and 22nd. TTR was built on a foundation of community and connection, and it is more important now than ever to prioritize everyone’s health and safety as well as show respect to those who are experiencing great tragedy and loss.

For those who have already purchased tickets, Highways will reach out with information for the postponement. We appreciate your ongoing support and are sending our love to the city we all call home. In the meantime, we are sharing resources to support victims of the fires and help rebuild LA. ❤️

01/04/2025

TANZ TANZ REVOLUTION presents ‘Deception Of A Fall’ an original full evening length dance performance presented at Highways Performance Space.
January 17&18 at 8PM.

Tickets are available for purchase in the link in our bio!

Deception of a Fall unravels the complexities we attach to the inevitable changes in life. While one may try to resist a certain situation, this journey is unavoidable. Can one learn to surrender and find joy in what initially is an unwanted descent? Photo by

01/03/2025

“Lover’s Piece” presented at / created & directed by the incomparable and 💘 Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

Photos by the magical