Highways Performance Space & Gallery

07/17/2025

🎪🔥 TRIN Dance Theatre
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH V.3
JULY 18 + 19 | 8PM | HIGHWAYS

This Week : Q***r circus. Clownery. Drag. Melodrama. Glitter. Raw truth in rhinestones.

Directed with furious tenderness by Monica Williams, Tippy Dringman, and Mason Gray, The Greatest Show on Earth V.3 writhes at the intersection of spectacle and soul-searching. It’s a sweaty love letter to chosen family, radical joy, and the ache of becoming.

🛎️ TICKETS VIA LINK IN BIO.
💥 This isn’t just a show. It’s a spell. A scream. A sanctuary. Come. Be undone.

👀 Partial nudity. Full liberation.

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07/11/2025

🎪 STEP RIGHT UP... 🎪
✨ THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH V.3 ✨
2 NIGHTS ONLY!
Friday + Saturday, July 18 & 19 | 8PM
📍 Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica

🎤 LADIES, GENTS, AND GLORIOUS IN-BETWEENS...
The tent is up. The lights are hot.
The performers? Ferocious, fearless, and full of fire.

Back by demand after their explosive debut, TRIN Dance Theatre invites you into a world of q***r spectacle where anything can happen — and nothing is what it seems.

🎟️ Daring DRAG
🎭 Chaotic CLOWNERY
💃🏽 Delicious, DEFIANT DANCE
🩸 And raw, unfiltered performance you’ll feel in your bones

Directed by Monica Williams, Tippy Dringman & Mason Gray, this is a circus of the soul — a sweaty, sexy journey through desire, identity, heartbreak, and healing.
🔥 Come for the fantasy. Stay for the truth.

🎟️ TICKETS IN BIO
🎪 The ring opens at 8PM — don’t be late.
👯‍♀️ You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You might leave transformed.

***rCircus ***rArtMagic

06/19/2025

🌞 Celebrate Pride & the Summer Solstice with Q***r Ritual, Art, and Radical Joy

Join us for a full-day immersive experience weaving together q***r spiritual practice, solstice energy, and radical creative expression. This vibrant gathering features transformative workshops, embodied rituals, poetic performances, and healing encounters designed to connect us to our senses, ancestors, and the natural world.

Highlights include:

✨ One-on-one grief rituals with Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
🎨 Embodied artmaking with Ruby Vartan
🌀 Ritual movement & guided meditation with Kyoko Takenaka & Yumi Sakugawa
🌿 Community spell procession with Edgar Fabián Frías
🌲 A meditative tree-honoring installation with Meghan DeRoma & community
🌈 Evening performances, sound, and poetry by André Atkins, Ari Salka, and Kuiland-Nazario.

Curated by Dorado 806 Projects & The Style Guyde, this day honors the Solstice as a portal: a still point for collective transformation, q***r celebration, and sensory democracy.

🎟️ Reserve your spot now — some workshops require separate admission.
🌙 BONUS: The Solstice evening program (starting at 4:30 PM) is now FREE to the public, thanks to the generous support of art patron Diane Allen ().
RSVP with code: LAIcons

06/17/2025

🌞✨ I’M HERE AND I LOVE YOU ✨🌞
A Performance & Healing Workshop with Kyoko Takenaka + Yumi Sakugawa
Sat, June 21 | 1 PM | Highways

Enter the sacred threshold of the Summer Solstice through this immersive offering of performance, ritual, movement, and collective healing.
Part of “At the Still Point of the Turning World: Solstice Esoterica & Q***r Spiritualism,” this workshop invites you to meet your past, present, and future selves with radical presence and love.

🌸 What’s Included:
🎭 A powerful solo performance + talkback by Kyoko Takenaka, in communion with their past self — a meditation on time, healing, and artistic resilience
🌀 A gentle, guided movement practice rooted in Butoh & Qi Gong, honoring the Four Directions
📝 A contemplative journaling + image-based ritual session led by Yumi Sakugawa, guiding you into nature’s wisdom, ancestral connection, and your inner wildness

🧘‍♀️ Bring: your journal, writing tools, a blanket, water, and anything that helps you feel grounded.
💫 Sign-up now via the “At the Still Point of the Turning World” page on our website — link in bio. 💫

Come exactly as you are. Let this solstice be your threshold. 🌿

***rHealing ***rSpirituality

06/09/2025

This Week @ Highways:
MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS by Tsiambwom M. Akuchu
📍 Highways, Santa Monica
🗓️ June 13 & 14 | 8PM
🎟️ Tickets in bio

You are not the target market. You are the market.

What if everything—your skin tone, your swagger, your silence—was up for sale?

💥 Market Demographics doesn’t just ask the hard questions. It moves them. Hard.

💃🏿 Krump meets House.
🕺🏽 B-boying meets brute truth.
🎭 Street dance fused with physical theater to crack open masculinity, race, and how identity gets branded, boxed, and sold back to us with a price tag.

👁️‍🗨️ Watch what happens when histories of oppression collide with the dopamine drip of consumer culture—and masculinity becomes a market study.

Whether you’re deep into dance, drowning in capitalism, or just want to see a body tell the truth—this is the show. This is the moment.

Created and performed by Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu, choreographer, movement director, and one of L.A.’s most incisive voices in street dance theatre.

06/04/2025

🌵🎭✨ A gambling goat. A sharp-tongued cactus. A magical nose.
Step into “The Legendary Narizona” — a surreal, bilingual journey of identity, trickery, and ancestral memory told through handcrafted puppets, masks, and myth.

🗓️ TWO NIGHTS ONLY
📍 Highways Performance Space & Gallery
📆 June 6 & 7 | 8 PM
🎟️ Link in bio

Blanca wakes each morning painted by ghostly birds, but when her hummingbird-grandmother whispers a secret, she flees into the desert... and into the truth.

Written & directed by Susan Jagosz | Made possible by the Puffin Foundation



05/30/2025

LOSER is a Stage Raw TOP TEN PICK!
4 More Performances Left!

“A smart and innovative dissection of the psyche that physically and mentally pulls you into a life you might [would?] never want to pursue. But with Kennelly’s direction and Royer-McHugh’s performance, it feels slightly more possible, a testament to the magnetic energy created from the unconventional."

Info + 🎟️: https://www.highwaysperformance.org/events/loser-2025-06-01-19-30

05/30/2025

DONNA STERNBERG & DANCERS – GLIMPSES
🗓 May 30 & 31 | 8PM | Highways, Santa Monica

An evening of new work by Donna Sternberg and company artists Alyssa Milligan, Anna Kazwell, Rebecca Aguilar, and Alexandria Paige Amstutz. Each piece explores the quiet tension between vulnerability and control—what we show, what we conceal, and what slips through anyway.

Thoughtful, rigorously made, and emotionally specific, Glimpses brings together distinct choreographic voices linked by their willingness to confront the uncertain.

🎟 $20 Advance | $25 at the door
🔗 Tickets in bio


05/15/2025

You snooze, you lose. Tickets for LOSER are disappearing faster than your last dopamine hit.
15 seats. 1 basement. Endless psychic static.

Use code TOUCHGRASS at checkout to get 30% off tickets.

This isn’t just a show. It’s the browser history purge you didn’t know you needed.

“True West” for the terminally online. A dark comedy steeped in gallows humor about the grim task of sorting through an incel’s shrine. No self-help in 4 a.m. Incognito tabs. Touch grass while you still can.

05/15/2025

🔥 This Week @ Highways 🔥
Fri + Sat, May 16 + 17 | 8PM | Santa Monica
🎟️ LINK IN BIO

Jingqiu Guan – Where Are We Going Now?
Visceral. Cinematic. Unforgettable.

Step inside a glowing cube of memory and myth.
🚂 Ride the rails of dislocation, migration, and hope.
🩰 Dance meets motion capture, poetry meets projection, and the Chinese diaspora comes to life through the body in motion.

✨ TWO DISTINCT EXPERIENCES
🔹 Room: A Corporeal Dialogue Across Time — a solo in light, shadow, and poetry from Angel Island
🔹 Tales of Railroad — an ensemble explores displacement, legacy, and longing via train-bound narrative

🧠 From award-winning choreographer & filmmaker Jingqiu Guan
🎶 🎶 Featuring original score, multimedia design, and a cast of fearless performers

📍 Highways Performance Space
1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA

Come experience stories that move—across time, continents, and generations.


05/08/2025

🖤✨ SWEET DECAY is COMING ✨🖤�
Sat, May 10 | 8:30 PM
Highways� Performance Space & Gallery
1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA

Obsidienne Obsurd presents a glam-futurist descent into gorgeous ruin. Think drag, sound, and poetry colliding at terminal velocity—turning collapse into couture. 💋💥

🎭 This isn’t performance—it’s prophecy. Gravity is your drag mother, and she’s pulling you under with lashes on and heels sharp enough to carve the end times in glitter. ✨

Obsidienne doesn’t flinch at the grotesque—they worship it.�With poetic invocations by the enigmatic S A M, and visuals that channel sci-fi elegy through high-glam decay, SWEET DECAY is where total collapse becomes high art.

🪞 You won’t escape the end—you’ll strut through it.�🖤 Ruin never looked so good. 🖤

🎟 TICKETS via link below. Don’t be late—decay waits for no one.

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Obsidienne Obsurd makes a glam-futurist descent into gorgeous decay—where drag, sound, and poetry collide in a spectacle that turns collapse into high art. In this seductive slow-motion apocalypse, the end isn’t feared—it’s fiercely, fabulously embraced.

05/07/2025

🖤✨ SWEET DECAY is COMING ✨🖤
Sat, May 10 | 8:30 PM | Highways

Obsidienne Obsurd presents a glam-futurist descent into gorgeous ruin. Think drag, sound, and poetry colliding at terminal velocity—turning collapse into couture. 💋💥

🎭 This isn’t performance—it’s prophecy. Gravity is your drag mother, and she’s pulling you under with lashes on and heels sharp enough to carve the end times in glitter. ✨

Obsidienne doesn’t flinch at the grotesque—they worship it.
With poetic invocations by the enigmatic S A M, and visuals that channel sci-fi elegy through high-glam decay, SWEET DECAY is where total collapse becomes high art.

🪞 You won’t escape the end—you’ll strut through it.
🖤 Ruin never looked so good. 🖤

🎟 TICKETS in bio. Don’t be late—decay waits for no one.