Flower of the season 2025 fall

Photo by Pep Daudé/ letter by oguri

Featuring:

 Alex Cline (percussion)

Jie Ma (pipa)

Aaron Shaw (saxophone, flute)

Andres Corchero (dance)

Mao (dance)

Roxanne Steinberg (dance)

Oguri (dance)

Friday, September 19, 8:00 PM

Saturday, September 20, 8:00 PM

Sunday, September 21, 3:00 PM

Admission: $20

Electric Lodge

1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA  90291

Free parking at Electric Lodge


Sky. It’s!
celestial bodies in the mouth
A Dance + Music Composition in 9 Movements

Structural and Composed Improvisations

In this performance’s creative process, dance and music develop in response to nine prepared images, titles, or concepts. The process is a collaborative scooping up and sifting through spontaneously arising and unexpected ideas, calls and responses: structured, composed improvisation.

Four dancers, four native tongues—Chinese, English, Spanish, and Japanese—meet in a shared space of music, movement, and image, discovering meaning in fleeting sparks.

Where Languages Move

Music is often called a universal language, and yet what truly makes a language shared? Where can we revel in the different ways we see the world? What comes through different cultures, and what through an individual’s personality? Are there distinct qualities that shape a culture’s ear and heart?

Four dancers and three musicians, four different native languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, and Japanese offer a rare opportunity to experience both our common ground and our differences through multiple lenses.

Sound Language

We animate an inquiry into kanji and character, and into the idiosyncrasies within each language and culture. How does meaning live inside the shapes of Japanese and Chinese characters? What emerges in the container of a word—its string of letters and sounds—in Spanish or English? Which words carry onomatopoeic resonance across cultures?

These explorations unfold not as statements, but as generative moments for sound and movement, entwined in the living pulse of performance.

This project is funded by City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture OGP, Body Weather Laboratory Individual donors, and support from Electric Lodge.