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HIGHWAYS

Performance . Dance . Music . Film . Visual Art

UPCOMING
EVENTS

  • Mar 21, 2025, 8:00 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    Adapted from the Orpheus myth, Umbra is an opera-theater work that explores grief as a metamorphic force and asks the question: how does grief transform (us)? In the disorientation of grief, the wires of reality, mythology, memory, dream, and time cross. Umbra exists here.
  • Mar 22, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    Exploring the interface between malfunctioning technology and the cycles of nature, this show collects MMIX's most iconic work from 2022-2025. Plug into the misrepresentation of reality, broken communication, the vulnerable oddness of existence, and a respectful space for the darker aspects of self.
  • Mar 22, 2025, 8:00 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    Adapted from the Orpheus myth, Umbra is an opera-theater work that explores grief as a metamorphic force and asks the question: how does grief transform (us)? In the disorientation of grief, the wires of reality, mythology, memory, dream, and time cross. Umbra exists here.
  • Apr 11, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    A high-energy split-bill featuring bold new works by Steph Dai and Sophia Oddi, diving into dissonance through explosive movement, theatricality, and humor. With unique flair, they explore what it means to be stuck—mentally, physically, or both—delivering a night of raw emotion and storytelling.
  • Apr 12, 2025, 8:00 PM – Apr 13, 2025, 9:30 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    A high-energy split-bill featuring bold new works by Steph Dai and Sophia Oddi, diving into dissonance through explosive movement, theatricality, and humor. With unique flair, they explore what it means to be stuck—mentally, physically, or both—delivering a night of raw emotion and storytelling.
  • Apr 25, 2025, 7:00 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    An accidental death leads to turmoil and tragedy in the 90s lesbian leather scene of San Francisco. When BDSM play between lovers Len & Amanda goes awry, Len plummets down a deep spiral of memories to the brink of all her darkest truths. Will she come undone? Co-presented by Bayla Travis + SORORITY.
  • Apr 26, 2025, 7:00 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    An accidental death leads to turmoil and tragedy in the 90s lesbian leather scene of San Francisco. When BDSM play between lovers Len & Amanda goes awry, Len plummets down a deep spiral of memories to the brink of all her darkest truths. Will she come undone? Co-presented by Bayla Travis + SORORITY.
  • Apr 27, 2025, 2:00 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    An accidental death leads to turmoil and tragedy in the 90s lesbian leather scene of San Francisco. When BDSM play between lovers Len & Amanda goes awry, Len plummets down a deep spiral of memories to the brink of all her darkest truths. Will she come undone? Co-presented by Bayla Travis + SORORITY.

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About
HIGHWAYS

Highways Performance Space is Southern California’s boldest center for new performance, film and visual art.

In its 36th year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages radical artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative new works. Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms.

 

Our mission is to develop and present innovative performance and visual artists, promote interaction among people of diverse cultural backgrounds and engage artists and the communities they serve in cross-cultural dialogues about social, cultural and artistic issues.

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Box Office

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Parking

Free parking is available on site

at the 18th St. Arts Center.

CONCESSIONS

Food and Drinks available for all events, 

and can be taken into the event space.

CONTACT US

ADDRESS

1651 18th St.

Santa Monica, CA 90404

EMAIL

admin@highwaysperformance.org

TEL

310-453-1755

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