a/o/x

As part of Highways’ a/o/x Series, this annual program highlights new performance works by Latinx artists working across dance, theater, and experimental performance. Moving between intimacy and spectacle, abstraction and narrative, the evening explores masculinity, endurance, memory, ritual, and collective transformation through bodies in motion.

Sammy Macias — You Little Faker

Blending contemporary dance with an emotionally grounded physicality,You Little Fakerexamines performance itself: the masks we construct, the personas we inherit, and the tension between outward confidence and internal vulnerability. The work channels movement as both emotional language and embodied inquiry.

SAMMY MACIAS is a dancer, choreographer, and educator whose work emphasizes authenticity, awareness, and emotional connection through contemporary movement practices.

Naked With Shoes — Moving Still / Still Moving

Bound together with limited mobility, four performers struggle through a shared journey toward something resembling enlightenment. Obstacles become both burden and bond as the ensemble navigates endurance, dependence, and survival through a physically demanding landscape shaped by repetition and resistance. Created through the long-running Choreography/Performance Workshop lineage initiated by Rudy Perez, the piece balances abstraction with theatrical intensity.

NAKED WITH SHOES, founded by Anne Goodman and Jeffrey Grimaldo, creates physically rigorous performance work merging postmodern experimentation with theatricality, humor, and emotional tension.

Steven Vargas — Shhhtrip

During a train ride, a man obsessively replays the final conversation that ended his relationship. As memory loops and fractures, the train pole transforms from everyday object into an intimate and confrontational partner—drawing out the contradictions, insecurities, and inherited failures of masculinity within queer relationships. Part confession, part psychological spiral, Shhhtrip navigates grief through movement and theatrical transformation.

STEVEN VARGAS is a Los Angeles–based writer, dancer, choreographer, and actor whose multidisciplinary work explores performance, media, identity, and social change across stage, journalism, and dance.

Leopold Nunan - Minotaur.exe

A techno-myth performance ritual. MINOTAUR.EXE blends industrial sound, projection mapping, distorted vocals, chrome aesthetics, and techno-apocalyptic imagery to create an immersive experience that feels part underground rave, part ancient ritual, part digital prophecy. A creature trapped inside corrupted systems searches for freedom, humanity, and rebirth inside the maze. Not just a performance. A transmission from the future.

LEOPOLD NUNAN is a Brazilian-born, Los Angeles–based performer, music maker, and creator forging new mythologies through queer futurism, ritual, and technology.bbBorn from the fire of Rio and reshaped by the neon pulse of West Hollywood, Leopold transforms the stage into a cybernetic labyrinth where flesh, machine, and identity collide.

 http://www.bandzoogle.leopoldnunansoares.com. Insta @leopoldnunan