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LOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE PRACTICE - California Arts Council General Operating Support With support from the California Arts Council, LOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE PRACTICE (LAPP) will sustain and strengthen its artist-centered infrastructure that supports a network of independent artists working in contemporary, experimental, and multidisciplinary performance.
CAC funds will directly support LAPP’s core programs and initiatives, including free artist consultations, professional development workshops, research and development support, creative producing partnerships, fiscal sponsorship, mentorship, wildfire relief, and a cohort program providing peer-to-peer artist support.
General Operating Support will allow LAPP to maintain responsive, equity-driven services that build resilience, capacity, and creative agency for Los Angeles artists navigating ongoing precarity. FREE ADVICE | Open consultations with staff and guest advisors from LA arts institutions to encourage a generous exchange of ideas, practices, knowledge, and resources.
WORKSHOPS | Professional development sessions cover practical skill-sets such as grant writing and budgeting, as well as creative topics like devising performance and dance practices. RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT (R+D) | Early project support gives time and space to multidisciplinary artists developing new projects. Includes childcare.
ACCELERATOR | A cohort of independent artists meet monthly to deepen self-producing skills and resource new work. CASUAL | Artists show experimental work in early development to viewers for critical feedback. II.
LIVE ARTS EXCHANGE [LAX] FESTIVAL Since 2013, LAX has served as a highly visible platform for performances, immersive installations, happenings, and talks that are geographically focused around Downtown LA. LAX consistently uplifts underrepresented voices, engaging artists with limited resources whose projects would benefit from being witnessed. We connect projects to partners who can provide diversified systems of support.
We work closely with independent artists’ projects, providing the scaffolding of institutional support on every layer of development: ideation, grant writing, partnership cultivation, touring and management.
LAPP advocates for local initiatives with national impact: INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS | We administered unrestricted funds to a broad range of LA County artists as an Administering Organization for the California Arts Council in 2023.
RESEARCH IN THE ARTS | A comparative study of contemporary performance-making examining geographic funding disparities, now expanded to include institutional networks for alternative governance in the arts. BRIDGE THE GAPS | An artist recovery initiative offering microgrants and residencies to wildfire-impacted artists in Los Angeles, in partnership with the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs.
MENTORSHIP | Through the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, we offer paid internships focused on production and development in the arts. Los Angeles Performance Practice 110 Judge John Aiso St. #722 South – Los Angeles & Orange California Assembly district 34 Get the latest news by signing up for our newsletter!
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