featuring Dub City Tribe
by Slanguage
THURSDAY, NOV 5, 7–10pm
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
For the third installment of their three-month Engagement Party residency at MOCA, artist collective Slanguage presents Brutalism: A Dance Performance featuring Dub City Tribe. The performance will examine the implications of Brutalism, a mid-20th-century architectural style characterized by massive or monolithic forms, usually of poured concrete and typically unrelieved by exterior decoration, within the context of Southern California’s urban landscape. Through choreographed movement, the collective’s teen break-dancing group Dub City Tribe will play with the monumentality that is central to the Brutalist aesthetic, evoke the Brutalist architecture of Los Angeles and Wilmington, California (where Slanguage is based), and explore the consequences of the “concrete jungles” it has yielded. Slanguage DJs will spin genre-skipping sets to create a soundscape for the performance, collaborating dancers and musicians will also perform, and audience members will be encouraged to participate in a nonstop dance-a-thon–style competition.
Engagement Party presents new artworks in the form of dynamic social events and performances by L.A.–based artist collectives.
INFO 213/621-1745 or moca.org/party
FREE; no reservations required; cash bar
Engagement Party is made possible by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation.
PARKING
Parking is recommended at the Walt Disney Concert Hall garage; $9 flat rate after 4pm. Public lots are located on Kosciuszko Way between Hope and Lower Grand Avenue, and on Olive Street between 1st Street and 2nd Street.
