LACE is thrilled to host the launch part for the second issue of Native Strategies, the performance journal of Los Angeles. This January, February and March 2012 Native Strategies, presented The Next Steps, a series of performances hosted at Mustache Mondays, SALA, PIETER PASD, Anatomy Riot and the Sweat Spot with a performative installation by WIFE and site specific dance works by Maya Gingery and Anna B. Scott. This issue looks at the people and agencies that make space for performance art and dance to mix, breed, blur, and get in each other’s way, and features conversations with Nacho Nava (with Jared Baxter) Anna B Scott (with Jeremy Oversier), Prumsodon Ok (with Alison D’Amato), Meg Wolfe, Taisha Paggett, Gregory Barnett (with Stacy Dawson Stearns), Hana van der Kolk, Simone Forti, Ryan Kelly, Maya Gingery, Ryan Heffington(with Brian Getnick), and essays by Olive Mckeon and Donesh Olyaie. This issue was created with visual artist and graphic designer, Tanya Rubbak.

The NS2 Launch Party will also feature new performances by Emily Beattie, Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly, and a video piece by Jillian Stein.

ABOUT NATIVE STRATEGIES
Native Strategies is a network of performance art makers, producers and critical thinkers who seek to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. NS are engaged in a 5 YEAR STUDY (2011 – 2016) of LA performance modalities through the creation of 10 differently themed PERFORMANCE SERIES and 10 uniquely designed JOURNALS, resulting in a book. The writers and visual artists seek to distill what ideas are urgent to the participating artists and to experiment with how the production of a document is in itself a performance. Write to nativestrategiesla@gmail.com for more information and to be put on the mailing list! More at nativestrategiesla.com.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS ...