Los Angeles Performance Practice

10/09/2026

Los Angeles Performance Practice is thrilled to announce the 101 awardees of the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships for Los Angeles County! It is our honor to distribute a total of $800,000 in unrestricted funding directly to artists and culture bearers across the region in this, our second cycle serving as the program’s Administering Organization for Los Angeles County.

Spanning Emerging, Established, and Legacy Artist tiers, this year’s Fellows reflect the extraordinary breadth of artistic practices and communities that make up Los Angeles County’s cultural landscape. The California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships program uplifts and celebrates California artists across all disciplines and traditions, highlights their excellence, and acknowledges their leadership in shaping traditional and contemporary cultures.

Read more via the link in our bio. Congratulations to all the Fellows!!!

10/02/2026

🥚 New Music Inc. - Los Angeles Cohort Feature: ORACLE EGG! (Link in bio for the full story) 🥚

Oracle Egg is an artist-run incubator program for experimental music and performance, inhabiting a 3,000-square-foot loft in DTLA’s Fashion District. The organization is led by Melissa Achten and Eli Klausner, two interdisciplinary composers, multi-instrumentalists, and curators with international professional experience. “As artists ourselves, we were excited about the idea of starting a space and series that would speak directly to the needs of the community: a place where new works were not only presented, but also developed.”

“Despite its size, Los Angeles is somewhat lacking in venues that support large-scale work that can be developed and presented on-site. As artists ourselves, we've experienced first-hand the frustration of trying to load-in, set up, and perform ambitious work in a space that has a high volume of shows.” For artists developing nuanced work that conventional venues cannot accommodate, Oracle Egg offers an unusually flexible setting.

🥚 Read more about Oracle Egg in a blog post by Draculeia L. Sewick, via the link in our bio. 🥚

New Music USA is a national non-profit dedicated to nurturing a vibrant and inclusive community for artists and listeners. In October 2025, New Music USA named 10 new music groups and organizations as the awardees for their New Music Inc. - Los Angeles (NMI-LA) program, including Oracle Egg. NMI-LA is a city-specific incubator initiative supporting small-budget, artist-centered new music groups and organizations through pivotal stages of organizational growth. Each NMI-LA awardee receives financial support, 17 months of mentorship, and hands-on skill-building in a cohort environment, facilitated by Program Coordinator Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), who serves as a Los Angeles-based liaison to the New Music USA staff. NMI-LA is supported by the Music Man Foundation and Perenchio Foundation.

08/12/2026

✨ MEET LAPP'S FIELD INITIATIVES INTERN: DRACULEIA L. SEWICK! LINK IN BIO FOR INTERVIEW ✨

“Being a person of color, q***r, and disabled — not only means that I subvert the norm," says Draculeia L. Sewick, "but it can also mean being othered by communities that were meant for one aspect of my identity because of an intersecting aspect. So I’m very much interested in unconventional themes, philosophical controversies, and contemporary challenges against conservative perspectives.”

Draculeia has been an integral part of the Los Angeles Performance Practice team as we work to administer the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. Read more about their inspirations as an artist, the mission and purpose of their work, and their interest in working with LAPP, via the link in our Instagram bio.

Draculeia L. Sewick is an emerging illustrator and author whose transdisciplinary practice explores the inherent nonconformity of intersectionality — particularly among POC, Q***r, and Disabled identities. Their artistry began with illustrations and digital paintings featuring gothic, spiritual, and multicultural surrealism that portrays the unique textures of diverse narratives. Expanding into theater, film, and literature, they continue to develop their practice with an artistic mission to dissect the psychological, sociological, and philosophical contrasts of identity culture.

07/24/2026

Meet ACCELERATOR artist Sophia Cleary! sophia cleary - LINK IN BIO

ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.

Cohort member Sophia Cleary (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist focused on performance and liveness. Making her work through the lens of the fool, or trickster, Sophia uses play as a method and critical position to engage her audience in a system where power dynamics necessarily shift. In our latest Los Angeles Performance Practice Blog interview, Sophia shares with Jazz Zhu about comedy, vulnerability, and, of course, power.

“I come into a theater, okay, great. I know exactly what it is I’m supposed to do as an audience member, and I’m kind of like, how can we push against those scripts? And if we can start transgressing the scripts given to us in the theater, then how can we get comfortable enough with the discomfort of that to do that outside of the theater, too?”

Link in bio for the full interview.

07/20/2026

✨ THANKS FOR THE CONTINUED SUPPORT, PERENCHIO FOUNDATION! ✨

Los Angeles Performance Practice would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Perenchio Foundation for their generous support of our work. Support from Perenchio Foundation helps us continue to fulfill our mission of supporting a unique and diverse constellation of artists in Los Angeles through our programs and platforms.

Perenchio Foundation believes that arts play an essential role in creating more equitable, culturally vibrant, and inclusive communities. They support arts organizations in building the capacity and resilience to create meaningful, enduring experiences for current and future generations. We are honored to be part of this legacy.

Photograph of rafa esparza at the LAX Micro Fest 2025 by Scarlett Kim.

07/10/2026

Meet ACCELERATOR artist Nadene Pita! - LINK IN BIO

ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.

ACCELERATOR cohort member Nadene Pita is a Māori interdisciplinary performance artist and musician who synthesizes a breathtaking sound bouquet of contemporary-intercultural music, experimental jazz, and a unique voice. After being awarded a 2023 Emerging Artist Fellowship by the California Arts Council, she returns to Los Angeles Performance Practice as part of ACCELERATOR. In this interview conducted by Jazz Zhu and edited by Draculeia L. Sewick, Nadene reflects on her early relationship with dance and music, the tension between balancing advocacy for others with advocacy for herself, and her experience as an immigrant artist in Australia and America.

“… Being Māori, I did not, when I was younger, even connect that with my practice. It’s become more and more important, but it was something that I grew up feeling not positive about. So, to feel like I can embrace that now has been a really beautiful process for me.”

Link in bio for the full interview.

07/03/2026

Meet ACCELERATOR artist Crystal Sasaki! - LINK IN BIO

ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.

Cohort member Crystal Sasaki (she/her) is a Butoh dancer and multidisciplinary performance artist based in Los Angeles. Her works combine movement, text, and audiovisual poetry in an ongoing investigation of dreams, communication, heritage, animism, and healing in our hyper-mediated world.

“I’m working with whatever is in the room. I’m working with the day. I’m working with what I’m moving through personally. And what it feels like is going on in the world at the time.”

Link in bio for the full interview.

06/21/2026

Meet ACCELERATOR artist Jeonghyeon Joo! - LINK IN BIO

ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.

Cohort member Jeonghyeon Joo (she/her) is a haegeum performer/composer based in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her practice includes performance, composition, improvisation, artistic research, collaboration, writing, and teaching. She explores the physical, social, cultural, and political relationship between the performer and instrument, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and performance artists.

“I was like, I don’t just want to perform, I don’t just want to compose, and I was getting into improvisation. I just got introduced to the underground experimental music scene in Seoul and I discovered there are so many cool people who think outside the box and music practices out there that I never thought about and that school never taught.”

Link in bio for the full interview.

05/29/2026

Applications are due June 6 for the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. ✨

Los Angeles Performance Practice is proud to serve as the Administering Organization for the Individual Artist Fellowships in Los Angeles County for the 2025-2027 cycle. We are distributing $800,000 in unrestricted fellowship awards to artists of all disciplines, in three tiers: Emerging Artists ($5K) | Established Artists ($10K) | Legacy Artists ($50K).

For more information and to apply, visit performancepractice.la/cac-iaf or the link in our bio.

Applications are due by Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific Time, and submitting early is encouraged.

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05/23/2026

JUST ADDED!! A bonus session of Virtual Office Hours for the Individual Artist Fellowship. Come ask LAPP staff any and all questions about the application process! Wednesday, May 27, 4pm-5:30pm on Zoom. Come for all or part. LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER! ✨