The LAX Micro Fest – featuring Lindsey Red-tail, Paul Outlaw, and Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu

The LAX Micro Fest featuring

Lindsey Redtail, Paul Outlaw, and Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu

With Anuj Bhutani, DaEun Jung and Nina Sarnelle

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ABOUT THE WORKS

Rainbow Grief Ritual: To Honor The Land – Red-tail is joined by medicine musicians “Eres Medicina” for an opening ritual of Grief and remembrance honoring the Land and the loss from the fires -the cycle of death and rebirth with music, chanting and dance. Collectively we open the space for the LAX micro-festival and healing Artists, sending intention and love back down to the Earth and grounding as a community, connecting to the roots underneath us. Singing songs in call and response, Eres Medicina And Red-tail invite us to circle together with the vibration of our Ancestors, our voices and movements while calling in the Rainbow.

An ode to Altadena, Lindsey Red-tail’s current process is guided by grief, remembrance and healing through movement. In this new work in progress they honor and say goodbye to the Land they grew up on after the Eaton Fire, bringing the relationships forged with Nature on a new journey.  Red-tail orchestrates a movement language of the Trees, poetry and music, short vignettes that have emerged after battling Breast Cancer and losing their Father to Cancer a year to date, May 31st. What emerges is both a death and rebirth into the new and unknown, trusting the body’s innate wisdom and connection after loss. They thank their family, community, friends, collaborators for gathering in Sacred song and dance, in Art – a language of our Ancestors as we co-create and bring to the forefront the seen and unseen Beings around us, moving from our roots into commonality through creative expression and play.

Welcome Back – Returning from two months abroad on the first evening of the Micro Fest, Paul will head straight from the airport to Pieter—literally. Will Paul, a queer Black artist of unfiltered political views, make it to Pieter in time for the show, or will he face some form of time-consuming harassment from US Border and Customs Protection? The fate and ultimate form of Welcome Back will hinge on a tense, real-time exploration of the potential fragility of citizenship.

Market Demographicsis an electrifying fusion of street dance—B-boying, Krump, House, Hip-Hop, and more—with physical theatre to confront the constructs of race, masculinity, and identity. The work explores how Black and Brown male identities have been shaped by the legacy of slavery and the forces of a patriarchal, consumer-driven society. It asks: What does it mean to be a man, a person of color, and someone who identifies as male in today’s world? The pieces presented, Alterity and the will to change, are excerpts of the of the evening length work Market Demographics and are subjective dissections of identity in framed within the context of history, contemporary society, and culture.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Lindsey Red-tail, born and raised in Altadena, Tongva Lands is an acclaimed non-binary dance artist, poet and messenger of the Trees, whose work weaves together the intersection of movement, nature and Ancestral practices. Following pathways in the body of remembrance, they are guided by an Ancestor of Wind, a seer and spiritual companion returning to their Nahuatl Mexican, Cherokee and African American roots. Red-tail’s offerings are informed by their time in the mountains dancing and singing with the Land. They co-create with community and with the elements, bringing playful and experimental ways of being to the forefront of their work and a deeper connection with the Natural seen and unseen world. Red-tail has led Tree rituals, rainbow activations and ceremonies in their beloved home Altadena and beyond, bringing the community together through art, music and dance with the support of elders and inspiring the new generation of artists/healers. A 2012 graduate of the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, Red-tail has established themselves as a transformative choreographic voice across Los Angeles with commissions from California State University, Scripps College, and LA Contemporary Dance Company.

Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles and Berlin-based multidisciplinary performing artist. Spanning an array of mediums including text-based drama, physical theater, performance art, spoken word, and American popular music, his works confront the web of societal constructs around race and gender and excavate the enduring legacies of white supremacy and patriarchal violence—both physical and psychological—that mar the tapestry of Euro-American history. Paul’s award-winning solo projects (under the banner of OutlawPlay) and collaborations have been presented across the United States (including at LACMA, MOCA, REDCAT, the Getty, The Lab SF) and abroad (including at Maxim Gorki Theater/Berlin, Melkweg/Amsterdam, and GES-2/V-A-C Foundation/Moscow).

Paul played the title role in Pepe Danquart’s Schwarzfahrer, winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Paul’s one-person play Berserker was published, along with an interview and critical essay, in the anthology Blacktino Queer Performance (2016). Paul appears on two albums by hip-hop/noise trio clipping.: Splendor & Misery (2016) and Dead Channel Sky (2025). His most recent theater project, BBC (Big Black Cockroach), premiered in June 2024 at Los Angeles’ REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theater).

Paul is the recipient of various grants, fellowships and residencies, including a City of Los Angeles Master Artist Fellowship and a Los Angeles County Performing Arts Recovery Grant.

Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu is a hip-hop and theatre artist based in Los Angeles, CA. He works as a choreographer and movement director, creating works for concert dance that stage hip-hop and street dance fused with physical theater. He has choreographed and performed in shows and festivals such as DANCE NOW NYC, SoloDuo, Dumbo Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, (de) Color-es Festival and more. “T” is also faculty at CSULB (California State University, Long Beach), teaching street dance. Website: www.akuchu.com Instagram: @Tsebwom

The LAX Micro Fest is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture. Los Angeles Performance Practice is also supported, in part, by The Mellon Foundation, The Perenchio Foundation, and the California Arts Council.