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Home L A homeLA is an event platform for independent dance artists in LA to engage with diverse audiences in p

page managed by Andrew Mandinach and Rebecca Bruno. We, along with everyone else involved with homeLA are interested in fostering a community between Los Angeles dance groups and spaces in order to help Indepedent Dance Artists.

This afternoon homeLA Director Chloë Flores presented at the California Association of Museums Annual Conference, alongs...
03/14/2026

This afternoon homeLA Director Chloë Flores presented at the California Association of Museums Annual Conference, alongside Alex Sloane (MOCA) and Amanda Sroka (ICA LA), in a panel moderated by Samuel Vasquez (PAM).

Their presentation, titled ‘Reframing Care: Equity and Institutional Shifts for Performance in Museums’ shared curatorial reflections and practical strategies for supporting performers within visual arts institutions—building on years of advocacy and shared practice.

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03/12/2026

As Marcella moved through and around the structure in the low winter sun, shadows, words, and gestures cast across the site, bringing the sculpture into live dialogue with the body and public memory.

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Activating the architectural thresholds of April Banks’ sculpture — porch, passageway, and exit — Lewis’ choreography ch...
03/10/2026

Activating the architectural thresholds of April Banks’ sculpture — porch, passageway, and exit — Lewis’ choreography channeled absence and desire, imagining the resurrection of communal spaces that have been eroded by displacement, urban change, and social fragmentation.

Photo by Malachi Middleton, courtesy of homeLA.

At the start of each performance, Marcella welcomed audiences into a brief “porch talk” — an informal moment of conversa...
03/07/2026

At the start of each performance, Marcella welcomed audiences into a brief “porch talk” — an informal moment of conversation and hospitality. These gatherings established a tone of care and relational exchange that grounds the work, echoing the social rituals and everyday encounters that once animated porch life.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend for a a very special series of performances. Many thanks to Marcella Le...
03/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend for a a very special series of performances. Many thanks to Marcella Lewis for so tenderly guiding us into a shared act of remembrance, and amplifying the resonance of April Banks’ city-commissioned sculpture.

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For homeLA, whose programs critically engage Los Angeles’ built environment as a repository of social memory, Home Under...
02/27/2026

For homeLA, whose programs critically engage Los Angeles’ built environment as a repository of social memory, Home Under One’s Skin continues an ongoing commitment to performance that activates sites shaped by histories of housing, land use, and belonging.

By bringing live performance into Historic Belmar Park, Home Under One’s Skin invites both intentional and incidental audiences to encounter the site anew, fostering reflection on Santa Monica’s cultural memory while amplifying the resonance of Banks’ city-commissioned sculpture through live performance.

Reserve your free tickets via link in bio.

Today, April Banks’ A Resurrection in Four Stanzas stands on this site as a ghosted architectural outline of a shotgun h...
02/24/2026

Today, April Banks’ A Resurrection in Four Stanzas stands on this site as a ghosted architectural outline of a shotgun house: porch, door, window, passage. Developed in collaboration with historian Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson and members of Santa Monica’s Black community, the sculpture commemorates what was lost—and what persists—through displacement, redevelopment, and urban change.

homeLA presents Home Under One’s Skin, a site-responsive solo performance by choreographer Marcella Lewis created in direct conversation with Banks’ work. Moving through the sculpture’s architectural thresholds in the low winter sun, Lewis activates the structure as both stage and score—guiding audiences through an embodied narrative that mirrors the spatial logic of the narrow row house. Link in bio to reserve your free tickets.

Historic Belmar Park occupies land once home to the Belmar neighborhood—an early 20th-century African American community...
02/24/2026

Historic Belmar Park occupies land once home to the Belmar neighborhood—an early 20th-century African American community of homes, businesses, and cultural life that was largely razed through eminent domain in the 1950s to make way for Santa Monica’s Civic Center campus.

This weekend we are proud to present Home Under One’s Skin featuring a performance by Marcella Lewis at Historic Belmar Park (link in bio to reserve your free tix).

Rooted in contemporary dance and informed by Black feminist spiritual practice, Lewis’ choreography reflects on the intergenerational loss of “porch life”—a cultural space of gathering, storytelling, and care once central to Black communal living. Through movement, voice, and direct audience engagement, the work treats performance as a form of invocation, imagining the revival of communal spaces eroded by displacement and social fragmentation.

Image: Historical interpretive sign at Historic Belmar Park.

Many thanks to Culture Spot LA‘s Benn Widdey for the performance review of ‘Redrawing the Rancho’. Check it out via the ...
11/19/2025

Many thanks to Culture Spot LA‘s Benn Widdey for the performance review of ‘Redrawing the Rancho’.
Check it out via the link in our bio.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Redrawing the Rancho last weekend! Your presence helped bring these artist proje...
11/16/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Redrawing the Rancho last weekend! Your presence helped bring these artist projects—and the site’s layered histories—to life.

This work continues into 2026, and we look forward to sharing more soon. Thank you for being part of this unfolding conversation about place, history, and imagination.

Pictures by .studio

This weekend we confront and reinterpret, reclaim and introduce counter-narratives for the overlooked identities, voices...
11/08/2025

This weekend we confront and reinterpret, reclaim and introduce counter-narratives for the overlooked identities, voices, and contributions tied to the mansion’s past. After months of rehearsal and research, we’re thrilled to have you join us as we redraw the Rancho.

New works by Nao Bustamante, Eva Aguila, Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier, and Victoria Marks will engage themes of displacement and dwelling, Indigenous land stewardship, Mexican-American identity, labor, and environmental change. Each artist has worked with specific spatial, material, and historical elements of the site, in order to invite audiences to encounter the home and its histories through a critical lens that foregrounds both care and accountability. In doing so, the project asks how history is preserved, whose stories are told, and how artistic intervention can transform our relationship to place.

At the heart of this environment stands a small-scale replica of the Rowland Mansion itself, Attracting Bluebirds, reima...
11/06/2025

At the heart of this environment stands a small-scale replica of the Rowland Mansion itself, Attracting Bluebirds, reimagined as a dwelling for birds (pictured in first image). This poetic inversion mirrors the estate’s former grandeur while redirecting its symbolism toward care, renewal, and interspecies cohabitation. Equipped with a wildlife cameras, a feeder documents bird activity and migration, generating a living archive of images and sounds that inform Bustamante’s outdoor performance.

Through this work, Bustamante explores the environmental effects of progress, the intertwined histories of displacement and migration, and the possibility of return and renewal in both nature and memory. Her project extends into spring 2026, when the return of nesting birds marks both a literal and metaphorical homecoming.

Image 2: Fruit chandelier guests will be making during a workshop called bird resources as part of Nao’s performance.
Image 3: Fountain installed to attract and sustain avian life.

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