Award-winning artists VICTOR PAYAN and POCHA PEÑA bring their By Any Memes Necessary locura to Highways for the premier of FASHION VS. FASCISM, the first PRÊT-À-DEPORTER fashion show/performance.
This event features a cadre of stylish artist provocateurs exploring notions of fashion as a form of resistance, urban camouflage, invisibility, quick change, uniform, misdirection, transformation, drag, rasquache, camp, lucha libre, humor and all-around fierceness in the fight against fascism. Get ready for House of Lucha to step out onto the runway!
Highways is proud to welcome interdisciplinary artists Victor Payan and Pocha Peña, who are known for their By Any Memes necessary approach to performance, culture jamming and satire, and their projects Dreamocracy in America, Rudos y Tecnicos, Aztec Gold with Lou Chalibre and the VOTOS LOCOS video game.
Participating Artists/Fashion Guerrillas include:
• Victor Payan
• Pocha Peña
• Natasha Estrada
• Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
• Oskar from Lux de Ville
• Bird Tease
• Glittering Andy
• Rafe Valdez
• Skeith de Wine
• and MORE!
This performance is part of Payan and Pocha’s Creative Capital project, Dreamocracy in America.
For more information, visit , votoslocosgame.com and .
From $20.00 to $25.00
General $25.00
Student/Senior $20.00
Tickets at
EXTRA EXTRA 🚨
On Friday, June 5th, Highways Performance Space welcomes MINOTAUR.EXE back for one more night.
What an honor. Highways has truly become a home away from home.
This is the most groundbreaking performance I’ve ever created in my career, and to see this work being recognized and reborn means everything to me. After premiering during MADE IN BRASIL – SOLO WORKS @madeinbrasilsoloworks , MINOTAUR.EXE is now taking flight into another stratosphere.
Industrial myth. Techno ritual. Flesh and machine colliding on stage once again.
One night only. ⚡️photo by @p.kennelly
THIS WEEK @highwaysps 🌈✨ SO NOW YOU KNOW as part of BEHOLD! Queer Performance Series
A night of queer stories told through dance, theater, movement, memory, and emotional oversharing.
Mixed eMotion Theatrix (@mixedemotiontheatrix ) brings LGBTQIA+ performers together for hilarious, heartfelt, deeply human stories about love, identity, family, childhood, change, and surviving whatever this timeline is.
Different every night.
Very possible you’ll laugh-cry.
📍 Highways Performance Space & Gallery 📅 May 15, 2026 ⏰ 8PM
🎟️ Link in bio
#HighwaysPerformanceSpace #BEHOLDFestival #QueerPerformance #LGBTQIA #PerformanceArt DanceTheatre QueerJoy ExperimentalTheatre
LAST NIGHT @highwaysps ⚙️🐂
SWIPE LEFT ⬅️
Leopold Nunan’s MINOTAUR.EXE — a techno-myth inside a collapsing digital labyrinth of dead machines, tangled wires, and corrupted humanity.
Part of MADE IN BRASIL 🇧🇷
ONE MORE PERFORMANCE TONITE — 8P
This Week @highwaysps 🇧🇷✨
MADE IN BRASIL arrives for two nights of bold, contemporary performance from some of LA’s most exciting Brazilian artists.
Five artists. Four solo works. A collision of theatre, music, movement, memory, myth, and multimedia.
From digital labyrinths and fractured identities to Marilyn Monroe reimagined through a Brazilian lens, MADE IN BRASIL brings urgency, beauty, humor, and raw emotional force to the stage.
Contemporary Brazilian artists are reshaping the cultural landscape of Los Angeles — and this is your chance to witness it up close.
📍 Highways 📅 May 8 + 9 at 8:00pm 🎟️ via 🔗 in bio
#MadeInBrasil #BrazilianArtists #LATheatre #PerformanceArt #BrazilianCulture
An intermedia exhibition + live music event examining
The increasing global prominence of baile funk. Through
audio-visual installations and a night of DJ sets by Asphodèle,
Sarita Linda, and B.Joyce, SEM PARAR provides a glance into
the numerous channels this Brazilian music genre has taken.
Curated by Juliana Maitenaz + Storm Bookhard.
⬅️ SWIPE LEFT for rehearsal glimpses of Overtone Industries’ “Original Vision V: Menagerie” at Highways TONIGHT and TMRW as part of Opera Fest LA.
Three operas-in-progress:
→ a downed pilot merging with a crab hivemind
→ a time machine built to end time itself
→ a life refracted through memory, lovers, and chorus
🚨 BOTH NIGHTS SOLD OUT 🚨 Walk-up list each night—no guarantees.
For more info, Click on the Link in our bio!
(Photos by Angel Origgi)
Friday, May 1st 8-11PM!! A night of baile funk DJ sets to celebrate “Sem Parar” an intermedia exhibition about Brazilian funk @highwaysps . Introducing our incredible lineup:
Asphodèle @asphodele___
Sarita Linda @saritalinda93
B.Joyce @b.joyce__
ESQ8C @esq8c_
Tickets are available for purchase at the link in bio.
$15 presale
$20 at the door
Gallery doors @ 8:00
Music starts @ 8:45
Pop out LA, we can’t wait to dance with you 💿
Exhibition on view:
Tomorrow, April 24 – Saturday May 2, 2026!
This Week @highwaysps ! OPERA, but cracked open—spilling time loops, crab mythologies, and psychic debris all over the stage. 🦀⏳🌀
Original Vision V: Menagerie arrives as part of Opera Fest LA—an incubator where emerging composers go big, strange, and unapologetically alive. Featuring new works + a special appearance by O-Lan Jones—a true wildcard force threading it all together.
Three operas-in-progress:
→ a downed pilot merging with a crab hivemind
→ a time machine built to end time itself
→ a life refracted through memory, lovers, and chorus
It’s opera-theater as experiment, collision, and fevered invention.
🚨 BOTH NIGHTS SOLD OUT 🚨
But—there will be a walk-up list each night. No guarantees, but if you’re feeling lucky…
📅 Fri + Sat, APRIL 24 + 25 at 8PM
Come hover at the edge of something not fully formed yet—where the risk is the point.
COMING SOON @highwaysps ✨
SAT, JUNE 6 — 8PM
👽💀⛪️ LEO GARCIA IS DEAD / THE CANONIZATION OF ST. LEO
The past meets the present. Through alien abduction, bodily collapse, and ritual transformation, Leo moves toward public canonization—culminating in sainthood by the L.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Autobiography, myth, and queer spiritual satire converge to construct a legacy in real time.
🎟️ tickets + info via link in bio
#performanceart #losangelesart #queerperformance #liveart #ritual
