WAKE
Created by JAY CARLON
w. MICAELA TOBIN
In partnership w. QNA
w. Special guests SEND NOODZ
THE DANCE FLOOR WILL HEAL YOU
In this necessary ritual toward liberation, Filipino American dancer and choreographer JAY CARLON combines performance and queer nightlife for a one-night-only immersive club experience in Los Angeles. Created in collaboration with a coalition of experimental AAPI creatives, including sound artist MICAELA TOBIN (WHITE BOY SCREAM), Los Angeles nightlife collectives QNA and SEND NOODZ, and rebel Filipiniana fashion house VINTA GALLERY, WAKE excavates identity, ancestry, and the complexities of the diaspora. This ritual performance provides communities born in the wake of the U.S. empire an opportunity to grieve, heal, and find solace in the collective.
Presented as a part of Mapping Los Angeles, a new series of relationship-building collaborations and artist-led engagements across the city that expands CAP UCLA’s cultural production in creative entrepreneurial activities. Co-produced by Standard Stages and INTERIM Corporation, in partnership with CAP UCLA and its Mapping Los Angeles series.
WAKE is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
I’m jay
I’m a Filipino American artist rooted in collaboration and community.
I make work to further understand my/our place here on earth.
Sometimes it looks like dance. Sometimes it is live or on film, or a hybrid of the two. Sometimes it’s conversational, like tsismis (gossip) — a space for preservation and community care. And sometimes it involves food.
I value trust, realness, pakiramdam (knowing by feeling), bringing people together and taking care of them.
I’m a Taurus. I’m passionate, serious, playful, loyal, and sensitive.
