Dan Kwong: What? No Ping-Pong Balls? at Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)

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Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)

Veteran performance artist Dan Kwong finds inspiration close to home for his latest show, What? No Ping-Pong Balls? Collaborating with noted taiko drummer Kenny Endo, Kwong uses music — in addition to archival footage and his trademark comical props — to tell the story of his mother, Momo Nagano (1925-2010). The multimedia performance centers on how Nagano, an eccentric Japanese-American artist and single mother, prevailed over sexism and racism at several different points of a very long and distinguished life. Borrowing the title of her autobiography, Kwong maps his mother’s journey including from her all-American girlhood and war-time internment, then on to her defiant marriage, taboo-shattering divorce and final transition into Venice Beach hippie artist. Attend this tale of a mother, artist and pioneer at Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles’s hub of experimental theater, dance, solo drama and multimedia performance.

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