Live Arts Miami Presents
LALA WIP – Spring ’26 Cohort
Date & Time:
Saturday, May 2 – from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Koubek Center (various spaces) – 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL 33135
Live Arts Miami is thrilled to announce the spring cohort of LALA WIP artists. These boundary-pushing local creators experiment across dance, music, theater, site-specific, and audience-interactive performance. Each will develop their work through workshop sessions with LALA Mentor Octavio Campos, with audience feedback playing a central role in shaping the pieces.
LALA WIP (Works-in-Progress) is a public-facing extension of Live Arts Labs Alliance (LALA), an ongoing, artist-led initiative dedicated to nourishing and sustaining local creatives through process-based exploration and community exchange. Building on LALA’s monthly workshop model, WIP provides selected artists with time, space, honorarium, mentorship, and a live audience to develop works in progress – inviting the public into the creative process as active participants rather than passive spectators.
AniMalayaWorks Collective – Ani/Anito Gavino , Malaya Ulan, Pedro González Insua
Agos y Viento
A cross-cultural, intergenerational, familial, dance theater work highlighting Cuban-Filipino connections and migratory stories. Through a bridging of music, spoken word,choreopoetics, surrealism, and romantic storytelling, this work creates a multilingual stewof a story—sweet yet sour—a generational recipe of colonial entanglements and historical narratives over rice.
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AniMalayaWorks is an intergenerational family collective that merges the disciplines of movement, video art, scenic design, poetry, and music as languages for a cross-cultural dialogue. The ensemble consists of Ani/Anito Gavino, a Dance USA Fellow, lecturer at University of Miami, and an artist-mother-scholar from the Philippines; Malaya Ulan, the 2024-25 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, current Youth Poet Laureate of the Northeast Region, and a TED Talk /UN speaker; and Cuban musician Pedro L. González Insua, a multi-instrumentalist rooted in Cuban music traditions.
Lisa Kusanagi
Violets are blue…
Enter a world suspended between performance and installation. The body moves, images breathe, and objects hold their silence. An interactive solo that reframes a familiar poetic line and explores devotion, modesty, and conditioned femininity.
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Lisa Kusanagi, MFA, is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose choreography, film, and installation art have been presented in over 30 countries, earning accolades including Second Place in Amsterdam daily newspaper Het Parool’s Best of 2021 in Theaters, the 2022 Lawther/Graff No Violence Award at the Oscar-qualifying Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2023 and 2025 Pola Art Foundation Fellowships (Japan), and the 2025 Miami Individual Artists Grant. Japanese-born Kusanagi fearlessly pursues visceral vulnerability in works that merge rigorous form with quirky humor, bold physicality, and social commentary.
Stranger Cat (Cat Martino)
Architects of Voice
A live, site-specific performance where voice, movement, and spatial sound create a communal environment. The audience becomes part of the evolving score as space itself transforms into a living instrument.
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Stranger Cat (Cat Martino) is an interdisciplinary artist, vocalist, composer, and sculptor working across music, movement, video, light, and immersive installation. She has recorded and performed her original compositions internationally, and collaborated with indie luminaries including Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Son Lux, and Sharon Van Etten. She has performed worldwide, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, Coachella, the mountains of Chile, with appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live. Her work bridges avant-pop, spatial sound, and participatory ritual performance, at times integrating voice, electronics, dance, and sculptural light into immersive environments. Brooklyn-bred, now Miami-based, her work has been presented at Art Basel, iii Points Festival, the Rubell Museum, ICA Miami, Locust Projects, Vizcaya Gardens, Mad Arts, and beyond.
