Singer

Singer and performance artist Dorian Wood exhibits a 12-hour composition and installation inspired by a lyric written by the late Chilean singer and songwriter Violeta Parr. Combining both live performances with a chamber quartet and pre-recorded movements, the durational work mixes a genre-defying canon of folk, pop, and experimental music of Central and Latin America. Developed in harmony with the Armory’s historic period rooms and specifically the craftspeople that constructed the building at its inception, this Armory commission spotlights timely issues of migration and emphasizes the urgency of folk music as a vessel for social change.

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Canto De Todes: Song for All

Park Avenue Armory

Dorian Wood performs the entirety of Sinéad O'Connor's groundbreaking album in an intimate, emotionally raw piano-and-voice format, paying tribute to the late singer/songwriter. Says Wood: "There is no album that has inspired me more than 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got', and no artist has impacted my life more than the goddess Sinéad. It is an immense honor to celebrate her, revisiting these songs filled with her truth; songs that helped shape so many of us." Originally released in 1990, the album was a global success for O'Connor, spawning such hit singles as "Nothing Compares 2 U", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "Jump in the River". This performance arrives at Joe's Pub in its worldwide debut, on the date marking the one-year anniversary of O'Connor's passing.

Dorian Wood: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got

Joe's Pub

The City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship by the DCA (Department of Cultural Affairs) allows accomplished artists to create new work with increased freedom to innovate and experiment in the disciplines of design, visual arts, literary arts, and performing arts.

COLA Artist Fellows 2024

Grand Performances

AL SUR DE LA FRONTERA brings together the traditional music from the Sierra Zapoteca of Oaxaca with experimental arrangements, featuring the Oaxacan LA-based Maqueos Music youth philharmonic band, multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood, indigenous trilingual Mixtec rapper Una Isu, Latina coloratura Soprano Maria Elena Altany, Chicano “futuristic laser gangster bass” electronic musician Baseck, multi-instrumentalist and conductor extraordinaire Yulissa Maqueos, and the Mexican extreme vocalist and interdisciplinary artist Carmina Escobar.

Created and directed by Boss Witch Productions, an artistic production company focused on the intersection of experimental sound art, ritual performance, video art, and transmedia collaboration within natural landscapes, unconventional performance sites, theaters and concert venues. Founded and led by queer and trans artists, Boss Witch is co-directed by Madeline Falcone and Carmina Escobar, working to establish a sustainable and artist-driven infrastructure for the creation of experimental, site-specific work. We seek to reimagine our relationship to the world around us, creating immersive innovative exhibitions, performances, and sound art related to land, ritual, and the constant transformation of tradition.

AL SUR DE LA FRONTERA

The John Anson Ford Theatre

Dorian Wood’s Canto de Todes (Song of Everyone) is a 12-hour composition and installation, making its worldwide debut at REDCAT. Inspired by a lyric of the late Chilean singer and songwriter Violeta Parra, the Creative Capital-awarded project emphasizes the urgency of folk music as a vessel for social change. A genre-defying canon of songs arriving as a long-durational spatial experience, the work is divided into three movements. The first and third movements are hourlong chamber pieces influenced by folk, popular, and experimental music. The second movement is a 10-hour prerecorded piece unfolding throughout multiple spaces within REDCAT. Canto de Todes upends the expectation of the rigidness often associated with witnessing chamber music performances by offering a welcoming space that allows for individuals to project their personal, communal joys, and traumas. It is a collaborative work with local artists who have historically been marginalized due to their nationality, race, or othered identity.

Canto de Todes

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Since the beginning of 2021, artist Dorian Wood has recorded a different cover song every Friday for her Patreon subscribers, telling her story through the works of others. Over ninety songs (and counting) comprise this Anthology of the New Depression, and for the very first time, Wood will bring a broad selection of these reimagined pop and folk classics to a live stage; songs from artists such as Beyoncé, Nine Inch Nails, Loretta Lynn, Bad Bunny, The Stooges, Olivia Newton-John, Violeta Parra and others, in a devastatingly intimate voice-and-piano performance.

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Events

Past events

Oct 19, 2024

Canto De Todes: Song for All · Park Avenue Armory

Jul 26, 2024

Dorian Wood: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got · Public Theater

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