Anna Luisa Petrisko

All Time Stop Now | November 30 - December 2

Framed by recorded conversations between Petrisko and her best friend, Experimental Opera All Time Stop Now is a contemplation on listening, impermanence, and kinship.

Experimental Opera All Time Stop Now is a contemplation on listening, impermanence, and kinship. A chosen family invokes a spell to stop time. In this suspended reality, they grapple with their existence in a time-based world as they search for ways to rest, heal, and feel joy. The stage morphs into a “spacetime playground.” Hypersaturated video, projection mapping, sculpture, dance, and new original music from Anna Luisa Petrisko’s latest release on Practical Records transform the senses. Her signature prism of mutant pop yields spiritually-infused anthems that encompass beauty, sorrow, and discovery. Each movement is framed by recorded conversations between Petrisko and her best friend, a Buddhist nun, who was living in a monastery in Myanmar. The vulnerable exchanges run in parallel to the story, serving as a larger meditation on the need for human connection. All Time Stop Now asks, how can we reject the scarcity of time and just be present? How can we accept grief, while also experiencing joy? Can we stop time and just listen?

Friday night’s show will feature a post-show talkback with local DJ Isabela Garcia (aka Wax Witch).

All Time Stop Now is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by REDCAT in partnership with On the Boards, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

  • Written and Directed by Anna Luisa Petrisko 

  • In collaboration with performers Peter Hernández, Mark Golamco, and Josephine Shetty  

  • Projection mapping and interactivity design by Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero

  • Lighting Design by Chu-Hsuan Chang

  • Painted costumes by Anna Luisa Petrisko 

  • Sequin costumes by Athena Lawton 

  • Recorded conversations with Mel Pak

  • Produced in collaboration with Los Angeles Performance Practice

  • Music by Anna Luisa Petrisko and Julius Smack 

  • Viola and vocal harmonies by Mark Golamco 

  • Vocal harmonies by Josephine Shetty 

  • Video art by Anna Luisa Petrisko and Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero 

  • Additional sound recordings by Adee Roberson 

  • Stage Manager: Amanda Eno

Anna Luisa Petrisko is an interdisciplinary artist working in experimental opera, video art, and immersive media. Her work is invested in the sacred as much as it is interested in technological speculation, exploring future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo. She investigates the body as a site of paradox - transcendent of time, space and form. Her work is grounded in community and archiving histories. She collaborates with many artists and friends. These shared works build relationships and cultural communion.

Peter Hernández, b. 1990, is a musician and performer based in Los Angeles, CA. They create music and dance performances as Julius Smack.

Mark Golamco is an artist who trained as a classical viola player and received a BA in Art from UCLA and an MFA in Painting from RISD. His musical background and visual art education led him to create performances that combine his original music with artwork that ranges from painting, drawing, dance and video. He has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Judson Memorial Church, NY, Human Resources Los Angeles, PAM Residencies, LA, the Palm Springs Art Museum, and the REDCAT. Currently, he is working on several projects regarding Queer History: one of them is about the experience he gained performing alongside Rumi Missabu, an original founder of the Cockettes, another piece is based on the time he spent playing music on a weekly basis for the late playwright Edward Albee. His ongoing performance project, The Ghost of Ted Dragon, recently had its world premiere in the REDCAT’s 20th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival. 

Josephine Shetty is a pop artist commonly known by her solo moniker Kohinoorgasm and as the lead singer of electro pop duo Pride Month Barbie. Her affinity for musical work manifests in the many angles from which she approaches it. She teaches music production and critique at California Institute of the Arts, is a live audio engineer for Feels Like Floating, and DJs monthly on Dublab radio. Josephine was born and raised in Los Angeles and enjoys irony and absurdity, maximalism, the archaeological and spiritual energy of the bric-a-brac aisle at the thrift store, and hanging out at the park on a Sunday.

Ana Carolina Estarita-Guerrero is an experiential and immersive artist that uses XR, Projection mapping, and Interactive Installations to create fantastic and eerie environments that feel alive—responding and changing with the presence of the participants.

Chu-Hsuan Chang is a Los Angeles based lighting artist working in live performance, and installation. In addition to lighting, Chu-hsuan’s passions include puppeteering, model-making and lighting instrument design.

Friday night talkback host Isabela Garcia, aka Wax Witch, is a first-generation Colombiana hailing from the vibrant city of Seattle. As a dedicated vinyl collector and DJ, she has been making a significant impact on the music scene since 2016, captivating audiences with her distinctive blend of genres and femme-forward sets.

Amanda Eno (Production Stage Manager) is a native of Colorado who now calls Los Angeles her home. She mostly works in the immersive theater and brand activation spaces but also loves to stage manage dance and traditional theater as well.

Los Angeles Performance Practice is a non-profit organization devoted to the production and presentation of contemporary performance by artists whose work advances and challenges multi-disciplinary artistic practices. Our mission is to support a unique and diverse constellation of artists and audiences through the active creation and presentation of groundbreaking experiences that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology and social engagement. Anchored in Los Angeles, our artists and projects have national and global reach. Across a range of platforms and partnerships, we build an active network of contemporary practitioners—curators and producers, artists and designers, audiences and patrons—all leveraged in service to the ideas and issues of our time.