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Laurana Wong - Pecha Kucha Hack You - She is led, arms outstretched and blindfolded, through a sea of audience

Hack You

How to use performance art to shift consciousness, to increase awareness, and to explore life. How to use performance art as a medium to transform self. At PechaKucha Dayton.

Laurana Wong - The Surrealist Ball - She stands before a background embrace, in a state of pure love; showing them her portal to the divine

The Surrealist Ball

In 2015, Grass Roots Enrichment and Wellness Center hosted the first of a series of adventurous fundraisers called The Surrealist Ball. It was a re-creation of the famous Rothschild Surrealist Ball from 1972. Performance art was a huge part of the original Surrealist Ball, and it was a huge part of our incarnation as well. For it, I played a portal to the divine; a galaxy of welcome to connect patrons to other worlds through the interactive sharing of my most feminine presence.

Laurana Wong - Artists: Laurana Wong - She stands in a half-dance, fingers splayed, feeling out the wall of her stark white studio; a heart floats near the window, out of reach

Artists: Laurana Wong

Photographer Alex Grodkiewicz was starting a photoblog about Dayton artists and asked if I'd like to meet with him for an interview. I did, and it was a joy. The photo blog from our interview is on Alex's website, A.G. Photography.

Laurana Wong - Spirits Never Die - He cowers as death looms above him, her fingers outstretched

Spirits Never Die

A musical play that combines song, narrative, visuals, and poetry to tell how spiritual connections transcend death.

with Adam Elfers and Moriah Haven
Laurana Wong - Dia De Los Muertos - Arms outstretched and raised to the sky, she is the Raven, bringing change through death

Dia de los Muertos

Every year, Missing Peace Art Space hosts Dia de los Muertos, a huge parade and celebration to remember the deaths and lives of loved ones. For their festival in 2014, I played the Raven: harbinger of death and destruction, harbinger of change.

Laurana Wong - Performerance - The cards show 8 years past: The Lovers, The World, and The Star, in performance art.

Performerance

An 8-year synopsis of performance art, film, and dance collaborations.
Laurana Wong - Line Crosser - The rainbow string crisscrosses and meanders, winding around legs, around torsos, around hearts.

Line Crosser

A performance ritual of interconnection...
The rainbow string crisscrossed and meandered, winding around legs, around torsos, around singing hearts.

Laurana Wong - Party Arty - She stands in the row of brightly colored gowns, dancing a slow motion dance for music education.

Party Arty

A slow motion dance for music education!
Laurana Wong - Decked Out! - The sparkling beastie crouches at her standing feet, beaming an upward smile

Decked Out!

The wordless beastie romped with children, slinked around ankles, and clapped in fairie delight!

Laurana Wong - Valentines Fundraiser with SMAG - The woman points a gentle finger skyward, her white gown burning yellow, orange, and red

Valentines Fundraiser with SMAG

This slow motion dance supported SMAG Dance Collective, a contemporary fusion dance company in downtown Dayton. I donated gift certificates to their silent auction and offered a Living Dance Sculpture to atendees. I was the heart-winged Phoenix, rising white from the flames of her Burning Wedding.
Laurana Wong - Toxic - She cranes forward to lick the desire from her fingertips, her skin pallid with fear and her eyes black with disease

Toxic

The pitfalls of desire without discernment.
Laurana Wong - Ending Homelessness With Homefull - Her arms stretch up and out of the flower of colored newsprint, her gown's train tumbling down the grand stair

Ending Homelessness with Homefull

The night rang out, shiny and golden, and brought in thousands of dollars in help
Laurana Wong - Promotional Performance with the Dayton Ballet - She reaches out with one arm, smiling; the eye of a peacock feather hiding one eye

Promotional Performance
with the Dayton Ballet

As the crowds rolled in to see the evening's concert, I stood atop a pedestal in gown and glitter; Lady Gaga in Lady Liberty's clothes.
Laurana Wong & Adam Elfers - Look How It Comes - Her silhouette is dark against the ominous sky, arms stretching and overlapping in nature's dance

Look How It Comes

We were jolted by the sound, out of our humdrum skins and into a world of royal green tresses and blue inky skies, where mother nature ruled.

with Adam Elfers
Laurana Wong & Natalie Hoffmann - Dividing Lines - The scissors are just about to cut the red ribbon that hides her eyes

Dividing Lines

Where do you draw the line?

with Natalie Hoffmann
Laurana Wong - The Problem with Being Mortal - Surrounded by flashes of light, she bows toward the mass of watching people

The Problem With Being Mortal

A meditation on human interaction through extreme audience participation.
Laurana Wong - The Power of Perception - Two men, a car, a house, and a pile of money await her at the end of four strings. She pulls one in, and it closes the cage

The Power of Perception

How to escape the trappings of a reckless American Dream.
Laurana Wong & Gladgirl - Medicine - She lines up hearts on the windowsill over the city, the lavender veil whispering around her

Medicine

For Luke Temple's "Make Me a Video" contest

with Gladgirl
Laurana Wong & Adam Elfers - 1+1=1 - The two silhouettes face off inside the bleeding heart

1+1=1

A dissertation on human relationship, as seen through the eyes of two young lovers.

with Adam Elfers
Laurana Wong - The Cocoon - She drags herself facedown across the wooden floor, leaving a trail of placenta behind

The Cocoon

Born, and born, and born again.
Laurana Wong - Affectation - She dances with the tree branch wands, sending purple and blue wisps above her

Affectation

To enfold them all in a gossamer embrace.
Laurana Wong - Gem City Rollergirl - She took down the biggest of them all, with a smile on her face

Gem City Rollergirl

Wong Kong like to bash little rollergirls.
Smash! Crash!! Mash!!!
Aw, Phooey... Rollergirls ALL broken.
Wong Kong play too hard.

Laurana Wong - Leggo My Ego Act One - She arches back in ecstasy, the rainbow of strings wrapping around her body and entering the audience

Leggo My Ego, Act One

The 7-foot wooden behemoth was attached to my body with a harness and a canvas shroud. I dragged it behind me, vulture-eyed and snarling...
Laurana Wong - Leggo My Ego Act Two - The white hot flames engulf the crisscrossing head of the wooden behemoth

Leggo My Ego, Act Two

I began destroying my ego last night...
Laurana Wong & Ryan McCullough - Milk Dance Call - He yanks on the rope that joins them, pulling her along as he dunks his head into the basin of milk

Milk Dance Call

When performance artists go impromptu...

with Ryan McCullough
Laurana Wong - My Plastic World - Masked and wrapped in the colors of America, she breaks through a human-sized box of polystyrene

My Plastic World

My body was bound in America, and I needed help to break from its rules.