Hybrid Art

Mark Southerland‘s latest opus, Moon Bears and Sister Wives, is what happens when theater hooks up with experimental music: They figure out they’re blood relatives but decide to have a kid anyway. Then that kid ends up being a hyperactive, imaginative weirdo who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome. Tonight at 8, for $10, the first part of the show, called “Dream Arc,” takes place at the Urban Culture Project’s La Esquina (1000 West 25th Street). Southerland, a local artist and winner of last year’s Generative Performing Artist Award from the Charlotte Street Foundation, isn’t timid when it comes to mixing dance, sculpture and music. Over 75 minutes, the show moves from one dreamscape to another, contemplating — through performances ranging from improvised cacophony to polished solo — who is dreaming about what, and what that means. There’ll probably be enough Spandex, horn sculptures and strange narrative elements to raise one of Frank Zappa’s eyebrows. See charlottestreet.org.

Fri., Oct. 23, 7 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 6, 7 p.m., 2009