The LA MARIA art project brings *Maybe a Concert* to the LAC—a performance-based concert conceived by Raissa Avilés, a Swiss singer, performer, and songwriter of Mexican descent, who challenges the boundaries between music and the stage. Electronic, jazz, and pop come together to create a hybrid space where identities, languages, and genres intertwine.
Maybe a concert
Raissa Avilés
Maybe a concert
Raissa Avilés
With *Maybe a Concert*, the LA MARIA project goes beyond the traditional concert format, combining music and stage performance in an open structure. On stage, recognizable yet alienating figures—a mariachi musician in stiletto heels, a glittering cowboy—inhabit an imaginary world that blends Mexican folk tradition, variety shows, Westerns, and pop culture.
Directed by Raúl Vargas Torres, the different layers of the performance do not overlap but burst into one another, reshuffling hierarchies and languages. The music, largely original (by Raissa Avilés and Balázs Várnai), spans various genres—from folk to indie, with jazz elements and baroque influences—and finds unity in Alix Logiaco’s arrangements.
At the heart of the work is Raissa Avilés’s voice, conceived as a practice that connects body, identity, and the stage space. The result is a hybrid form that, through a blend of irony and tension, explores the possibilities of artistic and personal autonomy within systems marked by compromises and contradictions.
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