Equal parts dance and sculptural installation, Ordinary Portal is a new experimental solo performance piece created by LA Samuelson. Join the artist as they navigate their way through time, space and memory in this site-specific work made especially for the Longmont Museum. Performance to be followed by a conversation with the artist.

LA Samuelson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary performance, sculpture, and writing. Their work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites, and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, attachments to living, and to one another. Their projects have been presented nationally and internationally, and their current work is supported by the National Performance Network and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. LA has been an artist-in-residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Crosstown Arts Memphis, the Denver Art Museum, Skogen Arts Sweden, and the Colorado Conservatory of Dance.

In 2020, LA received an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with secondary emphases in visual art and somatics, and a graduate certification in Emergent Technologies & Media Arts Practices from the College of Media, Communication, and Information. They hold a BA in dance & writing from Hampshire College and are a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method.

$20 General Admission | $18 Students/Seniors | $15 Museum Members

Buy Tickets Online, or call 303-651-8374.

The Longmont Museum offers variety for all audiences, including exhibits, concerts, performances, films, talks and classes.

• See other Longmont Museum Presents performances, and Climate Action Sundays.
• View our current exhibit,  Duality: Contemporary Works by Indigenous Artists
• Come to Thursday Nights at the Museum – we’re open until 9pm, with a 7 PM talk, film or performance
• Take an Art & Sip class for adults, on Thursday Night at 6:30 PM, 
• or attend a Friday Afternoon Concert at 2:30 PM on the second Friday of each month.