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Chapter 2 CrashRed Route - An intersection in Boyle Heights
Lucha and Jamson exchange information in the aftermath of their accident.
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Chapter 4 Lucha's Quinceañera SongRed Route - Mariachi Plaza, Boyle Heights
Lucha remembers the day she left her childhood behind.
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Chapter 6 Jameson PortraitYellow Route - The 2nd Street Tunnel, Downtown Los Angeles
Jameson contemplates the multifaceted nature of his personality.
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Chapter 7 The ReunionYellow Route - A Rehearsal Studio in the Arts District
Lucha and Jameson connect at Lucha's performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Chapter 8 First KissRed Route - Hollenbeck Park, East Los Angeles
Romance blooms on Lucha and Jameson's first date.
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Chapter 9 Angel's PointGreen Route - Angel's Point, Elysian Park
Lucha and Jameson share a passionate physical experience.
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Chapter 11 The Floating NebulaGreen Route - The Corn Fields, Los Angeles State Historic Park, Chinatown
The metaphysical peak in Lucha and Jameson's love.
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Chapter 12 WeddingYellow Route - City Hall, Downtown Los Angeles
On their wedding day, Lucha gives Jameson a fateful gift.
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Chapter 14 The Phone Call, Part 1Red Route - Traversing between the Arts District and Boyle Heights
Lucha receives a mysterious phone call from a voice she seems to recognize.
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Chapter 17 Orlando's FairwellRed Route - Evergreen Cemetery
Before leaving Los Angeles, Orlando pays his last respects to his wife.
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Chapter 18 Interlude (Car Wash)Green Route - AirStream Trailer, Elysian Park
Reflect on the impact of a location's geography on a person's psyche.
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Chapter 24 The Red NotebookRed Route - Utter darkness
In a state of darkness, Lucha is haunted by Jameson's red notebook.
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Chapter 25 The Other WomanYellow Route - The Bradbury Building, Downtown Los Angeles
Still submerged in darkness, Lucha dreams of Jameson's infidelity.
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Chapter 26 HadesGreen Route - Bowtie Parcel, Los Angeles River
Lucha descends to the underworld in search of Jameson.
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Chapter 28 Lucha and Orlando in LoveYellow Route - Historic Core, Downtown Los Angeles
After years apart, Lucha and Orlando reunite in Los Angeles.
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Chapter 33 Farewell From the Roof TopsRed Route - Rooftops, Toy Factory Lofts, Biscuit Lofts, Ito Building Tower, Arts District
Lucha makes peace with Jameson's disappearance.
Lucha and Orlando in Love
Orlando: Paul Berkolds
Music by Michelle Shocked
Text by Jane Stephens Rosenthal
Director’s Notes:
“Orlando returns and is now completely in sync with Lucha. It’s a much more joyous wedding scene than Chapter 12 (also on the Yellow Route); as the two ride through the city, they remember the places that may or may no longer be there. They sing about what they’ve learned, that ‘life is a series of unanswered questions, and as we begin to make our sense of things, time folding and unfolding itself, we find faith – God or not God but a center.’
“Jason had the great idea of putting a magenta gel on all the windows, so that the streetscape took on a nostalgic, reminiscent, and unreal dimension. The streets appeared rose-colored and created a dream-like confusion of memory and reality, another way driving alters our perception of the world around us. The life of the city shaped the drama and tone for each car ride; with this chapter driving through the rapidly changing vista of downtown LA’s ‘historic core,’ the tone was upbeat but wistful. The streets we see in front of us simultaneously present earlier versions of themselves, the form they took in our memories, and colored by our experiences there. Like Virilio’s suggestion that the windshield is a projection screen, the swift current of streetscapes we once knew can feel like an overwhelming retrospective of our life in that city.
“Lucha and Orlando reuniting in this chapter always made me think of the characters in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera, who experience love as not exactly working the first time, but coming around to it in a more advanced age.
“Michelle Shocked wrote a haunting and melancholy refrain for this chapter – I loved the sentiment of this chapter not feeling too operatic but instead feeling more direct like a folk song, with Paul accompanying them on accordion. It reminded me of the great ranchero by Jose Alfredo Jimenez, ‘Cuando Vivas Conmigo,’ where an older singer who has suffered so much finds herself wiser in love again. With so many of the other chapters on the Yellow Route – Chapter 31, Chapter 22, and Chapter 12 particularly –so operatic and so heavy, I think the simplicity of this chapter was an important (and welcome) contrast.”
– Yuval Sharon
“And things come back again. One instance braiding itself with the next. The hands taking time over and under and over and then suddenly things align. Sometimes in order, sometimes not. Because life is a series of unanswered questions. And as we begin to make our sense of things-time folding and unfolding itself we find faith. God or no God. But a center. A place to hold on to. In the body. Where all the memories are stored.”
Artistic Director Yuval Sharon stands next to a Hopscotch-inspired mural painted in the Arts District
From vineyards to citrus groves to commercial print shops, this neighborhood has been in constant change since the city’s founding. In 1981, the city passed the Artist in Residence ordinance, allowing artist to live in their studios, hence becoming known as the Arts District.
The LA Arts District