This fall, creative studio Visomnia and Oakland-based artist Jeff Hull (The Jejune Institute, The Latitude Society) present the world premiere of The Cortège—a first-of-its-kind sensory experience at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center from September 11 to October 19th, 2025.

Part ritual, part performance, and part festival, The Cortège transforms the act of mourning into a collective celebration and shared theatrical experience. The evening begins at 6:30 PM with an open-air food market and live musical prelude. By 8:00 PM, the procession begins: a journey between sound and sensation, where archetypal dancers, puppetry, drone apparitions, and robotics come together. Instead of dialogue, a cinematic playlist echoes through wireless headsets, featuring music from TOKiMONSTA, El Búho, Boreta, Andrew Bird, and more, bypassing language altogether and speaking directly to emotion and memory.

At the end of the night, the audience joins the performers in the ‘Afterlife Tent’ for shared tea and ambient soundscapes, closing the ritual in an interactive community setting.

With choreography by MiYU, costumes by Jonny Cota and Damselfrau, and large-scale drones by Studio Hock, the production draws from myth, Jungian archetypes, and avant-garde performance traditions. All done without uttering a single word, the Cortège offers a rare space to gather — to grieve, to celebrate, to imagine what lies beyond endings. A funeral staged as a festival reframes loss as transition, and transition as opportunity.