The LAX Micro Fest: Lindsey Red-tail and Yozmit the DogStar

The Los Angeles Performance Practice LAX Micro Fest is three days of over 15 performers exploring RADICAL FUTURES | LIMINAL CROSSINGS | ORIGIN STORIES.

Capping off the second night of the festival are performances by LINDSEY RED-TAIL and YOZMIT THE DOGSTAR, followed by audience exchange and a celebration with drinks and mingling.

Lindsey Red-tail, born and raised in Altadena, Tongva Lands is an acclaimed non-binary dance artist, poet and messenger of the Trees, whose work weaves together the intersection of movement, nature and Ancestral practices. Following pathways in the body of remembrance, they are guided by an Ancestor of Wind, a seer and spiritual companion returning to their Nahuatl Mexican, Cherokee and African American roots. Red-tail’s offerings are informed by their time in the mountains dancing and singing with the Land. They co-create with community and with the elements, bringing playful and experimental ways of being to the forefront of their work and a deeper connection with the Natural seen and unseen world. Red-tail has led Tree rituals, rainbow activations and ceremonies in their beloved home Altadena and beyond, bringing the community together through art, music and dance with the support of elders and inspiring the new generation of artists/healers. A 2012 graduate of the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, Red-tail has established themselves as a transformative choreographic voice across Los Angeles with commissions from California State University, Scripps College, and LA Contemporary Dance Company.

I am "Yozmit The DogStar," a Transgender singer-songwriter, performance artist, and costume designer. I started my career as a fashion designer then transformed myself into a performance artist when my opportunity to become a Kpop star was violently cut because of objections against my gender. I was heartbroken. After immigrating to California, I went on a spiritual artistic journey to find my voice as a trans-identified artist curating my own Music/Fashion/Performance Art Campaign called *DoYou*. The DogStar uses self-awareness and art practice as tools for liberation from inequality, bigotry, and marginalization around gender and identity. I hope to inspire not only the queer community but also the mainstream audience to seek liberation and unity together. I use voice, dance, and costumery as theatrical/shamanic trinity to tell stories about "Yozmit The DogStar” the goddess archetype who is my higher channel using my male form but embodying both The Sacred Feminine and The Sacred Masculine. In my artistic cosmology, as Yozmit's conduit, I create songs, looks, costumes, public performances, and workshops and spread her message of *DoYou* - a process of becoming fully self-realized and actualizing self-identity. *DoYou* is my artistic mantra to shift power from external conformity to internal realization. My work has shown in WeHo LGBTQ Arts Festivals, TransPride LA, LifeBall Vienna, Lincoln Center NY, Queens Museum NY, Chuncheon Mime Festival Korea, Doma Arts Festival Bulgaria, Google Quantum AI Seminar and many more. I received multiple "Transgender Initiative” grants from the city of West Hollywood since 2017, California Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowships in 2023, and COLA master artist fellowship from DCA in 2025.

The LAX Micro Fest is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture. Los Angeles Performance Practice is also supported, in part, by The Mellon Foundation, The Perenchio Foundation, and the California Arts Council.