Night Train is a new work written, choreographed, and directed by Michelle Sui. Drawing upon the vibrant legacy of Chinese American workers who contributed to the labor, railroad, and film industries of Los Angeles, the artist will activate the historic Pico House, located in El Pueblo of downtown Los Angeles and once the grand hotel of Southern California, with a performance developed onsite in response to the neighborhood's complex real and cinematic histories. The performance was open to the public, with an accompanying installation featuring remnants of the performance, in collaboration with our collective memories and the spaces that house them. This performance took place on August 25, 2024 from 7:30PM - 8:30PM at Pico House. 

MICHELLE SUI is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, and director from Los Angeles. Their immersive multimedia works merge film, installation, dance, music, and oral history to examine the body and voice in relation to cinematic histories, language in translation, the performance of femininity, and the dislocations of memory. These experimental operas, complex encounters in duet with historic neighborhoods, scores with dancers and non-dancers, interactive installations, and documentary films have been presented in Germany, Italy, Poland, Republic of Georgia, and throughout the U.S. Michelle's work has received support from Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Center for Asian American Media, Sundance, Rauschenberg Foundation, California Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, Bang on a Can, La MaMa Umbria, and Poets and Writers. They have taught voice and improvisation at UC Irvine, University of Michigan, Loyola Marymount University, and the Music Center. Michelle's 2020 film Street Angel, on Los Angeles Chinatown, has screened across the U.S. and internationally and is currently streaming on Aeon, which calls it an exploration of Chinese American identity and culture that's exponentially more sophisticated than the vast majority of media over the past century.