This current volume of Experiment, Volume 20, entitled "Kinetic Los Angeles: Russian Émigrés in the City of Self-Transformation" (Guest Editor, Lorin Johnson) is dedicated to the contributions of Russian artists who lived and worked in Los Angeles in the fields of dance performance, visual arts, and film, exploring how the city was influenced by their presence as well as the reasons that drew them to Southern California. While many of the essays focus on the émigré community that gathered in Los Angeles during the 1930S-1940S, the investigation of "Russianness" in the city is not confined to those decades. Each essay in this volume is accompanied by photographs and illustrations which help to tell this story, many of which are previously unpublished and recently discovered in private collections and archives in the u.s. and abroad. Contributors include: Kenneth Archer, John Bowlt, Donald Bradbum, Elizabeth Durst, Lynn Garafola, Karen Goodman, Millicent Hodson, Lorin Johnson (Guest Editor), Mark Konecny, Debra Levine and Oleg Minin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]