Aging ‘90s heartthrob Brodie and his middle-aged girl band, The Swallows, are preparing to film a music video in their crumbling Valley McMansion when a buried secret threatens their fragile existence.
Adapted from the short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, Sur follows the secret expedition of nine women who, in 1909, travel to Antarctica and the South Pole. The Sur company – a collective of designers, performers, and on-stage crew – transforms the theater into a living breathing world of icebergs, glaciers, blizzards, and horizonless expanses.
La MaMa Moves! 2025. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Dance Festival
John Jasperse Projects will premiere a new, evening-length work (as yet untitled) that is built around a collection of real-life, intergenerational mentor/protegé relationships that exist within the team of collaborators.
Choreographed by Keith A. Thompson, the Love Alone Anthology Project (world premiere) is inspired by the writings of AIDS activist & poet Paul Monette.
Shared program between Daniel Gwirtzman & Pat Catterson. e-Motion, a dance-theater collaboration between choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman and playwright Saviana Stănescu, explores AI, neuroscience, and what it means to be human in a digital age. Pat Catterson will present Tremor, a work for six dancers, and Then, a new solo.
Your favorite professor slides into dementia; two grad-students hallucinate a manifesto; a privileged lit-prof performs poetry.
Shared Program: Jesse Zaritt and Pam Pietro’s duet is an experiment in accumulation and dissolution. / In Jordan Demetrius Lloyd’s most recent work the performer is both the magician and the veil, fostering spaces of encounter with his audiences.
A performance art pop concert stripping the tendons of America’s transsex-obsessed musculature, exposing its bones for sensory examination under the harsh glow of neon lights.
Moscow, 2022. Colliding with the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, a theater director’s staging of The Seagull is irrevocably compromised… but that’s just the beginning.
Moby Dick Meets The Perfect Storm. In a tale that stretches across generations and ancients—lost mariners, lost souls, lost lives—The Moby Dick Blues is a working-class opera about a New England fishing community’s daunting quest for survival and transformation in the face of the opiate crisis.
