Goodness triumphs over greed in this melodrama based on Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola. An innocent maid, a compassionate prince, an angel from the throne of God…. and kazoos!
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.
Shared Program: Hunter College MFA in Dance: Francesca Dominguez’s The Nearly, Barely, Just. Maria Angela Talavera-Tejeda’s Por Debajo de la Rodilla / MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research at NYU: marion spencer’s SYMPHONY. Xin Ying’s Paper Dragon: Five Elements Matrix
Your favorite professor slides into dementia; two grad-students hallucinate a manifesto; a privileged lit-prof performs poetry.
La MaMa Playwriting fellows showcase their work, mentored by Justin Elizabeth Sayer.
How often do you *really* get to give advice to your teenage self?
LUCY AI is a collaboration between Lucy Simic and her Toronto-based interdisciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. and Montreal artificial intelligence company Reimagine AI.
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.
Shared Program between Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss and Megumi Eda. Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss and fiddler Alexis Chartrand meld unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility. / Please Cry is a deeply personal solo performance by Megumi Eda, blending dance, live video, and music to explore intergenerational trauma, resilience, and the lingering impact of war.
Amalia Suryani’s Ta’na Nirau is rooted in the dance, music, and storytelling traditions of the Dayak tribes of Borneo, Indonesia, who are grappling with multiple existential challenges.
Mayonnaise Rizadas and Gatorade is a fictional autobiography. Greek mythology’s Narcissus is waiting in a white, impersonal room for his diagnosis as his wings are falling. He then learns he has a hereditary terminal disease: unhappiness, most likely caused by the inability to love himself.
Shared Program: New York Arab Festival (NYAF) presents its “festival within festival” program at La MaMa for its 2025 edition, rooted in experimental Arab and Arab American choreography, theater, and performance.
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
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.
A multimedia solo show about the transformative limits of love told through indigenous ceremony, modern dating, and confronting one’s Italian-Mongolian roots, from a New York voice.
Book Launch & Reading: Anabella will be reading passages from her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, show short dance videos from the ALDD repertory, and have a Q&A session.
