NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS
May 30 – June 30, 2013
This exhibition marks La MaMa Galleria ‘s 6th collaboration with Visual AIDS as well as their 25th anniversary. Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. VA is committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.
FIRE. WATER. NIGHT: When Trees Move and Women Burn.
June 6 – June 16, 2013
by Yara Arts Group
Directed by Virlana Tkacz
Wild. Cultured. Mechanized. Digitized. Yara Arts Group brings together drama, poetry, song, historical materials and movement to create an original performance piece that explore timely issues rooted in the East.
Any Resemblance
June 2 – June 29, 2013
Any Resemblance follows a queer interracial couple – Maddy and Audrey – as they try to get pregnant. The story is told through four live performance “episodes,” one each week, and online through the characters’ blogs, Facebook posts, Tweets, etc. The live performances will take place at Jen Abrams’ house in Brooklyn on Fridays and Saturdays.
La MaMa Kids: Mindful Music
June 8, 2013 at 11am
An opportunity for the entire family to engage in creative fun! A family fun workshop on the Zen concept of mindful music. Using the Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute, temple gongs and storytelling, kids of all ages play theatrical games and craft a take home musical instrument!
John Strausbaugh
June 8, 2013 at 3pm
John Strausbaugh and his The Village
La MaMa Moves!
June 12 – July 7, 2013
Annual La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
Oceania
June 12 – June 13, 2013 at 10pm
Oceania is an interactive dance performance, and multi-sensory experience that evokes the contemporary metropolitan art scene of our time.
False Solution
June 13 – June 30, 2013
Written and Directed by Oren Safdie
False Solution is the third play by Oren Safdie set in the world of architecture. It tells the story of a famous architect who’s just won a competition to design a Holocaust museum, and his encounter with a young intern that throws everything into question.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
The Very Unlikeliness (I’m Going to KILL You!) [again&again version]
June 14 – June 16, 2013
Chris Yon devises original dances from a developing catalogue of physical hieroglyphs, shout-outs to heroes, and winks to peers. Setting gestures in rhythmic and spatial patterns to reflect on the complex physical behavioral spectrum of human beings and the mysteries of the composition of the universe, his dances are often accompanied by his original sound designs that source old records and field recordings.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
The Painted Bird Trilogy (Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)
June 21 – June 30, 2013
Choreographed by Pavel Zuštiak/Palissimo Company Ellen Stewart Theatre June 21 (Fri) 7pm, June 22 (Sat) 7pm, June 23 (Sun) 3pm June 26 (Wed) 7pm, June 27 (Thur) 7pm, June 29 (Sat) 7pm, June 30 (Sun) 3pm "A vivid, often anguished, imagination shines through in Zuštiak’s work, as does a welcome directness." — The New [...]
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
Jennifer Monson & friends/NY/Urbana
June 21 – June 23, 2013
These four choreographers share artistic lives in both New York City and Urbana, Illinois and come from three New York City dance generations – the 60’s, 90’s, and 2000’s. Combining an aesthetic interest in movement investigation and articulating the choreographic possibilities that stem from an investment in movement abandon, each of the artists brings a fiercely physical and intellectual rigor to their work as they shape energetic forces on multiple scales.
La MaMa Kids: Family Playdate
June 22, 2013 at 11am
Join the SLANT Performance Group as they weave their magical humor through La MaMa’s first Family Playdate – a fun-filled showcase performed by members of the Great Jones Repertory Company. Embracing intelligent dance, music and theatre, this unique event is tailored specially for a theatrical family experience in a relaxed atmosphere.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
I, Cyclops/Frog Princess JP edit (New York premiere)
June 22 – June 23, 2013
inDANCE presents two maverick, iconoclastic works adapted for La MaMa Moves! Artistic director Hari Krishnan is The Frog Princess, a tour de force Bharatanatyam solo. Dancers Paul Charbonneau, Benjamin Landsberg and Hiroshi Miyamoto perform an excerpt from I, Cyclops, a deliciously dangerous post-modern, pan-Asian work that catapults the audience between the mystical Shiva’s third eye and sexy James Marsden’s cool, red shades in Hollywood’s X-Men reboot. This adaptation of I, Cyclops was created as part of the Bessie Schoenberg choreographic residency at The Yard.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
this Exquisite diversion/mysterious Skin
June 22 – June 23, 2013
this Exquisite diversion/mysterious Skin uses text from Scott Heim’s novel Mysterious Skin to explore the physical manifestation of extreme psychological experiences in which individuals have blocked the memories of sexual assault. This piece evokes an out-of-body experience as the memory is mined for fragments of a lost story whose effects are felt but not always recalled.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
Take It OVER
June 22 – June 23, 2013
First survival. Make the two duets a trio, deal with the difficulties. Both work. Both valid. Maybe not both at once. Both at once lead to ugly comparison. Rearranging just to slow down. A shared denial of an inevitable end. It is time for you to go; oh well. Relief that it is still not over. No contractions. It is not over until it is over. It is over.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
East Village Dance Project
June 24 – June 25, 2013
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2013 celebrates EVDP’s 16th annual Student Concert. Premieres include modern work by Victoria Roberts-Wierzbowski and a Monty Python-inspired ballet dance to Beethoven’s 4th Symphony choreographed by Martha Tornay. The Teen Company will be performing a piece by guest choreographer Dante Brown as well as a piece by graduating student dancer Chloe London.
Photo by Hugh Burckhardt
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
[BODIED]
June 28 – June 30, 2013
[BODIED] is a multi-sensory, interdisciplinary performance project where Contemporary Urban Dance, rapping and singing, video projection from multiple sources, and a collage-like sound score are woven together to tell a nonlinear narrative.
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A Scottish Dance and Music Night
July 1 – July 1, 2013
Members of the Scottish dance companies The Loch Leven Dancers and Shot of Scotch will perform the exhilarating highland fling, the athletic sword dance, plus reels, jigs, and strathspeys, all accompanied by the band Wild Thistle, featuring Mary Abdil on piano, Karen Brown on fiddle, and Douglas Safranek on the Scottish small pipes.
La MaMa Moves Dance Festival
Drenched
July 5 – July 7, 2013
Studying the contrast between representations and realities of contemporary romance, Drenched is an intimate duet for Luke Murphy and Carlye Eckert examining a world of contradictions, parodies, uncertainties and the fundamental search for companionship. With a multi-channel projection installation by David Fishel, Drenched is a piece of viscerally physical dance theater with a sharp edge and a sharper sense of humor.
PI = 3.14… : Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota
July 7 – July 14, 2013
Cutting-edge choreographer/ director/ performer Yoshiko Chuma continues a lifetime obsession with the mythology of danger. In PI=3.14… : Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota, she intentionally confuses documentation with history, recreating steep segments from her own documented events in Ramallah, Fukushima, and Bogota. Chuma assembles a mosaic of dancers, images, filmed interviews and musical selections whose content has the effect of framing theater with barbed wire.