La MaMa Moves! 2025. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Dance Festival
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
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 poetry celebration party!
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.
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote / Adventures in the Mexican Candy Factory. An endearing puppet show about brotherhood, friendship, and sweet treats.
Tuning in to the frequencies of ancestors and heroes, SLANT performs Lucky FM with its signature style of humor and drama with live music, voice, movement, and storytelling.
Ig (Water): Aquatic Ecosystem Dance that Codified a Living Tradition of the Philippines
La MaMa’s Squirts is an annual queer intergenerational performance festival. Each year, Squirts gathers a diverse range of queer voices in an experimental playground for them to give shape to impulses and ideas that characterize the moment.
TONY-award nominee John-Andrew Morrison takes on the title role in a revival of H.M. Koutoukas’ Medea of the Laundromat. An ancient Greek tragedy set in a laundromat that unfolds in a 1960’s coffeehouse.
