La MaMa Moves! 2026. Celebrating the 21st Annual Dance Festival
A glimpse into Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic Director Donald Byrd’s experience and memories of 9/11, OCCURRENCE #14 combines old and new movement ideas, showcasing them together and offering new perspectives.
Directed and choreographed by Patricia Hoffbauer, this bold new work gathers eleven performers, ages 25-80 in a charged encounter between generations. Through a dynamic mix of text and movement, together they reimagine historical struggles for power, love, and knowledge. Here, the past activates us. The unfinished revolutions of 1968 cast a restless shadow, pressing urgently against our present time. As memory and bodies collide with lived experience, performers are propelled into unexpected sit
MAN WOMAN is a choreographic work by Vangeline that revisits the iconic photographic series Man and Woman by Eikoh Hosoe—featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Motofuji—through a contemporary feminist lens.
Alien of Extraordinary is an immersive dance-theatre work by Sun Kim, transforming her immigration journey in the U.S. into a powerful call for empathy and shared belonging.
The American premiere by Green Cow – a contemporary, Korean, circus-based experimental arts collective.
The dining room of a sanatorium in the Alps. The deck of a ship on it’s way to Egypt. A country home in the Northeast. An uprooted family. An accidental death. Time elongates, compresses, becomes disjointed, and layers events past, present and imagined. Combining richly textured music-theater with striking visual imagery, Talking Band’s elegant, eloquent, profound performance work has for fifty years been a cornerstone of New York City’s avant-guard theater community. Recipient o
Edible Tales by Dancers Unlimited explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental sustainability through a bi-coastal food lens from Hawai’i and NYC.
In a world stripped of memory and ruled by constant surveillance, dreams are the last remnants of the past. They become a dangerous currency for those who struggle to survive. The Censorship of Dreams welcomes you to a world where civilization has Restarted and brain-computer technologies shape truth. Arte Makar Productions, led by Armenian director Arthur Makaryan, creates visually striking, interdisciplinary performances that blend theater, technology, and political inquiry. Rooted in int
Take Me to Dollywood offers a full-length collage of scenes and experiments with a queer southern twang. On a porch in the south, A faceless Dolly Parton haunts the stage as characters find themselves on the edge of relationships, sexuality, and reality. A woman has eaten her hand, a sexy gummy bear awaits certain death, two men meet for a hook-up, a boss rummages through his employees' desks, and the playwright details his sex life.
