July 4, 2025

CROSSROADS: Sugar Vendil, Pioneers Go East Collective, Alexa Grae and Symara Sarai | May 10

May 10, 2026

The Club
74A East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets:

$30 Adults ($50 Support The Artist Ticket)
$25 Students/Seniors
$10 La MaMa Members
First ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)
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a Shared Evening featuring

SUGAR VENDIL

Pioneers Go East Collective with
ALEXA GRAE & SYMARA SARAI

as part of the

CROSSROADS SERIES

about

Crossroads Series is a series championing radical Queer voices. Four new short works from
Pioneers Go East Collective’s series empowering multigenerational LGBTQ+ and feminist
artists in dialogue with their communities. Featuring works from our collective and friends,
including Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte with Anabella Lenzu; Miranda Brown and Noa Rui-
Piin Weiss; Sugar Vendil; and Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte with ALEXA Grae and Symara
Sarai.

These programs highlight the extraordinary diversity and range of artists across cultural
backgrounds, ages, and dance styles. By amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering
intergenerational exchange, the festival continues to reimagine what contemporary dance can be.
One of New York’s signature dance festivals, La MaMa Moves! has showcased small and large-
scale works of more than 400 emerging and seasoned choreographers since its beginning in
2005. With sustained support, La MaMa can deepen this impact and ensure that visionary artists
and their communities have continued access to this vital platform for years to come.

exhibition On display
in the lobby of 74a East 4th Street

Where I Break, I Bloom / Donde me quiebro, florezco
By Anabella Lenzu

These drawings and collages emerge from the creative process behind my choreographic works. They are traces of the investigations that occur in rehearsal: fragments of gesture, emotion, and memory translated into visual form. Through them I examine self-image and the ways the body carries history.

For me, art is a political act. Dance is both discipline and revolt. My body is my country.

Within the studio I explore rituals that document intimacy, construct layers of character-driven drama, and dismantle everyday social gestures. From this excavation of being, these drawings and collages are born. They are not illustrations of the choreography but parallel landscapes—sites where breaking becomes transformation, and where rupture opens the possibility of bloom.

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2026

La MaMa Moves! 2026, the 21st season of La MaMa’s annual dance festival, brings together
dance artists at all stages of their careers to experiment, collaborate, and share new work.
Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will take place over five weeks in April and May of 2026
and will include twelve productions across La MaMa’s four venues, and up to four in-person
community workshops and public discussions. This year’s festival line-up features dancemakers Donald Byrd, Beth Corning with guest puppeteer Tom Lee, Vangeline, Patricia Hoffbauer, Dancers Unlimited, Sun Kim Dance Theatre, Green Cow, Iver Findlay, BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin, Pioneers Go East Collective, and ms. z tye & Mina Nishimura in a shared evening curated by La MaMa Curatorial Residents Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer.

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.