MAN WOMAN | April 18-19
by Vangeline Theater
About
MAN WOMAN is a Butoh work by Vangeline that revisits the iconic photographic series Man and Woman by Eikoh Hosoe through a contemporary feminist lens. With fantastical costumes by Machine Dazzle, a visionary queer artist, and a richly textured electro-acoustic score by Ray Barragan-Sweeten, this 21st-century reimagining centers the female body as sole author and performer. Women have historically been positioned as mirror or muse in relation to a male counterpart. MAN WOMAN playfully examines how a female body navigates, adapts to, and ultimately exits this male-dominated system. It remains in dialogue with its original conceptual framework while asserting a decisive shift: the female body is no longer responding to history — it is writing it.
Artist Credits
Directed, choreographed, and performed by Vangeline
Costumes by Machine Dazzle
Music by Ray Barragan Sweeten
Lighting by Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa
Note: Man Woman was developed over two years and initially explored as a duet with Akihito Ichihara, whose participation supported the early development of the work.
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.
