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La MaMa Moves! 2025 – Apr 10-May 4
La MaMa Moves! 2025. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Dance Festival
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company / Pat Catterson – Apr 18-20
Shared program between Daniel Gwirtzman & Pat Catterson. e-Motion, a dance-theater collaboration between choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman and playwright Saviana Stănescu, explores AI, neuroscience, and what it means to be human in a digital age. Pat Catterson will present Tremor, a work for six dancers, and Then, a new solo.
Hunter College MFA / NYU Tisch MFA – Apr 18-20
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
Class Dismissed – Apr 18-May 4
Your favorite professor slides into dementia; two grad-students hallucinate a manifesto; a privileged lit-prof performs poetry.
LUCY AI – Apr 24-25
LUCY AI is a collaboration between Lucy Simic and her Toronto-based interdisciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. and Montreal artificial intelligence company Reimagine AI.
Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro / Jordan Demetrius Lloyd – Apr 25-27
Shared Program: Jesse Zaritt and Pam Pietro’s duet is an experiment in accumulation and dissolution. / In Jordan Demetrius Lloyd’s most recent work the performer is both the magician and the veil, fostering spaces of encounter with his audiences.
Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss / Megumi Eda – Apr 25-27
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.
Ta’na Nirau – Apr 26-27
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.
Experiments: Mayonnaise Rizadas and Gatorade – Apr 28
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.
New York Arab Festival – May 1-4
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.
Jessica Cook / Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith – May 1-3
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
El Club MEG – May 4
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
EXAM – May 8-11
A performance art pop concert stripping the tendons of America’s transsex-obsessed musculature, exposing its bones for sensory examination under the harsh glow of neon lights.
Those Who Remained – May 8-18
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.
Teaching & Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures – May 10
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.
Seagull: True Story – May 16-June 1
Moscow, 2022. Colliding with the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, a theater director’s staging of The Seagull is irrevocably compromised… but that’s just the beginning.
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote – May 17-18
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.
Lucky FM – May 21-25
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) – May 22-25
Ig (Water): Aquatic Ecosystem Dance that Codified a Living Tradition of the Philippines
