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Downtown Variety
La MaMa and CultureHub are teaming up to create a Downtown Variety, a weekly online live performance series that will feature short acts of dance, music, theater, new media, comedy, A/V performance, and more. Responding to calls for social isolation, Downtown Variety brings La MaMa’s 1960s café a
The People vs. Nature – Nov 07-17
With only hours to live, a death-row inmate fights to free a chimpanzee from medical captivity. In solitary confinement he reenacts a court trial based on true events, litigating the value of some lives over others.
Panel Discussion – Nov 02
Featuring Tim Cusack and Claudia Orenstein discussing their book: Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects Moderated by Erin B. Mee
Secrets History Remembers – Nov 01-03
A witty, high-energy vaudeville act with a seven-foot-tall doll as its stage. Will an obsessive need for safety and a fear of “the other” break us? Secrets History Remembers is a visual feast that examines our culture of fear with humor, insight and inventive puppetry.
Ashley Chen’s Performance of Distances
Ashley Chen—choreographer, performer, and founder of Kashyl—brings his work to La MaMa as part of Villa Albertine’s 2023 Dance Season. – HOWLROUND A sisterhood of performers test the outer limits of each other’s personal space, inventing a common ground. Exchanging gestures and song
Petit Mondrian – Oct 26–27
A 30-minute interactive multilingual (Spanish, French and English) and multimedia performance installation for very young children and their caregivers, which mixes dance-theater with the language of object theater, interactive video animation, live music, and Bunraku style puppetry. Petit Mondria
Lovo – Oct 25-27
'LOVO' places a view on the conservation and protection of biodiversity, analyzing the process of the disappearance of an animal species as if it were the extinction of a love.
Jump Start – Oct 24-27
Puppet artists get a chance to showcase their works in progress in the La MaMa Puppet Series. Featuring works-in-progress from Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre, Double Image Theater Lab, Foreshadow, and Monica Lerch.
The Scarecrow – Nov 1-3
Through its innovative use of puppetry, powerful storytelling, and culturally relevant music, "The Scarecrow" aims to captivate audiences, provoke thought, and inspire change.
Downtown Variety: Ukraine Edition
La MaMa and CultureHub team up with Nashi Experimental Theatre Club to create a special edition of Downtown Variety, an online live performance series that features short acts of dance, music, theater, new media, comedy, A/V performance, and more. Downtown Variety brings La MaMa's 1960s café aesthe
