Jessica Cook / Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith – May 1-3
Part of LaMaMa’s
Emerging Choreographers Program
Guest Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
Wedge
by Jesi Cook
Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima
fame hOle
by Alex Romania and Stacy Lynn Smith
“Both delightful and horrifying.”
– Hallie Chametzky, the Brooklyn Rail
Photo by Eli Jacobson
Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima
WEDGE
ABOUT
Wedge is a new performance work by Jesi Cook. A tangle of improvisation scores examine high frequency interruptions. A fly in your soup. A looping circuit, shorted. Did a rat chew the wires? Holes begin to pockmark your newspaper, the dances. A movement phrase is wedged in an oblong theater, the front lobby faucet is leaking. You can’t scratch your itch.
CREDITS
Choreography & Performance: Jesi Cook
BIOS
Jessica Cook is a choreographer based in NYC since 2005. She has presented her work at Roulette Intermedium, LMCC’s 2024 River to River Festival, TSA Gallery, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Pieter Performance Space Los Angeles, and AUNTS. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Chocolate Factory Theater, Movement Research, NY Live Arts Fresh Tracks, and MoMA PS1. She is a 2005 graduate of the SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory.
Website: jesicook.com
Instagram: @jesicoook
Photo by Eli Jacobson
fame hOle
ABOUT
“fame hOle” is a mobile dance opera created by Alex Romania and Stacy Lynn Smith set inside their 2014 Prius V; a conceptual roadshow on the impossible nature of the touring act of life in general in a collapsing colonial empire. Dance is the vehicle for an absurdist, documentary performance of disintegrating infrastructure and arts in America. Through speculative (anti)world building, they cast themselves as the last “influencers” on an intergalactic mission to save existence from collapsing into a black hole. An ontological response to existential / class / mental health crises; a self-reflexive journey West through a Hollywood’s romanticized apocalyptic nightmare.
CREDITS
Alex Romania and Stacy Lynn Smith
BIOS
Psychic Wormhole (Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith) is a NYC duo making live interdisciplinary dance and experimental films. Works include Face Eaters (The Chocolate Factory Theater); an epic, live, multimedia performance processing global grief and RECKONING, a visceral abstract memoir of Smith’s survivorship of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and Complex-PTSD. Psychic Wormhole has held residencies with Djerassi, MacDowell, Rosekill Art Farm, Glasshouse Art.Life.Lab. and presented work through Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New Dance Alliance and Grace Exhibition Space. Psychic Wormhole were recent recipients of the inaugural Artists Supporting Artists Program (ASAP) grant from Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili + Peter Born) and were shortlisted for ‘25 Creative Capital in Film / Video. Romania was a 2018-2020 Movement Research AIR and 2024-2025 Franklin Furnace Awardee. Smith was a 2022-2024 Movement Research AIR and a 2025 Dance and Process (DAP) AIR. They began dancing and working together in Kathy Westwater’s Bessie nominated “Rambler” (NYLA, ‘19).
Website: youwillconsumeus.com/reckoning
Instagram:
@uwillconsumeus @fro_babes
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
20th Anniversary
Click here to see list of shows for La MaMa Moves! 20th Anniversary.
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.
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