
To Preserve La MaMa’s Legacy, a Shift in Leadership Styles
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
January 04, 2023
Championing collaboration and digital projects, Mia Yoo is forging her own path at the experimental theater incubator.
Artistic directors tend to be in the spotlight twice: When they are appointed and when they leave. But looking at what happens several years into a tenure — especially one that includes a global pandemic — can be a helpful exercise for anybody interested in arts management.
After a decade as the artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, in the East Village, Mia Yoo has somehow established continuity with the aesthetics and priorities established by her predecessor, Ellen Stewart, while also forging her own path.
With the theater’s 60th season nearing its end (it’s currently presenting “God’s Fool,” a new work about Saint Francis of Assisi by the dance-theater master Martha Clarke), Yoo sat down to chat about two things in constant conversation, or perhaps in a constant tug of war, at her institution: the past and the present.
Source: Article By Elisabeth Vincentelli for The New York Times
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