La Mama Moves! Dance Festival 2026

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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced the lineup for the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Featured productions include: OCCURRENCE #14 Donald Byrd April 9-12 The Downstairs A glimpse into Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic Director Donald Byrd’s experience and memories of 9/11, OCCURRENCE #14 combines old and new movement ideas, showcasing them together and offering new perspectives. Center for Fiction: This Is Not May ’68! Patricia Hoffbauer April 16-19 66 East 4th St. | Ellen Stewart Theatre Directed and choreographed by Patricia Hoffbauer, this bold new work gathers eleven performers, ages 25-80 in a charged encounter between generations. Through a dynamic mix of text and movement, together they reimagine historical struggles for power, love, and knowledge. Here, the past activates us. The unfinished revolutions of 1968 cast a restless shadow, pressing urgently against our present time. As memory and bodies collide with lived experience, performers are propelled into unexpected situations and daring new possibilities. STAND BY — an allegory Corningworks / THE GLUE FACTORY PROJECTS April 16-17 66 East 4th St. | The Downstairs A multi-disciplinary dancetheater production created in collaboration with choreographer Beth Corning and puppeteer Tom Lee. A whimsical glimpse at humans' inability to recognize our mortality...not so much about death or grief or even loss, as about the mysterious & magical continuity of life. MAN WOMAN Vangeline April 18-19 66 East 4th St. | The Downstairs MAN WOMAN is a choreographic work by Vangeline that revisits the iconic photographic series Man and Woman by Eikoh Hosoe—featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Motofuji—through a contemporary feminist lens. Hunter College Intimate works by Hunter College faculty members Tiffany Merritt-Brown and Jade Charon Robertson explore the enduring POWER of Black femininity, kinship, spirituality, and ancestry April 16-19, 74A East 4th St. | The Club Gold PylonJade Charon RobertsonGold Pylon by Jade Charon Robertson is an inquiry into the possibilities of a grandmother’s prayer becoming an intercessory superpower and gateway to a higher self. Charon’s ongoing multi-media research project series Gold was created to emPOWER Black and Brown people by connecting them to the element gold’s spiritual, metaphysical, and ancestral powers through dance, film, sound, and writing. This latest event in the series is a live multimedia performance solo that journeys through the refining and purification process of gold, reaching for the gateway of the higher self. Tender is the Night Tiffany Merritt-Brown Tender is the Night by Tiffany Merritt-Brown is an immersive dance work exploring Black femininity and the intimate kinship that shapes sisterhood, revealing how strength, vulnerability, and compassion emerge through collective care. ms. z tye & Mina Nishimura (shared evenings) La MaMa Curatorial Residents: Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer April 16-19 CAS (Community Arts Space) CONFESSIONS OF PEACHES, THE VIXEN ms. z tye CONFESSIONS OF PEACHES, THE VIXEN is a cipher of pro hoe chronicles collaged into performance, with ms. z tye recalling the repentant memory of Y2K. a hole new world. Mina NishimuraIn a hole new world., dispersed holes and absences beyond the self are threaded into a dissonant tunnel tracing the resonance of a hollow center. Alien of Extraordinary Sun Kim Dance Theatre April 23- 24 66 East 4th St. | Ellen Stewart Theatre Alien of Extraordinary is an immersive dance-theatre work by Sun Kim, transforming her immigration journey in the U.S. into a powerful call for empathy and shared belonging. Edible Tales: Ho’oulu Dancers Unlimited April 25-26 66 East 4th St. | Ellen Stewart Theatre Edible Tales by Dancers Unlimited explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental sustainability through a bi-coastal food lens from Hawai’i and NYC. SURFACE Green Cow April 24-26 74A East 4th St. | The Club The American premiere by Green Cow – a contemporary, Korean, circus-based experimental arts collective. Green Cow’s work allows audiences to experience the climate crisis intuitively, within the triangular framework of “climate–life–body.” Iteration IV (For Allen) Findlay//Sandsmark April 30-May 1 74A East 4th St. | The Club Iteration IV (for Allen), from Findlay//Sandsmark, is a continuation and derivative of their recent series of iterative projects, parsing and re-imagining elements to find newconnection points and resonating waves. BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin (shared evenings) May 2-3 74A East 4th St. | The Club YES BamBam Frost Through constant transformation, pleasure and play, YES by BamBam Frost moves through traces of pop culture. Trying to navigate what is, what was, and what potentially could be. YES premiered in Stockholm in 2020, and has since then played at venues in Marseille, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stavanger, Helsinki and Brussels. BamBam is now creating a version specifically for LaMaMa moves 2026. Settle In Ori Flomin, Jody Oberfelder, Carolyn Hall, Sabrina DeVelis Settle In is a personal reflection on ways to ground ourselves in times of change and uncertainty through layered physical dialogues between bodies, generations, movement, and live music. Featuring four intergenerational performers and original music composed and performed by Mal Stein. CROSSROADS Pioneers Go East Collective May 7-10 74A East 4th St. | The Club Crossroads Series is a series championing radical Queer voices. Four new short works from Pioneers Go East Collective’s series empowering multigenerational LGBTQ+ and feminist artists in dialogue with their communities. Featuring works from our collective and friends, including Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte with Anabella Lenzu; Miranda Brown and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss; Sugar Vendil; and Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte with ALEXA Grae and Symara Sarai.