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.

Schedule of the Event:

April 10-13, 2025

John Jasperse Projects

Tides

Ellen Stewart Theatre

John Jasperse Projects presents a new evening-length work Tides, with a cast of collaborating performers ranging from veteran luminaries in the downtown scene (Vicky Shick, Jodi Melnick, and Cynthia Koppe) to younger, emerging dance artists (Jace Weyant and Maria Fleischman). The commissioned score is created by long-time collaborator Hahn Rowe.

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Keith A. Thompson & danceTactics performance group

Love Alone Anthology Project

The Downstairs Theatre

Choreographed by Keith A. Thompson, the Love Alone Anthology Project (world-premiere) is inspired by the writings of AIDS activist & poet Paul Monette.

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April 18-20, 2025

Shared Program: Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company / Pat Catterson

The Downstairs Theatre

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company
e-Motion
e-Motion a dance-theater collaboration between choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman and playwright Saviana St?nescu, explores AI, neuroscience and what it means to be human in a digital age.

Pat Catterson
TREMOR
Pat Catterson will present Tremor (2023) for six dancers, and  Then, a new solo, for a cast combining Boston and New York dancers.

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Shared Program: Hunter College MFA / NYU Tisch MFA

The Club

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 New York University:
marion spencer’s SYMPHONY
Xin Ying’s Paper Dragon: Five Elements Matrix

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April 24, 2025

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LUCY AI

Community Arts Space

LUCY AI is an immersive multimedia experience where we invite participants to talk to Lucy AI, and then see into her memories, into her mind.

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April 25, 2025

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LUCY AI

Community Arts Space

LUCY AI is an immersive multimedia experience where we invite participants to talk to Lucy AI, and then see into her memories, into her mind.

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Shared Program: Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro / Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

The Downstairs Theatre

Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro
dance for no ending
This dance is a prayer, if prayer can be understood as a petition to the unknown, an action that makes space for wonder and bewilderment.

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Mooncry
Lloyd’s most recent work, premiering this April, is built from formal foundations focusing on exactitude of shape, energetics, and tone. The carefully composed duet empowers in-betweenness, expanding and collapsing scale on a whim, creating spaces of liminality and unsettled beauty.

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Shared Program: Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss / Megumi Eda

The Club

Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss
Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss and fiddler Alexis Chartrand meld unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility, tracing their paths across French Canadian, Appalachian, and Irish traditions with disarming spontaneity and palpable pleasure.

Megumi Eda
Please Cry
Megumi Eda performs a solo, inspired by personal and imagined memories of her grandmother, a Japanese military nurse during World War II.

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April 26-27, 2025

Shared Program: Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro / Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

The Downstairs Theatre

Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro
dance for no ending
This dance is a prayer, if prayer can be understood as a petition to the unknown, an action that makes space for wonder and bewilderment.

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Mooncry
Lloyd’s most recent work, premiering this April, is built from formal foundations focusing on exactitude of shape, energetics, and tone. The carefully composed duet empowers in-betweenness, expanding and collapsing scale on a whim, creating spaces of liminality and unsettled beauty.

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Shared Program: Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss / Megumi Eda

The Club

Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss
Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss and fiddler Alexis Chartrand meld unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility, tracing their paths across French Canadian, Appalachian, and Irish traditions with disarming spontaneity and palpable pleasure.

Megumi Eda
Please Cry
Megumi Eda performs a solo, inspired by personal and imagined memories of her grandmother, a Japanese military nurse during World War II.

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Amalia Suryani

Ta’na Nirau

Community Arts Space

Their forests have been ransacked and destroyed, but they draw hope from every twig and leaf, continuing to defend Mother Earth from man’s rapacious greed.

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May 1-3, 2025

Shared Program: New York Arab Festival

curated by adham hafez

Community Arts Space

New York Arab Festival (NYAF) presents its ‘festival within festival’ program at La MaMa for its 2025 edition, rooted in experimental Arab choreography and performance.

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Shared Program: Jessica Cook / Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith

Guest Curators: Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer

The Club

Psychic Wormhole /
Alex Romania and Stacy Lynn Smith
fame hOle
“fame hOle” is a mobile dance opera created by Alex Romania and Stacy Lynn Smith set inside their 2014 Prius V; an existential roadshow on the impossible nature of… life in general.

Jesi Cook
Wedge
A fly in your soup

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May 4, 2025

Shared Program: New York Arab Festival

curated by adham hafez

Community Arts Space

New York Arab Festival (NYAF) presents its ‘festival within festival’ program at La MaMa for its 2025 edition, rooted in experimental Arab choreography and performance.

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Shared Program: El Club MEG

Guest Curators: Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer

The Club

Featuring work-in-progress performance snippets by Arantxa Araujo, Josie Bettman, Hannah Kallenbach, Joey Kipp, and Coco Villa.

El Club MEG an afternoon of performance snippets by some of today’s most electrifying contemporary performance artists, wrapped up with a karaoke session with Le Papi Shiitake. It’s a whirlwind of unapologetic faggotry, confident psychosis, compelling movement, and power ballads.

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Date: April 10 - May 4, 2025

Location: Various Venue in New York, NY
 
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