
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2026 | Apr 9-May 10
La MaMa Moves! 2026. Celebrating the 21st Annual Dance Festival

La MaMa Moves! 2026. Celebrating the 21st Annual Dance Festival

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.

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.

GET TICKETS April 16-17, 2026 Community Arts Space74A East 4th StreetNew York, NY 10003 Tickets: $30 Adults ($50 Support The Artist Ticket)$25 Students/Seniors$10 La MaMa MembersFirst ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)_______ 2, 3 and 5-Show La MaMa Moves Packages Available! See more shows and save. Click here for packages Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees. See Program created byms. z tye guest curatorsMartita Abril & Blaze Ferrer About CONFESSIONS OF PEACHES, THE VIXEN is a cipher of pro hoe chronicles collaged intoperformance, with ms. z tye recalling the repentant memory of Y2K. La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2026 La MaMa Moves! 2026, the 21st season of La MaMa’s annual dance festival, brings togetherdance artists at all stages of their careers to experiment, collaborate, and share new work.Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will take place over five weeks in April and May of

GET TICKETS April 18-19, 2026 The Club74A East 4th StreetNew York, NY 10003 Tickets: $30 Adults ($50 Support The Artist Ticket)$25 Students/Seniors$10 La MaMa MembersFirst ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)_______ 2, 3 and 5-Show La MaMa Moves Packages Available! See more shows and save. Click here for packages Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees. a Shared Evening with Jade CharonGold Pylon& Tiffany Merritt-BrownTender is the Night about Gold Pylon by Jade Charon is an inquiry into the possibilities of a grandmother’sprayer becoming an intercessory superpower and gateway to a higher self. Charon’s ongoingmulti-media research project series Gold was created to emPOWER Black and Brown people byconnecting them to the element gold’s spiritual, metaphysical, and ancestral powers throughdance, film, sound, and writing. This latest event in the series is a live multimedia performancesolo that journeys through the refining and purification process of gold, reaching

In a hole new world. dispersed holes and absences beyond the self are threaded into a dissonant tunnel tracing the resonance of a hollow center.

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.

Returning to work at a chemical plant in the wake of a coworker’s murder of a supervisor, a group of blue-collar Latino laborers must confront their own mutual hostilities and the draining grind of the job as they search for ways to either move forward or move on.

Care Café is a public or domestic place for people to gather – their wits, thoughts and comrades in action. It is a temporary venue for communitas, conversation and activity within a spoken and visible frame of ‘care’.

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.

The American premiere by Green Cow – a contemporary, Korean, circus-based experimental arts collective.

The dining room of a sanatorium in the Alps. The deck of a ship on it’s way to Egypt. A country home in the Northeast. An uprooted family. An accidental death. Time elongates, compresses, becomes disjointed, and layers events past, present and imagined.
Combining richly textured music-theater with striking visual imagery, Talking Band’s elegant, eloquent, profound performance work has for fifty years been a cornerstone of New York City’s avant-guard theater community. Recipient of 18 OBIE awards including Life Time Achievement awards for its founders Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet.

Children are invited to experience the beauty, rhythm, and storytelling of traditional hula in this
joyful, hands-on workshop led by Kumu Hula ʻAuliʻi Aweau. Through movement, chant, and
cultural learning, keiki will explore how hula shares stories of nature, place, and community.

Edible Tales by Dancers Unlimited explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental
sustainability through a bi-coastal food lens from Hawai’i and NYC.

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 new
connection points and resonating waves.

Last summer, playwrights hailing from places ranging from New York to Tokyo came together in Umbria, Italy, for ten days of writing and theater-making with master playwright Dael Orlandersmith. On the grounds of LaMaMa founder Ellen Stewart’s home, they developed and workshopped plays that tell stories of hope and personal revelation. Come join us for a weekend of play excerpts read by actors, and the chance to meet the playwrights. A reception with light refreshments will be held between readings.

In a world stripped of memory and ruled by constant surveillance, dreams are the last remnants of the past. They become a dangerous currency for those who struggle to survive.
The Censorship of Dreams welcomes you to a world where civilization has Restarted and brain-computer technologies shape truth.
Arte Makar Productions, led by Armenian director Arthur Makaryan, creates visually striking, interdisciplinary performances that blend theater, technology, and political inquiry. Rooted in international collaboration, the company explores themes of memory, control, and resistance through immersive storytelling. Makaryan’s work spans Europe, the US, Middle East, and South America, bridging experimental forms with urgent social questions to provoke, unsettle, and inspire.

A shared evening performance with BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin

A new interactive, experiential theater work that explores the challenges, moments of humor, and unexpected losses and victories that arise when dementia impacts individuals, families, and communities.
Memory Generation is part of the first year of Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong and Company), a home for daring experimentation, expanding the boundaries of theater and nurturing creative communities of care.

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.
