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La MaMa Moves! 2025 – Apr 10-May 4
La MaMa Moves! 2025. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Dance Festival
Class Dismissed – Apr 18-May 4
Your favorite professor slides into dementia; two grad-students hallucinate a manifesto; a privileged lit-prof performs poetry.
New York Arab Festival – May 1-4
Shared Program: New York Arab Festival (NYAF) presents its “festival within festival” program at La MaMa for its 2025 edition, rooted in experimental Arab and Arab American choreography, theater, and performance.
Jessica Cook / Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith – May 1-3
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
El Club MEG – May 4
Shared Program: Emerging Choreographers Program, Curated by Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer
A Spring Cleaning/Seed Planting Care Cafe – May 6
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’.
EXAM – May 8-11
A performance art pop concert stripping the tendons of America’s transsex-obsessed musculature, exposing its bones for sensory examination under the harsh glow of neon lights.
Those Who Remained – May 8-18
A multimedia solo show about the transformative limits of love told through indigenous ceremony, modern dating, and confronting one’s Italian-Mongolian roots, from a New York voice.
Teaching & Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures – May 10
Book Launch & Reading: Anabella will be reading passages from her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, show short dance videos from the ALDD repertory, and have a Q&A session.
Seagull: True Story – May 16-June 1
Moscow, 2022. Colliding with the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, a theater director’s staging of The Seagull is irrevocably compromised… but that’s just the beginning.
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote – May 17-18
La MaMa Kids: The Sweet Tales of Piloncillo and Tejocote
/ Adventures in the Mexican Candy Factory.
An endearing puppet show about brotherhood, friendship, and sweet treats.
Lucky FM – May 21-25
Tuning in to the frequencies of ancestors and heroes, SLANT performs Lucky FM with its signature style of humor and drama with live music, voice, movement, and storytelling.
Ig (Water) – May 22-25
Ig (Water): Aquatic Ecosystem Dance that Codified a Living Tradition of the Philippines
The Moby Dick Blues – June 5-22
Moby Dick Meets The Perfect Storm. In a tale that stretches across generations and ancients—lost mariners, lost souls, lost lives—The Moby Dick Blues is a working-class opera about a New England fishing community’s daunting quest for survival and transformation in the face of the opiate crisis.
La MaMa’s Squirts – June 6-8
La MaMa’s Squirts is an annual queer intergenerational performance festival. Each year, Squirts gathers a diverse range of queer voices in an experimental playground for them to give shape to impulses and ideas that characterize the moment.
Medea of the Laundromat – June 12-22
TONY-award nominee John-Andrew Morrison takes on the title role in a revival of H.M. Koutoukas’ Medea of the Laundromat. An ancient Greek tragedy set in a laundromat that unfolds in a 1960’s coffeehouse.
