La MaMa broadcasts the lineup for the 18th annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the 2023 pageant options new and up to date works by 12 choreographers and firms with assorted approaches to efficiency. Utilizing motion, storytelling, visuals and sound, the works on this 12 months’s pageant replicate the artists’ engagement with the occasions we dwell in, questioning, difficult and provoking dialog by dance. The pageant runs April 6-30, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, The Downstairs Theatre and the newly renovated The Club. Performance occasions differ.
The pageant opens with the world premiere of Shadowland by Norwegian choreographer Kari Hoaas. The work for six dancers is a response to an more and more unstable post-pandemic world by the sweetness and athleticism of up to date dance. The identical weekend brings the U.S. premiere of Forced Beauty by one other Norway-based artist, Nela H. Kornetová and T.I.T.S. An audiovisual bodily efficiency, Forced Beauty explores energy buildings, violent aesthetics and the strangeness of empathy.
The 2023 program additionally options the New York premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater, which is able to run for 2 weeks within the Ellen Stewart Theatre. This evocative dance, theater and dwell music piece explores themes of energy, love and belief within the midst of the theatrics of rehearsal. Bessie Award-winning choreographer Kayla Farrish, a present artist in residence at La MaMa, will current the second iteration of her new group work, Put Away the Fire, pricey. And La MaMa’s resident dance puppet theater firm, Loco7, will current its acclaimed work Lunch with Sonia.
There can even be two shared evenings. The first, a co-presentation with the New York Arab Festival, options Leyya Mona Tawil’s Malayeen Voices and a collaborative work by Nora Alami and Jadd Tank impressed partly by digital actuality know-how. The second shared program will characteristic the dynamic artist duo Baye and Asa of their 2022 work Suck it Up and Wendy Perron’s The Daily Mirror 1976/2022, that includes choreography by Perron and Morgan Griffin, with movie and images by Babette Mangolte.
“This season’s festival artists exemplify research and resilience, perseverance and testimony, they give witness to the uncertain times we live in, not necessarily in an overt punch-in-your-face way, but certainly with a deeply felt personal approach that our dance audiences will remember and not easily forget. We are living perhaps in a not yet totally post-pandemic world where emotional response continues to remain tender and raw,” stated Paraiso. “From the plush melancholic motion meditations of Kari Hoaas and the fierce feminism of Nela Kornetová, each from Norway, to the passionately propulsive duets of Baye and Asa, and the rigorous choreographic remembrances of Wendy Perron with Morgan Griffin, from the extraordinary virtuosic individuality of Kayla Farrish to the luscious extravagance and shared visceral humanity and neighborhood of Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater, we embrace and embrace all of our collaborating choreographic artists. We are additionally graced by three Arab American choreographers, Nora Alami, Jadd Tank and Leyya Mona Tawil, as an integral part of the refreshingly welcome New York Arab Festival. La MaMa resident dance/puppetry firm Loco7, representing a number of worldwide nations, reprises its shifting tribute to carefully knit household ties and the perennial remembrance of those that are essentially the most current and influential in our coming-of-age lives. We are blessed to have these dynamic choreographic artists in our 18th dance pageant season.“
La MaMa can even host a panel, Stop Calling Them Dangerous #5, Cinema Has Power, that includes a dialog on the ability of cinema and a movie screening together with works by groundbreaking artist Yvonne Rainer. The panel is organized by dancer/choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and will probably be moderated by choreographer, author and dance historian Wendy Perron.
Tickets for La MaMa Moves! are $30 (basic), $25 (college students/seniors). The first 10 tickets are $10 (restrict two per individual). Two- and three-show packages can be found. Ticket costs are inclusive of all charges. Tickets can be found at www.lamama.org.
