Brooklyn Rail chats with Nicky Paraiso!

"Nicky’s new full-length work, now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, is opening on March 22. I’ve been following its progress from the Kickstarter (I gave) and online. Nicky is my friend since we met serving on the Honorary Awards Committee for the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. He’s a writer, performer, and essential curator, mostly of dance work at La MaMa. His curatorial work has occupied him greatly the last two decades, and he felt the need to return to his own creative work. He’s made a piece that’s autobiographical, telling the stories of his life through word and dance."

Read the full interview HERE

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La MaMa 

in association with Mount Tremper Arts 

presents

now my hand 

is ready for my heart: 

intimate histories

Written by Nicky Paraiso 

Directed by John Jesurun 

With Nicky Paraiso, Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, Paz Tanjuaquio 

now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories is the newest work from Nicky Paraiso, an award-winning 40-year veteran of the New York City performance community. In a deep exploration of an artist’s life, Paraiso investigates aging, identity, sexuality, class and race. Directed by MacArthur Fellow John Jesurun, this world premiere is a multi-disciplinary celebration of an artistic community as it grows older and continues to make work, both individually and with each other. Paraiso is joined by choreographer / dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators.

March 22 - April 07, 2019 
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 3pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

First Look at Nicky Paraiso's "now my hand is ready for my heart"

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La MaMa 

in association with Mount Tremper Arts 

presents

now my hand 

is ready for my heart: 

intimate histories

Written by Nicky Paraiso 

Directed by John Jesurun 

With Nicky Paraiso, Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, Paz Tanjuaquio 

now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories is the newest work from Nicky Paraiso, an award-winning 40-year veteran of the New York City performance community. In a deep exploration of an artist’s life, Paraiso investigates aging, identity, sexuality, class and race. Directed by MacArthur Fellow John Jesurun, this world premiere is a multi-disciplinary celebration of an artistic community as it grows older and continues to make work, both individually and with each other. Paraiso is joined by choreographer / dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators.

March 22 - April 07, 2019
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 3pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Video Preview: 55 SHADES OF GAY

From Kosovo, Qendra Multimedia's 55 Shades of Gay: Balkan Spring of Sexual Revolution is a contemporary burlesque story about LGBTI politics in the Balkans and Europe by acclaimed Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj. In a historically homophobic environment, local Balkan politicians try to manipulate and deceive EU officials; humanitarian mercenaries of international NGOs exploit intolerance for economic gains; and EU officials use their superior financial and political positions to subjugate everyone. This provocative, politically incorrect performance poses the question, “Is sexual liberation possible in the Balkans?”

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La MaMa presents

55 Shades of Gay: 
Balkan Spring of Sexual Revolution

A Qendra Multimedia Production
Written by Jeton Neziraj 
Directed by Blerta Neziraj

March 7 - 17, 2019
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 3pm
Added performance on Monday March 10th at 7pm

The Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors

For Tickets & Info: CLICK HERE

La MaMa Galleria goes to SPRING/BREAK NYC

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La MaMa Galleria presents

Jack Reynolds: language like lava

@ SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC 

Exploring ideas of representation and information, while playing with expectations based on historical formatting, Jack Reynolds situates imagery within a complicated space of language, form, and mark-making.

SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused, atypical and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week. The eighth annual exhibition will be held from March 5th  – March 11th, 2019. 

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La MaMa Galleria presents

Jack Reynolds: language like lava

@ SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC


March 5th - 11th, 2019

SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC
866 United Nations Plaza
Entrance at 866 East 48th Street
New York, NY 10017


For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Progress Report: 74 East 4th Street Capital Project

If you've walked by 74 East 4th Street lately, you've seen La MaMa's beloved building and first permanent home is being renovated as part of a multi-phase capital project.

To everyone's surprise, windows that no one knew were there were revealed on the west wall of The Club.  If these walls could talk...

When the project is finished, 74 East 4th Street will be handicapped accessible with the installation of an elevator and the lowering of the street entrance so there is no longer a step.   This renovation was long over-due to insure that the building will be available to everyone for years to come.

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To learn more about La MaMa's Restore a Building/Remake a World capital project:
CLICK HERE