The New York Times Says: See GRUPPO NANOU at La MaMa

The 2019 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival kicks off tonight with we want miles, in a silent way by Italy's Groupo Nanou - and The New York Times says it's one of the 10 dance performances to see this weekend.

You can read the full article: HERE

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La MaMa presents

we want miles, 

in a silent way

by Groupo Nanou

Part of the 2018 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

April 26 - April 28, 2019
Friday and Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 3pm

The Downstairs at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Nicky Paraiso in The New York Times

The New York Times' Gia Kourlas spoke to La MaMa's Nicky Paraiso about curating the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, his own recent show at La MaMa, now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, and the idea of curating as "curing."

"Mr. Paraiso was — and remains — the festival’s curator. The word eclectic would be a kind way to describe his early programming, which, in keeping with the mission of La MaMa’s founder, Ellen Stewart, was to include artists from as many different disciplines as possible."

You can read the full article: HERE

The 2019 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival begins this Friday, April 26, 2019, with Gruppo Nanou's we want miles, in a silent way

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La MaMa presents

The 2019 
La MaMa Moves! 
Dance Festival

curated by Nicky Paraiso

April 26 - May 26, 2019

The Ellen Stewart Theatre and The Downstairs @ La MaMa

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery and Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors

For more information about La MaMa Moves! and to buy tickets: CLICK HERE

2019 Summer Rentals @ La MaMa

Every summer, La MaMa offers our historic venues for rent!  This year's rental season is from 

June 14 through September 8, 2019.

The Ellen Stewart Theatre

Stage: 57' x 36’ 

Height to Grid: 23' 6" 

Capacity: 299

The Downstairs

Stage: 45’ x 59’ 

Height to grid: 11’ 8" 

Capacity: 150

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La MaMa also rents their Gallery space and has several rehearsal spaces for rent year-round, located at 47 Great Jones Street.

La MaMa Galleria

47 Great Jones Street rehearsal studio

47 Great Jones Street rehearsal studio

For more information about any of La MaMa's rentals, please CLICK HERE or email: rentals@lamama.org

La MaMa Café by Palenque

Coming soon to the Ellen Stewart Theatre lobby: La MaMa Café by Palenque

La MaMa is excited to announce La MaMa Café new partnership with Palenque Homemade Colombia Food! Starting April 11, 2019 they will be serving delicious gourmet Colombian fusions, ‘home­style’ cooking to our audiences in both of our theaters. Concessions will be open one hour before and after performances, so please browse the menu below and join us in the lobby for some delicious homemade food.

Palenque is a company dedicated to providing delicious gourmet Colombian fusions, ‘home­style’ cooking to the New York metro area. Their food is prepared from the finest eco­friendly organic ingredients and made with love 

Palenque's artisanal AREPAS are inspired from traditional recipes but made with ancient whole grains such as the South American quinoa, brown rice, flax, chia and sesame seeds, producing a healthier version of AREPAS.

Click here to browse the food and drink menu!

Video Preview: 2019 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

2019 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
April 26 - May 26, 2019
Curated By Nicky Paraiso

Tickets now on sale!

The Trojan Women Project Festival: Memory from Kim Ima

Sitting on the floor in a circle. A hand begins a beat. Tum tum tum tum. A rhythm begins. Repeat after me. One word. A few words. A string of words. Repeat after me. The beat tum tum tum tum pulsing by fingers, toes and bodies. Back and forth, more words strung together in call and response. These words are not in English or from any known language. A mix of ancient Greek, Navajo, Latin and more. The words, the music, the rhythms are new and wonderful. In 1996, a company of original members from the 1974 La MaMa production of The Trojan Women along with a new generation of performers was assembled. The original creative team of director Andrei Serban, composer Elizabeth Swados and producer Ellen Stewart revived the show with the desire to share it with a new generation of artists and audiences. The lead roles were shared in rotation between older and younger generation performers, and everyone performed each night in the chorus. Following the run, Ellen and members of this newly assembled intergenerational company took the production to international festivals, continuing what had begun in 1974. I was one of the new cast members, invited in 1996 to learn La MaMa’s Trojan Women from the original company. My strongest memories are of sitting or standing in a circle, learning songs and spoken choruses from the original members. If there was a question about a word or phrase, out came little notebooks or perhaps an old date book with chicken scratch notes in the margins, from their original rehearsals in 1974 or perhaps from over the years. A complete script did not exist, as far as I knew. Typed pages of text would be shared, only after we had already begun to learn the piece, and eventually a stack of pages with most of the words that could pass for an almost complete script. Mostly, we learned by oral tradition. Tum tum tum tum. We, too, got a chance to write down our chicken scratches of our own. How does it sound to you? They might ask. Write it down. Then we would continue. A hand or a drum setting a beat. Liz sitting in the room, listening, encouraging, stepping into the circle to lead us in what felt like an expedition into the wilds of a jungle, a world of sound, song, chants, exclamations in ways only Liz could do. And now we continue this oral tradition today in the Trojan Women Project. Sitting on the floor in a circle. My hand begins a beat. Tum tum tum tum. A rhythm begins. Repeat after me, I say. One word. A few words. A string of words. Tum tum tum tum, we chant. And a world opens up.

The Trojan Women Project will celebrate five years of work in Guatemala, Cambodia and Kosovo with an eleven day festival at La MaMa, December 5th-15th, 2019. The Trojan Women Project was born out of the desire to share the production not only with international audiences, but with a new generation of international artists. How can they, and we, carry the legacy of this special show in our bodies, voices and collective memories?

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

DOWNTOWN is talking about "now my hand is ready for my heart"

“Nicky Paraiso’s new performance, now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories is breathtaking, offering his life story as sail to illuminate matters of heart, mind, body and spirit…Go Now!”

Karen Finley, writer and performer

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“Sharply honest with wry humor and many laugh out loud moments, we travel Nicky's road that never turns maudlin, a story of how we create new famillies without disowning the ones we are born into.”

Penny Arcade, performer
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“Nicky Paraiso’s show “my hand is ready for my heart,” at La Mama is brilliant. Nicky is brilliant. And John Jesurun’s direction is pitch perfect. Go see it. It’s an homage to a life spent in NY Downtown Theater. Every young performer needs to understand how and who carved the paths for you.”

Ralph Pena, Artistic Director, Ma-Yi Theatre Company
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The “writing was raw, bracing, honest, witty, simple & powerful. What writing should be…the piece was political in the most organic way.”

Jessica Hagedorn, writer and performer
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“(Nicky) tells his story with humor, warmth and ironic gesture. Most of all he reminds how the downtown world and most especially La Mama was created from a wild love of risk and of the people willing to take it. Spend an evening in his presence”

Karen Malpede, playwright

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Only 4 more performances to catch now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories @ La MaMa.

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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

2019 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival Announced!

The 2019 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival line-up has been announced!

Marco Valerio Amico & Rhuena Bracci

Mia Habib

Colleen Thomas

Yin Mei

Hari Krishnan/inDANCE

Bobbi Jene Smith

Dan Safer/Witness Relocation

Jesca Prudencio & Ping Chong + Co.

Sin Cha Hong

Explore the full Festival line-up here!