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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
What Does Working at La MaMa Mean to You, Part 2!
The 53rd season has come to an end at La MaMa after another wonderful year featuring dozens of different artists performing in 80+ productions and working in our art spaces on the Lower East Side! There is no better time to reflect on our mission dedicated to the artists and all aspects of the theatre. Ever since Ellen Stewart founded La MaMa in 1961, our interest has been in the people who make art, and it is to them that we give our support with free theater and rehearsal space, lights, sound, props, platforms, and whatever else we have that they can use to create their work.
We want them to feel free to explore their ideas, and translate them into a theatrical language that can communicate to any person in any part of the world. Here are some thoughtful quotes from old friends and new artists who spent time at La MaMa this season about what brought them to La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and why they keep coming back:
"La MaMa has always been an artistic home for me."
"La MaMa has always been an artistic home for me."
"La MaMa means having a safe haven to experiment and create alongside some amazingly talented and wonderful artists."
"La MaMa is an amazing place. They love and support artists above all, and I am so in awe of that."
~ Jane Comfort, Altiplano
"La MaMa is home. I have been in two plays here, and I wrote and directed a circus at the Café years ago. It’s a place where my work is welcomed and supported, and where the community of fellow artists is rich and diverse."
~ Obie-award winner Winsome Brown, This Is Mary Brown
"I have never experienced anything quite as magical as living and collaborating with Ellen. When she smiled, the whole world lit up. I can feel her smile in rehearsal."
~ Arthur Adair, Your War'try Grave
"I can tell you exactly what the dressing room smells like in the Ellen Stewart Theater with the same detail that I can tell you what the kitchen in my childhood home smells like, if that’s any indicator as to how vivid and loved La Mama is in my memory."
~ OBIE Award-Winner Heather Christian, Daily Life Everlasting
"I feel lucky to have the opportunity to perform and develop in such a nurturing environment. I will keep coming back, sniffing out all your squirreled pianos, as long as y'all will have me."
~ Dane Terry, Bird in the House
"Ever since I was a drama student at NYU, La MaMa, and The Public Theater, have always, and continue to be, definitive hubs for cutting edge, innovative theatre, and we're proud to be a part of that tradition."
~ Darian Dauchan, INCOMING! The Mighty Third Rail
"To have my students and my colleagues come together for this production at La MaMa is an honor."
~ Martha Tornay, The Shell Shocked Nut
"For me, working at La MaMa means having a home to pursue my creative work to its fullest potential. It also means having an artistic family and being directly connected to an amazing culture and community."
~ Mike Gorman, If Colorado Had an Ocean…
"To step into the house that Ellen Stewart built is a watershed."
~ Daniel Alexander Jones, An Integrator's Manual
"Rehearsing at 47 Great Jones is like coming home."
~ Andrea Assaf, Eleven Reflections on September
"To have this work, which is so important to me, at la MaMa, which has been on an altar of creativity for such a long time, is empowering and inspiring. La MaMa, for me, represents exactly what this work is attempting: to build on history while constantly seeking a new way to communicate, to bridge relationships, to foster a future."
~ Alexandra Beller, Milkdreams
"Having known both Ellen Stewart and Mia Yoo, I can say that they both radiate this same quality, a sort of ethic of being welcoming and nurturing, of hearing you, and supporting you, not just materially but morally."
~ Trav S.D. , Horseplay
"What I love most about La MaMa is the lack of fear in the shows they choose to present, with a look towards risk and beauty and vital things that need to be said."
~ Megan Kennedy, Dusk Ahead
"Working at La MaMa means performing in a space I have been thinking about since I was a teenager in Virginia, imagining the magical world of experimental New York theater. And in a space where I have seen work that defined my idea of what performance could and should be. We are so honored to be here."
~ James Harrison Monaco, INCOMING! Aaron/Marie
"I love the values that La Mama supports and promotes, and am glad to play a part in this."
~ Sam Trubridge, Sleep/Wake
Looking forward, keep an eye out for the new season on our website and consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our artists & productions!
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Dane Terry in FLAVORWIRE
Dane Terry is featured in Flavorwire, talking about his new album "Color Movies" and his upcoming show at The Club @ La MaMa, BIRD IN THE HOUSE, opening Friday, April 17th:
"In Terry we have Randy Newman, sardonic and ironic, but filtered through a modern-era queer lens."
Read the full article HERE, and get your tickets to the show!
La MaMa presents
BIRD
IN THE
HOUSE
April 17 - 26, 2015
The Club at La MaMa
74a East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors / 10 tickets at $10 are available pre-sale for every performance
For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Dane Terry Featured in Next Magazine
Mark Dommu speaks with Dane Terry in the current issue of Next Magazine. Dane talks about childhood, being weird and his neo-cabaret show at The Club @ La MaMa, Bird in the House, premiering April 17.
"I started writing songs about aliens, about America, about my father, about where I came from. I come from hillbilly stock, and we love our aliens—and the aliens tend to love us.”
Read the full article HERE
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La MaMa presents
April 17 - 26, 2015
The Club at La MaMa
74a East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors / 10 tickets at $10 are available pre-sale for every performance
For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Audio Preview: "Kids" by Dane Terry from BIRD IN THE HOUSE
La MaMa presents
BIRD IN THE HOUSEwritten and directed by Dane Terry
April 17 - 26, 2015
The Club at La MaMa
74a East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors / 10 tickets at $10 are available pre-sale for every performance
For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Spring Season @ La MaMa Announced!
The Spring Season at La MaMa has been announced and it includes:
and MANY MORE!!
Check out the full Spring schedule!
Monday, March 16, 2015
6 Questions: Dane Terry
photo by Tinker Coalescing
With Bird In The House, April 17 - 26 in The Club at La MaMa, composer/performer Dane Terry paints scenes of childhood and adolescence in the off-colors of standard-issue American neuroses, featuring songs from his new album Color Movies, which will be released concurrently HERE. Dane graciously took time away from rehearsals to talk to us about boogie-woogie, lease-less living and getting audiences to trust you.
1. How did you come by your "liquid country western" piano-playing style? Are you particularly influenced by any regional sounds or artists?
Well it's an interesting cocktail of influences... I started playing piano in earnest when I was about 12. I loved boogie-woogie, Gospel, R&B and rockabilly music and I played that kind of stuff exclusively for about 5 years. By that point I had started to get my first gigs playing background music at art openings and weddings and such. Since I couldn't get away with playing 3 hours of straight boogie-woogie I had to pretend like I could play the sort of light, wallpaper jazz that people expected at those kinds of events. I aped that style (in between boogie-woogie numbers of course) for years as a living. All the while I was studying classical music in college. So thats why I sound like if Little Richard and Liberace had a baby (I would watch that movie) and Elton John taught it how to play Rachmaninov.
2. Is there a trick to blending humor and emotionality in performance? You're so good at it, but it can be very difficult.
Thank you kindly, sir! Hmm. Being funny makes people trust you... You've made them do something they couldn't control, made them show their belly, and in that moment you didn't carve up their gut. So I think that people who are funny have an easier path to the hearts of their audience, should they choose to exploit that. Exploit. Listen to me. Jeesh. Also, humor has something to do with truth and honesty. I don't quite know the mechanism... Looking at it too close is probably not a good thing.
3. Bird In the House features your music - What else should audiences expect from the show?
To revisit a few unsettling events from (my) childhood. It will be like someone dropped an opera on the floor of a saloon and a drunk Ray Bradbury took it home and bottle-fed it.
4. What can you tell us about your collaborators: Tova Katz, Rose Emily Quinn, John Hubbell and Sam Weber?
Tova Katz and Rose Emily Quinn are both stunning performers, artists and songwriters in their own right. We met because I happened to live with them and a rotating cast of Brooklyn queers in one of those lease-less collective apartments full of artists and the like. They have a band together: Glittered and Mauled. They sing like one animal. It's breathtaking. We became friends and played shows together and eventually I asked them to collaborate with me on my piece for Squirts at La Mama in 2014. I played with John Hubbell back in Ohio years ago and met Sam Weber through him once we were both in NYC. I was music directing Justin Sayre's show at Joes Pub and needed a good band, so I figured I would start with a good drummer and asked John and he brought in Sam. They are all insanely talented. I am so excited to be working with them.
5. You have some pretty evocative titles: Bird in the House, Color Movies. They appear innocuous, but (to me) they also bring up some interesting metaphors and are a little subversive. For example, why say Color Movies? Normally movies are black and white or just movies. Am I reaching? I guess I'm asking, how do you think about and relate to the titles of your work?
That's the feel I was going for with Color Movies. That ambiguity is slightly anxiety inducing. Also, sure, it does reference a bygone era. The album is soaked in my childhood, but childhood is not only the events lived as a child but the world, and the past, as it was spoon-fed to us. So on the album theres the Cold War, WWI and WWII, The Challenger Disaster, Harry Truman, Spaghetti Westerns, Mickey Mouse and Unsolved Mysteries right alongside my mother and father. As for Bird In The House, well, have you ever experienced a bird getting trapped in your house? Its traumatic. Not just the palpable panic of an animal in your home. But a familiar, friendly thing suddenly becoming violent and alien.
In general, I think titles can provide a translucent image, a filter through which one can see the work. Titles are really the first moment of your show.
6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?
I remember someone when I first moved to New York mentioned La MaMa in passing and I said I didn't know what that was. They said "Oh, you will..."
I mean obviously theres so much history and great art thats been hatched there and licked clean by loving mothers. Storied boards for sure. And it is a true honor to be a part of that lineage. BUT, to be honest, it's La MaMa in its current incarnation, the people who are there now, that I fell in love with. As soon as I started hangin' around I folded into a group of very kind folks that instantly made me feel loved and supported artistically. Not to get all brownie-points, but it's true. I feel lucky to have the opportunity to perform and develop in such a nurturing environment. I will keep coming back, sniffing out all your squirreled pianos, as long as y'all will have me.
La MaMa presents
BIRD IN THE HOUSEwritten and directed by Dane Terry
April 17 - 26, 2015
The Club at La MaMa
74a East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors / 10 tickets at $10 are available pre-sale for every performance
For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
6 QUESTIONS: Nicky Paraiso
Nicky Paraiso's annual holiday show, CHRISTMAS IN NICKYLAND will take over The Club at La MaMa December 20th & 21st, 2014. Now in its 10th year, the show brings together a host of Downtown performers to celebrate the holidays in true Off-Off-Broadway style. We spoke with him about the evolution of the East Village, playing a robot in The COIL Festival and his first piano teacher:
1. Christmas in Nickyland has been a fixture at La MaMa for a decade now. How has the show changed, or stayed the same, over the years?
Christmas in NickyLand is an extension of the Salon format that I began in 1998 at PS 122 ‘s 1998 Spring Benefit, and also presented a version of, at The Club at La MaMa in October 2000, by inviting performers, friends and colleagues to perform, from the Downtown theater, dance, music, and performance scene. The idea behind this was my fanboy sensibility, eager to show a clear manifestation of the idea of a performance community, which actually did begin in the East Village in the mid-1980s, at now legendary clubs and performances spaces like: WOW Café, the Pyramid Club, 8BC, Nuyorican Poets Café, Limbo Lounge, Chandelier, Save The Robots, Darinka, King Tut’s Wah-Wah Hut, The Gas Station, some which of course no longer exist. And of course there’s Dixon Place, PS 122 and The Club at La MaMa, still going strong. In 2004, Ellen Stewart said I should be doing a holiday show, which I called Christmas in NickyLand. This year marks the 10th Anniversary of this holiday gathering of artists.
2. What can you tell us about this year's featured performers?
If you look at the line-up, there are a lot of duos this year, individual artists who somehow have had a tradition of performing in tandem, or new duo collaborations of singular artists who admire and like each other’s work: David Cale & Dane Terry, Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, Yoshiko Chuma & Vicky Shick (on Saturday night’s show), and Yoshiko and Jeremy Pheiffer (on Sunday’s show). I’ll also be teaming up with Mike Iveson Jr to perform a song from his upcoming show “Sorry, Robot” which will be performed at The New Ohio Theater in January as part of PS 122’s COIL Festival. Storytellers & monologuists David Cale, Edgar Oliver, and George Emilio Sanchez, Heather Litteer, Chris Tanner, will also be on board this year. And there are sometimes special surprise guests who are always welcome to the stage.
3. What is your favorite part of the holiday season in the East Village? Any inside scoops on things to do / places to go in the neighborhood?
I actually like that the East Village, like much of New York City itself, gets very quiet during the Christmas holidays. People either go away to visit the families out-of-town, of course, and other EV residents gather in their own homes and apartments to celebrate with their families and friends. Of course there’s always a tradition of Christmas and holidays shows at La MaMa, this year including Yara Arts Group with the Ukrainian musicians’ group, the Koliadnyky ensemble, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians,” and the East Village Dance Project’s annual take on The Nutcracker, “The Shell-Shocked Nut.”
4. Many know you as an actor, vocalist and curator, but you're also a great piano player. When did you first start playing? Who do you listen to for inspiration?
I started piano lessons when I was five years old, with the kind neighborhood spinster piano teacher lady, Miss Evelyn Olt. And then more music training at the Dalcroze School of Music on Saturday afternoons, attending classes with friends like musical theater composer David Friedman, and choreographer/administrator Joan Finkelstein, now Director of the Harkness Dance Foundation. I remember going to see the great Vladimir Horowitz at the Metropolitan Opera House, and also loved Artur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein (who was a great pianist) in the classical realm, and then Art Tatum, Thelonius Monk, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Dr. John, Laura Nyro, in the jazz and pop realms. I also admired the late Bobby Short, and Barbara Carroll, Diana Krall, for their cabaret elegance and class. And the current crop of downtown musical directors, especially Lance Horne and Thomas Bartlett, who sometimes play with Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.
5. What should audience members expect from this show?
A lot of love & passion, some virtuosic talent, and a strong sense of community and fun. I know I know, it does go on a bit long for a cabaret show, although it always amazes me how the audience responds so generously, they really do stick with the shows for the duration, and there’s a hardy few who love to stay around and mingle with and talk to the performers after the show is over. It’s also a time for these wonderful performers-in-their-own-rights to catch up with each other and enjoy each other’s company!
6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you, both as a curator and as an artist?
La MaMa, first through Ellen Stewart of course, and now with Mia Yoo, our Artistic Director, and the La MaMa staff of artists and technical people, have always handed me the full reins of creative freedom, and from the beginning of my working life as an actor and musician, La MaMa has always been an artistic home for me.
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La MaMa presents
CHRISTMAS IN NICKYLAND
MC - Nicky Paraiso
Featuring - The All-La MaMa Ding-Ding Christmas Chorus, David Cale & Dane Terry, Yoshiko Chuma & Vicky Shick (Saturday only), Jeremy Pheiffer (Sunday only), Adam Feldman, Ellen Fisher, Mike Iveson Jr., Joseph Keckler, Heather Litteer, Edgar Oliver, George Emilio Sanchez, Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, Pearse Redmond (Guest MC) & More TBA!
December 20th-21st, 2014
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; ten tickets are available (in advance only) as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 Ticketing Initiative. These tickets are available to anyone, first come - first served, via web, phone or at the box office - but they are not available day of show!
For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
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