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La MaMa Moves!

May 18 - June 4, 2017

Welcome to La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, now in its twelfth season! In these perilous, challenging and unpredictable times in our country and in the world, we can look to the performing arts for some clues as to how we might respond and continue to live our lives with vigilance, and hopefully a modicum of wisdom, to keep asking even more vital and bold questions. I believe this to be one of the essential missions of art and art-making, to hold a mirror up to the world and its ever-present and changing dilemmas. We celebrate La MaMa’s 55th Season with an exuberant Block Party on Saturday May 20th and also mark the 12th year of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival (May 18-June 4, 2017) with a series of dance directives which hopefully engage dancemakers and dance audiences to respond and make their own dances. Within this season’s festival, we witness different generations of choreographic artists dealing with the actual day-to-day contemporary, political, social, and ecological challenges that we face in our world. We continue our collaboration with international companies and include the vibrant, kinetic, and viscerally powerful work of locally-based contemporary choreographers, including those who originally arrived here from international locales, e.g., Brazil, Cambodia, India, Korea, the Philippines, Poland, UK, Venezuela, as well as Caribbean cultures. As in previous seasons, we invite you, the audience, to once again share and experience with us the visionary talent, diversity, physical virtuosity, and deep, compelling concerns of all the artists participating in La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2017. Much love to all, Nicky Paraiso, La MaMa Moves! Curator Br

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white wave dance IYOUUSWE | MAY 18 - MAY 21 ELLEN STEWART THEATRE THURSDAY - FRIDAY AT 7PM AND SUNDAY AT 4PM With iyouuswe, (I-You-Us-We), Young Soon Kim and her multifaceted team create a visually provocative, intimate piece that challenges us to examine who we are and how we relate to ourselves and each other. It’s a story about developing meaningful relationships in which we struggle to seek a sense of ‘i’ as part of a ‘we’. A pioneer of Hallyu: Korean Wave, Young Soon Kim, an internationally acclaimed choreographer whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich imagery. Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Dance’s mission is to inspire audiences of all cultures with the multi-dimensional aspects of complete dance staging and productions which reflect themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Choreographed by Young Soon Kim in collaboration with the performers Original Music Composed by Ki Young, other music by Jang Young Gyu, Hahn Dae Soo, Jim Perkins, Tricky and Tirzah Performed by Anton Martynov, Guanglei Hui, Cara Seymour, Tsai Hsi Hung, Mikelle Rindflish, Mark Willis, Casey LaVres, James Johnson, Juhwan Hwang

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Nelson | Lara Malvacias “A” and “D” | MAY 19 - 20 THE CLUB FRIDAY - SATURDAY AT 9:30PM A and D are part of a larger project – From A to Z - to create a series of highly structured improvisational duets, which use signposts and issues connected with life and aging as a framework for exploration. The practice of manipulating images and concepts onsite following a strict conceptual frame can produce instant movement and unravel choreography that is full of content and related to specific thoughts. The original project began with the idea of 6 duets - A B C D E F - and has expanded to include the entire alphabet. Jeremy Nelson is a dancer/choreographer and former member of the Siobhan Davies Dancers and Second Stride Dance companies in London, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York. Born in Venezuela, Luis Lara Malvacías is a choreographer, dancer, dance teacher, and visual artist. He has danced in the work of Jeremy Nelson, David Zambrano, Mark Tompkins, John Jasperse, Yoshiko Chuma, and in his own choreography. Created by Jeremy Nelson and Luis Lara Malvacías | 3RD CLASS CITIZEN Music Composed by Ivo Bol

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lA MAMA BLOCK PARTY DANCING IN THE STREET | MAY 20 FREE EVENT ON EAST 4TH STREET SATURDAY 11AM - 4PM Join La MaMa as we celebrate our 55th Anniversary with a Dancing in the Street Block Party with food, free performances, crafts, children’s activities and dancing in the street! Scheduled to perform at the Block Party are: Dancers and choreographers from La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival; Rude Mechanical Orchestra; Yoshiko Chuma; Thurgood Marshall Middle School Step Team; Kinding Sindaw indigenous Filipino dance company; Stefanie Batten Bland; Pua Ali’I Ilima O Nuioka traditional hula dance troupe; among many others. In addition to performances, La MaMa’s celebration of its diverse community includes a variety of dance workshops, children’s activities, neighborhood food, a bouncy castle, and dancing in the street! Additional performers TBA.

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COMPANY sBB Bienvenue欢迎WelcomeBienvenidoالهأ كب | MAY 25 - MAY 28 ELLEN STEWART THEATRE THURSDAY - SATURDAY AT 7PM AND SUNDAY AT 4PM Welcome…, a collaboration between between 2016 Jerome Robbins Award recipient, Stefanie Batten Bland, visual artist Benjamin Heller, and composer Paul Damian Hogan, examines our willingness to embrace and share space with others. Countering the present political climate, in which walls have become synonymous with barriers that separate people and places, Welcome considers the graffiti-decorated walls of cities as communal canvases that express the past and present of its neighborhood people. A mural of paintings created by children and their parents, becomes an integral part of the dance. Unguarded by abstraction and undeterred by convention, the emotional content of Stefanie Batten Bland’s work is directly accessible; its powerful emotional, social and philosophical message is visceral. Her works, dance installations that combine movement, visual art and music, are site-specific and designed to embrace the space and community within. Choreographed and Directed by Stefanie Batten Bland | Visual Art by Benjamin Heller Composed by Paul Damian Hogan | Performed by Yeman Brown, Emilie Camacho, Benjamin Cheney, Emeri Fetzer, Jennifer Payån

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Shared Evening BETH GRACZYK | MARIANA VALENCIA MAY 25 - 26 | FIRST FLOOR THEATRE THURSDAY - FRIDAY AT 7:30PM

BETH GRACZYK - One of You is Fake One of You Is Fake is the second solo piece in Graczyk’s performance series Desire Motor, following her inaugural solo Beast. Unfolding as an earnestly absurdist look at the future of mankind, Graczyk engages both mundane and exquisitely made objects to question our collective participation in the erosion of the physical, sensual and material world. Part science lecture, part song, One of You Is Fake accumulates physical movement ideas on the process of formation. With music composed by Cameron Shafii. MARIANA VALENCIA - ALBUM Album responds to archiving the self from a root query: “I don’t know who will write a herstory about me, so I’m starting now to help them write it better.” Through text, dance and song, Album navigates a cartographic herstory written from places out of focus, from where history neglects to look. This research particularly depicts relationships to urbanity, vampires, love, and marginality. Album is an excerpt of a longer performance previously performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

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aSTAD DEBOO ETERNAL EMBRACE | MAY 25 - MAY 26 THE DOWNSTAIRS THURSDAY - FRIDAY AT 8PM Eternal Embrace is inspired by the poem Maati, written by Sufi poet Hazrat Bulleh Shah. Embodying the poem’s central themes, the piece explores the tensions between annihilation and infinity, the ephemeral and the material worlds. Astad Deboo’s name is synonymous with contemporary Indian dance. He pioneered an innovative style of Indian dance in the late 70’s. Diverse influences have given Astad Deboo a rich vocabulary as a successful soloist. It has also given him the resources to engage in creative collaborations with musicians, puppeteers, theatre directors, visual artists and dancers. His significant legacy offers innovative models for younger Indian artists whom he exhorts with characteristic clarity: “to be Contemporary Indian Dancers we must be Indian Contemporary, not simply imitate the West.” Astad’s dynamic career has lasted over 48 years, with performances in more then 70 countries. Choreographed and Performed by Astad Deboo Music Composed and Performed by Yukio Tsuji

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MALINI SRIniVASAN REMEMBERING PANDIT RAMESH MISRA TEJAS-LUMINOUS MAY 27 - MAY 28 | THE DOWNSTAIRS SATURDAY AT 8PM AND SUNDAY AT 3PM This evening’s performance is a tribute to the music of sarangi maestro late Pandit Ramesh Misra, whose inspirational music is featured in many of these dances. Malini Srinivasan presents excerpts from Tejas - Luminous, a dance production exploring the connections between the spiritual, the corporeal, light and sound. Including: the Evening’s solemn rituals, Dawn’s awakening body and spirit, and the Day’s ecstatic renewal. Guest choreographer Janaki Patrik presents Ghalib Sher & Ektaal Tarana in Raag Kalavati. Malini Srinivasan is a third-generation Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer and teacher, and the disciple of Guru C.V. Chandrasekhar. Her company creates and performs works that connect the traditional and mythological worlds with our contemporary selves. Trained in both modern dance (Merce Cunningham studio) and classical north Indian Kathak dance (Pt. Birju Maharaj), Janaki Patrik is the Artistic Director of The Kathak Ensemble & Friends. Choreographed by Malini Srinivasan | With Guest Choreographer Janaki Patrik Performed by Aditi Dhruv, Kadhambari Sridhar, Karthiga Devi, Malini Srinivasan, Sloka Iyengar, Tatyana Popova, Winston Dynamite Brown, Janaki Patrik, Angelina Haque, andAnisha Muni

Shared Evening BRENDAN DRAKE | JASMINE HEARN MAY 27 - MAY 28 | FIRST FLOOR THEATRE SATURDAY AT 7:30PM AND SUNDAY AT 2PM BRENDAN DRAKE - The Big Finish This work for 3 performers uses camp, humor, and the American Musical Theater Songbook to examine the paradox of depression and isolation amidst boisterous self-expression. Sanity requires a certain level of impersonation. What we project out into the world is often nothing more than a glossy varnish, but what would happen if we truly “let our freak flag fly?” Through text and movement, framed by thoughts on vanity, insecurity and suicide, The Big Finish subverts the very thin veneer of public decency and envisions a collective unraveling of sanity. JASMINE HEARN - blue, sable, and burning This solo work uses memories of home, travel, and the waters that we have visited and that have visited us, as the source for a collage of dance, song, and story-telling. Taking inspiration from Robin Coste Lewis’ poem The Voyage of the Sable Venus, the piece revisits imagery from an ongoing collaboration with visual artist and activist Jennifer Meridian, and is a map that follows where the Sable Venus has been in past, present, and future.

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Shared Evening YOSHIKO CHUMA | RADY NGET | BROTHER (HOOD) DANCE! MAY 25 - MAY 26 | THE CLUB THURSDAY - FRIDAY AT 9:30PM YOSHIKO CHUMA - π=3.14...Dead End, Hey! All Women! A flowing resistance activity with a delicate, powerful monologue through dance. This project launched on President’s Day at La MaMa. Yoshiko Chuma, conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks, has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, consistently producing thought-provoking work. RADY NGET - My Memory Nget began his dance training in 1999, specializing in the monkey role of Lakhaon Kaol, the Cambodian classical male masked dance form. As a classical dancer, he has toured to Europe and throughout Asia, and as a contemporary dancer has performed in numerous works. BROTHER (HOOD) DANCE! (ORLANDO ZANE HUNTER, JR & RICARRDO VALENTINE) -how to survive a plague Brother(hood) Dance! is an interdisciplinary duo that seeks to inform its audiences on the socio-political and environmental injustices from a global perspective, bringing clarity to the same-gender-loving African-American experience in the 21st century. R

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Shared EveningS CURATED BY MAURA NGUYEN DONOHUE MAY 27 - MAY 28 | THE CLUB SATURDAY AT 9:30PM AND SUNDAY AT 6PM All of the choreographers on this program were once students at the Hunter College Dance Program in the City University of New York. By gathering them into shared space and time, Maura hopes to celebrate the rich plurality their artistic voices offer our community as makers and movers. SATurday, May 27 at 9:30PM RINA ESPIRITU ALEXANDRA AMIROV KIRSTEN FLORES-DAVIS SUNday, May 28 at 6PM JANICE ROSARIO KAREEM ALEXANDER CAMILLA DAVIS

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TIDES PROJECT: DROWNING PLANET/DISPOSABLE BODIES MAY 25 - 26 | JUNE 1 - 3 | THE DOWNSTAIRS LOBBY ALL PERFORMANCES AT 6:30PM An immersive, interactive installation focused on the destructive presence of plastic pollution in our oceans, developed, in part, in collaboration with CultureHub. Drowning Planet embeds video screens into an underwater garden of reclaimed plastics. The installation will include Disposable Bodies, live performance activations of the entire lobby, amidst collected single-use plastic bags woven, braided and tied into an evocation of kelp forests and submerged spaces. Maura Nguyen Donohue has been making experimental performance works in New York City for over 20 years. Her work has been produced by Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Roulette, Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, La MaMa, The Asia Society, Mulberry St. Theater, the West End Theater, and has toured across the US and to Europe and Asia. She is Associate Professor of Dance at Hunter College/CUNY. Performed, Choreographed and Installed by Maura Nguyen Donohue Collaborators include Artist David Gonville | Performers Peggy Cheng, Rina Espiritu, Kirsten Flores-Davis, Perry, Jet and Sara Yung | Composer Adam Cuthbert

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PATRICIA HOFFBAUER GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER | JUNE 2 - 4 ELLEN STEWART THEATRE FRIDAY - SATURDAY AT 7PM AND SUNDAY AT 4PM From Plato’s definition of the “wandering uterus” as an angry and desirous animal inside a woman’s body, to notorious legal defense of his actions, “Getting Away with Murder” is built from myriad sources. In this work, Hoffbauer explores ways women have featured prominently as object and subject in Western Art, focusing on iconic moments where the female body is at the receiving end of violent representation and actions. Incorporating a cast of 10 performers, a set designer, a musician, and an interaction with Yvonne Rainer, the piece juxtaposes dance, performance and iconic imagery to transverse a subject already know.

Patricia Hoffbauer is a Brazilian-born New York based dance artist. Her work has been seen in and out of New York City since the late 80s. She collaborated on several full evening performances with artist George Emilio Sanchez, is a founding member of Yvonne Rainer’s “Raindears,” and is now teaching full time at NYU’s Tisch Open Arts. Conceived, Choreographed and Directed by Patricia Hoffbauer | Set Design by Gordon Lendenberger | Sound Score by Eli Janney | Costume Consultant Liz Prince | Rehearsal Director/Dramaturgy Peggy Gould | Special Interaction Yvonne Rainer

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PATRICIA NOWOROL TREMENDOUS | JUNE 1 - 3 THE DOWNSTAIRS THURSDAY - SATURDAY 8PM Emboldened by the polarized and threatening American political climate, choreographer Patricia Noworol turns to uniquely personal stories of the feminine experience. Noworol and her five diverse dancers uncover shared defenses and vulnerabilities while reckoning with divergent histories. Can we be distilled to only one of our defining characteristics? How do we choose which parts of us to defend when oppressed from several angles? Can we unify selectively? Choreographer, dancer and director Patricia Noworol grew up in communist Poland. Having moved to Germany as a teenager, she experienced European cultural conflicts that to this day are a foundation of her artistic motivation. During her dance training, she has been exposed to a variety of innovative approaches: Tanztheater, Rudolf Laban, Kurt Jooss, as well as her compatriot Jerzy Grotowski. Directed and Choreographed by Patricia Noworol in collaboration with the performers Performed by Kayla Farrish, Rebecca Margolick, Troy Ogilvie, Mei Yamanaka, Mika Yanagihara | Original Composition & Performance by Lisa Maree Dowling | Artistic Associates Hope Davis, Erik Abbot-Main Ph

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Shared Evening REGINA NEJMAN | EPHRAT ASHERIE JUNE 2 - 4 | FIRST FLOOR THEATRE FRIDAY - SATURDAY AT 7:30PM AND SUNDAY AT 2PM REGINA NEJMAN - Beautiful Figure A new multimedia dance where two dancers explore various ideas of “beauty”, ranging from the late Renaissance period to contemporary times, when beauty is merely defined by our culture as “hot” and often distorted, exploiting and objectifying women. It includes text derived from real online conversations, which are all true, word for word. Regina Nejman grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is based in New York City, where she has been creating her own choreography since 1993. EPHRAT ASHERIE - Odeon Odeon is an original dance work set to the music of Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth. Nazareth, who composed music from the 1870s to the 1930s, was known for mixing African rhythms with European harmonies, creating a hybrid of samba and romanticism. Similarly, this work takes a hybrid approach to movement as it explores and remixes various street and club styles. Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for innovative achievement in dance, is a New York City based bgirl, dancer and choreographer.

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Shared EveningS CURATED BY ALEXIS CONVENTO JUNE 3 - 4 | THE CLUB SATURDAY AT 9:30PM AND SUNDAY AT 6PM Alexis Convento of the CURRENT SESSIONS brings together emerging women performance artists and choreographers in two shared evenings, connecting each story to social identity, cultural memory, and embodied history. SATurday, june 3 at 9:30PM FANA FRASER, MERSIHA MESIHOVIC, AND VERAALBA SANTA - SUPER-CEREMONY Super-Ceremony introduces the work of three artists developing their own diasporic reality as performative artifacts of survival and soft power. Artists are of Trinidadian, Bosnian and Puerto Rican descent. Sunday, june 4 at 6PM LESLIE CUYJET, MAREE REMALIA, AND JESSICA PRETTY - DOUBLE AGENCY Double Agency folds through itself into something new. A space inside a dance, outside the now we’re stuck with.

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Slow cook this PANEL DISCUSSION MAY 26 | THE DOWNSTAIRS FRIDAY 3PM - 6:30PM Slow Cook This will gather an intergenerational group of artists of color to share their struggles and their praises in a long form conversation about working in a system that has historically marginalized non-white voices. La MaMa Moves! borrows from poet Elizabeth Alexander’s “Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign, the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables” and opts for a long form conversation among several artists from the 2017 Festival. Drawing upon the lineage of Lois Weaver’s Long Table and Porch Sitting discussion practices and Emily Johnson’s Durational Sewing Bees, Slow Cook This will gather an intergenerational collection of artists to share their thoughts and experiences. Moderated by Ali Rosa-Salas with Maura Nguyen Donohue, Alexis Convento and Nicky Paraiso

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La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2017 reflects La MaMa’s longstanding dedication to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures.

The 12th Season of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival has been made possible with public funds from National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, with special thanks to City Council Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Jerome Robbins Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; and additional special production support from FUSED: French-US Exchange in Dance. Press Representative: Ellen Jacobs Associates

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