’round the bend: Amy Surratt’s FIRST AND LAST (show)
An effective seduction, there is enough truth in the tall tales to keep us believing and bound to the ride.
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Remake The World: La MaMa Moves!
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
Swimming in a Sea of Plastic: “Tides Project: Drowning Planet/Disposable Bodies” at La MaMa Moves
George Emilio Sanchez offers a rumination on Culturebot’s Maura Donohue’s recent work at La MaMa
“You are you even before you…” – Will Rawls & Claudia Rankine at Bard College
Wily, genre-busting Will Rawls collaborates with poetic genius, Claudia Rankine, for their premire of “What Remains” at The Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College.
“Poor People’s TV Room” – Interview with Okwui Okpokwasili
Okwui Okpokwasili. Multiple Bessie Award-winning performer and maker. NYLA’s Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist. Mother. Human. Electromagnetic Force. She premieres her newest cross-disciplinary work “Poor People’s TV Room” this week.
Mobilizing Bodies: Dance & Disability at 92Y, Petronio at The Joyce, & Work Up 3.1 at Gibney
3 shows from this past week: Edisa Weeks curates at 92nd St. Y Fridays at Noon, Stephen Petronio’s 3rd season of Bloodlines, and Gibney’s emerging artist program
Downtown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages
Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the life out of her and us, historians, archivists, and survivors will share stories of the work being made in “this era.” 1 Panel & 2 shows.
Rupture This: Artists Co-Creating Real Equity, Create NYC, Eiko, The Bureau for the Future of Choreography
2 workshops, 2 shows – White Organizational Cultures, Equity, Eiko and the Senate
“And,” an interview with Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley premieres “And” at Abrons on 3/30. “And” is an evening-length solo performance/monologue using experimental literary devices to create a series of live essays that hold multiple truths.
We Could Be Heroes: Nickyland & One-in-Themselves
Springtime in Nickyland and One-in-Themselves at La MaMa
The Dump (or Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest): He’s Our President, He’s Our Problem at La MaMa
On Presidents Day in The Club at La MaMa, Nicky Paraiso gathered a packed house of artists and audience members for an evening of protest, stories, songs, dances, reveries and resistance as part of “Bad and Nasty” Performance Protests.
“Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Sci-Fi” – CultureHub’s “risky and fragile research project” at La MaMa
CultureHub’s “Hi-Fi, Wi-FI, Sci-Fi,” a collection of plays by iconic playwright Robert Patrick opens Thursday at La MaMa’s Downstairs Theater. This production connects us with an expansively visionary and prophetic writer and in the hands of this creative team of directors, designers, programmers, and performers we get the easiest way into a rift in the space-time continuum. It’s going to be a pretty singular theatrical experience. The revolution will be virtual.