Tag: La Mama

  • The Digest: March 9, 2011

    Isaac Butler on narrative, Belarus Free Theater returns to New York, Fusebox Fest announces line-up, and a dance critic admits she can be shallow (and feels terrible for it)

  • Pavel Zuštiak Discusses “The Painted Bird” Trilogy

    Pavel Zuštiak discusses the first part of The Painted Bird Trilogy, a new, year-long performance work, opening this Thursday at La Mama.

  • NY International @ LaMama Moves

    The final program for this year’s Dance Festival at La Mama was appropriately a mixed bill of artists hailing from far flung points of origin.  As I mentioned in my post about the Hula program I saw in the larger Ellen Stewart Theatre at The Annex just before the New York International program in the…

  • The Power of Hula @ La Mama Moves

    Hula is the soul of Hawaii expressed through dance, reflecting central ideas and historic or mythic events in tales told through hand gestures, chants and/or songs.  Though once a form of worship, it has survived both the Protestant missionaries who banned it in 1800s and Hollywood’s ridiculous bastardization, and remains a rich, vibrant tradition. After…

  • La Mama: “Atomic City”

    There is a visually stunning and not very well publicized production at La Mama that will be running through September 28. Atomic City is a clever composit of dance, theater and live music that takes spectators into the lives of two neighboring families whose troubled patres familias both work as physicists in the town’s laboratory.…