La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.

Schedule:

Shared Program: Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro / Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

The Downstairs Theatre

Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro
dance for no ending
This dance is a prayer, if prayer can be understood as a petition to the unknown, an action that makes space for wonder and bewilderment.

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Mooncry
Lloyd’s most recent work, premiering this April, is built from formal foundations focusing on exactitude of shape, energetics, and tone. The carefully composed duet empowers in-betweenness, expanding and collapsing scale on a whim, creating spaces of liminality and unsettled beauty.

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Shared Program: Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss / Megumi Eda

The Club

Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss
Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss and fiddler Alexis Chartrand meld unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility, tracing their paths across French Canadian, Appalachian, and Irish traditions with disarming spontaneity and palpable pleasure.

Megumi Eda
Please Cry
Megumi Eda performs a solo, inspired by personal and imagined memories of her grandmother, a Japanese military nurse during World War II.

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Amalia Suryani

Ta’na Nirau

Community Arts Space

Their forests have been ransacked and destroyed, but they draw hope from every twig and leaf, continuing to defend Mother Earth from man’s rapacious greed.

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