Each of the writers worked independently to generate dialogue and/or actions for two performers, one playing a 7-year-old and the other a 77-year-old. The non-linear tale that emerges is developed in collaboration with creative technologists, embodied by performance artist Agosto Machado and a puppet by Tom Lee, performed by Leah Ogawa and Maria Camia, and will explore interactivity and connection with the online audience.
Mabou Mines will present preview performances of The Vicksburg Project, May 11 - 15, May 18 - 22, May 25 - 29, 2022 (at Mabou Mines, 150 1st Avenue, Second Floor, New York), in anticipation of its premiere at Harlem Stage in 2023.
WHITENESS: PART ONE (and other portraits) by the experimental theatre and media makers Paul Pinto and Kameron Neal will debut February 10 to 12 in person in an installation presented by La MaMa and CultureHub at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.)
James Clements (he/him) and John Maria Gutierrez (he/they) have announced they have been curated as Artists-in-Residence with Culture Lab LIC through their Emergence Residency Program. They were selected to work further on their piece, 'Brothers in Arms,' during their residency, which will culminate in a live sharing later in 2022.
Collaborating across the many facets of artist engagement, development, and producing, Scarlett Kim and Mei Ann Teo join Evren Odcikin on a three-person, non-hierarchical team of Associate Artistic Directors—respectively, of Innovation and Strategy, of New Work, and of Artistic Programming.
The Tony Award-winning theatre has announced a fresh season of work – on its various stages in the East Village - that explores new rituals of our time from a multiplicity of perspectives and speaks to the epic changes of the 21st century.
Reservations are required for the livestream finale concert. All performances are FREE and open to the public. Each one-hour concert will be followed by lively dance-making with the audience, led by the company, plus post-concert Q&A.
Ballet Hispánico, the nation's renowned Latinx dance organization recognized as one of America's Cultural Treasures, presents a series of FREE in-person dance concerts with the Young Dancemakers Company, July 21, 23, 27, 28, 31, 2021, at various New York borough locations. Reservations are required for the livestream finale concert.
The performances will run from July 21st thru July 31st and feature original works by the teens, developed under the tutelage of the YDC faculty and guest artists. The company will also train daily with Ballet Hispánico's Natalia Alonso, and learn an excerpt of Ann Reinking's Ritmo y Ruido.
Each artist will receive the support of Ensemble musicians, rehearsal time, video and audio documentation, marketing support, and a paid commission all alongside performances of their pieces created with the Ensemble.
For the final online experiment in La MaMa's 59th season, seven writers (Erik Ehn, Huntrezz Janos, Adrienne Kennedy, Haruna Lee, Chuck Mee, Robert Patrick, and Christopher Rivas), two performers, and an online audience come together for A FEW DEEP BREATHS, premiering Friday, June 25 at 8pm ET.
Mallory Catlett’s OBIE award winning This Was The End will return to Mabou Mines this time as an installation where the audience becomes the actor. At once an artifact and an experience, Archive: this was the end is the afterlife of a performance as an interactive sculpture.
La MaMa has announced programming for June 2021, which includes the previously announced La MaMa Loves Cabaret with host Sasha Velour; Lottie Platchett Took a Hatchett, written and directed by Justin Elizabeth Sayre; La MaMa Kids: Nostalgia, A Toy Theatre Presentation, and more.
Theater in Quarantine, a pandemic performance laboratory from writer, director, and performer Joshua William Gelb and choreographer Katie Rose McLaughlin, announces a new series of live-streamed performances, running May 20 - June 21, that push the boundaries of live performance inside the digital space.
Today (May 20) in live streaming: your last chance to watch Miscast, Oli Higginson and Molly Lynch visit Backstage Live, the Next on Stage Top 10, and more!
Bold Theater of Kenya – comprised of young theater artists from across the East African nation -- will be featured in an exclusive DOWNTOWN VARIETY presentation live-streamed online Friday, April 30 at noon (eastern) it has been announced by Mia Yoo, Artistic Director of La MaMa.