Now in its 14th season, La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is presented at The Ellen Stewart Theatre and the Downstairs Theatre & Lounge.
For the 2019 season, La MaMa Moves! features a thrilling line up of artists, representing the best of New York, as well as the global dance and movement scene. The choreographers of this season’s La MaMa Moves! 2019 are mostly powerful women at different stages of their respective artistic development. They are from places and nations as disparate and diverse as Norway, the USA, China, South Korea. This season’s male choreographers are from Italy, Canada and the USA. They have all made their work on the physical body corresponding and connecting with their passionate awareness of the current political and social world they all live in and inhabit. Indeed, to use choreographer Mia Habib’s dictum, they have re-identified and reclaimed dance as a “physical poem of protest.”
"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" ---Nicky Paraiso, Curator
