La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced the lineup for the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. La MaMa Moves! runs from April 9 through May 10, 2026. La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre and The Downstairs Theatre are located at 66 E. 4th Street, and The Club and Community Arts Space are at 74A E. 4th Street (between the Bowery and 2nd Avenue). Tickets are $30 (general), $25 (students/seniors), with a $50 Support the Artists ticket option. Tickets are available at https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/dept/2540. Festival packages start at $45 and are available at https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/store/packages. Additionally, the first 10 tickets of each performance are $10 (limit 2 per person).

 

La MaMa Moves! 2026, the 21st season of La MaMa’s annual dance festival, brings together dance artists at all stages of their careers to experiment, collaborate, and share new work. Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will take place over five weeks in April and May of 2026 and will include twelve productions across La MaMa’s four venues, and up to four in-person community workshops and public discussions. This year’s festival line-up features dancemakers Donald Byrd, Beth Corning with guest puppeteer Tom Lee, Vangeline, Patricia Hoffbauer, Dancers Unlimited, Sun Kim Dance Theatre, Green Cow, Iver Findlay, BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin, Pioneers Go East Collective, and ms. z tye & Mina Nishimura in a shared evening curated by La MaMa Curatorial Residents Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer.

 

“We gather through La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, continuing to resist and persevere during a fraught, turbulent time of political & economic crisis,” said Nicky Paraiso, Curator, La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. “In this current season of La MaMa NOW, we bring together a disparate group of fierce creators, each forging their own journey while simultaneously finding ways to co-exist within meaningful circles of community. As we continue to celebrate the visceral power of dance, movement, and performance, we work in solidarity with each other, and deeply hope for peace in the world.”

 

Building on the festival’s growing national impact, La MaMa Moves! will again offer hybrid programming that extends beyond New York City, including livestreams of several productions and open rehearsals or interactive discussions designed for online audiences, partners, and students across the U.S. These online/hybrid events are part of La MaMa’s ongoing work with Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator program. These types of programs are essential not only to La MaMa’s mission and strategic plan, but to the sustainability of the dance community, because they empower and connect generations of dance artists.

 

In 2026, La MaMa Moves! continues its Curatorial Residency for the second year. Over six months, Curatorial Residents Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer work with Nicky Paraiso as they plan and execute a shared program to be presented in the festival. Curatorial Residents have research time in the La MaMa Archive (which documents 60+ years of dance history), and attend productions across NYC with Paraiso. The residency aims to provide curatorial mentorship and professional development to young dance artists, empowering them to build sustainable careers while bringing new voices into La MaMa.

 

Featured productions include:

 

OCCURRENCE #14

Donald Byrd

Thursday, April 9 & Friday, April 10, 8pm; Saturday, April 11, 5pm; Sunday, April 12, 3pm

66 East 4th St. | The Downstairs

A glimpse into Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic Director Donald Byrd’s experience and memories of 9/11, OCCURRENCE #14 combines old and new movement ideas, showcasing them together and offering new perspectives.

 

Center for Fiction: This Is Not May ’68!

Patricia Hoffbauer

Thursday, April 16, Friday, April 17 & Saturday, April 18, 7pm; Sunday, April 19, 3:30pm

66 East 4th St. | Ellen Stewart Theatre

Directed and choreographed by Patricia Hoffbauer, this bold new work gathers eleven performers, ages 25-80 in a charged encounter between generations. Through a dynamic mix of text and movement, together they reimagine historical struggles for power, love, and knowledge. Here, the past activates us. The unfinished revolutions of 1968 cast a restless shadow, pressing urgently against our present time. As memory and bodies collide with lived experience, performers are propelled into unexpected situations and daring new possibilities.

 

STAND BY — an allegory

Corningworks / THE GLUE FACTORY PROJECTS

Thursday, April 16, 8pm & Friday, April 17, 8pm

66 East 4th St. | The Downstairs

A multi-disciplinary dancetheater production created in collaboration with choreographer Beth Corning and puppeteer Tom Lee. A whimsical glimpse at humans' inability to recognize our mortality...not so much about death or grief or even loss, as about the mysterious & magical continuity of life.

 

MAN WOMAN

Vangeline

Saturday, April 18, 8pm; Sunday, April 19, 2pm

66 East 4th St. | The Downstairs

MAN WOMAN is a choreographic work by Vangeline that revisits the iconic photographic series Man and Womanby Eikoh Hosoe—featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Motofuji—through a contemporary feminist lens.

 

Hunter College

Intimate works by Hunter College faculty members Tiffany Merritt-Brown and Jade Charon Robertson explore the enduring POWER of Black femininity, kinship, spirituality, and ancestry.

Thursday, April 16 & Friday, April 17, 7pm; Saturday, April 18, 6pm; Sunday, April 19, 4pm

74A East 4th St. | The Club

Gold Pylon

Jade Charon Robertson

Gold Pylon by Jade Charon Robertson is an inquiry into the possibilities of a grandmother’s prayer becoming an intercessory superpower and gateway to a higher self. Charon’s ongoing multi-media research project series Goldwas created to emPOWER Black and Brown people by connecting them to the element gold’s spiritual, metaphysical, and ancestral powers through dance, film, sound, and writing. This latest event in the series is a live multimedia performance solo that journeys through the refining and purification process of gold, reaching for the gateway of the higher self.

Tender is the Night

Tiffany Merritt-Brown

Tender is the Night by Tiffany Merritt-Brown is an immersive dance work exploring Black femininity and the intimate kinship that shapes sisterhood, revealing how strength, vulnerability, and compassion emerge through collective care.

 

ms. z tye & Mina Nishimura (shared evenings)

La MaMa Curatorial Residents: Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer

Thursday, April 16, 8pm; Friday, April 17, 8pm; Saturday, April 18, 7:30pm; Sunday, April 19,

5pm | CAS (Community Arts Space)

CONFESSIONS OF PEACHES, THE VIXEN

ms. z tye

CONFESSIONS OF PEACHES, THE VIXEN is a cipher of pro hoe chronicles collaged into performance, with ms. z tye recalling the repentant memory of Y2K.

a hole new world.

Mina Nishimura

In a hole new world., dispersed holes and absences beyond the self are threaded into a dissonant tunnel tracing the resonance of a hollow center.

 

Alien of Extraordinary

Sun Kim Dance Theatre

Thursday, April 23, 7pm & Friday, April 24, 7pm

66 East 4th St. | Ellen Stewart Theatre

Alien of Extraordinary is an immersive dance-theatre work by Sun Kim, transforming her immigration journey in the U.S. into a powerful call for empathy and shared belonging.

 

Edible Tales: Ho’oulu

Dancers Unlimited

Saturday, April 25, 7pm & Sunday, April 26, 2pm

66 East 4th St. | Ellen Stewart Theatre

Edible Tales by Dancers Unlimited explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental sustainability through a bi-coastal food lens from Hawai’i and NYC.

 

SURFACE

Green Cow

Friday, April 24, 7pm; Saturday, April 25, 6pm; Sunday, April 26, 3pm

74A East 4th St. | The Club

The American premiere by Green Cow – a contemporary, Korean, circus-based experimental arts collective. Green Cow’s work allows audiences to experience the climate crisis intuitively, within the triangular framework of “climate–life–body.”

 

Iteration IV (For Allen)

Findlay//Sandsmark

Thursday, April 30, 7:30pm & Friday, May 1, 7:30pm

74A East 4th St. | The Club

Iteration IV (for Allen), from Findlay//Sandsmark, is a continuation and derivative of their recent series of iterative projects, parsing and re-imagining elements to find new

connection points and resonating waves.

 

BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin (shared evenings)

Saturday, May 2, 8pm & Sunday, May 3, 3pm

74A East 4th St. | The Club

YES

BamBam Frost

Through constant transformation, pleasure and play, YES by BamBam Frost moves through traces of pop culture. Trying to navigate what is, what was, and what potentially could be. YES premiered in Stockholm in 2020, and has since then played at venues in Marseille, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stavanger, Helsinki and Brussels. BamBam is now creating a version specifically for LaMaMa moves 2026.

Settle In

Ori Flomin, Jody Oberfelder, Carolyn Hall, Sabrina DeVelis

Settle In is a personal reflection on ways to ground ourselves in times of change and uncertainty through layered physical dialogues between bodies, generations, movement, and live music. Featuring four intergenerational performers and original music composed and performed by Mal Stein.

 

CROSSROADS

Pioneers Go East Collective

Thursday, May 7, 7:30pm; Friday, May 8, 7:30pm; Saturday, May 9, 5pm; Sunday, May 10, 3pm | 74A East 4th St. | The Club

Crossroads Series is a series championing radical Queer voices. Four new short works from Pioneers Go East Collective’s series empowering multigenerational LGBTQ+ and feminist artists in dialogue with their communities. Featuring works from our collective and friends, including Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte with Anabella Lenzu; Miranda Brown and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss; Sugar Vendil; and Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte with ALEXA Grae and Symara Sarai.

 

These programs highlight the extraordinary diversity and range of artists across cultural backgrounds, ages, and dance styles. By amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering intergenerational exchange, the festival continues to reimagine what contemporary dance can be. One of New York’s signature dance festivals, La MaMa Moves! has showcased small and large-scale works of more than 400 emerging and seasoned choreographers since its beginning in 2005. With sustained support, La MaMa can deepen this impact and ensure that visionary artists and their communities have continued access to this vital platform for years to come.

 

About La MaMa

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa's 64th Season, LA MAMA NOW, focuses on creating solidarity and building community, exploring ways to build connections for cross-sector coalition and invite artists, activists, organizers and community members into the creative process.

La MaMa has been honored with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award, and most recently a 2023 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation. We are a creative home to artists and resident companies from around the world, many of whom have made lasting contributions to the arts, including Blue Man Group, Bette Midler, Ping Chong, Jackie Curtis, Robert De Niro, André De Shields, Adrienne Kennedy, Cole Escola, Bridget Everett, Harvey Fierstein, Diane Lane, Charles Ludlam, Tom Eyen, Spiderwoman Theater, Tadeusz Kantor, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Meredith Monk, David and Amy Sedaris, Stephanie Hsu, Julie Taymor, Kazuo Ohno, Tom O'Horgan, Andrei Serban, Liz Swados, and Andy Warhol. La MaMa's vision of nurturing new artists and new work from all nations, cultures, races and identities remains as strong today as it was when Ellen Stewart first opened the doors in 1961.