La MaMa in association with Jane Comfort and Company present the World Premiere of The Gulf of America, a new dance work that explores America’s current immigration situation featuring music by MacArthur Award winning composer Heather Christian. The program also includes Comfort’s 1983 Afro-Brazilian infused Artificial Horizon with live drumming, and her 1996 work Bites, a musical chairs-driven examination of scarcity set to Klimchak’s percussive score and a voice-over of Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America. These three pieces will offer audiences an evening of deeply layered dance theater works from three distinct time periods in contemporary American history and a sharp focus on complex rhythm, text and structure.