La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced the lineup for the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, scheduled to run April 9 through May 10, 2026, in New York City.
The festival will take place across La MaMa’s four venues, including the Ellen Stewart Theatre and The Downstairs Theatre at 66 E. 4th St., and The Club and Community Arts Space at 74A E. 4th St., between the Bowery and Second Avenue. Tickets range from $25 to $50, with packages and early bird options available online.
Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the five-week festival features twelve productions, four in-person community workshops, and public discussions. The 2026 lineup includes 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 and Blaze Ferrer.
“We gather through La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, continuing to resist and persevere during a fraught, turbulent time of political & economic crisis,” Paraiso said. “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.”
Building on its national reach, the festival will offer hybrid programming including livestreams of several productions, open rehearsals, and interactive discussions for audiences, partners, and students across the U.S., supported in part by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator program.
The festival also continues La MaMa’s Curatorial Residency for a second year, providing mentorship to young dance artists Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer. The residency offers research access to the La MaMa Archive, attendance at NYC productions, and professional development to help emerging curators sustain careers in the dance community.
La MaMa Moves! 2026 celebrates dance, movement, and performance while highlighting new voices and fostering community within the art form.
Featured productions
OCCURRENCE #14
Donald Byrd
Thursday, April 9 & Friday, April 10, 8 pm; Saturday, April 11, 5 pm; Sunday, April 12, 3 pm
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, 7 pm; Sunday, April 19, 3:30 pm
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, 8 pm & Friday, April 17, 8 pm
66 East 4th St. | The Downstairs
A multi-disciplinary dance-theater 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, 8 pm; Sunday, April 19, 2 pm
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, 6 pm; Sunday, April 19, 4 pm
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, 8 pm; Friday, April 17, 8 pm; Saturday, April 18, 7:30 pm; Sunday, April 19, 5 pm | 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, 7 pm & Friday, April 24, 7 pm
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, 7:30 pm; Friday, May 8, 7:30 pm; Saturday, May 9, 5 pm; Sunday, May 10, 3 pm | 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.
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