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La MaMa Moves! 2024 Dance Festival

Shared Evening: Pioneers Go East Collective + Arthur Avilés

Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 7:00PM

Ellen Stewart Theatre @ La MaMa

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery & Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

F triain to Second Avenue; 6 train to Bleecker Street; N/R train to 8th Street.

Electric Blue is a performance installation inspired by queer thought-provoking literary icon Allen Ginsberg. A meditation on creative agency and pacifism, Electric Blue celebrates past and present LGBTQ+ resilience in pursuit of artistic and personal freedom. Taking Ginsberg's writing—some of which was censored when first published—Pioneers Go East examines the author's controversial poetry reflecting same-sex love, male bonding, pacifism, and the antiwar activism movement. The work deploys personal reflections to underscore how individual artist and community experiences are inevitably bound together, hinting at the potential for collective action. Electric Blue is created with archival research by creative director Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, choreographer Joey Kipp, and composer ALEXA Grae, collaborating with designers Philip Treviño, Mark Tambella, and Bryan BAIRA.

Arthur Avilés reimagines several of his classic nude solo dance works in his groundbreaking Naked Vanguard Series. In addition to revealing the body, the works deconstruct conventions of Latinx and Black cultures. Avilés showcases his signature Swift/Flow dance technique across works performed byNikolai McKenzie, Hunter Sturgis, and Avilés. The program includes the pieces:Morning Dance (2001), In the End, Let’s Begin (2021), Untitled #5A After TedShawn AKA Dansé Mexicaine & Jamaïquaine Américaine (2024), and the Bessie Award-winning A Jamaican BattyBwoy in America (2021).

Tickets:
Adults: $30
Students/Seniors: $25
First ten tickets to every performance only $10 each, advance sales only, limit 2 per person.

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General Admission

Adult [$30.00]:
includes $1.00 Facility Fee

Student/Senior [$25.00]:
includes $1.00 Facility Fee