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La MaMa Kids: Petit Mondrian (10/26/24)
Created, directed and with puppets by Edwin Salas Acosta
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 11:00AM

La MaMa Community Arts Space
74 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.


A 30-minute interactive multilingual (Spanish, French and English) and multimedia performance installation for very young children and their caregivers, which mixes dance-theater with the language of object theater, interactive video animation, live music, and Bunraku style puppetry.  Petit Mondrian continues ACA’s successful expansion into Theatre for the Very Young (defined as birth to 5 years old) begun with SHELL, its premiere baby theatre performance mounted as part of the 2022-23 season.

Petit Mondrian is a dance-theatre piece in which an Afro-Latiné boy walking through a museum with his mother becomes obsessed with a red, blue, and yellow painting by the French painter Piet Mondrian. It is with those colors and square shapes that he creates his fantasy world which allows him to escape his fear of a monster featured in the traditional Latin American lullaby, “Sleep Little One.” This 20-minute performance will include 10-minutes of free play at the end in which young people can explore the space and artistic vernaculars of the piece in a self-directed way.

Asheville Creative Arts is an Asheville-based arts and arts service organization, providing high quality, professional theatre, performance, and arts experiences to Asheville audiences of all ages. Founded in 2013 as an organization serving multigenerational audiences with innovative theatrical work, the Mountain Xpress noted that “ostensibly, ACA produces children’s theater, but the company’s ambitious works appeal to both youths and adults.”