Tamar Rogoff's Grand Rounds at La MaMa, April 27 through May 14. Choreographer Tamar Rogoff grew up in the 1950s reading Helen Wells’ mystery novels about a nurse named Cherry Ames, who’d risk the wrath of the doctors she served by resourcefully breaking the rules in order to save a patient’s life, if no one else was around. From Cherry Ames, Student Nurse (1943), Nurse Ames went on being … [Read more...]
Is This How It Ends?
Tiffany Mills premieres After the Feast at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club. Tiffany Mills titled her latest work After the Feast, and the program note for its premiere during the annual La MaMa Moves! Festival asks the spectators to imagine: “an urban dystopia caused by vanishing resources.” In my mind, that includes considering the reckoning that may come as a result of our depredations … [Read more...]
The Sleeping Beauty Wakes in a Brave New World
Katy Pyle's Ballez performs Sleeping Beauty and the Beast in the La MaMa Moves Festival. This is, I promise, the last time I will blame acute jet lag for my sense of disembodiment and lapses in understanding. It kicks in the moment I go to the La MaMa box office, and there seem to be no tickets in my name for Katy Pyle’s Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. Once in the theater, I don’t read the … [Read more...]