Pioneers Go East Collective’s Crossroads Series at La MaMa Moves! Festival

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Tickets are $30 (general), $25 (students/seniors), with a $50 Support the Artists ticket option.

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La Mama Experimental Theatre Club will present Pioneers Go East Collective's Crossroads Series as part of the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Performances are May 8 at 7:30pm, May 9 at 5pm, and May 10 at 3pm at The Club, 4A East 4th Street. Tickets are $30 (general), $25 (students/seniors), with a $50 Support the Artists ticket option. Tickets are available here and here . Festival packages start at $45 and are available at https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/store/packages . Additionally, the first 10 tickets of each performance are $10 (limit 2 per person).

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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.

by Pioneers Go East Collective With Anabella Lenzu (choreographer/performance artist); vocal score by syd island; direction / filmmaker Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte; design Philip Treviño Length of work: 25 minutes

Distance /decay / is a performance and video installation by Pioneers Go East Collective . Blending dance, music in a media installation created by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte (director/ filmmaker/installation), Anabella Lenzu (choreographer/ performance artist), syd island (composer/performance artist), Philip Treviño (production design), Adele Overbey and Todd Carroll (cinematographers). The work is inspired by Latina Feminist poet Alejandra Pizarnik's writings and archival records, which explore themes of displacement, artistic agency, and belonging.

Created and Performed by Miranda Brown & Noa Rui-Piin Weiss Length of work: 30 minutes

Part two of a diptych, ¿¡¡simon negs ≈≈>:(:[[** is the Mr. Hyde, the BLACK SWAN , the bad cop, the "you're not you when you're hungry" alter ego of Miranda and Noa's recent work, !!simon says~~!:));)$$ (2024). While warming up for their last performance, Noa and Miranda realized that their silly dances may go down in history as "art under the rise of fascism in America." So then they thought, let's write some grants about that. Approximately one year later, witness the work-in-progress that is, ¿¡¡simon negs ≈≈>:(:[[** . It's just two dancers trying their best to follow a series of increasingly difficult and ruthless instructions.

Performances on Sunday May 10th @ 3pm

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Choreography and music composition by Sugar Vendil. Mei Ann Teo , Artistic Consultant. Harriet Jung , Costume Designer Length of work: 20 minutes

Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia is a memoir of a Filipinx American childhood that interweaves chamber music, dance, and nonlinear theater in an interdisciplinary performance. Excavating seemingly insignificant but deeply ingrained memories, Antonym envisions the future as an escape from pain and ponders how we can possess painful memories without being beholden to them. Using field recordings of New York City to create a rich sonic landscape, the four seasons serve as a cyclical frame and context for memory.

by Pioneers Go East Collective

w/ ALEXA Grae (composer, performance artist); Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte (direction, filmmaker, writer); and Symara Sarai (choreographer, performance artist); designed by Philip Treviño; and cinematographers and animation by bree breeden and Kathleen Kelley.

Length of work: 25 minutes

A Sea In-MOTION symbolizes social change, reflecting the unrest and unpredictability we all experience in today's world. It advocates for our collective hopes for a brighter future for the environment, emphasizing the need for transformation during these turbulent times. Part of a diptych that integrates performance art and video, this installation reflects on the socio-economic landscape while advocating for a sustainable future. It symbolizes the fluidity of community identity, celebrating diversity and ecological justice, much like the ever-changing sea.

Developed by the Radical Queer artists' collective, Pioneers Go East Collective, the project is deeply influenced by Françoise d'Eaubonne's Eco-Feminist insights and Guattari's LGBTQ+ theories. The project was originally developed with residencies at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2024), and as part of the Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship (2025-26) as a site-specific installation conceived by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte (visual installation/ archival research/ filmmaker), Mark Tambella (visual installation/fabrication), and Philip Treviño (visual installation).

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La MaMa Moves! 2026, the 21st season of La MaMa's annual dance festival, brings together dance artists at all stages of their careers to experiment, collaborate, and share new work. Curated by Nicky Paraiso , the festival will take place over five weeks in April and May of 2026 and will include twelve productions across La MaMa's four venues, and up to four in-person community workshops and public discussions. This year's festival line-up features 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 weekend curated by La MaMa Curatorial Residents Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer.

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