The 2025 Rough Draft Festival is where bold ideas meet the stage. The six daring new works that push boundaries, challenge perspectives, and explore the complexities of human relationships come to life here at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. These plays portray what it means to connect, change, and find one's place in the world. Be […]
The 2025 Rough Draft Festival is where bold ideas meet the stage. The six daring new works that push boundaries, challenge perspectives, and explore the complexities of human relationships come to life here at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. These plays portray what it means to connect, change, and find one's place in the world. Be […]
The 2025 Rough Draft Festival is where bold ideas meet the stage. The six daring new works that push boundaries, challenge perspectives, and explore the complexities of human relationships come to life here at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. These plays portray what it means to connect, change, and find one's place in the world. Be […]
Boda Mexicana tells the story of the union of two people through Mexican songs, dances, customs, rituals and ceremonies. The company of dancers and core of musicians take audiences on a voyage through regional and ethnic traditions. Two lovers travel through time to Mexican towns where we experience the customs of courtship, engagement, the ceremony, […]
Soh Daiko by Kim Nakashima. A Soh Daiko performance makes Japanese taiko drumming as exciting to see as it is to hear, with high-octane rhythms brought to life through vibrant choreography and athleticism. The ensemble layers in a wide-ranging world of sounds to complement the powerful drumming, playing bamboo flutes, brass bells, conch shells, gongs, […]
Dabke is a Levantine folkloric dance traditionally used in cultural moments of celebration and resistance. Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Dabke classes blend contemporary dance and theater with traditional Dabke tools (rhythm, footwork, unison movement etc.) to invite improvisation and play within the traditional form. Class starts with an anatomically mindful warm-up and builds skills including […]
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre views technique as a means of furthering our bodies as instruments for creative expression. Blending contemporary dance and theater to explore themes of repertory works, YSDT classes draw on visualization, improvisation and play to facilitate an experiential, process-driven environment that empowers students and meets them where they are. Our goals as […]
Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]
Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]
Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]
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