Now in its 13th season, La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is presented at The Ellen Stewart Theatre and the Downstairs Theatre & Lounge. This season's programming continues to support La MaMa's commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience's perception of dance, and will feature performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists' engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue. The festival includes performances by ACC alumnae Ellen Fisher and Yoshiko Chuma. 

"Time Don't Stop For Nobody" (May 25 - May 27) by Ellen Fisher, a movement-based performance related to the perception of age. A small ensemble of four performers, each 25-30 years apart, collaborate to highlight their shared experiences on the progression of growing up. A hundred people aged 5 - 96 years old answered a requested questionnaire. Fisher and her fellow performers thoroughly investigated the provocative and inspiring answers to help guide the structure of this intimate performance with music, dance and text. Questions included: Do you like the age you are? What makes you feel grown-up? How do you change with age?

Yoshiko Chuma will be part of "Secret Journey: Stop Calling Them Dangerous" Panel Symposium (May 19 - 20). Hosted by Movement Research, discussions will examine stories about oppression, marginalization, prejudice and profiling. Ms. Chuma's films will also be presented to an audience at "Dance and Film 1960-80 Film Screenings," an evening dedicated to the film-choreographic experiments of the New York dance and film scene, and avante-garde movements from the early 60s to 80s.