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SEASON 2025
Paradigm Showcase : TBE Vol 2
Paradigm Showcase is a platform that highlights and celebrates both established and emerging, local & out of state minority artists. The show features a diverse roster of artists [from all walks of life] who specialize in dance, music, and poetry. Our mission is to fuse creativity and culture for an electrifying production that leaves a lasting impression on both the performers and audience members.
Entre Líneas - Laura Peralta
In Entre Líneas, Afro-Dominican Flamenco artist Laura Peralta uses the individual symbolic elements of Flamenco – the dress, the shawl, the guitar, rhythm, masculinity, and femininity – to examine the tension between tradition and self-expression and explore how Flamenco’s archetypes can be both limiting and empowering. In her debut production as an emerging independent artist, Peralta charts a new path after over a decade performing with renowned companies such as Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and Soledad Barrio y Noche Flamenca, among many others.
Rough Draft Festival
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 part of the creative process and see these works come to life!
Featuring works by Daniel Holzman (Olives), KJ Stewart (Choke), Kareem Fahmy (Fountains of Youth), Sam Walsh (The Stranger), Jeana Scotti (Furball) and Emmy Weissman (Open Studio)
Boda Mexicana
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, and the feast that follows.
Calpulli Adults 50+ Dance Workshop - Final Presentation
Join us as we celebrate the culmination of a five-week dance workshop series led by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company in partnership with Sunnyside Community Center. This special final presentation features the vibrant seniors of Sunnyside, showcasing the skills, stories, and traditions they’ve embraced through Mexican folkloric dance.
Soh Daiko
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, and more. Experience taiko drumming like you never have before.
Dabke Workshop with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
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 technique, strength, stamina, rhythm and improvisation.
NYFAF at 10
We are excited to announce the 10th edition of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film (NYFAF) on Thursday, April 24, 2025, in the Little Theater. This year's theme is: 'NYFAF at 10: A Decade of Celebrating Amazigh Voices in Film.'
Contemporary Workshop with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
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.
Emerging Choreographer Series 2025
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 by guiding them to self-produce 30-40 minute works in a split-bill format at two distinguished venues - LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and Flushing Town Hall. Featuring works by choreographers Jiemin Yang, Susanne McHugh and Caroline Brethenoux.
Love and Information
The theatre program is thrilled to announce our spring production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. Love and Information is a kaleidoscopic play that explores our human need for connection in a world saturated by data and social media. Written by acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill, the work unfolds through brief, self-contained scenes that explore how information shapes, transforms, connects, and fragments our lives. Under the direction of Professor JR Caldwell and featuring lighting design by Professor and Theatre Program Director Christopher Weston, a versatile ensemble of 14 actors will take on multiple roles, with each performer bringing 7-8 different characters to life throughout the production.
Music Lab Presents: KASSET
Kasset is an indie band made up of five CUNY students from Colombia, Indonesia, Poland, and the U.S. They blend indie and classic rock with R&B vibes creating a sound shaped by their backgrounds and shared experiences. With Special Guests Cherry Haze, The New Days Band, and solo artists Sabrina and Rozie.