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SEASON 2022
The Nutcracker
We are thrilled to welcome you back into our theater on December 18th, as we share Joffrey Ballet School’s production of “The Nutcracker and Visit to Santa’s Toyland” with our audiences. This spectacular blend of dance and music will fill your heart with cheer as you join Clara on her journey through a fantasy world filled with wonder. Please join us for this celebrated holiday classic specially designed for school-aged children and families.
After the performance, audiences are invited to attend a meet and greet with cast members from the show and of course, our magical Santa’s Toyland will be open in Little Theater for visitors. As you are waiting in the lobby to meet with Santa, our beloved musician Danny Kean will be decking the halls with sounds of the season in the Main Stage Lobby.
Connections
Unwillingly imprisoned in our own homes during the pandemic, yet unable to escape from the devastation of COVID-19, racism, the economic crisis, conspiracy theories and propaganda from corrupt leaders running rampant through the world outside, our homes ceased being safe shelters. The outside world reached in through our computers, cellphones, televisions and enslaved us to the reality that existed beyond our havens. Despite the darkness, we found light in our common humanity and the deep desire to connect proved we are not alone.
Raving Reason
Raving Reason is a new play inspired by Euripides’ The Bacchae, in which the god Dionysus' world of instinct and the senses clashes disastrously with the world of rationality. The play touches on a contemporary concern: how does our technology-enabled way of life affect our nature as human beings? What happens when there is disharmony between the rational and the natural? The play takes place in a dystopic near-future world in which climatic calamities and technological advances have caused the human senses to atrophy. The characters, addicted to technology and alienated from nature, struggle with a worldview that deifies rationality, technocracy and efficiency and vilifies intuition and feeling.
“MOVING THROUGH A SCENE - USING KRUMP TO CHOREOGRAPH”
Join Brian "Hallow Dreamz” Henry, the New York Krump King for a workshop exploring the dance style KRUMP as a tool for choreographing a theatrical scene. Using material from the play “Triggerman” by Ebu Nihan Celkan this workshop will play with the creation of movement based off theatrical text. This workshop is open to LAGCC students with a limited number of spots available for the outside community.
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening explores the tumultuous journey from adolescence to adulthood as a group of teenagers in late-nineteenth century Germany grapple with the discovery of their sexuality. While set in the past, this rock musical has surprising repercussions today.
NYCMC HONOREES
The New York City Musicians collective returns to LPAC on November 1st 2022 as we invite you to "Smell the Roses" with us as we appreciate the gifts and honor the lives of New York City's extraordinary musicians and artists. Honorees include Paul Shaffer, Alyson Williams, Gerald Alston, Lisa Fischer, Living Colour, Shaila Scott, Kenny Seymour, Mark Whitfield and CP Lacey.
A SEAT AT THE TABLE: LGBTQ+ Political Representatives in Queens
A Seat at the Table: LGBTQ Representation in New York Politics examines the personal lives and political experiences of New York City LGBTQ elected officials in the City Council and State Legislature from the 1990s to the present. A Seat at the Table provides intimate glimpses of these elected officials through oral history, video, and photography. It chronicles their personal challenges and struggles as well as their triumphs and achievements. Some topics include coming out, family relationships, and intersectional identity. The exhibit illuminates their grassroots level work, their entry into electoral politics, and their mentor relationships.
Dolly Sfeir Presents "Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt" A New Physical - Theater Work
Lebanese choreographer and Jacob’s Pillow Choreographic Fellow Dolly Sfeir presents her new physical-theater work “Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt" for a limited two-day engagement occuring May 24 - 25th, 2022 at 7.30pm at the Laguardia Performing Arts Center.
Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal novel Slaughterhouse Five, Sfeir’s latest work dares to explore the utility of destiny and the illusion of freewill, forging a distorted noir fantasy that is both deviantly chaotic and delightfully sentimental. “Everything Was Beautiful” investigates our culture’s obsession with storytelling in an unashamed, maximalist fashion and is set to an original score by Jesse Scheinin that melds psychedelic jazz and troubadour music stylings.
Sfeir has been described by Bessie Committee Member and Juilliard School Faculty Instructor Risa Steinberg as “a truly gifted choreographer, a wonderful movement maker [who] invests her entire being into her work.” This performance marks Sfeir's culmination of her residency with CUNY Dance Initiative and was made possible with the assistance of the Redtail Artist Residency at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
I Remember When
'I Remember When' is an exploration of themes like family, community and identity. Using Act 2, Scene 7 from 'As You Like It' as a framework, the ensemble use black out poetry, movement, collage writing and personal stories to bring to the surface the things we are made of, and how our unique stories are more interconnected than we think.
ECS - Emerging Choreographer Series #9
The Emerging Choreographer Series is an intensive crash-course in self-producing; offering rehearsal space, compensation, career development consultations, and professional mentorship to selected choreographers. During the course of the program, choreographers will create, develop, and premiere a new work at CUNY’s LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) in Long Island City. The program is free of charge—no application fees, no production fees, and no rental costs will be charged to the applicants or selected choreographers.
NYFAF - Myopia
The NYFAF virtual 7th edition and LPAC are proud to present
an online screening of Myopia by Sana Akroud.
Myopia is about a woman, Fatem, six months pregnant, who leaves her remote village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco to repair the eyeglasses of the village elder, the only person who can read letters sent by village men and women who have migrated to work in the city. She transits from station to station only to arrive in town in the middle of a social protest. This will turn her trip into an inner revolution.
Carnegie Hall Citywide: SOH DAIKO
When you come to hear Soh Daiko, you’ll experience much more than a concert. High-octane rhythms are pounded with exuberant athleticism that’s as much fun to see as it is to hear. Soh Daiko honors the revered Japanese taiko tradition by playing drums they make from oak wine barrels and ox hides, joined by bamboo flutes, brass bells, conch shells, gongs, and more. You may have heard traditional taiko drumming before, but Soh Daiko takes it to an exciting new level.