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SEASON 2023
The Nutcracker & Visit to Santa’s Toyland
Join us for this beloved holiday tradition as we share Joffrey Ballet School’s production of “The Nutcracker” followed by a meet and greet with cast members, and a visit to Santa’s Toyland while we deck the halls with the sounds of the season.
DRAG STORY HOUR NYC
The fun starts with an incredible Drag Storyteller, Oliver ThePlace, who will read (Family Book, From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, Love the World, Not quite snow white, and Happy All-idays). Children will join in the fun with lead song and movement activities, followed by a coloring activity and Q&A
Drag Story Hour NYC produces storytelling and creative arts programs for children and teens. Through fun and fabulous educational experiences, Drag Story Hour celebrates gender diversity and all forms of difference to build empathy and give kids the confidence to express themselves however they feel comfortable.
LIVE SALSA CONCERT
Pre-Thanksgiving Live Salsa Concert Celebration featuring Los Hermanos Moreno, Conjunto Imagen, Frankie Morales, Tropical Image Dance Co., Vittico & Molly, DJ Broadway and Hosted by J.I. Starr.
CHOREOGRAPHERS ON THE MOVE
Join us for a rare intergenerational gathering of five Mexican choreographers hailing from New York City, Mérida and Mexico City. Lourdes Luna, Geraldine Cardiel, Argelia Arreola, Erick Montes, and Raúl Tamez have spent recent years creating work for their dance companies. This time, they take the stage on their own.
EVERYBODY
Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play follows Everybody as they travel down a road toward life's greatest mystery and confront the inevitable (their death). An unpredictable, hilarious, and inventive inquiry into the ways we cope with our own mortality.
SEX AND THE ABBEY
The Abbey is in trouble –– and only Hrotsvit’s play can save them! The canonesses need to impress Emperor Otto (who’s visiting tonight!) with a performance… by Hrotsvit, the first western woman who ever dared to write a play. Embroiled in lustful conflicts, the stress of daily prayers, and impassioned moral arguments, can these women save Gandersheim Abbey from male takeover? Find out in this hot goss from 10th Century Saxony!
Written by Diana Ly*
*Sex and the Abbey premiered as a staged reading in the 2022-2023 Rough Draft Festival
DANCE ON THE WINGS OF SONG
Don’t miss the Philippine Ballet Theater performing to the music of Filipino singer and songwriter, Jose Mari Chan. Sponsored by the Foundation for the Filipino Artists, Inc, this event commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Philippine Ballet Theater.
PERROS CRIOLLOS
Este show es pa' todos, incluso pa' los de queso y tocineta!
This show is for everyone even those with cheese and bacon!
Sarah: A Joyful Resistance
Discover the empowering story of women in Iraq's Kurdish region through "Sarah: A Joyful Resistance." Presented by the acclaimed NYTimes dance company, Project TAG, this performance sheds light on the indomitable spirit of women who've created positive change. This show uncovers the struggles and triumphs of these strong women.
QUEENS PRIDE DAY CELEBRATION
A collaboration between LPAC and LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. Celebrate Queens Pride with performances by DJ Sam0, Ping Chong & Company, Alberto Denis, and Singing Drag Diva Jackie Dupree.
BIG LOVE
Big Love is a tragicomic, modern re-telling of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. Fifty brides flee an arranged marriage to their fifty cousins and seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy. When the fifty grooms catch up with the brides demanding they honor the contract, mayhem ensues: the brides and grooms sing, dance, throw epic tantrums, make vulnerable confessions, and eat cake. Big Love deals with themes of refugeeism, gender roles, dysfunctional relationships, and ultimately love. It questions the worth of the institution of marriage and shows us there are no easy answers.
Isaac Iskra - FAUVE
“Fauve” : A story of redemption, of second chances, and of the power of one person to make a difference.
In this coming-of-age tale, we follow the life of a young man who has given up his personal dreams to help others in his community. When he is about to commit suicide, he reflects on his own life and after an epiphany, realizes his life has meaning and matters to those around him as well.
The goal of the performance is to bring awareness to the staggering rate of suicide for those on the Autisim Spectrum.
NYFAF 2023
8th Edition | In Person
The 8th edition of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film (FYFAF) returns to LPAC this spring! Showcasing documentaries, films shorts in the genres of realism and sci-fi, as well as a feature film all exploring the theme: Facing the Unexpected. Encompassing a myriad of languages, ethnicities, religions, cultural practices and artistic expressions, NYFAF is an amazing global learning opportunity for the college and surrounding community.
As in past editions, NYFAF approaches each film session as a Global Learning opportunity, offering a structured space for students to practice “communicating across difference.” Each film is contextualized and followed by a Q&A. The Q&As will be live-streamed on NYFAF's Facebook page.
NuVu Festival
The NuVu Festival’s mission is to promote young, mid-career and established dance artists by sharing their craft and having the chance to learn, meet and share the stage together. Founded from the belief that we learn new things from old teachings, the festival provides artists the opportunity to inspire each other and for audiences to experience a variety of dance expressions.
We are thrilled to invite artists and audiences alike to the 2023 NuVu Festival after being postponed by the pandemic.
Emerging Choreographer Series 2023
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.
The ECS Program culminates in two-fully produced performances at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LaGuardia Community College).
Carnegie Hall Citywide: 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.
Rough Draft - READINGS
Experience work-in-progress readings by Rough Draft Festival artists Elinor T. Vanderburg ("Bad Day In April") and Cal Lane ("The Art Lovers").
SAUDADES
Saudades is a new play by Fernando Segall and directed by Marina Zurita about Laura (Ana Moioli), a young Brazilian-American woman who embarks on a self-discovery trip to Brazil, searching for her long-lost mother, Luiza (Julia Burnier). Representing nuanced and varied perspectives of Brazilian immigrants in the US, Saudades brings this underrepresented community to the forefront and exposes some of its main emotional struggles – guilt, shame, discrimination, and nostalgia.
REDEMPTION
A contemporary dramatic play about a Latino man forced to confront his painful past, offering him a route to redemption, forgiveness and finally....healing.
Traveling across time between the 1960's, 1990's and today, the play follows the story of a troubled Latino Pastor who tries to make amends with a childhood friend he abandoned years ago following a traumatic event.
ME AND WHO
Princess Cookie and Princess Vera live in a 5th floor walkup at the end of history. When Cookie seeks the help of her mysterious neighbor Dr. Melfi, she finds herself with a unique opportunity to become someone else. Set in a horrible, wonderful, recognizable world of medieval raves and therapist wizards, Me and Who is a play about the wonders of not being yourself, the dread we live with, and the beauty and terror of listening to the people we love. Written by Daniel Holzman and directed by lucas a. degirolamo.
LEMONS
Exploring how social media, capitalism, and “positive thinking” affects our individual and collective relationship to grief, Lemons is a darkly funny four-person play centering on an obsession with a fitness guru's instagram account. A grieving woman presents a personal essay that quickly devolves into theatrical mayhem as her carefully constructed argument is interrupted and undermined by ghosts, fantasies, dance, and doom scrolling. Lemons is an examination of female strength, both physical and emotional, in the face of capitalist patriarchy. Exploring the intersection of capitalism and wellness culture/self-care, which is overwhelmingly marketed to women, Lemons looks at how societal expectations have come to inform our relationship to grief, our identities, our bodies, and each other.
COMPASS
What do systems of power in America today look like? How can we envision them anew? Critically acclaimed theater company Ripe Time's latest work, COMPASS, tackles the broken systems of patriarchal power in the United States through their signature visually arresting storytelling.
COMPASS is a gathering. A celebration of collective action. Through embodied, interview-based storytelling, we imagine new models of advocacy, leadership and intersectional feminism. Together, we experience a multi-sensory, muscular journey of transforming how we think about leadership in America.
*Ripe Time is the 2020 recipient of former impact residency program partnership with Drama league