La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Presents Iteration IV (For Allen) by Findlay//Sandsmark
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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present Iteration IV (For Allen) by Findlay//Sandsmark as part of the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Performances are Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 at 7:30pm in The Club, 74A East 4th St. Tickets are $30 (general), $25 (students/seniors), with a $50 Support the Artists ticket option. Tickets are available at https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1267176. Festival packages start at $45 and are available at https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/store/packages. Additionally, the first 10 tickets of each performance are $10 (limit 2 per person).
Iteration IV (for Allen) is a continuation and derivative of the recent series of iterative projects, parsing and re-imagining elements to find new connection points and resonating waves. Iteration IV imagines a new choreographic exchange between visual and sonic worlds and invokes the writings and recordings of Allen Ginsberg.
Note From the Artists:
“With the Iteration series of projects, we wanted to refrain from constructing a pre-text to the work. It just doesn’t somehow feel right in light of the work's openness and sensibility. The iterative work is a culmination of many different artistic threads and is an open frame for the audience to experience without being saddled or burdened with terms, narrative or ideas of aboutness–set yourself free.”
Creative Team Credits
Findlay/Sandsmark: Iver Findlay and Marit Sandsmark
The work involves Marit Sandsmark, Iver Findlay, Fabrice Moinet, Jean-Vincent Kerebel, Greta Jasaite, Peter Warren and Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård.
Additional programming: Dag Egil Njaa
Special Thanks to: Elia Findlay and Avery Findlay.
The project is supported by Norwegian Arts Council, Rogaland Fylkeskommune, and Stavanger Kommune.
New York co-production: Collapsable Giraffe
Findlay//Sandsmark is a performance company based between Stavanger and Flørli in Lysefjord in Norway, making work in a process driven and collective approach across disciplinary boundaries to create live art that resonates in a circulatory system comprised of equally valued mediums focused through a choreographic prism and movement based foundation.
La MaMa Moves! 2026, the 21st season of La MaMa’s annual dance festival, brings together dance artists at all stages of their careers to experiment, collaborate, and share new work. Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will take place over five weeks in April and May of 2026 and will include twelve productions across La MaMa’s four venues, and up to four in-person community workshops and public discussions. This year’s festival line-up features dancemakers Donald Byrd, Beth Corning with guest puppeteer Tom Lee, Vangeline, Patricia Hoffbauer, Dancers Unlimited, Sun Kim Dance Theatre, Green Cow, Iver Findlay, BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin, Pioneers Go East Collective, and ms. z tye & Mina Nishimura in a shared weekend curated by La MaMa Curatorial Residents Martita Abril & Blaze Ferrer.
Building on the festival’s growing national impact, La MaMa Moves! will again offer hybrid programming that extends beyond New York City, including livestreams of several productions and open rehearsals or interactive discussions designed for online audiences, partners, and students across the U.S. These online/hybrid events are part of La MaMa’s ongoing work with Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator program. These types of programs are essential not only to La MaMa’s mission and strategic plan, but to the sustainability of the dance community, because they empower and connect generations of dance artists.
In 2026, La MaMa Moves! continues its Curatorial Residency for the second year. Over six months, Curatorial Residents Martita Abril and Blaze Ferrer work with Nicky Paraiso as they plan and execute a shared program to be presented in the festival. Curatorial Residents have research time in the La MaMa Archive (which documents 60+ years of dance history) and attend productions across NYC with Paraiso. The residency aims to provide curatorial mentorship and professional development to young dance artists, empowering them to build sustainable careers while bringing new voices into La MaMa.
La MaMa Moves! highlights the extraordinary diversity and range of artists across cultural backgrounds, ages, and dance styles. By amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering intergenerational exchange, the festival continues to reimagine what contemporary dance can be. One of New York’s signature dance festivals, La MaMa Moves! has showcased small and large-scale works of more than 400 emerging and seasoned choreographers since its beginning in 2005. With sustained support, La MaMa can deepen this impact and ensure that visionary artists and their communities have continued access to this vital platform for years to come.
About La MaMa
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa's 64th Season, LA MAMA NOW, focuses on creating solidarity and building community, exploring ways to build connections for cross-sector coalition and invite artists, activists, organizers and community members into the creative process.
La MaMa has been honored with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award, and most recently a 2023 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation. We are a creative home to artists and resident companies from around the world, many of whom have made lasting contributions to the arts, including Blue Man Group, Bette Midler, Ping Chong, Jackie Curtis, Robert De Niro, André De Shields, Adrienne Kennedy, Cole Escola, Bridget Everett, Harvey Fierstein, Diane Lane, Charles Ludlam, Tom Eyen, Spiderwoman Theater, Tadeusz Kantor, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Meredith Monk, David and Amy Sedaris, Stephanie Hsu, Julie Taymor, Kazuo Ohno, Tom O'Horgan, Andrei Serban, Liz Swados, and Andy Warhol. La MaMa's vision of nurturing new artists and new work from all nations, cultures, races and identities remains as strong today as it was when Ellen Stewart first opened the doors in 1961.
