La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Presents Dancers Unlimited’s Edible Tales: Ho’oulu - Part of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present Edible Tales: Ho’oulu by Dancers Unlimited as part of the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Performances are April 25 at 7pm and April 26 at 2pm at the Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 E. 4th Street. 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/1267172. 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).
Edible Tales explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental sustainability through food-related topics. Through community engagement and performance, we explore how food connects us to our ancestors as rituals, cultural identity, and our relationship with the land.
Equal part performance and community engagement, our creative process is collaborative with the general public and community leaders in food security, agriculture and indigenous cultural practitioners. By engaging with community members through immersive experiences, we are able to transform community stories into staged performances that deeply resonate with the audiences.
Pre-show lei-making starts 30 minutes before the performance. Audience members are invited to add to the forever community lei that will be on display during the show.
The work was created with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project Creation & Touring Award, National Endowment for the Humanities, Hawaiʻi Council For The Humanities, Brooklyn Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Puffin Foundation, ART NY / New York State Council For The Arts, Brooklyn Grange, Waiwai Collective, Papahana Kuaola, Governors Island Trust, La Mama Experimental Theatre, Rhythmic Arts Center and Page Dance Academy.
Dancers Unlimited is a bi-coastal company based in NYC & Hawai’i. The company creates authentic moveMEANT narratives for community advancement through creative collaboration, community engagement and social justice initiatives. The company has presented work throughout U.S and international stages including Shanghai World Expo, Jazz at Lincoln Center, International Human Rights Arts Festival, Hawai’i Contemporary, Battery Dance Festival, La Mama Moves, Leeward Community College, University of Hawai’i in Mānoa, and indigenous people’s day gathering on Randall’s Island. In addition the company is an organization in residence on Governors Island, providing space for creative collaborations between Pacific and Caribbean artists.
Creative Team Credits
Co-Artistic Directors: Linda Kuo, Candice Taylor
Cast: Linda Kuo, Candice Taylor, Angela Miller, Abril Amparo, Marmara Tobal, Chloe Groom Lighting Designer: Cameron Barnett
Costume Designer: Paula Walters Parker
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.
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