La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Presents BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin YES & Settle In, Part of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
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La MaMa
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present YES by BamBam Frost and Settle In by Ori Flomin as part of the 21st annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Performances are May 2 at 8pm and May 3 at 3pm at The Club, 74A East 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/1267177. 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).
Through transformation, pleasure, and play, YES by BamBam Frost moves between what was, what is, and what could be. Tracing pop cultural forms, the work channels the figure of the entertainer—embodying past dances, tuning into their histories, and extending them through practices of pleasure, repetition, and reactivation. YESpremiered in Stockholm in 2020, and has since then played at venues in Marseille, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stavanger, Helsinki, and Brussels. For La MaMa Moves!, BamBam has created a more compact version, diving straight into the core of the work.
Team Credits
Choreographer: BamBam Frost
Performance: BamBam Frost
Original light design: Anton Andersson. Re-worked for La MaMa.
Original sound design: Yared Cederlund, reworked by BamBam Frost .
Costume design: Hanna Kisch
Dramaturgy and outside eyes in the process: Lydia Ö. Diakité and Alexandra Tveit
Production: Jessie McLaughlin, Sara Bergsmark (MDT), Nordberg Movement.
Co-production: MDT, Björn Säfsten productions
With the support of Kulturrådet, Konstnärsnämnden, City of Stockholm and Life Long Burning - Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project (2018-2022), as well as the EU programme Creative Europe.
Special thanks to my very best friend and colleague. A forever love story - Lydia Ö. Diakité
Settle In is a personal reflection on ways to ground ourselves in times of change and uncertainty through layered physical dialogues between bodies, generations, movement, and live music. Featuring four intergenerational performers (Ori Flomin, Jody Oberfelder, Carolyn Hall, and Sabrina DeVelis) and original music composed and performed by Mal Stein.
Creative Team Credits
Choreographer: Ori Flomin, in collaboration with the performers
Live music composed and performed by Mal Stein
Performers: Ori Flomin, Jody Oberfelder, Carolyn Hall, Sabrina Develis
Costumes by Sarah Thea
Lighting by Micah D-S
BamBam Frost is a Stockholm-based choreographer and interdisciplinary artist working across performance, dance, and spatial installation. Her work explores the body as a site where history, the present, and possible futures intersect, using fiction, play, and sensation to shape and propose alternatives.Frost is interested in pop-cultural phenomena, entertainment history, and collective memories, exploring how shared experiences can be shifted, reframed, and re-experienced. Her work has been presented at MDT and Dansens Hus in Stockholm, Black Box and TOU in Oslo, Dansehallerne in Copenhagen, Arsenic in Lausanne, Kaaitheater in Brussels, and Tanzquartier Wien, to name a few locations. She holds a BA in Dance from Stockholm University of the Arts and is pursuing an MFA at the Royal Institute of Art. Upcoming projects include a solo for her father, Damon Frost (2027), and a work for young audiences opening in 2026.
Ori Flomin is a New York City–based choreographer whose work bridges contemporary
dance and somatic practice. For over three decades, he has created works that explore
intimacy, urban life, and the impact of technology on the body. His choreography has
been presented at major New York venues including LaMaMa Experimental Theatre
Club, Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, Gibney, Dance Now Festival at
Joe’s Pub, and Movement Research at the Judson Church, as well as Dance Space
Project at St. Mark’s Church, and has toured throughout Europe, Japan, India, Israel,
and Australia. Alongside his choreographic work, Ori has developed a teaching practice
that integrates Contemporary Dance, Yoga, and Shiatsu, emphasizing embodiment,
self-care, and personal discovery. He teaches internationally for schools, companies,
and festivals, and is currently adjunct faculty at NYU/Tisch, where he received his MFA
in Dance. He performed in the works of acclaimed choreographers Stephen Petronio, Maria Hassabi, Neil Greenberg, Helena Franzen, Michael Clark, Kevin Wynn, and
Molissa Fenley, to name a few. He is a recipient of the 2022–23 Gibney DIP Residency,
a 2025 LMCC Creative Engagement Grant, and a 2026 Harkness Foundation for Dance
Grant. www.Oriflomin.com @Oriflo
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.
