Mainstage Theater of LaGuardia Performance Arts Center

Soh Daiko by Kim Nakashima. 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, […]

Boda Mexicana tells the story of the union of two people through Mexican songs, dances, customs, rituals and ceremonies. The company of dancers and core of musicians take audiences on a voyage through regional and ethnic traditions. Two lovers travel through time to Mexican towns where we experience the customs of courtship, engagement, the ceremony, […]

In Entre Líneas, Afro-Dominican Flamenco artist Laura Peralta uses the individual symbolic elements of Flamenco – the dress, the shawl, the guitar, rhythm, masculinity, and femininity – to examine the tension between tradition and self-expression and explore how Flamenco’s archetypes can be both limiting and empowering. In her debut production as an emerging independent artist, […]