PAM: Performing Arts Marathon 2023
“Our theater festival is back!”
March 31 - April 2, 2023
Friday, March 31 - 7:30pm
Saturday, April 1 - 3:00pm, 3:20pm, 3:30pm, 6:00pm, 8:00pm
Sunday, April 2 - 3:00pm, 6:00pm
Age: +13
Location:
IATI Theater
64 E 4th ST
New York, NY 10003
About PAM
For 50-plus years, IATI Theater has organized festivals hosting various multidisciplinary and international artists. Using different names: De todo un poco, Lights on! They’ve always shared the same core principle: showcasing groundbreaking performing artists.
Since 2009, we’ve intermittently called our festival the Performing Arts Marathon, or PAM. Past PAMs took place at different stages, making our audiences run between venues to catch the next performance… honoring the marathon part of the name…
This time we’re back on a smaller (perhaps less physically intensive) scale, but not with any less ambition! Despite our theater being under construction, we will host all performances at our home on 64 E 4th ST.
PAM is more than a festival; we are a mediator for artists. We are a platform that symbolizes new theater, dance, music, and artistic expression.
Tickets
Most shows are $20 and will have one performance.
Saturday’s pov: is $10 and will have three performances.
On Friday we will kickstart PAM with Shero a 30-minute installation that is free for all to attend.
Multipasses are available!
3 shows for $45
If you want to see all six paid shows please buy two Multipasses for $90 and save a total of 25% vs. paying for each show individually. Our seventh show, Shero, is free for all.
Schedule
Friday, March 31
Friday
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Shero - 7:30 pm
Created by Dance Entropy
· Free Event
Featuring: Valerie Green (choreographer), Erin Giordano, Sara Pizzi, Aidan Feldman (dancers), and Mark Katsounis (percussionist)
Length: 35 minutes
Genre: Dance Installation
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy presents a new site-specific pre-show installation, SHERO. Witness a dynamic movement experience that will lead you, the audience member, through the IATI hallways, stairs, and landings, eventually guiding you into the 8 PM performance. The work is inspired by the current art exhibition created by local children in honor of Women’s History month and their (s)heroes.
El país de las cosas - 8:00 pm
Created by Mana Bugallo
· Tickets: $20/show or $45 for 3-show multipass – Buy Now
Length: 40 minutes
Genre: Performance of comedic poetry
Language: Bilingual
El País de las Cosas is an autobiographical and poetic exploration of the experience of migrating to “the center of the world.” In this one-person show, stories and songs tell the tale of how politics, money, and reality affect this Argentinian artist almost to the point of absurdity.
Please come in 30 minutes early to enjoy “Shero” before Mana Bugallo’s performance.
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Saturday, April 1
pov: - 3:00 / 3:20 / 3:40 pm
Created by Sarah Gallegos & Aleksander Varadian
· Tickets: $10/time-slot or $45 for 3-show multipass – Buy Now
Artists: Sarah Gallegos and Aleksander Varadian
Length: 15 mins; 8 people per time-slot; 3 time-slots
Genre: Interactive Installation/Physical Theater
Language: English
A woman sits in a nail salon surrounded by the language of her father’s people, from which she feels estranged. Based on a stream-of-consciousness inner monologue, this performance installation investigates the relationship between cultural identity and language. The audience will explore how language can simultaneously connect and alienate through engaging with live performance, audio content, and written and visual art as we pose the question: What does belonging mean?
ESPANGLISH - 6:00 pm
Created by Teatro 220
· Tickets: $20/show or $45 for 3-show multipass – Buy Now
Artists: Braulio Basilio, Ursula Tinoco, and Gilberto Diaz
Length: 60 minutes
Genre: Improv Comedy
Language: Bilingual (Spanish and English)
ESPANGLISH is an improv show that explores the theme of communication. Teatro 220 will present different improvisation games to test their ability to communicate with each other and the audience. The actors will improvise in English and Spanish, incorporating physicality, sound, and more! This show is interactive and requires the audience’s suggestions.
Mutual Dreams - 8:00 pm
Created by Agua Viva, Josi Arias
· Tickets: $20/show or $45 for 3-show multipass – Buy Now
Artists: Josi Arias, Paco Cathcart (guitar and vocals), Mek Frinchaboy (vocals and dancing), Daniele Withonel (bass and vocals), Florencia Campetella (harp), Valeria Divinorum (visual art), Arielle Gadd (costume design and artistic assistance).
Length: 60 minutes
Genre: Music and Multidisciplinary
Language: Bilingual (Spanish and English)
Mutual Dreams is a musical journey through the energy of the four elements of nature as archetypes.
Water
Earth
Fire
Air
A fantasy aesthetic, oneiric pop songs, and surreal soundscapes will immerse the audience into an experience to expand their senses from linear time and space.
Sunday, April 2
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Caliche - 3:00 pm
Contando historias del suelo que has pisado
Telling stories of the ground you've stepped on
Curated and hosted by Yaissa Jiménez
with Francis Mateo, Morelys Urbano, Gabriel Ramírez, Lyrical Bliss
· Tickets: $20/show or $45 for 3-show multipass – Buy Now
Length: 80 minutes
Genre: Music performance / Poetry Slam
Language(s): Spanish, English, Spanglish
In this bilingual Slam Poetry collective session, five Afro voices show us in verses a contextual panorama of the places that saw them be and grow.
Blindada - 6:00 pm
Created by Yaissa Jiménez
Poemas de protección
Protective poems
· Tickets: $20/show or $45 for 3-show multipass – Buy Now
Artists: Yaissa Jiménez, Kayla Bule, and Prince Angel Jah Rose
Length: 60 minutes
Genre: Spoken word, percussion, and dance
Language: Dominican Spanish with English translation available.
The poet Yaissa Jiménez, together with the sacred drums of Kayla Bule and the improvised dance of Prince Angel Jah Rose, presents eight poems authored by Jiménez as part of her poetic album "Blindada” twelve protection poems.
PAM: PERFORMING ARTS MARATHON is part of TEATRO FEST NYC 2023
A Citywide Extravaganza of Latin Drama, Dance, and Music
IATI Theater, as a member of the Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY, is part of Teatro Fest NYC 2023, a citywide festival of live drama, dance, music, and conversations with Latin artists. TeatroFest NYC 2023 will feature 20 Productions; 210 Performances; in at least 9 Latin theater venues from March 1 to April 30, 2023. The festival includes never-before-seen world premiere productions of new works, celebrated revivals, and other exciting cultural offerings from NYC’s vibrant Latin community of artists and performers.
Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY
IATI Theater * INTAR Theatre * Pregones/PRTT * Repertorio Español * Teatro Círculo * Teatro LATEA * Teatro SEA * Thalia Spanish Theatre