BamBam Frost & Ori Flomin YES & Settle In

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