When La MaMa Moves!, the annual festival held at the experimental East Village theater, began in 2006, it was, in Nicky Paraiso’s words, “all over the place.”He should know. Mr. Paraiso was — and remains — the festival’s curator. “We had everything from modern to postmodern, hip-hop, aerial, cheerleading, burlesque dancers, belly dancing,” said Mr. Paraiso, 67. “Oh my God, it was quite a thing to pull off.”Increasingly the festival, which returns to La MaMa on Friday, has become more refined. “I wanted to give each season more time so that it wasn’t just a rush job,” Mr. Paraiso said.

Source: New York Times April 23, 2019 12:00 UTC