HT Chen and Dancers Company: Teahouse Performances

*Teahouse Performances* arrives at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as a live dance program by HT Chen and Dancers and the HT Chen and Dancers Company. The work draws on teahouse social life as a frame for movement, memory, and public encounter, linking everyday ritual to larger histories of migration and community formation in New York City. La MaMa’s downtown stage situates it within a long local lineage of immigrant and experimental performance, even if this iteration is new to many NYC audiences. The choreography favors clear narrative gesture over abstraction, letting cultural detail carry the weight.