La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the World Premiere of Center for Fiction: This Is Not May ‘68. by Patricia Hoffbauer as a part of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Performances are April 16-18 at 7pm and April 19 at 3:30pm at the Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th St., NYC. Tickets are $30 (general), $25 (students/seniors), with a $50 Support the Artists ticket option. Tickets are available at https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/dept/2540. 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).

In Center for Fiction: This is Not May ‘68, the past arrives late. 1968 does not settle into history: it lingers as something unresolved, still pressing against the present with a kind of retroactive shimmer. What once seemed distant suddenly feels urgent again. The choreography stages a series of delayed recognitions: what belonged to history now belongs to us. Every gesture, citation, and pause becomes a site where meaning forms after the fact, where the body registers what it could not have known before.

Directed and choreographed by Patricia Hoffbauer, this bold new work gathers eleven performers, ages 25-80 in a charged encounter between generations. Through a dynamic mix of text and movement, together they reimagine historical struggles for power, love, and knowledge. Here, the past activates us. The unfinished revolutions of 1968 cast a restless shadow, pressing urgently against our present time. As memory and bodies collide with lived experience, performers are propelled into unexpected situations and daring new possibilities.