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Producer’s Note: Water Seed and Earl McIntyre at BAMcafé Live
by Darrell McNeill BAMcafé Live Week Nine of BAMcafé Live ran down two entirely different musical tracts linked by the warm enthusiasm they received by their respective audiences.A packed house rocked...
View ArticleStreet Singing: Three Glimpses at 21c Liederabend, op.3
Who says that street art has to involve cans of Krylon or beat-up 6-strings? In anticipation of this weekend's 21c Liederabend festival—a two-night extravaganza of dazzling contemporary vocal music...
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Cross-Dressing at BAM: A Brief Survey
By Louie FleckReinhild Hoffman's Callas, performed by Tanztheater BremenThe 1861 bylaws of the Brooklyn Academy of Music contain a little-known, and oddly undocumented, regulation. Without getting into...
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Producer's Note: The Multidimensional Akim Funk Buddha
by Darrell McNeillWeek ten of BAMcafé Live featured two different takes on Black American roots music, both of which overflowed with people attuned to good music and good vibes. New Orleans quintet,...
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Introducing the BAM + NADA Portfolio
by Jessica GoldschmidtIn 1987, BAM began commissioning artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Barbara Kruger to create limited-edition benefit prints. Now, we’re creating a benefit portfolio for the 21st...
View ArticleFiona Shaw Reads Eliot, Yeats, and Patti Smith
by Robert WoodFor those of you who think that poetry is better read than heard, or that our age is too cynical for public recitations of rhymed verse, or that those who feel differently must sleep in a...
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ABT—Off Center: Nutcracker Memories
Kenneth Easter and Justin Souriau-Levine. Photo: Gene SchiavoneGiant gingerbread cookies? Skiing rats? It’s all part of a dancer’s annual Nutcracker ritual. Here, four Nutcracker veterans share some of...
View ArticleBAM Blog Questionnaire: Tere O'Connor
by Rhea DanielsTere O’Connor has been a major influencer on the American dance scene since the 1980s. He continuously finds inventive ways of creating and presenting work. Next week his company...
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Are You As Smart As a High Schooler? Rime edition
by Jessica GoldschmidtRemember close reading? Thematic analysis? The difference between simile and metaphor?Sure you do.In preparation for next week's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (unofficially the...
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In Context: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Photo: Fiona Shaw, courtesy of Phyllida LloydThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner runs at BAM through December 22. Context is everything, so get even closer to Coleridge's famous ill-fated ocean voyage, the...
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Rime—Casting Nets and Spells
by Stan Schwartz Daniel Hay-Gordon and Fiona Shaw. Photo: Robert Hubert Smith“I’ve found in the last 20 years of performing poems, audiences still love the direct connection of the unmediated human...
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Meet a Friend of BAM: Shelley
This month in Meet a Friend, we become acquainted with Shelley, a Prospect Heights local and, it turns out, a whiz with obscure dessert metaphors.Member since: November 2012Where are you from? What...
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Merce Cunningham for Camera
By Rhea DanielsCourtesy of EAI"The use of camera has extended the sense of what dance can be, how movement behaves, and further how we see it. The two media do not compete. Each abides in its own...
View ArticleA Crowd-Sourced Rime
Ladies and gentlemen, there are master orators in our midst.In conjunction with Fiona Shaw's performance of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic tale of supernatural...
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The Producers Council, and Fisher Award, Celebrations
The night of December 10th was an evening of recognition at BAM, celebrating both the opening night of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the great patrons who make such a show possible.Producers...
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2013 Winter Reading List
An image from Ed Piskor's Hip-Hop Family TreeYou probably already have a lot to read this holiday season: at least three day’s worth of critic’s top 10 lists, weird holiday kale recipes, instructions...
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BAMcinématek's Best of 2013
As at most film institutions, the tradition of the best-of-the-year list is alive and well at BAMcinématek, and this year we have a whole lot to celebrate. Our version of every cinephile's favorite...
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2013 BAM Blog Awards
The Nesquik bunny takes on the Apollonian Greek chorus in Alexandre Singh's The HumansIt wouldn't be a proper year's end at BAM without acknowledging, in award form, the onstage moments that gave us...
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On Langella's Lear
by Brian Scott LiptonChu Omambala and Frank Langella. Photo: Johan PerssonIt’s long been a truism in theatrical circles that every actor of a certain age considers his careerincomplete until he has...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: A Peek at The Pop Ups
by Jessica GoldschmidtIn preparation for this Saturday's BAMkids performance, Brooklyn "kindie" rocker Jacob Stein (half of the Grammy-nominated duo The Pop Ups) offers up a little insight into the...
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