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In Context: The Wanderer
Jessica Lang's story ballet The Wanderer runs at BAM from December 3—6. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of articles, interviews, and videos related to...
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In Context: On Behalf of Nature
Meredith Monk's On Behalf of Nature runs at BAM from December 3—7. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of articles, interviews, and videos related to the...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Kirk Henning of The Wanderer
In choreographer Jessica Lang’s The Wanderer, which will have its world premiere December 3—6 at BAM Fisher, Lang weaves a ballet that imaginatively interprets Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne...
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Gabriel Kahane on The Ambassador
Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane's work The Ambassador, an imaginatively staged song cycle exploring the mythos-and-melancholy-laden topographies of Kahane's personal Los Angeles, runs at BAM from...
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Fall Dance Insider
by Eveline ChangFall Dance Insider with Ivy Baldwin Dance. Photo: Piotr RedlinskiThis Fall, BAM Education partnered with Mark Morris Dance Center to present Fall Dance Insider, a free workshop series...
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In Context: The Etudes
The Etudes, a performance of Philip Glass's complete piano etudes, comes to BAM on December 5 & 6. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of articles,...
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BAM Illustrated: Freak Architects of Los Angeles
Each song in Gabriel Kahane's The Ambassador(December 10—13 at BAM Harvey Theater) was inspired by a different location in Los Angeles. More than a few of these buildings were designed by or feature...
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Irish Tumbleweed
by Jonathan KalbMark O’Rowe—Irish playwright and screenwriter—has said that he was inspired to write his remarkable play Howie the Rookie by Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy (1947). In a funk back in 1999...
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In Context: The Ambassador
Gabriel Kahane's The Ambassador runs at BAM from December 10—13. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of articles, interviews, and videos related to the...
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Who gets to perform? The ethics and aesthetics of social practice
On October 25, Dance Umbrella and Dance UK hosted a discussion at King's College London called The Politics of Participation, part of Dance Umbrella's Body Politic series. A panel of guests in London...
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In Context: Howie the Rookie
Howie the Rookie runs at BAM from December 10—14. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of articles, interviews, and videos related to the production. Once...
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BAM blog Questionnaire: Howie the Rookie's Mark O’Rowe
Mark O’Rowe is the writer and director of Howie the Rookie, a play chronicling the scabies-induced travails of two knuckleheads—the Howie Lee and the Rookie Lee—through a down-and-out Dublin. O’Rowe...
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Going Gaga with Batsheva
by Rhea DanielsOn November 14th, I participated in a master class led by Batsheva company dancers Bobbi Smith and Ian Robinson at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Batsheva company classes teach Gaga...
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Design King—Richard Hudson Creates a New Beauty
The Nutcracker show curtain, designed by Richard Hudson.by Mario R. MercadoWhile it’s the final season to enjoy Alexei Ratmansky’s wondrous staging of The Nutcracker for American Ballet Theatre at the...
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Mariinsky at BAM
Danila Korsuntsev in Swan Lake. Photo courtesy Mariinsky Balletby Susan YungJanuary can be a long, cold month, but here’s some heart-warming news: the Mariinsky Theater is in residence at BAM from...
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The Iceman Cometh in Production
Photo: Liz Laurenby Steve Scott The Iceman Cometh is often regarded as a modern masterpiece, but like many great works of art it was eschewed by audiences before eventually achieving popular and...
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In Context: VIJAY IYER: Music of Transformation
VIJAY IYER: Music of Transformation runs at BAM from December 18—20. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of articles, interviews, and videos related to the...
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BAMcinématek's Best of 2014
Ellar Coltrane and Richard Linklater at the opening night of BAMcinemaFest 2014/New York premiere of Boyhood at the BAM Harvey Theater.The best-of-the-year list is back at BAMcinématek, and we have a...
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A Very Sufjan Christmas
Sufjan Stevens and friends.by Chris Tyler “You know, to be honest, I hate Christmas,” a tinseled Sufjan Stevens would often remark during his Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long: Seasonal Affective...
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2014 BAM Holiday Reading List
Here we are as in olden days: in a vortex of yule, clamoring for nog and listening to Bing and Mariah, with so many holiday-related things to read, do, see. On the reading front, we suggest...
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