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In Context: New Society
Miranda July’s New Societycomes to BAM on October 7. Get to know July the writer, actor, filmmaker, and distracted meditator with the links below.A Note From Miranda"These days it is a rare sensation...
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In Context: Dream’d in a Dream
Séan Curran Company’s Dream’d in a Dream, a collaboration with Kyrgyz folk music ensemble Ustatshakirt Plus, comes to BAM October 7. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with...
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In Context: Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives
Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives comes to BAM on October 9. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and videos related to the...
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In Context: All Vows
Cellist Maya Beiser’s All Vows, featuring music by Led Zeppelin, David T. Little, Nirvana, Janis Joplin, Michael Gordon, and others, comes to BAM on October 14. Context is everything, so get even...
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In Context: Hallo
Swiss choreographer Martin Zimmermann’s acrobatic one-man show Hallocomes to BAM on October 15. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and...
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Mapping Intersensory Domains
This Friday and Saturday (October 9 & 10), Portland-based indie group Other Lives teams with Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney for Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other...
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In Context: Helen Lawrence
Helen Lawrence, the hi-tech experiment in film noir from visual artist Stan Douglas and writer Chris Haddock, comes to BAM on October 14. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production...
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Building Bridges—Muslim Stories
Amkoullel and Yacouba Sissoko. Photo: Mike BenignoUnder the programming umbrella of Global BAM, BAM has had a long and dynamic history of presenting transnational events that connect artists and...
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Refuse the Hour—Time, Indulgent Muse
Dada Masilo and William Kentridge. Photo: John HodgesBy Susan YungRefuse the Hour, like artist William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute (2007 Winter/Spring), can be referred to as opera, but...
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Poetry of the Absurd—An Interview with Hallo's Martin Zimmermann
Somewhere between Beckett and Buster Keaton, Martin Zimmerman's Hallo—coming to the BAM Harvey Theater on October 15—pits shape-shifting human against animate architecture, teetering on the threshold...
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BAM Illustrated: Learning to Love Noir
Visual artist Stan Douglas and screenwriter Chris Haddock bring film noir to the opera house stage October 14—17 with Canadian Stage's Helen Lawrence, a high-tech theater production featuring live...
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Maya Beiser on All Vows
This Wednesday, cellist Maya Beiser is joined by bassist Jherek Bischoff, filmmaker Bill Morrison, and others in All Vows, a convention-flouting survey of her musical personality, featuring music by...
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Martin Zimmermann, hero in a paradoxical world
Photo: Augustin RebetezBy Thomas HahnMartin Zimmermann is that phenomenally pliable mime around whom twist and wind the absurd frescoes and circus disciplines of the Zimmermann & de Perrot duo....
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Modern Cinema's Holy Grail
Photo courtesy Carlotta Films USBy Stephen Bowie Jacques Rivette’s OUT 1: Noli me Tangere (1971) is so much a thing of legend that longtime cinephiles recall its infrequent screenings like concerts: Le...
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Sankai Juku—Cosmic Dance
Courtesy Sankai JukuBy Tanya CalamoneriNow one of the best known artists in the avant garde dance form of butoh, Ushio Amagatsu founded Sankai Juku—who come to BAM later this month—in 1975 in Tokyo. A...
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In Context: texts&beheadings/ElizabethR
texts&beheadings/Elizabeth R, Karin Coonrod’s inventive deconstruction of Queen Elizabeth’s writings, comes to BAM on October 21. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with...
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Real Enemies—Shadow History
Real Enemies comes to the BAM Harvey Theater November 18—22, with music by Darcy James Argue, films by Peter Nigrini, and text and direction by Isaac Butler, who shares his thoughts here.Darcy James...
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In Context: Refuse the Hour
William Kentridge’s phantasmagoric investigation of time, Refuse the Hour, comes to BAM on October 22. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of...
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Fresh Hamm: Seeing Eye Screenings—Avant-Garde in 1943
Photo documenting a "seeing eye" screening for the blind, at BAM in 1943.BAM is known for artistic experimentation, in particular since the Next Wave Festival began in 1983. But did you know that 80...
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In Context: Umusuna: Memories Before History
Japanese Butoh troupe Sankai Juku comes to BAM October 28—31 with Umusuna: Memories Before History. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles...
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