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In Context: The Exalted
The Exalted, featuring Theo Bleckmann and Carl Hancock Rux, comes to BAM on October 28. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and videos...
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Life Cycles
In an exuberant ode to life filled with live music, Epiphany: The Cycle of Life (coming to the BAM Fisher November 4—7) sends its audience roaming through labyrinthine tunnels of video, light, and...
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Hagoromo—Taking Flight
Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. Photo: David MichalekBy Susan YungAt a recent rehearsal for Hagoromo, Chris Green talks to a group of performers as one man cradles Wendy Whelan, appearing paler than usual...
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Spike Lee's Bamboozled—15 Years Later
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Spike Lee’s Bamboozled is among the director’s most polarizing works—a furious, uncompromising satire that finds the racist traditions of blackface and...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Nathan Boyle of Circa
Nathan BoyleAustralian troupe Circa makes its BAM debut next week with Opus, a jaw-dropping combination of physical feats accompanied by live music by the Debussy String Quartet. Performer Nathan Boyle...
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In Context: Hagoromo
Hagoromo, featuring celebrated dancers Wendy Whelen and Jock Soto, comes to BAM November 3. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and...
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In Context: Epiphany: A Cycle of Life
Epiphany: A Cycle of Life, the exuberant ode to life from VisionIntoArt, comes to BAM November 4. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and...
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In Context: Opus
Opus, from the dazzling Australian troupe Circa, comes to BAM November 4. 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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BAM Illustrated: 5 Conspiracy Theories
Real Enemies (Nov 18—22 at the BAM Harvey Theater) explores America's fascination with conspiracy theories through found footage by film designer Peter Nigrini and music by Darcy James Argue and his...
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On the Hagoromo story, new and old
Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. Photo: David MichalekBy Brendan PelsueHagoromo is one of the most popular Japanese Noh plays, performed frequently in Japan, lauded by modernists like Pound and Yeats, and...
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In Context: Savannah Bay
Marguerite Duras' play Savannah Bay comes to BAM on November 11. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and videos related to the show....
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In Context: YOU US WE ALL
YOU US WE ALL, the pop opera from Shara Worden, Andrew Ondrejcak, and Baroque Orchestration X, comes to BAM on November 11. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated...
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Marguerite Duras: Surviving—and thriving—against all odds
By Jess GoldschmidtFor more than 40 years of French history, Marguerite Duras was a cultural juggernaut. A novelist, playwright, filmmaker, essayist, Resistance fighter, staunch-then-lapsed Communist,...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Lindsey Turteltaub of Real Enemies
When Real Enemies comes to the BAM Harvey Theater November 18—22, audiences will be dazzled by hundreds of pieces of found video footage by film designer Peter Nigrini perfectly synced to an original...
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Elvis Will Be in the Building
Elvis Costello comes to BAM on Nov 10 to discuss his new memoir, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink. Sandy Sawotka, our Director of Publicity and a self-proclaimed Elvis fan-girl, reflects on how...
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In Context: Beyond Time
U-Theatre’s Beyond Timecomes to BAM on November 19. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and videos related to the show. After you've...
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In Context: More up a Tree
Drummer Jim White, dancer Claudia de Serpa Soares, and artist Eve Sussman’s More up a Tree comes to BAM on November 19–21. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated...
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Intersecting Landscapes: An Interview with Performa's RoseLee Goldberg
More up a Tree—opening at the BAM Fisher next Thursday, November 19—is BAM's third co-presentation with Performa. We spoke with Performa's Founding Director and Curator RoseLee Goldberg to get the...
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In Context: Real Enemies
Real Enemies, from Darcy James Argue, Isaac Butler, and Peter Nigrini, comes to BAM on November 18. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles...
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U-Theatre: Dancing Percussionists, or Drumming Dancers?
Photo: Lin ShengfaBy David HsiehAre the members of U-Theatre of Taiwan dancers who play percussion? Or drummers with fancy footwork? Or martial artists who also have modern dance rhythms in their...
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