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Michael Mann: To the Limit
James Caan in Thief. Photo courtesy MGM/Photofest By Nick PinkertonBAMcinématek presents Heat & Vice: The Films of Michael Mann, Feb 5—16. Michael Mann’s films combine a verbal taciturnity with a...
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BAM Illustrated: Thomas Merton
Charles Mee and Les Waters'The Glory of the World (Jan 16—Feb 6 at the BAM Harvey Theater) celebrates the legacy and centennial birthday of Thomas Merton. In anticipation of the production, illustrator...
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In Context: The Glory of the World
Charles Mee's The Glory of the World, directed by Les Waters, comes to BAM January 16—February 6. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and...
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Dance, Valiant & Molecular
Newark (Niweweorce). Photo: Stephanie BergerBy Susan YungOn the surface, Trisha Brown’s proscenium dances are kinetically intriguing and relatable, formed of waves of roiling, fluid phrases. But dig...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Will Oldham of The Glory of the World
Tonight, Will Oldham (better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) takes over the role of "The Man" in Charles Mee's new play The Glory of the World—playing the BAM Harvey Theater through...
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In Context: Trisha Brown Dance Company
The Trisha Brown Dance Company comes to BAM January 28—30 with Set and Reset, PRESENT TENSE and Newark (Niweweorce). Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated...
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Honoring Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya. Photo: ITAR-TASS Photo AgencyBy Susan YungDance may be the most viscerally affecting of art forms, but its evanescence is painfully apparent when considering the bygone stars of, for...
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The Maly's Cherry
Photo: Viktor VasilievBy Carol Rocamora“My darling, how hard it was for me to write that play.”So wrote an ailing 43-year-old playwright named Anton Chekhov, when he sent The Cherry Orchard (coming to...
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Prokofiev Lyrical, Prokofiev Grotesque
Hear all five of Prokofiev’s piano concertos—performed by the pianists Daniil Trifonov, George Li, Alexander Toradze Sergei Redkin, and Sergei Babayan under conductor Valery Gergiev—Wednesday, February...
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Akram Khan's Stolen Memories
The following is an essay from 2011 that was included inBAM: The Complete Works, an overview of BAM's history. Akram Khan is a dancer and choreographer who returns to BAM March 2—5 with Torobaka, a...
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BAM Illustrated: Eileen Myles for President!
Celebrated poet and essayist Eileen Myles comes to BAM on March 1 as part of our Eat, Drink & Be Literary series. Illustrator Nathan Gelgud revisits Myles' participation in the 1992 presidential...
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Be my adventurous artist, audience, and idea!
We’d like to think that we’re no softies here at the BAM blog and that we’re immune to Valentine’s Day sentiment. But for the second year in a row, we're really feeling the love. To express our amour,...
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Graphic Details: Designing Migrating Forms
At BAM, it isn't uncommon for the seed of a design idea to originate with a print designer and only later make its way to the video team for adaption there. This makes sense when a campaign calls for...
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In Context: The Cherry Orchard
The Maly Drama Theatre comes to BAM February 17–27 with Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: The Cherry Orchard's Danila Kozlovksy
The Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg is famous for its imaginative productions and Artistic Director Lev Dodin is renowned for his commitment to training and ensemble work. We spoke with Danila...
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In Context: Folk, Form, and Fire: The Prokofiev Piano Concertos
Conductor Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra, and five renowned soloists perform Sergei Prokofiev's piano concertos in this marriage of virtuosic repertoire and pianistic might—part of year two of...
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In Context: A Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya
For decades, the legendary Maya Plisetskaya—muse to choreographers Yuri Grigorovich, Alberto Alonso, and Maurice Béjart—was synonymous with Russian ballet. Now, prima ballerinas Diana Vishneva and...
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In Context: Rimbaud in New York
In this prismatic collage of song and story, theater company The Civilians (Paris Commune, 2012 Next Wave Festival) use music-theater to consider the life and lasting influence of modernism’s most...
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Desperately Seeking Rimbaud
The Civilians’ production of Rimbaud in New York, written and directed by Steve Cosson, with poems by Arthur Rimbaud translated by John Ashbery and produced by BAM with major support from the Poetry...
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Shakespeare's Henriad
Nigel Lindsay, David Tennant in Richard II. Photo: Kwame LestradeBy Christian BarclayWhen Shakespeare began to write his second tetralogy of history plays in the late 1590s, Elizabeth I had ruled...
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