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In Context: La Verità
Contemporary circus maverick Daniele Finzi Pasca conjures a lush vaudevillian dreamscape in La Verità, an acrobatic homage to Salvador Dalí, coming to BAM May 4–7. Context is everything, so get even...
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Let's Get Critical: Part I
Photo: Mariel KonOf the many complaints hurled at the film industry over the past few years, perhaps the one most frequently heard is that a hugely disproportionate number of films released each year...
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Labor of Love: 100 Years of Movie Dates
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, courtesy PhotofestBy Mal Ahern and Moira WeigelThere are plenty of movies about dating. And a trip to the movies is a classic first date. Yet when a...
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Turning Points: The Judas Kiss and Wildean Imprisonment
By John CooperThe Judas Kiss, coming to the BAM Harvey Theater May 11—Jun 12, marks a historic return to BAM of the Irish poet, dramatist, and wit Oscar Wilde. This is not, of course, a return of Wilde...
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DanceAfrica: Opening Doors
DanceAfrica master class. Photo: Whitney BrowneBy Susan YungSince its founding in 1977, DanceAfrica has continually been about the rich and variegated tradition of African dance, and also the rites and...
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In Context: The Judas Kiss
Celebrated film and stage actor Rupert Everett captures the brilliant gay aesthete Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s 1998 play The Judas Kiss, directed by Neil Armfield and coming to BAM May 11—Jun 12....
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Kamikaze '89
Kamikaze ’89 screens in a new 4K restoration at BAMcinématek from June 3 to 9. Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Kamikaze '89. Photo courtesy Film MovementBy Nick PinkertonKamikaze ’89 is a science-fiction...
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Let's Get Critical: Part II
Last week, we launched Let's Get Critical—a three-part series highlighting film criticism generated as part of BAM Education's Young Film Critics program. After the jump, immerse yourself in writing on...
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DanceAfrica Visual Art: Omar Victor Diop's The Studio of Vanities
by Holly ShenWhile DanceAfrica is anchored in the tradition of dance, the festival is also an opportunity to celebrate other vital components of African culture and diaspora, including visual art. In...
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In Context: DanceAfrica 2016
America’s largest festival of African dance returns to the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House and beyond this weekend from May 27—30. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this...
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A New Experiment in the Next Wave: Brooklyn-Paris Exchange
This year’s Next Wave Festival marks the arrival of a new experiment. The Brooklyn-Paris Exchange is the creative brainchild of BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo and Théâtre de la Ville director...
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Let's Get Critical: Part III
Late last month, we launched Let's Get Critical—a three-part series highlighting film criticism generated as part of BAM Education's Young Film Critics program. After the jump, immerse yourself in our...
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Pape Moussa Sonko of WAATO SiiTA
Pape Moussa Sonko. Photo: Richard Termine.by David HsiehIt is often said that dancing is an act of defying gravity. But watching the Senegalese dancer Pape Moussa Sonko, you sense that gravity is more...
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Memorial Day at BAM in 1886
Courtesy: BAM Hamm ArchivesFor going on four decades, the BAM community has equated Memorial Day weekend not only with remembering those who have served our country, but also with the DanceAfrica...
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2016 Next Wave Festival—Shifting Borders
Company Wang Ramirez in Monchichi. Photo: Morah Geist, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow DanceBy Susan YungThe 2016 Next Wave dives into new genre amalgamations and forms that have been in flux throughout the...
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Dance—changing lives worldwide
BODYTRAFFIC in Jordan. Photo by Guzmán RosadoBy Susan YungSince its inception, DanceMotion USASM has reached more than 125,000 people in 49 countries, and an impressive 40 million online. Participants...
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Moved by the Music: Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker's Choreographic Vision
Vortex Temporum in rehearsal. Photo: Anne Van AerschotBy Anna TroesterThirty years ago, Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, made their BAM debut in the 1986 Next...
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A Battlefield with Deep Roots: Peter Brook's 30 Year Endeavor
Jared McNeill, Sean O’Callaghan, Ery Nzaramba, Carole Karemera. Photo: Caroline MoreauBy Jess GoldschmidtBefore it reached America’s shores, it was already a sensation. Making its world premiere in...
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Tragedy, Power, and Catharsis: Ivo van Hove's Theatrical Humanism
Ivo van Hove's Kings of War. Photo: Jan VersweyveldBy Christian BarclayFor director Ivo van Hove, 2015-16 was a banner theater season. He made his Broadway debut in late 2015 with a hyper-minimalist...
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From Olympics to Neither
Neither. Photo: Stephanie BergerBy David Hsieh In 2002, just two years after Shen Wei founded Shen Wei Dance Arts, Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The New York Times: “If there is something to write home...
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