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BAM Online Study Guides: A Partnership with The Frederick Loewe Foundation
This past school year, with the support of The Frederick Loewe Foundation, BAM Education launched BAM Online Study Guides, a new resource designed to deepen our engagement with the 15,000 students who...
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In Context: Bridge Over Mud
DIY Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret transform the Fishman Space in Bridge Over Mud, coming to the 2016 BAM Next Wave Festival Sep 7—11. Context is everything, so get even closer to the...
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A downcast piano student recounts a life lived in the shadows of a famous friend in David Lang’s the loser, coming to the 2016 BAM Next Wave Festival Sep 7—11. Context is everything, so get even closer...
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#WSxBAM: Bridge Over Mud
The writer-operated, Bushwick-based library Wendy’s Subway comes to BAM this fall for Next Wave Art, offering audiences the chance to read, write, and engage with selections from its extensive...
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In Context: Phaedra(s)
Isabelle Huppert is the incestuous queen Phaedra in this carnal triptych combining multiple versions of the salacious Greek legend, coming to the 2016 BAM Next Wave Festival Sep 13—18. Context is...
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In Context: portrait of myself as my father
Brooklyn-based choreographer nora chipaumire performs a visceral exploration of African masculinity in portrait of myself as my father, coming to the BAM Fisher September 14–17. Context is everything,...
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In Context: monumental
Canadian dance troupe the Holy Body Tattoo joins forces with post-rock legend Godspeed You! Black Emperor to offer monumental—a searing indictment of the daily grind coming to the BAM Howard Gilman...
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In Context: The Undertaking
Two actors investigate the twilight between being and non-being in this new work by acclaimed Brooklyn theater company The Civilians, part of the Brooklyn-Paris Exchange. Context is everything, so get...
View ArticleIn Context: Remains
Choreographer John Jasperse mines his legacy and lineage for this danced rumination on our existence in time, featuring a score by composer John King. Context is everything, so get even closer to the...
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The Mahabharata: A Summary
Poet and sociologist Carole Satyamurti has spent most of her life working as a professor at the Tavistock Clinic in London, occasionally publishing her own volumes of poetry. Then in 2015, she...
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The Bessies Return to BAM on Oct 18!
Pam Tanowitz's Heaven on One's Head. Photo: Christopher DugganAfter 25 years, the Bessie Awards return to BAM this fall! The ceremony celebrating the New York Dance and Performance Awards, named in...
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In Context: The Hunger
Composer Donnacha Dennehy’s opera about the Great Famine of 1845—52 brings together new music and old Irish songs, featuring ensemble Alarm Will Sound, folk singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, and soprano...
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In Context: Songs of Lear
Poland’s Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat Theater) make their BAM debut with this breathtaking song cycle, transforming Shakespeare’s classic into a feverish deluge of polyphonic sound. Context is...
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Director Peter Brook returns with this tale of reconciliation in the wake of war, a breathtaking distillation of the central story of The Mahabharata, the ancient Sanskrit poem Brook first staged at...
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On Truth (and Lies) in Suicide, Continued
Geneviève Mnich in Savannah Bay. Photo: Rebecca GreenfieldBy Nora TjossemIn November of last year, BAM gathered a packed audience in the Fishman Space for one of the most intimidating titles we’ve...
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In Context: Neither
Celebrated choreographer and painter Shen Wei (Park Avenue Armory, 2011; 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony) makes his much-anticipated BAM debut with this danced realization of Morton Feldman’s...
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In Context: Minuit
Acrobat Yoann Bourgeois and his dazzling collaborators capture the body’s ineffable moment of weightlessness while in motion in this series of vaudevillian vignettes. Context is everything, so get even...
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Reimagining the Majestic Theater
“I can take an empty space and call it a bare stage.A man walks across this empty space whilst someoneelse is watching him, and this is all that is needed foran act of theatre to be engaged.”— PETER...
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Playing with Theater
Photo: Géraldine Aresteanuby Yoann Bourgeois Minuit (“Midnight”) is a theater show designed by a circus artist. This is an important distinction; the show plays with the very notion of theater as a...
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A Man of Letters
Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo: Lucie Jansch“I am one of Nijinsky’s voices,” Mikhail Baryshnikov commented to a French publication about Robert Wilson’s new one-man-show Letter to a Man, at the BAM Harvey...
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