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In Context: Monchichi
Polyglot performance duo Wang Ramirez (Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez) employ their signature dance-theater aesthetic in this riveting duet, part of the Brooklyn-Paris Exchange. Context is...
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In Context: Vortex Temporum
Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns with a dance meditation on late French composer Gérard Grisey’s spectral 1996 masterpiece. Context is everything, so get even closer to the...
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In Context: Letter to a Man
Mikhail Baryshnikov steps inside the splintered psyche of Vaslav Nijinsky in director Robert Wilson’s staging of the iconic Russian dancer’s diaries recording his schizophrenia. Context is everything,...
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Architecture doubles as instrument in this compelling collage of offbeat pop songs and live construction from the band Open House, inspired by Henry Miller’s novella The Smile at the Foot of the...
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Rules Of The Game—Playing Together Nicely
Rules Of The Game. Photo: Sharon BradfordRules Of The Game, a new collaboration between Jonah Bokaer, Daniel Arsham, and Pharrell Williams, is on a program with RECESS (2010) and Why Patterns (2011) at...
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Memory Rings—A Giving Tree
Photo: Sierra Urich By Robert WoodThe world’s oldest tree is a 5,062-year-old Bristlecone Pine located somewhere—only scientists know exactly where—in California’s White Mountains. The world’s oldest...
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In Context: Request Concert
A middle-aged, middle-class woman (Polish actress Danuta Stenka) goes about her well-worn evening ritual in Franz Xaver Kroetz’s devastating, wordless 1971 experiment in hyper-realism. Context is...
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In Context: A Star Has Burnt My Eye
Howard Fishman’s new play tells the recently uncovered story of Connie Converse, a polymathic songwriter in the 1950s who vanished without an audience or album to her name but left behind a treasure...
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A Forest of Threads—Plexus, Director's Note
French physical theater maverick Aurélien Bory (Sans Objet, 2012 Next Wave) Japanese dancer and choreographer Kaori Ito as both muse and instrument in Plexus,coming to the BAM Harvey Theater Nov 9—13....
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In Context: Pavement
Renowned dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham makes his BAM debut with a work inspired by, among other things, the 1991 hip-hop classic Boyz N the Hood, W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk, and...
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In Context: Kings of War
Three Shakespeare kings enter the fluorescent-lit corridors of the present in Ivo van Hove’s clever merging of the plays Henry V, Henry VI Parts I, II & III, and Richard III. Context is everything,...
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A Gun Show—Weaponized Instruments
Photo: Stephanie BergerBy Christian BarclayAn abstract exploration of a visceral issue, Sō Percussion’s A Gun Show (Harvey Theater, Nov 30—Dec 3) uses music, text, and movement to explore America’s...
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In Context: Plexus
French physical theater maverick Aurélien Bory takes Japanese dancer Kaori Ito, entangled in a dense field of 5,000 black nylon wires, as both muse and instrument. Context is everything, so get even...
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In Context: Rules Of The Game
Choreographer Jonah Bokaer and visual artist Daniel Arsham celebrate a decade of collaboration in this evening of three works featuring an original score by Pharrell Williams. Context is everything, so...
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Reflecting on Guns, part of A Gun Show
As part of Sō Percussion’s A Gun Show (Nov 30—Dec 3), a percussive exploration of our nation’s obsession with guns, BAM is partnering with StoryCorps to create a platform for you to share your...
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In Context: Memory Rings
Phantom Limb Company chronicles 5,000 years of environmental change in this series of surreal wordless vignettes, a phantasmagoric mix of puppetry, music, and macabre fairy tales. Context is...
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In Context: Thank You for Coming: Play
Brooklyn-based choreographer Faye Driscoll makes her BAM debut with the second work in her Thank You For Coming trilogy, exploring the fractured nature of language. Context is everything, so get even...
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In Context: The Tree of Life
More than 100 musicians and singers from the Wordless Music Orchestra perform live accompaniment to a special screening of Terrence Malick’s 2011 masterpiece starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain....
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In Context: On the Road
Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner and his company retrace Jack Kerouac’s most infamous route in this evening-length work, a synthesis of sensuous movement, original music, and kaleidoscopic video footage....
View ArticleColson Whitehead on The Underground Railroad
On September 26, author Colson Whitehead came to BAM to discuss his most recent novel, The Underground Railroad, a sweeping narrative of pre-Civil War slavery that rockets from past to present through...
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