Reflecting on the Refugee Crisis
This past February, BAM and PEN America brought together writers from around the world to address the many refugee crises facing the world today. South African author Jonny Steinberg (whose book was...
View ArticleEat, Drink & Be Literary: Jacqueline Woodson
On April 5, acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson came to BAMcafé for the third installment of this season’s Eat, Drink & Be Literary series. She read from both her novel Another Brooklyn and her New...
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Edgar Wright Presents Heist Society
Reservoir Dogs.By Edgar WrightNewsflash, BAM: Crime does not pay! Don’t let this criminally entertaining series of heist films influence you to go a-robbing and a-looting when you leave the theater....
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A Portrait of Pina (in 35 Objects)
In 1984, Tanztheater Wuppertal made its New York debut at BAM, performing what would become the two most iconic works of Pina Bausch’s extraordinary repertoire—Café Müller and The Rite of Spring. More...
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Jonathan Demme: Heart of Gold
Demme at work on The Manchurian Candidate. Photo: Paramount Pictures/Photofestby Lindsay BraytonJonathan Demme: Heart of Gold is the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the late director’s...
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Beautiful Game: An Interview with /peh-LO-tah/’s Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Soccer—as both an intricate, euphoric choreography and an exploited corporate cash cow—is the subject of /peh-LO-tah/, an electric meditation on the racial dimensions of the sport from multi-talented...
View ArticleAbout the Other Weekend: Paul Thomas Anderson at BAM
BAMcinématek was honored to host director Paul Thomas Anderson for the beginning of the Jonathan Demme: Heart of Gold film series. He was joined by producer Edward Saxon, actor Paul Lazar, and Demme...
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Shining Light on My Lai
My Lai, with Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, and Vân-Ánh VõHe. Photo: Zoran OrlicBy Christian BarclayOn March 16, 1968, US Army pilot Hugh Thompson and his crew were flying on a reconnaissance mission...
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Pina Bausch, in her own words
Many works by Pina Bausch (1940—2009) can and have been parsed for complex emotional and psychological meaning, including the two in the 2017 Next Wave Festival,The Rite of Spring and Café Müller. Many...
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Plus ça change
Va savoir. Photo: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.The iconic directors of the French New Wave changed the future of film when they blasted on screen in the 1950s and 1960s, which were characterized...
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Bill T. Jones—A BAM Featured Archival Collection
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company performs Jones'A Letter to My Nephewat the BAM Harvey from Oct 3 to 7.It's a good occasion to introduce you to the Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive, a vast trove of...
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Pina, Dark and Light
Pina Bausch in Café Müller. Photo: J. Paulo PimentaBy Susan Yung"It is not that I wanted to confront people. The misunderstanding is not that I love violence, it was quite the opposite. I was terrified...
View ArticleThe People Spoke
By Nora TjossemSitting in the red plushness of the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, facing the proscenium arch, the weight of tradition climbs into your lap and takes its seat. But on Tuesday night,...
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Whitman, Across the Divide
Photo: Gretjen HeleneBy Robert Jackson Wood“Since I have sat where you sit and breathed the air you breathe, I know you will hear me,” sings the poet Walt Whitman at the beginning of Matthew Aucoin’s...
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Fall Dance Insider
This fall, BAM Education partners with Mark Morris Dance Group to present a free workshop series designed especially for teenage dancers and choreographers. Three companies featured in BAM’s Next Wave...
View ArticleJamaa Fanaka: L.A. Rebel
By Jesse TrussellBorn in Jackson, Mississippi but raised in LA’s Compton, Jamaa Fanaka is a key figure in the group of filmmakers that emerged from UCLA in the 1970s, known as the L.A. Rebellion....
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In Context: Café Müller/The Rite of Spring
In 1984, Tanztheater Wuppertal made its New York debut at BAM, performing what would become the two most iconic works of Pina Bausch’s extraordinary repertoire. More than three decades later, the...
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Performing My Lai
Below, My Lai's Rinde Eckert reflects on the creation of a work wrestling with the repercussions of atrocity, duty, and conscience nearly five decades after an international tragedy.Photo: Zoran...
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In Context: Olivier Py Sings Les Premiers Adieux de Miss Knife
A beguiling chanteuse with a voice of honey and barbed wire, Miss Knife oozes grit, glitz, and old-world glamour. Context is everything, so get closer to the production through our series of curated...
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In Context: My Lai
Jonathan Berger and Kronos Quartet's fevered character study featuring tenor Rinde Eckert and Vân Ánh Võ considers the line between duty and conscience. Context is everything, so get closer to the...
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