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In Context: /peh-LO-tah/
/peh-LO-tah/, an electric meditation on the racial politics of soccer from multi-talented theater artist, spoken-word poet, and performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, comes to the BAM Harvey Theater Oct...
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On a Road Trip with Bang on A Can All-Stars
Photo by Timothy Norris, courtesy of Ford TheatresArtistic collectives don’t often last 30 years. Artistic goals formulated and shared when artists are just starting to figure out who they are often...
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In Context: Virago Man-Dem
Choreographer Cynthia Oliver and four performers excavate layers of racial and gender performance through the shared lens of their Afro-Caribbean and African-American ancestries. Context is everything,...
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In Context: boulders and bones
Bay Area-based choreographers Brenda Way and KT Nelson make their BAM debut this season with boulders and bones, a meditation on permanence and decay inspired by British land artist Andy Goldsworthy’s...
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In Context: Road Trip
Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe celebrate 30 years of downtown music collective Bang on a Can with this euphoric musical road trip. Context is everything, so get even closer to...
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Jojo & The Pinecones—Soundtrack for Kids!
The new season of BAMkids Music Series starts on November 4 with Jojo & The Pinecones, jazz concerts for kids with swing. (And what kid doesn’t?) The concert has a theme of “Day and Night”—it wraps...
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In Context: Buffer
Xavier Cha, 2017 Harkness Foundation Artist in Residence at the BAM Fisher, brings her perception-altering new work, Buffer, to the 2017 Next Wave Festival. Part of Performa 17, Buffer lays bare the...
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In Context: State of Siege
French director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota sets his sights on Albert Camus’ 1948 play, an alternative-fact-filled allegory about fear, contagion, and betrayal in the wake of a government takeover. Context...
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In Context: Grand Finale
Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s latest work conjures the bleak and beautiful contradictions of our ever-collapsing universe, featuring his own pulsating original score performed live onstage....
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In Context: Man to Man
Become what you can’t afford to lose: that’s the solution of the troubled protagonist in Wales Millennium Centre’s riveting production of playwright Manfred Karge’s 1982 masterpiece based on true...
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In Context: A Billion Nights on Earth
When a treasured object goes missing, real-life father and son actors (Michael and Winslow Fegley) must rely on their own creativity, and each other, to survive a world of wild landscapes—and still...
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In Context: Aroundtown
David Dorfman Dance returns to BAM Nov 8—11 with Aroundtown, a new work that explores the question: What if real love means really being around?Context is everything, so get even closer to the...
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What is Love?
David Dorfman Dance. Photo by Aundre Larrow.What does it mean to love—in spite, or perhaps because of, the violence and strife in the world? How can the body be used as a political force? How can dance...
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In Context: 17c
Big Dance Theater returns to BAM Nov 14—18 with 17c, a dizzy intertextual romp through the diaries of famed 17th-century philanderer Samuel Pepys and his tragic wife BessContext is everything, so get...
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In Context: John Cale: The Velvet Underground & Nico
The inveterate experimentalist celebrates 75 years, performing selections from his legendary career, including his landmark work with the Velvet Underground, the baroque pop perfection of Paris 1919,...
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Bangsokol—Never Forget
Him Sophy composed music for Bangsokol—directed/designed by director Rithy Panh, with libretto by Trent Walker—at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on Dec 15 & 16. Sophy answered some questions...
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Tesseract—Q&A with Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener
Tesseract, a work by Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener at the BAM Harvey Theater from Dec 13—16, is in two parts: a 3D dance film, and a live performance with video. The three artists...
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What's Home?
Geoff Sobelle’s HOME, in which a house is constructed, is at the BAM Harvey from Dec 6—10. Sobelle answered some questions from Christian Barclay.Photo: Maria BaranovaWhat drew you to the idea of...
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In Context: The Fountainhead
Belgian director Ivo van Hove offers a brutal reexamination of Ayn Rand’s notorious paean to radical individualism, a saga of sex, architecture, and skybound ambition. Context is everything, so get...
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In Context: Haruki Murakami’s Sleep
Based on the 1994 short story by the beloved Japanese author Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), this hypnotic physical theater piece by Brooklyn-based, Obie Award-winning company Ripe Time...
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