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In Context: 8980: Book of Travelers
Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane's hymn to the analog intimacy of American rail culture has its world premiere at the BAM Harvey Theater Nov 30—Dec 2. Context is everything, so get even closer to the...
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In Context: Suddenly
Israeli director Zvi Sahar and PuppetCinema present a dystopian puppet epic, adapted from Tel Aviv-based writer Etgar Keret’s darkly funny short story collection. Context is everything, so get even...
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In Context: HOME
Physical theater artist Geoff Sobelle returns to BAM Dec 6—10 with HOME, in which he leads an ensemble of dancers and designers in a feat of impossible carpentry: raising a house onstage and making a...
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In Context: Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra...
Suzanne Bocanegra returns to BAM Dec 12—16 with Farmhouse/Whorehouse, a performance piece inspired by her grandparents who lived on a farm across the road from the Chicken Ranch (better known as the...
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In Context: Tesseract
Choreographic duo Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener present Tesseract, the fruit of their years-long collaboration with pioneering video artist (and fellow Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumnus)...
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Remembering Cambodia's Lost Artists
In 1975, the tyrannical Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia following a brutal civil war. Over the course of the next four years the regime held power, some 1.7 million Cambodians died from...
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In Context: Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia
Two survivors of the Khmer Rouge, composer Him Sophy and filmmaker Rithy Panh, attempt to return dignity to their country’s fallen with Bangsokol–a musical ritual remembering the Cambodian genocide....
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Behind the Scenes—Jackie David and Raven Jones
Raven Jones and Jackie David. Photo: David HsiehLong-time BAM audiences will recognize Jackie David and Raven Jones, two stalwarts on the usher floors for the past 25 years. When they started (within...
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A New Year's Wish
Photo: Mike BenignoNew Year’s Day is traditionally a day on which we look back and look ahead. We consider the importance of good friends and family, and also assess what we hope to improve—in our...
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Black Superheroes on Film
Tamara Dobson in Cleopatra Jones. Photo courtesy Warner Bros./PhotofestBy Maureen MastersTaking inspiration from this winter’s release of Disney’s Black Panther, BAMcinématek presents Fight the Power:...
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MLK Comes to BK
This coming Monday, January 15, activists, intellectuals, civic leaders, and artists will gather at BAM for the city’s largest public celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Qyrq Qyz—Ancient Girl Power, Rejuvenated
Qyrq Qyz. Photo courtesy the artists.By David HsiehCentral Asia is landlocked and perennially contested. Containing an area of roughly 1.5 million square miles, it is hemmed in by Russia, China, the...
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A Wendy's Subway Wrap-Up
Our stages may be dark, but there's still plenty going on here in Fort Greene. The Wendy's Subway Reading Room, for instance, remains on display through this coming Sunday, January 28 and is FREE and...
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Fight the Power: Black Superheroes Trading Cards
This February, we celebrate the under-appreciated black screen heroes and heroines who challenged the establishment power structures through their sheer existence. From blaxploitation icons to...
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Introducing Beyond the Canon
BAM’s senior programmer of cinema Ashley Clark talks about the impulse behind this new, monthly repertory event. Screenings take place at BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue.Chantal Akerman on the...
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Behind the Scenes—Noel Vega, BAM ticket services
Noel Vega. Photo: David HsiehNoel Vega is a grandfather, a writer, a life-long Brooklynite, and a 20-year-old veteran of BAM’s ticket services. The staff of ticket services has grown three-fold since...
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Performance as a Life Science
Photo: Julieta CervantesBy Bonnie Marranca“As artists, we’re all contending with what to do at a time like this. I wanted to make a piece that can be seen as an alternative possibility of human...
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Playing Lear
Antony Sher as King Lear, Graham Turner as the Fool. Photo by Ellie KurttzBy Christian BarclayShakespeare’s tragic monarch is one of the most coveted roles in the classical theater canon–– and it is...
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In Context: RadioLoveFest
Context is everything, so get even closer to this year's RadioLoveFest with a curated selection of related articles and videos. After you've attended the show, let us know what you thought by posting...
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BAMcinématek's Beyond the Canon—Les Saignantes + A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange and Les Saignantes. Photos courtesy Warner Bros. / Quartier Mozart FilmsIt is no secret that the cinema canon has historically skewed toward lionizing the white, male auteur. This...
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