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Making the World a Better Place: Surya Botofasina on Alice Coltrane's Ashram
By Andy BetaAlice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda—a chosen name meaning "the transcendental lord's highest song of bliss”—was a jazz innovator who made a life of self-reinvention. After the death of John...
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BAM + Onassis Foundation: Speaking Truth to Power
By Young Richard KimGreek. Photo: Jane HobsonThis fall, BAM partners with the Onassis Cultural Center New York to present Speaking Truth to Power, a multi-disciplinary set of performances, talks,...
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Your Guide to The Fisher this Next Wave Season
By Vilina PhanSo you’ve purchased tickets to Jack &, or maybe tickets to I hunger for you or Trisha Brown Dance Company? That’s it, right? It can be, or it can be much more—based on the experience...
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In Context: Humans
Australian troupe Circa returns to BAM (Opus, BAM Next Wave 2015) with an awe-inspiring acrobatic journey and love letter to our species. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production...
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In Context: The Bacchae
The Bacchae, Euripides’ cautionary parable of hubris and fear of the unknown thrashes to new life in the hands of Anne Bogart, the renowned SITI Company, and translator Aaron Poochigian. Context is...
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In Context: Trisha Brown Dance Company
Trisha Brown Dance Company performs rarely seen early works of Trisha Brown, one of the most prolific and inventive post-modern choreographers, at the Fishman Space. The theater will be transformed as...
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There's 30something about Mary Reilly
By David Hsieh(From left) Joseph V. Melillo, Mary Reilly, and Pina Bausch in 2001 for Masurca Fogo “For three decades, Mary Reilly has been BAM’s secret weapon. Working shoulder to shoulder with her is...
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Performing Place
By David HsiehI am lying in bed with him / He is asleep / I am lying in bed with him, my son / He is breathing regularlyI am staring at his birthday balloons / They have lost their lift / He is five...
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In Context: Alice Coltrane
Celebrate the sublime musical and spiritual legacy of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda in this special one-night engagement led by Surya Botofasina and the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers. Context is...
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Beyond the Canon: Body and Soul + The Night of the Hunter
Paul Robeson in Body and Soul (1925) and Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955), photos courtesy of Kino Lorber/Park CircusIt is no secret that the cinema canon has historically skewed toward...
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In Context: Place
In Place, composer Ted Hearne, poet Saul Williams, and director Patricia McGregor consider the difference between space and place, from manifest destiny to modern appropriation, in this rich mix of...
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Insider Perspectives on Watermill
Courtesy of Jerome Robbins FoundationBy Susan YungJerome Robbins’ Watermill, at the BAM Fisher from Oct 24 to 27, is reimagined in a new, site-specific production by choreographer Luca Veggetti. When...
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Share your thoughts on love, water, nature, and loss
Phantom Limb CompanyThis November, BAM presents Phantom Limb’s new productionFalling Out, a theatrical exploration of love, loss, and healing in response to the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear...
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In Context: JACK &
Theater artist Kaneza Schaal joins forces with actor Cornell Alston and artist Christopher Myers to consider reentry into society after prison in the NY Premiere of JACK &. Context is everything,...
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In Context: Measure for Measure
London’s Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre propels Shakespeare’s “problem play” into a timely juggernaut of political critique. Context is everything so get even closer to the production with...
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Kreatur’s Creators
By Susan YungKreatur. Photo: Ute ZscharntBerlin-based choreographer Sasha Waltz has shown her daring breadth in dance-theater at BAM—from the formal eloquence of Continu (2015) to the operatic madness...
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In Context: I hunger for you
Kimberly Bartosik’s I hunger for you explores the human body using light and its stark absence. Restless, tender, and violent, this modern piece delves into the heart of losing yourself in ecstasy,...
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In Context: Watermill
This rarely performed piece by Jerome Robbins was premiered by New York City Ballet in 1972 at Lincoln Center. Different from any Jerome Robbins piece to date, it elicited reactions that ran the gamut....
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In Context: Everywhere All the Time
Photo: Travis MageeSeán Curran Company comes alive to the beat of a drum in celebration of their 20th anniversary. With live accompaniment from Grammy Award-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion,...
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Seeing every Next Wave Festival show
Tell us about yourself! What do you do for fun? Do you have any interesting facts about yourself? I'm Liz! I moved to New York City 7 years ago and to Brooklyn 5 years ago, and I and have been going to...
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