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Women at Work: The Domestic Is Not Free
By Natalie ErazoThe third iteration of Women at Work shifts to the subject of domestic labor. As homemakers, caretakers, and familial partners, women shape the well-being of our personal, professional,...
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In Context: Kreatur
©Sebastian BoleschKreatur is famed choreographer Sasha Waltz’s newest exploration of the human body and how it grapples with domination, technology, and the darkness within. With costume design from...
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In Context: Satyagraha
Photo: Markus Gårder Circus Cirkör lends its signature acrobatic grace and wit to Philip Glass’ mesmerizing operatic account of Mahatma Gandhi’s experiments with civil disobedience in this new...
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What Can Puppets Teach Us About Climate Change—And Ourselves?
By Robert Jackson WoodPhoto of Dai Matsuoka, courtesy of Phantom Limb CompanyIf you’ve seen the work of Jessica Grindstaff and Erik Sanko—who come to BAM November 7–10 with their latest work, Falling...
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In Context: Savage Winter
Director Jonathan Moore’s Savage Winter paints a vivid portrait of a man at the end of his rope. Set to Douglas J. Cuomo’s electric score, which reinterprets Franz Schubert’s brooding Winterreise for...
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Less-Than-Strange Window: A Hunt for the Supernatural at BAM
By Claire Greising Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw, an inventive adaptation of Henry James’ gothic ghost story, is coming to BAM from Dec 12—15. It tells the story of a young governess who has...
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In Context: Falling Out
Falling Out is is both a conclusion and a beginning: the final work in Phantom Limb Company’s decade-long trilogy about climate change, the piece strives to spark conversation and action on...
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In Context: Interpassivities
Classical ballet dancers and migrant workers walk alongside the crowd in this shape-shifting ballet by Danish artist and filmmaker Jesper Just. A modern experience inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, this...
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Interview with Satyagraha director Tilde Björfors
A conversation between dramatist Magnus Lindman and director Tilde Björfors Lindman: So, how much is a circus director enjoying opera? Björfors: I have come to appreciate that Glass’ music is perfect...
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The White Album Comes Alive
By Nicole SerratorePhoto: Lars Jan“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”With that succinct opening sentence in her essay, The White Album, Joan Didion probes the identity of the artist, the act...
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The Greek Legacy
By Andrew ClementsThis article was originally published in the Edinburgh International Festival programme, where the Next Wave Festival presentation of Greek (Dec 5-9) premiered in 2017. In March 2018...
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In Context: Halfway to Dawn
David Roussève/REALITY (Love Songs, Next Wave 1999) returns to BAM for the first time in almost two decades with the NY Premiere of Halfway to Dawn, a jubilant dance-theater work celebrating the life...
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In Context: Circus: Wandering City
Adventurous string quartet ETHEL pays tribute to the legends behind the Circus, featuring archival imagery and firsthand accounts from contemporary circus performers. Context is everything, so we’ve...
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Greek: History, Repeating
Allison Cook, Susan Bullock, Andrew Shore. Photo: Jane Hobson Mark-Anthony Turnage’s groundbreaking and profane 1988 two-act opera, Greek, was set in Britain’s Thatcher era. Based on the in-your-face...
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Under Our (BAM Film) Umbrella
Photo: courtesy of BAM Hamm ArchivesBy Gina Duncan, Associate Vice President, FilmFilm is just one of the many art forms BAM employs in its mission to provide a home for adventurous artists, audiences,...
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A 20th-century Everyman
Photo: Jane HobsonBy Tim AshleyThis article was originally published in the Edinburgh International Festival programme, where the Next Wave Festival presentation of Greek (Dec 5-9) premiered in 2017....
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In Context: Voyage of Time
Voyage of Time, director Terrence Malick’s love letter to the universe, is a visually expansive, emotionally impactful meditation on the origins of human life, creativity, and connection. The...
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Forever Young
Mark Morris (Mr. Stahlbaum), Lauren Grant (Marie), and John Heginbotham (Mrs. Stahlbaum). Photo Susana MillmanMark Morris Dance Group’s The Hard Nut returns to the Howard Gilman Opera House (Dec...
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Beyond the Canon: Wanda + Bonnie and Clyde
Wanda (1970), courtesy of Janus Films; Bonnie and Clyde (1967), courtesy of Warner Bros/PhotofestIt is no secret that the cinema canon has historically skewed toward lionizing the white, male auteur....
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“The country’s in a state of plague.”
Greek and the Tragedy of Thatcherite IndividualismPhoto Credit: Jane Hobson.By Chris Tyler In Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek–coming to the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Dec 5–9–audiences will find...
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