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In Context: The White Album
Lars Jan’s multi-layered vision of Joan Didion’s essay juxtaposes the author’s searing text—performed in its entirety—with a glassed-in microcosm of social unraveling. Context is everything, so get...
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In Context: Elemental
Electrifying tap dance company Dorrance Dance makes its BAM debut with a new site-specific work co-choreographed by Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young. Context is everything, so get even closer...
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In Context: The Good Swimmer
Heidi Rodewald composes propulsive music to accompany Donna Di Novelli’s powerful lyrics for The Good Swimmer, a project seven years in the making. A young lifeguard grapples with the legacy of the one...
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In Context: NERVOUS/SYSTEM
From interactive media artist Andrew Schneider, NERVOUS/SYSTEM interrogates what we miss in a world ruled by distractions. By utilizing technology to create an immersive experience that is both visual...
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In Context: Greek
From composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and director Joe Hill-Gibbons, Greek is an in-your-face operatic retelling of the Oedipus tale set in 1980s London. Coursing with sharp and scathing political...
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Dreadful Knowledge
Oh, the Oedipus complex. A story recapitulated over centuries and made particularly popular thanks to a simultaneously concerning and endlessly intriguing Freudian interpretation. When Mark...
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The Governess or the Ghosts?
Sipiwe Moyo, Hannah Heller, Sean Donovan. Photo: James Gibbs.By Harry HaunBlood will tell—and did: Henry James—writer/brother of the “Father of American psychology,” William James—crisscrossed the...
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How a 1937 Lifeguard Manual and Other Found Texts Became The Good Swimmer
A pop requiem for lives lost at war, The Good Swimmer is a visceral music theater piece by composer Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange), lyricist Donna Di Novelli, and director Kevin Newbury. The show...
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In Context: The Hard Nut
Mark Morris Dance Group’s beloved retro-modern reimagining of The Nutcracker, The Hard Nut, comes back to BAM for the holidays, playfully preserving the warm spirit of an essential holiday tradition...
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In Context: Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw
A lone governess caught between memory and nightmare weaves a chilling tale made startlingly relevant as her sanity comes into question. Truth, it appears, is relative. A seductive retelling of the...
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Singing the Snowflakes
Photo by Richard Termine By David HsiehIn a ballet as full of magical moments as The Nutcracker, the Waltz of the Snowflakes may just be the most magical. Our heroine (Marie or Clara, depending on the...
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In Context: Unbound: Malala Yousafzai
BAM welcomes Nobel Peace Prize laureate and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai (I Am Malala and Malala’s Magic Pencil) to discuss her powerful new book, We Are Displaced: My Journey and...
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A New Year Message From Katy Clark, President of BAM
Even for the most resolution-averse, the New Year is a time when we reflect on the past and consider our intentions for the future. At BAM, this is especially resonant as we are undergoing considerable...
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2019 Winter/Spring Preview
Pepperland, photo by Gareth JonesThe 2019 Winter/Spring Season at BAM is an intriguing, diverse line-up of performances. They share at least one thing in common—they were chosen by Joseph V. Melillo as...
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Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs
By Ashley ClarkTongues Untied (1989), Courtesy of Signifyin' Works and Frameline DistributionFilmmaker, gay rights activist, poet, professor, provocateur: the late, great Marlon Riggs (1957—94) spoke...
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Grupo Corpo: Bach & Gira
Bach, photo by Jose Luiz PederneirasBrazil’s Grupo Corpo brings Bach & Gira to the Howard Gilman Opera House (Jan 31—Feb 2). Choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras answered some questions about the...
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Free Cinema Tickets for Federal Employees
If Beale Street Could Talk, Courtesy of Annapurna PicturesBeginning Monday, January 14, federal staffers on furlough due to the government shutdown are offered free admission to the first show of the...
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Notes on Ionesco Suite From Its Actors and Creators
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris presents Ionesco Suite, a collective work based on texts by Eugène Ionesco staged as an unruly dinner party, at the BAM Fisher from Jan 23—26, directed by Emmanuel...
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In Context: Ionesco Suite
Photo: Jean Luis FernandezA feat of repartee and wordplay from acclaimed director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Ionesco Suite comprises excerpts from the following plays: The...
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In Context: Bach & Gira
Photo: Jose Luiz PederneirasBrazil’s foremost contemporary dance troupe returns to BAM for the 5th time with Bach & Gira, a distinctive double bill that showcases the company's breadth. Like the...
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