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The Blue Dragon—now, a graphic novel!
by Susan YungIllustration by Fred Jourdain, from The Blue Dragon bookTurning a graphic novel or comic book into theater or film is a reliable method of producing eye-popping entertainment. Spider-Man...
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16 Ways to Annamate Your Life
Vicki Lynn Hogan (aka Anna Nicole Smith) did it. You can too.Here are 16 tips and tricks from opera’s newest heroine to get you started:1. Get your start in a town nobody can pronounce.2. Take...
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Meet a Friend of BAM: Gil
This month in Meet a Friend, we chatted with an Emmy-nominated film composer who specializes in sensitive, socially conscious material. He also happens to be a BAM member.This month's featured Friend:...
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In Context: Anna Nicole
Illustration by Nathan Gelgud Anna Nicole runs at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House from September 17—28. Context is everything, so get even closer to big, brash, blond spectacle with this curated...
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Q&A with Shredder Orpheus director Robert McGinley
By David ReillyOn September 23, BAMcinématek wraps up Skateboarding Is Not a Crime with an ultra-rare screening of director, writer, and star Robert McGinley’s gonzo Seattle skate punk rock opera...
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Producer's Note: BAMcafé Live returns with Olga Bell & Heliotropes
by Darrell McNeillOlga Bell performs tonight at BAMcafé LiveAs BAM kicks off the 14th formal season of BAMcafé Live, the entire landscape of music in Brooklyn has radically altered. Music goes to the...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Anna Nicole's Segun Akande
by Susan YungAkande (center) in Anna Nicole. Photo by Stephanie Berger.This inaugurates a new series, the BAM Blog Questionnaire, in which we'll chat with visiting artists. Segun Akande, who plays a...
View ArticleA Rare Jem
by Adriana LeshkoJem Cohen is a filmmaker, photographer, teacher, and activist whose career has been inexorably intertwined with music—from his earliest years forging an artistic identity in the DC...
View ArticleProducer's Note: Wishes and Thieves & Margot B at BAMcafé Live
by Darrell McNeill BAMcafé Live Week One: We started off with performances by Olga Bell (Dirty Projectors) and Heliotropes and the takeaway, for me, were two nights brimming with musical possibilities....
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Star-Spangled Stravinsky
By Robert WoodStravinsky in his Hollywood studioFew things seem further from purple-mountain-majesty America than sacrificial virgins and pagan Russian rituals, two things evoked by Igor Stravinsky’s...
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Who is Benjamin Smoke?
by Ryan MauldinDonning a frayed, cotton dress and a shabby beehive wig, she drags on her cigarette and teases the audience with intermittent flashes of skin, if only they will pay for a glimpse. Ms....
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Spin Doctors
by Susan YungPhoto: Mario del CurtoZimmermann & de Perrot dream up ridiculous situations that act as comedic crucibles in which quirky performers communicate through action. In Hans was Heiri, at...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Choreographer David Dorfman
by Lauren MorrowDavid Dorfman; photo by Adam CamposDavid Dorfman Dance returns to BAM this week with Come, and Back Again, a new work that explores how hope and humility help to manage the messiness of...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Circus, and More
by David HsiehHans was Heiri. Photo: Mario Del CurtoIts influence can be seen from movies to Broadway shows to Céline Dion concerts to performing arts with a capital “A”. It has even made its more...
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The Internet Danst Rosas: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker for the YouTube Generation
by Claire Frisbie"We look at each other, and we nod to each other, as if we agree to dance together. We come back to the center. We turn to the other person, and we also nod.”—ATDK on YouTubeSo begins...
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Producer’s Note: Claudia Acuña, Numinous, and a note about Fred Ho
By Darrell McNeillBAMcafé Live Week Four: We hosted our two best attended shows of the season last weekend. It started with in-demand contemporary R&B singer/songwriter Gordon Chambers, whose lush...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Raja Kelly, dancer with David Dorfman & Reggie Wilson
by Lauren MorrowKendra Portier, Raja Kelly, and Karl Rogers in Come, and Back Again. Photo: Ian DouglasFor this week's BBQ, we talk with Raja Kelly, who dances with David Dorfman Dance (Come, and Back...
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Five Easy Reasons to Love Karen Black
by Jessica GoldschmidtSome go for Shelley Duvall. Some say Mia Farrow. But goddamit if Karen Black isn’t our favorite creepy-pretty gal ever to grace a 1970s-era movie screen.A serious actor tragically...
View ArticleBrian Brooks—Wizard of Invention and Movement
by Susan YungBrian Brooks Moving Company brings a new piece, Run Don't Run, to the BAM Fisher on October 22. Here are a few examples of Brooks' previous works to give a sense of the 2013 Guggenheim...
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Talk to the Hand: Dr. Shep Sheepish on Puppets on Film
This weekend, BAMcinématek partners with the Jim Henson Foundation to present the return of the annual program Puppets on Film. We recently checked in with our resident expert in the illustrious fields...
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