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Questlove: GIF the drummer some!
Electronium: The Future Was Then opens tonight, the latest project for musician, entrepreneur, and author Questlove. We know he's got more things going on now than we can keep track of, but we had...
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Unchaining the Devil
by Susan YungPhoto: JC CarbonneBallet Preljocaj, the name of Angelin Preljocaj’s company based in Aix-en-Provence, France, pinpoints his stylistic roots. Yet his movement, while maintaining the elegant...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Lindsey Jones and Sarah Stanley of Dance Heginbotham
by Lauren MorrowSarah Stanley on the tension grid (photo: Stephanie Berger)Dance Heginbotham makes its BAM debut this week with Dark Theater. In this BBQ, I spoke with dancers Lindsey Jones and Sarah...
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Dracula’s Biting Appeal
TR Warszawa and Teatr Narodowy's Nosferatu. Photo: Stefan OkolowiczExcerpts from an essay by Clemens Ruthner“This is the textbook of vampirism, but the journalist Bram Stoker has turned it into a...
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Who's Biting Whom? Jaws and An Enemy of the People
By Nathan GelgudSet your DVRs! Jaws 2 and Jaws 3 are on cable this weekend (channel 161 on Sunday), and you're probably in the mood for them because you just watched Jaws. We know you just watched Jaws...
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Surreal Theater
by Jessica GoldschmidtAh, Dada. How you never cease to thrill with your wild and crazy aesthetic antics. And how you manage to endlessly inspire new artists, like John Heginbotham, the inventive Mark...
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An Enemy of the People Primer: The Coming Insurrection
By Jessica GoldschmidtThomas Ostermeier’s An Enemy of the People takes some liberties with Ibsen. David Bowie songs, chalkboard walls, empty hipster aesthetics… and a new ending.Well, maybe not new....
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By the Books: Kate Weare’s Dark Lark
by Jessica GoldschmidtNBA coach and 11-time champion Phil Jackson assigns reading material to his players to maximize performance, enhance personal development, and give them something to do instead of...
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In Context: Dark Lark
Photo by Keira Heu-Jwyn ChangDark Lark runs at the BAM Fisher through November 9. Context is everything, so get even closer to Kate Weare's titillating production with this curated selection of...
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Apocalypse 101
by Rhea DanielsPhoto: Jack VartoogianFor his 21-dancer apocalyptic extravaganza, And then, one thousand years of peace, Angelin Preljocaj takes his choreography to the end of the world. Not satisfied...
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King of New York—Remembering Lou Reed at BAM
by Susan YungLou Reed during Songs for 'Drella (1989). Photo: BAM Hamm Archives "Ordered sound is music," Lou Reed said in his last video interview, at Rollingstone.com. Reed, who died recently at 71,...
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Water, Great Connector
by Rob Weinert-KendtPhoto: Simon KaneTheater is found not only in words and action but also in space—in the way humans move through it and occupy it, the way our physical environment brings us together...
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Art Shading Into Theater—Alexandre Singh interviewed by Steve Cosson
Flora Sans, Sanna Elon Vrij, Sanne den Besten, Gerty Van de Perre, Amir Vahidi, Philip Edgerley. Photo: Sanne Peper Alexandre Singh's The Humanscomes to the BAM Fisher on Nov. 13. Singh, best-known as...
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BAM Blog Questionnaire: Philip Hulford of Hofesh Shechter Company
Hofesh Shechter Company in Sun. Photo: Gabriele ZuccaHofesh Schechter Company's exuberant Sun takes the Opera House stage from Nov 14—16. Philip Hulford, rehearsal assistant and dancer originally from...
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Producer's Note: Kidding On The Square and Tai Allen at BAMcafé Live
by Darrell McNeillA nod to masterful performances from American Candy, Jeannie Hopper’s Liquid Sound Lounge live music crew, and The Irrepressibles since the last dispatch.Last week brought two...
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Beauty, Ever Ephemeral
by Brian Scott LiptonBeauty and the Beast may be a tale as old as time, but that hasn’t stopped artists from finding their own ways of telling the story of the shy, beautiful girl who falls in love...
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5 Questions for Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini
By Robert WoodBeth MorrisonPaola PrestiniBeth Morrison, creative producer and executive director of Beth Morrison Projects, and Paola Prestini, executive and artistic director of VisionIntoArt, are...
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5 Questions for Janine Thériault of La Belle et la Bête
In Lemieux Pilon 4D Art's La Belle et la Bête, the actors interact with stunning projected imagery in a retelling of the age-old Beauty and the Beast story. We chatted with Janine Thériault who plays...
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Record Your Rime: A BAM Poetry Project
Admit it. You've always dreamed of being a swarthy sailor who sports a crossbow, gambles with death, and gets mistaken for the devil.In celebration of Tony Award nominee Fiona Shaw's upcoming...
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Looking for Moses(es)
by Marina HarssPhoto: Julieta Cervantes“Nobody knows what Moses looked like. That’s part of the fascination,” the choreographer ReggieWilson says with a laugh, discussing some of the ideas behind his...
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