2014
next wave festival
brooklyn academy of music
BAM
next wave festival
TALKS 40
THEATRE 6
6 FILM 36
18 26 36 40 46
MUSIC 26
CLASSES 46
DANCE 18
THEATRE
Oct. 23 – Oct. 25, 2014
Angels in America
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
5 hours and 10 minutes with intermission
us premiere in dutch
There are no feathers here. Instead of beating wings, there’s David Bowie’s other worldly wails. With little more than a stack of vinyl records, a few fluorescent lights, and a saline drip, Dutch visionary Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam deliver a revelatory take on Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic.Encompassing both “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika,” this marathon production strips Kushner’s now-iconic characters—Prior Walter and his boyfriend Louis, Reaganite lawyer Roy Cohn, Mormon couple Joe and Harper Pitt—to their essence, boldly reimagining “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.”
tony kushner toneelgro ep amsterdam directed by ivo van hove
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Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2014
Salt of the Earth
zvi sahar puppetcinema /hazira performance art arena
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
us premiere
1 hours and 20 minutes
A thousand pounds of salt become a punishing Middle Eastern desert, plastic tanks barrel down paper streets, and a faceless, nameless puppet emerges a rebel hero in this work by artist Zvi Sahar.
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Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014
Embers
us premiere
In and out goes the sound of the sea and beside it sits Henry, remembering. The troubled protagonist of Beckett’s 1959 radio play, Embers, cannot stop talking—to his dead father, drowned in the waves; to his dead wife, Ada; and to himself, a failed writer—leaving a twisted thicket of regrets and hallucinations for the audience to navigate. In this ghostly production from Ireland’s Pan Pan Theatre (All That Fall, 2012 Next Wave), two actors set up behind the eyes of a massive skull and, with the help of a sound artist, enliven the fevered mind of a man struggling to speak his world back into meaningful existence.
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
55 minutes
samuel beckett pan pan theatre
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Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014
riverrun
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
us premiere
1 hour
Adherents of James Joyce’s 1939 tome Finnegans Wake espouse the idea that its language comes to life only when read aloud. Singlehandedly validating that claim, formidable Irish actress Olwen Fouéré, assuming the role of the river Liffey, offers this incandescent interpretation of the final section of Joyce’s “book of the night.” A force of nature possessed of every crackling phrase, Fouéré (who also adapted and directs the piece) turns Joyce’s prose into an undulating soundscape, inhabiting the voice of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the river’s personification, as she swells and surges her way through the Wake’s end and out to sea.
adapted, directed, and performed by olwen fouéré theemergencyroom and galway international arts festival in association with cusack projects limited
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“ Even with the genrebending eclecticism of today's avant-garde, Lars Jan
stands out.”
—Los Angeles Times 10
Sept. 24 – Sep. 27 2014
Abacus
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
1 hour
ny premiere
Eccentric techno-futurologist Paul Abacus (who may or may not be the fabricated alter-ego of artist Lars Jan) presents his multimedia talking tour of our hypernetworked world to come. Flanked by balletic Steadicam operators and a giant panda, our elusive prophet walks us through a lecture that’s part TED talk, part televangelism, part new performance frontier, in the name of a world without borders. Predicated on the imminent collapse of both the nation-state and our current screen age, ABACUS is a dark roller-coaster ride through experience design, experimental comedy, and the underbelly of big data.
created by early morning opera written and directed by lars jan
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Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014
Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
us premiere
1 hour 15 minutes
directed by annie-b parson and paul lazar choreography by annie-b parson and the company big dance theater
Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20thcentury Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic collage of political rhetoric, pathos, paranoia, and suburban love. With a titular nod to the Hollywood pseudonym for directors who disavow their work after creative interference, Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature contemplates the slippery nature of creative control, history, its fictions, and the inextricable link between the personal and the historical.
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Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Iambic pentameter gets a surreal makeover in this pop-opera romp through Shakespeare’s sonnets from director Robert Wilson and composer Rufus Wainwright. The Bard’s enigmatic poems are pared down to 25 selections, set to everything from medieval German Minnesang to cabaret rock and performed by Bertolt Brecht’s historic Berliner Ensemble. As pallid, genderqueer dramatis personæ, the virtuosic performers smirk and sneer through expressionistic slapstick, while Wilson’s signature sculpting of time, light, and gesture evokes an absurdist dream.
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
us premiere
run time
2 hours 45 minutes with intermission
berliner ensemble by robert wilson and rufus wainwright sonnet selection by jutta ferbers
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Oct. 7 – Oct. 12 2014
location
BAM Harvey Theatre
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby
run time
55 minutes
In this staging of three one-woman plays by Samuel Beckett, directed by the playwright’s longtime friend Walter Asmus, the obsessive rhythms of abject existence—rambling, pacing, and rocking—are laid bare. Irish actor Lisa Dwan, who drew ecstatic reviews for her performances at the Royal Court Theatre and in the West End, masterfully triangulates the existential void. In Not I, a woman—reduced to a mere mouth, suspended in total darkness—seeks solace in a blisteringly paced stream of her own broken speech. In Footfalls, a tattered soul, drained of life, paces relentlessly outside her dying mother’s bedroom. And in Rockaby, a woman slowly withdraws from the world, rocked to eternal sleep in her mother’s chair.
by samuel beckett a royal court theatre and lisa dwan production
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us premiere
directed by walter asmus
Oct. 16 2014
Brooklyn Bred 2: Clifford Owens
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
1 hour
Art world provocateur Clifford Owens and colleagues Amanda Alfieri, Renee Cox, Shaun Leonardo, and Martha Wilson stage an interactive forum on performance art, as part of Brooklyn Bred, a series curated by Wilson, the founder and director of Franklin Furnace Archive.
world premiere
clifford owens a forum for performance art
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DANCE
Oct. 2 – Oct. 4 2014
us premiere
QUANTUM
gilles jobin company gilles jobin and julius von bismarck
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
45 minutes
Developed by Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and German visual artist Julius von Bismarck while in residence at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics lab, QUANTUM takes the quark as muse, fusing choreography and installation art into an ode to subatomic randomness. Six dancers vibrate, scatter, and whirl beneath a gyrating quartet of industrial
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lamps, programmed to respond to the slightest movement, while Carla Scaletti’s soundscape, derived from particle collision data, provides the sonic ether.
Oct. 8 – Oct. 11 2014
Moment Marigold
world premiere
choreography by jodi melnick
Choreographer Jodi Melnick revels in the hidden narratives that emerge when a multitude of dance methods and modalities, both schematic and autographic, intertwine. Backed by original music by Steven Reker (People Get Ready), Moment Marigold features three women, including Melnick, negotiating entangled knots of actions and pauses, revealing stories held deep within our bodies.
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
50 minutes
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Oct. 15 – Oct. 18 2014
Wild Grass
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
beijing dance theater choreography by wang yuanyuan
1 hour and 40 minutes with two intermissions
Renowned for her alluring fusion of Chinese tradition with a fiercely modern sensibility, choreographer Wang Yuanyuan takes her latest inspiration from Chinese literary giant Lu Xun. Emboldened by the expression of survival in his 1927 poetry collection Wild Grass, Wang created this radiant work that celebrates our natural will to persevere.
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us premiere
Comprising three movements—Dead Fire, Farewell of the Shadow, and Dance of Extremity—Wild Grass unfolds as an evocative abstraction of Lu’s volatile elemental lands-capes, accompanied by solo piano, strings, and experimental electronica. White paper leaves scatter underfoot as dancers alternate between balletic grace and tension, conjuring the fragility and vitality of the human spirit.
Oct. 16 – Oct. 18 2014
L.A. Dance Project
Founded as a collective two years ago by newly appointed Paris Opera Ballet director and former New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied—along with composer Nico Muhly, founding producer Charles Fabius, and others—the ambitious L.A. Dance Project has already turned heads with its fresh, contemporary vision of dance and stylistically diverse repertory.
Murder Ballades, a vivacious work in the spirit of Jerome Robbins, with a visual concept by artist Sterling Ruby and music by Bryce Dessner, performed live by eighth blackbird; and William Forsythe’s Quintett, a tender, elegiac piece for five dancers, created by Forsythe as a love letter to his late wife.
For its much-anticipated New York debut, the company presents three pieces: Millepied’s own Reflections, an elegant series of pas de deux and group dances, set against bold graphics by Barbara Kruger and scored by David Lang; rising choreographer and New York City Ballet dancer Justin Peck’s
choreography by benjamin millepied, justin peck, and william forsy the
location
featuring a special appearance by eighth blackbird
run time
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
2 hours with two intermissions
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Oct. 23 – Nov. 2 2014
bam and irish arts center present howie the rookie
Kontakthof
Marking the 30th anniversary of its New York debut at BAM, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch returns to Brooklyn with one of its beloved founder’s seminal dance-theater works. A seductive tête-à-tête with all the awkward tension of a high school dance, Kontakthof (which translates as “courtyard of contact”) is Bauschian wit and sensuality writ large. Two dozen men and women, dressed to the nines, assemble in a dance hall and jockey for affection. Preening and parading around to popular songs from the 1930s, they caress, tease, and flirt with one another, acting out the universal agony and ecstasy of our courtship rituals.
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House run time
2 hours and 50 minutes with intermission
pina bausch tanztheater wupperta
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Nov. 12 – Nov. 15 2014
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Sadeh21
run time
us premiere
2 hour and 15 minutes
Ohad Naharin is one of the most original choreographic minds of our time— a modern guru whose pioneering dance language, Gaga, uses bodily selfawareness to produce constant, fluid motion and an unthinkable elasticity. Rooted in this practice is Sadeh21, a collection of movement studies by Naharin and his Israeli-based Batsheva Dance Company. Eighteen dancers, backed by music by Autechre, Brian Eno, Angelo Badalamenti, and others— deploy their controlled, pliant bodies in a staggering range of abstractly interpersonal scenarios. Exchanged kisses, distant screams, and beaten chests collude with sinewy solos and gender-bent line and club dancing to create devastating constellations of human pathos, humor, and beauty.
batsheva dance company by ohad naharin in collaboration with the company
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music
SEP. 9
SEP. 10
SEP. 11
four organs by steve reich
four organs by steve reich
clapping music
Performed by steve Reich, Philip Glass, Nico muhly, Timo Andres, and percussionist David Cossin
the civil wars: “cologne” excerpt
Performed by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Timo Andres, and percussionist David Cossin Drumming by Steve Reich Performed by Steve Reich
By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
music in similar motion
music in twelve parts: parts 1 & 2
By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble with Steve Reich
By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
in the upper room: dance ix
akhnaten: act 1, scene 1, “funeral of amenhotep iii”
By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
einstein on the beach: act 4, scene 1, “building”
music for 18 musicians
By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
By Steve Reich Performed by Steve Reich and Musicians
powaqqatsi: “mosque and temple” By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
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By Steve Reich Performed by Steve Reich and Russell Hartenberger
piano phase/video phase By Steve Reich Performed by David Cossin
wtc 9/11 By Steve Reich Performed by Steve Reich and Musicians
sextet By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble
music in similar motion By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble with Steve Reich
Sep. 9 - Sep. 11 2014
The Philip Glass Ensemble & Steve Reich and Musicians
For Steve Reich, it was “music as gradual process.” For Philip Glass, it was “music with repetitive structures.” For everyone else, it was minimalism, and no two American composers have been as crucial to the style’s development as these two Promethean figures with rich histories at BAM and on Nonesuch Records. Yet despite their musical affinities, Glass and Reich have pursued notably different career paths and—remarkably—haven’t shared the stage in over 30 years. Now, for the first time in over 30 years, they reunite, joining their respective ensembles, as well as Nico Muhly, Timo Andres, Synergy Vocals, and others for a three program retrospective of their inestimable collective legacy.
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House run time
2 hour and 20 minutes
Philip Glass, one of America’s most celebrated composers, applies his musical encounters in India, North Africa, and the Himalayas to his own compositions, creating a large body of work in a distinct idiom which can be heard in his operas, film scores, dance music, symphonic work, and string quartets. More than 20 of his pieces have been performed at BAM since 1981, including several benchmark works such as Einstein on the Beach, first presented at BAM’s 1984 Next Wave Festival (revived for Next Wave 1992 and 2012). Other BAM performances include The Photographer/Far From the Truth (BAM, 1983); The CIVIL warS, Act V—The Rome Section (Next Wave 1986); the world premieres of Low Symphony (Next Wave 1992) and Symphony No. 2 (Next Wave 1994); the New York premieres of Orphée (Next Wave 1993) and La Belle et la Bête (Next Wave 1994), and a presentation of Les Enfants Terrible: Children of the Game (Spring 1996)—all parts of his operatic trilogy based on the work of Jean Cocteau; Next Wave 1998’s Monsters of Grace; a live musical performance accompanying a screening of Koyaanisqatsi (Spring 1999); and Dracula: The Music and Film ( Next Wave 1999) featuring the Kronos Quartet. Glass collaborated with director Mary Zimmerman for the opera Galileo Galilei, presented as part of the 20th anniversary season of the Next Wave Festival (2002). Glass’ more recent works at BAM include the collaborative concert work Orion and Symphony No. 6 and No. 8 (2005 Next Wave); and his opera Kepler (Next Wave 2009). Nonesuch has released 22 albums of Glass’ compositions, beginning with his 1985 soundtrack to Mishima and, most recently, the reissue of his seminal 1993 Einstein on the Beach recording and a 40-year retrospective called Glass Box.
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Sep. 9 2014
Brad Mehldau
One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau performs an evening of music which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. From critical acclaim as a bandleader and solo artist to major international exposure in collaborations with Pat Metheny, Anne Sofie von Otter, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Renee Fleming, Britten Sinfonia, and Joshua Redman, Mehldau continues to garner numerous awards and admiration from both jazz purists and music enthusiasts alike. His forays into melding musical idioms, in his trio (with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums) and solo settings, has seen brilliant re-workings of songs by contemporary songwriters like The Beatles, Cole Porter, Radiohead, George and Ira Gershwin, and Nick Drake, alongside the ever evolving breadth of his own significant catalogue of original compositions. With his affection for popular music and classical training, Mehldau has become “universally admired as one of the most adventurous pianists to arrive on the jazz scene in years (Los Angeles Times).” In the last few years alone, Mehldau’s Nonesuch releases have showcased the facets of his fruitful, ever-evolving career as it enters its second decade: his ambitious orchestral record with producer Jon Brion (Highway Rider); his live solo performances (Live in Marciac); his collaborations with genre-crossing musicians (Modern Music, with composer/ pianist Kevin Hays and composer/arranger Patrick Zimmerli); his trio work with his longstanding acclaimed trio (the Grammy-Nominated Ode and the acclaimed Where Do You Start—both released in the same year), and most recently a turn into electric territories in a duo with the prodigious drummer Mark Guiliana (Mehliana: Taming the Dragon).
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
1 hours and 50 minutes
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Sep. 9 2014
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau Duo
Nonesuch Records label-mates Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau play as a duet, with repertoire including classical transcriptions, pop covers, and original songs. Longtime admirers of each other’s work, mandolinist and singer Thile and pianist Mehldau first performed together in September 2011 as part of Mehldau’s residency at London’s Wigmore Hall before going on a brief tour in 2013.
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
1 hour and 10 minutes
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Sep. 23 – Sep. 27 2014
Landfall
Anderson & Kronos have created an evocative meditation on transience, combining poignant texts and music fortified by innovative technology. Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos with Anderson’s powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars. Dense projected texts, triggered musically via software developed for the work, overlay and compound Anderson’s tales, leaving a polyphony of meanings to percolate in the vivid wake of the storm. Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned—and daring—creative pioneers. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for more than 30 years. She is best known for her multimedia presentations and musical recordings. Anderson’s first album, O Superman, launched her recording career in 1980, rising to number two on the British pop charts and subsequently appearing on her landmark release Big Science. She went on to record six more albums with Warner Brothers. Anderson’s Nonesuch recordings include Life on a String, Live in New York, a reissue of Big Science, and 2010’s Homeland.
location
BAM Harvey Theater run time
1 hour and 10 minutes
laurie anderson for kronos quartet
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Sep. 24 2014
Rokia Traoré
Rokia Traoré has been named “one of Mali’s most revered voices” by NPR. Traoré recently released her second, critically acclaimed Nonesuch recording, Beautiful Africa, produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels, Sparklehorse), a follow-up to 2009’s Tchamantché. Traoré’s music draws on her homeland’s traditions as well as the European and American rock and pop she has listened to throughout her life. She collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and acclaimed director Peter Sellars on the theater piece Desdemona, which was staged at Lincoln Center and the Barbican. In 2012, Traoré joined Damon Albarn’s UK tour, “Africa Express,” featuring John Paul Jones, Amadou Bagayoko, Baaba Maal, and Paul McCartney.
rokia traoré, singer and multi-instrumentalist with special guests kronos quartet
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House run time
1 hours and 30 minutes
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Sep. 27 - Sep. 28 2014
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House run time
2 hours and 30 minutes
with opener olivia chaney
Legendary British singer-songwriter and Led Zeppelin alum Robert Plant, newly signed to Nonesuch Records, comes to BAM for two nights with his band, the Sensational Space Shifters. The band comprises Justin Adams (guitar), John Baggott (keyboards), Juldeh Camara (gologo and ritti—one-string African violin), Billy Fuller (bass), Liam “Skin” Tyson (guitar), and Dave Smith (percussion) and developed out of Plant’s work with Strange Sensation, with whom he recorded the critically acclaimed, multi-Grammy-nominated albums Dreamland and Mighty Rearranger. Robert Plant releases his Nonesuch label debut in 2014.
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Sep. 23 - Sep. 27 2014
The Source
world premiere
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning has many identities: adrift adolescent, emboldened whistle blower, traitor to her country. In this penetrating multimedia oratorio, Brooklyn-based composer Ted Hearne and director Daniel Fish dive into the media hysteria responsible for the many faces of the Army private who infamously leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. An ever-shifting chorus of silent witnesses looms as four singers housed in a visual and sonic installation descend into the digital mire. With computer-processed voices, they inhabit a fever-dream assemblage of Twitter feeds, cable news reports, chat transcripts, court testimony, and declassified military video, shining a light on the massive information machine in which Manning, and our nation, has become ensnared.
composed by ted hearne libretto by mark doten directed by daniel fish
location
BAM Fisher Fishman Space run time
1 hour and 15 minutes
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FILM
Nov. 6 - Nov. 8 2014
ny premiere
Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films
The films of Andy Warhol are provocative milestones of underground cinema, flaunting convention simply by letting the gritty world be itself. They include a motionless eight-hour shot of the Empire State Building, a short of Lou Reed drinking a Coke, and erotic acts aplenty.
the andy warhol museum and dean wareham
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House run time
1 hour and 15 minutes
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In Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films, curated by The Andy Warhol Museum, 15 never-before-seen, digitally restored selections from the 1960s are unveiled.
featuring live performances by: bradford cox (deerhunter, atlas sound) eleanor friedberger (the fiery furnaces) martin rev (suicide) tom verlaine (television) dean wareham (galaxie 500, luna)
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TALKS
Sep 27 2014
Caetano Veloso with Peter Sellars
location
BAM Fisher BAM Fisher Hillman Studio run time:
1 hour 30 minutes
The beloved Brazilian singer, songwriter, and activist, Caetano Veloso, sits down with friend and renowned theater director, Peter Sellars, for an intimate discussion about art, music, film, and more.
caetano veloso with peter sellars in conjunction with nonesuch records at bam
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Nov. 14 2014
Beckett at BAM: A Look into the BAM Hamm Archives
Theater critic and professor Jonathan Kalb, author of Beckett in Performance, discusses the history of Beckett at BAM with BAM Hamm Archives director Sharon Lehner, from the Schiller Theater of Berlin’s production of Waiting for Godot, staged by Beckett himself in 1977, to this season’s productions of Embers and Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby.
location
BAM Fisher BAM Fisher Hillman Studio run time
1 hour
in conjunction with embers and not i, footfalls, rockaby with jonathan kalb and sharon lehner
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On Truth (and Lies) in Homecoming
location
Peter Jay Sharp Building BAMcafĂŠ run time
1 hour and 30 minutes
Phil Klay, U.S. Marine Corps veteran and author of Redeployment, and Nancy Sherman, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and author of The Untold War, join Simon Critchley to explore the notion of nostos, the Greek word for homecoming, to better understand the psychological truths faced by servicemen and women returning from war today.
in conjunction with basetrack live hosted by simon critchley with phil klay and nancy sherman co-presented by bam and the onassis cultural center ny part of the hellenic humanities program
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Nov. 9 2014
Nov. 14 2014
Iconic Artist Talk: Ohad Naharin
Ohad Naharin—the artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year— reflects on his company’s history at BAM, from its first appearance in 2002 with Naharin’s Virus to this season’s production of Sadeh21.
location
Hillman Attic Studio in the Peter Jay Sharp Building run time
1 hour
in conjunction with sadeh21 moderated by wendy perron
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CLASSES
Sept. 22 2014
Big Dance Theater
location
Mark Morris Dance Center run time
2 hours
with paul lazar in conjunction with alan smithee directed this play: triple feature
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Participants discover the potential for unexpected theatrical moments in this workshop led by Big Dance Theater co-artistic director Paul Lazar. Pairing simple dance phrases with various texts and excerpts of music, Lazar shows how movement can change depending on a host of environmental variables.
Sep. 29 2014
Jodi Melnick
location
Mark Morris Dance Center run time
3 hours
Led by choreographer Jodi Melnick, this class incorporates both set and improvised material. Participants begin with a thorough warm-up before learning how to manipulate dance sequences—re-organizing, adding, taking away, and finding different pathways—with the ultimate goal of seeing movement detail with a sharper eye. Melnick also shares how she used movement to locate meaning while creating this season’s Moment Marigold. The class will be followed by a Q&A.
in conjunction with moment marigold
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Oct. 14 2014
L.A. Dance Project
L.A. Dance Project ballet master Sébastien Marcovici—who trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school and was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than 20 years—leads this class for professional dancers and pre professional students with at least four years of training. Informed by the George Balanchine style of neoclassical ballet, Marcovici emphasizes musicality, efficiency, and precision.
location
Mark Morris Dance Center run time
1 hour and 30 minutes
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with sebastien marcovici in conjunction with l.a. dance project
Oct. 18 2014
location
Mark Morris Dance Center
Beijing Dance Theater
run time
1 hour and 30 minutes
with wang yuanyuan in conjunction with wild grass
The company’s artistic director Wang Yuanyuan leads this class in choreography and creative body movement for dancers with contemporary or traditional ballet training.
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Nov. 25, 2014
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
Ellen Fisher and Katie Geissinger lead this class in using the voice and body as multifaceted instruments for exploring range, timbre, gesture, resonance, character, landscape, and rhythm. Beginning with breathing techniques and a detailed movement and vocal warm-up, participants learn the fundamentals of performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation. Selected pieces from Monk’s repertoire will also be taught.
location
Mark Morris Dance Center run time
2 hours
co-presented by bam and mark morris dance group with ellen fisher and katie geissinger in conjunction with on behalf of nature
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Dec. 4, 2014
Jessica Lang Dance
location
Mark Morris Dance Center run time
3 hours
This immersive master class teaches the basic techniques and language of choreographer Jessica Lang’s creative curriculum, LANGuage, which encourages choice and cultivates creative thinking. After a warm-up of improvisational and exploratory exercises, Lang and company members guide participants through `opportunity to ask questions about Lang’s choreography and process.
with jessica lang and company members in conjunction with the wanderer
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designed with benevolence and care