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SEP 7 — DEC 18 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL WAVE NEXT 2016
2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL SEP 7—DEC 18 “IT’S ABOUT SHOWING THE UNSEEN, SAYING THE UNSAID, AND BREAKING THE CREATIVE MOLD TIME AND TIME AGAIN.”
—JOSEPH V. MELILLO, BAM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SEP 21—24 P 36 SEP 21—25 P 53 SEP 28—OCT 1 P 31 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Legacy of radical Scenes from the Shakespeare’s rhythms, artistic action. underworld and unlocked in gesture SEP 7—10 P 30 SEP 7—11 P 8 SEP 14—17 P 52 afterlife. and song. Hybrid performance In the shadow of A choreographed along 195 feet of Glenn Gould, 20 feet above bout with black elevated track. the opera house seats. masculinity.
DANCE THEATER THEATER REMAINS THE UNDERTAKING SONGS OF LEAR John Jasperse, John King Steve Cosson, The Civilians Songs of the Goat Theatre, Grzegorz Bral
SEP 28—OCT 9 SEP 30 & OCT 1 P 10 Unsung voices from A bloody chapter of Ireland’s Great Famine. THEATER/MUSIC/VISUAL ART OPERA DANCE Photos (clockwise from top left): Courtesy of the artists; Peter of the artists; Courtesy Rad; Gennadi Novash; YannickPhotos (clockwise from top left): Grandmont; Pascal Victor BRIDGE OVER MUD THE LOSER PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER Verdensteatret David Lang, Thomas Bernhard, Jack Dawson nora chipaumire an Indian epic,
SEP 16 & 17 P 34 revisited. SEP 13—18 OPERA The anxiety of urban life, THE HUNGER danced in business casual. Donnacha Dennehy, Alarm Will Sound, Isabelle Huppert is an Alan Pierson, Tom Creed
incestuous queen, OCT 5—8 P 38 Undulating bodies, times three. navigating shadow and light.
12 Photos (clockwise from top left): Julieta Cervantes; courtesy of the artists; Stephanie Berger; Ery Nzaramba, © Caroline Moreau 14 DANCE THEATER THEATER NEITHER DANCE/MUSIC PHAEDRA(S) BATTLEFIELD Shen Wei Dance Arts, Morton Feldman, MONUMENTAL Sarah Kane, Wajdi Mouawad, J.M. Coetzee, Krzysztof Warlikowski, C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Brook, Samuel Beckett, Shen Wei The Holy Body Tattoo, Godspeed You! Black Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe Emperor, Dana Gingras, Noam Gagnon Marie-Hélène Estienne
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SAVE 15—30% WHEN YOU BUY 4 OR MORE EVENTS. SUBSCRIBE FOR GREAT SEATS, GREAT PRICES, AND FREE EXCHANGES. OCT 5—8 P 54 OCT 12—15 P 55 NOV 2—5 P 48 NOV 3—6 Balancing acts on the A melting pot of Balletic refrains, inspired edge of weightlessness. movement, rooted in by Boyz n the Hood. hip-hop.
PHYSICAL THEATER MINUIT DANCE Yoann Bourgeois, MONCHICHI Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble Company Wang Ramirez
DANCE OCT 14 & 15 P 40 OCT 15—30 PAVEMENT Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion Time made visible to a score by Gérard Grisey. Wilson, NOV 9—12 P 33 Baryshnikov, On songwriter Connie Converse, who disappeared and the diaries without a trace. of Nijinsky. 20 Three Shakespeare kings share a war room. Photos (clockwise from top): Geraldine Aresteanu; Lucie Jansch; Klaudyna Schubert; Anne VanPhotos (clockwise from top): Geraldine Aresteanu; Lucie Jansch; Klaudyna Schubert; Aerschot THEATER/MUSIC A STAR HAS BURNT MY EYE Howard Fishman, Connie Converse, Tom Dugdale THEATER KINGS OF WAR 18 William Shakespeare, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Ivo van Hove THEATER NOV 9—13 P 24 DANCE LETTER TO A MAN Corporeal encounters with NOV 10—12 P 44 VORTEX TEMPORUM Robert Wilson/Mikhail Baryshnikov Rosas & Ictus, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker 5,000 strands of nylon. Jonah Bokaer and Daniel OCT 26—29 P 32 OCT 19—22 P 62 Arsham’s decade of Architecture as a band’s Middle-class collaboration set to an teetering instrument. loneliness, explored original Pharrell score. without a word.
THEATER MUSIC REQUEST CONCERT PHYSICAL THEATER DANCE REMEMBERER Łaz´nia Nowa Theater, TR Warszawa, PLEXUS RULES OF THE GAME Steven Reker, Open House Franz Xaver Kroetz, Yana Ross Aurélien Bory, Kaori Ito, Compagnie 111 Jonah Bokaer, Daniel Arsham, Pharrell Williams Photos (clockwise from top left): Carrie Schneider; Jan Versweyveld; Claire Dorn, courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Paris; Aglae Bory; Marina McClure Paris; Claire Dorn, courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Photos (clockwise from top left): Carrie Schneider; Jan Versweyveld;
SAVE 15—30% WHEN YOU BUY 4 OR MORE EVENTS. SUBSCRIBE FOR GREAT SEATS, GREAT PRICES, AND FREE EXCHANGES. NOV 17—20 P 28 NOV 16—19 P 49 NOV 18 & 19 P 56 DEC 6—11 DEC 7—10 P 64 A time-bending On the choreography Górecki, Mahler, and Live music meets puppet fantasia on and necessity of Brahms, performed live stop-motion and ecological themes. meaning-making. to a Terrence Malick documentary shorts. masterpiece.
FILM/MUSIC BRENT GREEN AND SAM GREEN: LIVE CINEMA Brent Green, Sam Green
26 DEC 14—17 P 46 A choreography on the Poison, prison, and a ambivalence of belonging. Photos (clockwise from top): Sierra Urich; Maria Baranova; © Fox Stephanie Berger Searchlight Pictures; Catalina Kulczar; of the artists; courtesy happy ending nonetheless.
THEATER DANCE FILM/MUSIC THEATER MEMORY RINGS THANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY THE TREE OF LIFE Terrence Malick, Wordless Music Orchestra THE WINTER’S TALE Phantom Limb Company, Jessica Grindstaff, Faye Driscoll DANCE Erik Sanko, Ryan Heffington William Shakespeare, Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod CITIZEN Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Perfomance Group
NOV 30—DEC 3 P 58 NOV 30—DEC 3 P 50 DEC 2 & 3 P 60 DEC 10—18 The gun dilemma, Dancing in the steps Fifty new songs from DEC 14—17 P 63 explored through of Jack Kerouac. the Magnetic Fields. Four electric guitars percussion. pushed against the grain.
MUSIC AMPLIFIED 66Dublin Guitar Quartet, Michael Gordon, Jim Findlay Tchaikovsky’s
The Nutcracker meets TALKS P 68 MASTER CLASSES P 70 NEXT WAVE ART P 71 1970s suburbia. MEMBERSHIP P 72 PATRON PROGRAM P 73
Photos (clockwise from top): Guy Hughes, Orlando James, Joseph Black, by Johan Persson; Stephanie Berger Photos (clockwise from top): Guy Hughes, Orlando James, Joseph Black, by Johan Persson; TICKETING P 74 DANCE CALENDAR P 76 MUSIC DANCE MUSIC ALSO THIS FALL P 79 A GUN SHOW THE HARD NUT ON THE ROAD 50 SONG MEMOIR FUNDERS P 80 So- Percussion, Ain Gordon ZviDance, Zvi Gotheiner The Magnetic Fields E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mark Morris Dance Group, MMDG Music Ensemble, PLANNED GIVING P 82 The Hard Nut Singers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Colin Fowler, Mark Morris VISIT P 83
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OPERA WORLD PREMIERE
THE LOSER OPERA LIBRETTO, MUSIC, AND STAGE DIRECTION BY DAVID LANG ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL BY THOMAS BERNHARD TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN BY JACK DAWSON
The 2016 Richard B. Fisher Next Wave Award honors SEP 7—11 SEP David Lang and the production of the loser.
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Sep 7, 9 & 10 at $30—75 7:30pm; Sep 11 at 3pm SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Howard Gilman Members: Opera House $21—60 General Public:
RUNNING TIME BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE $22.50—63.75 1hr Prices subject to change after July 24.
He appears to float in the nothingness. Confined to a tall tower 20 feet above the seats, he is alone, Lo-broken, and has a story to tell. In this daringly staged one-act opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang— featuring mezzanine-only seating and based on the novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard— a failed piano student (baritone Rod Gilfry, Anna Nicole, 2013 Next Wave) recounts a life lived Photo: Peter Rad in the shadows of his famous friend Glenn Gould. As virtuoso pianist Conrad Tao and a chamber ensemble conducted by Karina Cannelakis accompany from far in the distance, the cavernous space engulfs the singer, as he sings of the distance that separates beauty from perfection.
Leadership support for opera at BAM provided by Aashish & Dinyar Devitre and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Major support for opera at BAM provided by The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: 8 #DAVIDLANGLOSER serBAM.ORG/LOSER 9 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL OPERA NY PREMIERE
THE HUNGER OPERA BY DONNACHA DENNEHY ALARM WILL SOUND CONDUCTED BY ALAN PIERSON DIRECTED BY TOM CREED
Presented in association with Irish Arts Center
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE SEP 1 30 & OCT Sep 30 & Oct 1 at $20—45 7:30pm SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Howard Gilman Members: Opera House $14—36 General Public: RUNNING TIME $15—38.25 1hr 15min Prices subject to change after July 24.
RELATED EVENT Underdog history comes to life through Talk: new music and old Irish songs in composer BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE Understanding Donnacha Dennehy’s opera about the Great The Hunger Famine of 1845-52, rooted in Asenath Nicholson’s With Tom Creed and harrowing first-person account in Annals of Donnacha Dennehy the Famine in Ireland. Featuring acclaimed (p 68) ensemble Alarm Will Sound (Nonesuch Sat, Oct 1 at 4:30pm Records at BAM, 2014 Next Wave) and Free celebrated Irish folk singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Hunger imagines soprano Katherine Manley as Nicholson and Ó Lionáird as the voice of the voiceless, with instrumentalists integrated into the staging. Old recordings of traditional sean-nós songs dovetail seamlessly with Dennehy’s score, while video clips of interviews with Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, and others underscore the political roots of this tragedy that brought a nation to its knees.
Leadership support for opera at BAM provided by Aashish & Dinyar Devitre and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Major support for opera at BAM provided by Photo: Wojciech Wandzel The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: Photo: larla Ó Lionáird, by Colm Hogan
10 #THEHUNGEROPERA BAM.ORG/THEHUNGER 11 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL SEP 13—18 SEP
THEATER US PREMIERE “...[Isabelle Huppert is] one of the French PHAEDRA(S) AFTER SARAH KANE, WAJDI MOUAWAD, screen’s most fearless and incisive stars.” AND J.M. COETZEE
—THE NEW YORK TIMES DIRECTED BY KRZYSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI ODÉON-THÉÂTRE DE L’EUROPE THEATER
LANGUAGE FULL PRICE In French with $30—95 English titles SUBSCRIPTIONS DATE/TIME (four or more shows) Sep 13—17 at 7pm; Members: Sep 18 at 3pm $21—76 General Public: VENUE $22.50—80.75 BAM Harvey Theater Prices subject to change after July 24.
RUNNING TIME 3hrs 22min with
intermission BAM HARVEY THEATER
Confess or repress: those are the options available RELATED EVENTS when you lust after your stepson. The volcanic Member Mingle: Isabelle Huppert, as the mythic queen Phaedra, tries Phaedra(s) (p 72) both on for size in this carnal triptych combining Thu, Sep 15 at 6pm multiple versions of the salacious Greek legend. Talk: Drawing from playwright Sarah Kane’s graphic Phaedra Interpreted study Phaedra’s Love and texts by J.M. Coetzee and (p 68) Wajdi Mouawad for the script, Phaedra(s) imagines Sun, Sep 18 at 11am its heroine as a brutalized victim—alternately Free bloodied, blond-wigged, and professorial—cast into a stark world of exotic dancers and glass- walled rooms. Krzysztof Warlikowski directs this postmodern plunge into forbidden love, where sexuality wears sunglasses en route to illicit ends.
Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Photo: Pascal Victor Photo: Pascal
12 #PHAEDRAS BAM.ORG/PHAEDRAS 13 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
THEATER
US PREMIERE 9 SEP 28—OCT
BATTLEFIELD C.I.C.T./THÉÂTRE DES BOUFFES DU NORD “Peter Brook’s return to BASED ON THE MAHABHARATA AND THE PLAY BY JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE The Mahabharata is breathtaking…. ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY a dazzling piece of theatre...” PETER BROOK AND MARIE-HÉLÈNE ESTIENNE – THE GUARDIAN (UK)
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Sep 28—Oct 9 $30—120 THEATER See calendar on page 76 for details. SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Harvey Theater Members: RUNNING TIME $21—96 1hr 10min General Public: $22.50—102 Prices subject to change after July 24.
RELATED EVENT Thirty years after his legendary sunset-to-sunrise Participatory Reading of production of The Mahabharata consecrated the The Mahabharata (p 68) BAM Harvey stage, director Peter Brook returns Fri, Sep 30, 12—6pm with Battlefield, a breathtaking distillation of the
Free central story in the ancient Sanskrit poem. In BAM HARVEY THEATER the wake of an apocalyptic civil war, a remorseful King Yudishtira—his hands still bloodied from the carnage—desperately seeks some just way to rule over murderers and murdered alike. Silk scarves become rivers and shrouds; four actors are reincarnated as worms and eagles, victims and perpetrators; and a single instrumentalist (a veteran of Brook’s original production) scores the bleak peace of oblivion, giving haunting new life to this staggering Indian epic.
Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Photo: Carole Karemera, and Ery Nzaramba, © Caroline Moreau Photo: Carole Karemera,
14 #BATTLEFIELDBAM BAM.ORG/BATTLEFIELD 15 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
9 SEP 28—OCT A BATTLEFIELD WITH DEEP ROOTS PETER BROOK’S 30 YEAR ENDEAVOR
Before it reached America’s shores, it was already to preserve the earthy, distressed authenticity a sensation. Making its world premiere in 1985 of the ruined theater for The Mahabharata’s at the Avignon Theater Festival, Peter Brook’s needs. The job, according to the architect, The Mahabharata was performed in a massive, open “required constant surveillance to make sure the limestone quarry filled with gleaming yellow sand. contractors didn’t make things look too nice.” It shattered the limits of epic theater, sweeping When it opened in the fall of 1987, it received
audiences into an all-night staging of Hinduism’s widespread acclaim, thanks in no small part THEATER most revered saga, with rivers of fire, hails of to its distinctive atmosphere: a space intimate arrows, and an ensemble of actors and musicians enough to ignite the story’s whispered magic, from 18 countries. It has been said in various ways: but grand enough to house 20,000 pounds of “Everything that exists is in The Mahabharata... what mud and an actual flowing river. The Mahabharata isn’t in The Mahabharata doesn’t exist anywhere.” did more than cement Peter Brook’s reputation Over the course of the production’s 10 years as a master; it inscribed his aesthetic imprint of development, Brook assembled some key onto the very walls of the space that would collaborators, from musician Toshi Tsuchitori— become the much-beloved BAM Harvey Theater. who traveled to India for nearly two years to This partnership has continued through the learn classical instrumentation—to the woman decades, with the Harvey playing host to Brook’s who would become his right hand for the next productions of The Man Who (1995 Spring), 30 years, Marie-Hélène Estienne. In the The Tragedy of Hamlet (2001 Spring), and, most early 80s, Estienne went to India at Brook’s recently, The Suit (2013 Winter/Spring). BAM HARVEY THEATER behest to simply observe and report back And now, in the very space he consecrated for on the details of as many adaptations of the The Mahabharata’s Brooklyn debut, Brook returns production’s source material as she could. at age 91, with both Estienne and Tsuchitori, for Meanwhile, in downtown Brooklyn, Brook Battlefield,a radically minimalist, one-hour retelling was assisting BAM President Harvey Lichtenstein of the Sanskrit poem’s most integral thread. After
Photo: Jared McNeill, Sean O’Callaghan, Ery Nzaramba, and Carole Karemera,Photo: Jared McNeill, Sean O’Callaghan, Ery © Caroline Moreau tear down the plywood outside an abandoned three decades, these brilliant theatrical minds former movie palace. (Brook later recalled, “we got continue to derive new meaning from the epic. a ladder and a flashlight and climbed in a window.”) Perhaps now a bit more hushed in the face of life’s They were hoping to excavate the perfect venue to infinite mysteries, Estienne said in a recent interview house The Mahabharata’s US premiere, and thus the with The Guardian: “The Mahabharata is not afraid Majestic Theater underwent an unusual renovation. of death—it tells you to see it differently. That is Both Lichtenstein and Brook agreed it was vital what we try to give to people, that calmness.”
It shattered the limits of epic theater, sweeping audiences into an all-night staging of Hinduism’s most revered saga, with rivers of fire, hails of arrows, and an ensemble of actors and musicians from 18 countries. Photo: Toshi Tsuchitori, © Caroline Moreau Tsuchitori, Photo: Toshi
16 #BATTLEFIELDBAM BAM.ORG/BATTLEFIELD 17 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL THEATER LANGUAGE FULL PRICE US PREMIERE In English and Russian $35—130 with English titles SUBSCRIPTIONS DATE/TIME (four or more shows) 15—30 OCT LETTER TO A MAN Oct 15—30 Members: See calendar on page 76 for details. $24.50—104 ROBERT WILSON/MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV VENUE General Public: BAM Harvey Theater $26.25—110.50 Prices subject to change RUNNING TIME after July 24. 1hr 10min
Mikhail Baryshnikov (The Old Woman, 2014 Winter/Spring) steps inside the splintering psyche of one of the greatest dancers in history in director Robert Wilson’s staging of Vaslav Nijinsky’s diaries. The text chronicles the onset of the iconic Russian performer’s schizophrenia in 1919, tracing the contours of his profound isolation, tormented sexuality and spirituality, and preoccupation with erstwhile lover and Ballets THEATER Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev. Hal Willner’s collage-like score weaves audio fragments of the diary with a century-spanning soundtrack of songs by Tom Waits, Arvo Pärt, Henry Mancini, and Soviet futurist composer Alexander Mosolov, as our coat-tailed subject sashays and staggers through Wilson’s saturated lightscapes.
RELATED EVENT Talk: Inside Nijinsky’s Diaries (p 68) Mon, Oct 24 at 7pm Free BAM HARVEY THEATER
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The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Photos: Lucie Jansch Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
18 #LETTERTOAMAN BAM.ORG/LETTERTOAMAN 19 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
THEATER NOV 3—6 NOV US PREMIERE “...textured and full of life.... it highlights the way in which the misuse of power leads to greater abuses, and how often our leaders’ self-importance KINGS OF WAR and desire for legacy can undo both them and us.” BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TONEELGROEP AMSTERDAM —THE GUARDIAN (UK) DIRECTED BY IVO VAN HOVE
LANGUAGE FULL PRICE In Dutch with $30—110
English titles THEATER SUBSCRIPTIONS DATE/TIME (four or more shows) Nov 3—5 at 7pm; Members: Nov 6 at 1pm $21—88 VENUE General Public: BAM Howard Gilman $22.50—93.50 Opera House Prices subject to change after July 24. RUNNING TIME 4hrs 23min with intermission BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE
Three kings. Three impeccably pressed suits. In director Ivo van Hove’s (Antigone, 2015 Next Wave; Angels in America, 2014 Next Wave) clever merging of the plays Henry V, Henry VI Parts I, II & III, and Richard III, three Bardian power players enter the fluorescent-lit corridors of the present. On a set divided between modern war chamber and its antiseptic back rooms, autocrats debate national security over Scotch while handheld cameras pry into their drug-fueled binges behind the scenes. Soliloquies turn into media spectacles as Van Hove Photos: Jan Versweyveld offers this nuanced character study of Shakespeare’s volatile kings, each tasked with making big decisions with egos, and lives, at stake.
Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by:
20 #KINGSOFWAR BAM.ORG/KINGSOFWAR 21 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL NOV 3—6 NOV
TRAGEDY, POWER, AND CATHARSIS IVO VAN HOVE’S THEATRICAL HUMANISM
For director Ivo van Hove, 2015-16 was a banner theater (2012 Next Wave). This six-hour, no-intermission THEATER season. He made his Broadway debut in late 2015 with a contemporary melding of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, hyper-minimalist staging of Arthur Miller’s A View From Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus explored the power the Bridge, cementing his status as one of contemporary dynamics between politicians and the public, with screens theater’s most distinctive directorial voices. New York everywhere featuring real-time updates and footage of the Times theater critic Ben Brantley wrote: “This must be wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Audiences were free to roam what Greek tragedy once felt like, when people went about the theater and encouraged to join the action onstage. to the theater in search of catharsis.” Van Hove soon Van Hove followed this with a five-hour adaptation of followed with Lazarus, at New York Theater Workshop, a Tony Kushner’s two-part 80s AIDS epic Angels in America collaboration with Irish playwright Enda Walsh and David (2014 Next Wave). In stark contrast to Roman Tragedies, Bowie, and The Crucible,also a hit on Broadway, with an this devastating, stripped-down production comprised BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE ensemble cast including Saoirse Ronan and Ben Whishaw. little more than a saline drip, some fluorescent lights, Call it a coincidence of good timing; the Belgian director and a haunting David Bowie soundtrack. And for a third was now suddenly a formidable presence in the theater consecutive year, Van Hove returned to BAM, this time capturing the notice of even the most casual theatergoers. with the Greek masterpiece Antigone (2015 Next Wave), At BAM, Van Hove’s intuitive, visionary approach featuring Juliette Binoche in the lead role, plumbing the to theater has now struck five times over just the past depths for new insights into a crisis in conscience. eight years (with all but one of the productions staged with his Dutch company, Toneelgroep Amsterdam). While certainly diverse in scope, He is fascinated by human relationships from minimalist reimaginings of classic texts to wholly original screen-to-stage adaptations, all of in the context of great social upheaval: Van Hove’s work could be said to proffer an acute war, betrayal, death, and disease. examination of human behavior. His auspicious BAM debut was with Opening Night (2008 Next Wave), an adaptation of John On the surface Van Hove might appear to operate Cassavetes’ wrenching 1977 film about an aging actress in extremes, but time and again his work reflects a deep (played unforgettably by Gena Rowlands), rehearsing for analysis of the text and an innate ability to distill the a new play. Van Hove’s inventive production—involving underlying humanity and central conflict at play. He is an onstage camera crew whose closeups of the action were fascinated by human relationships in the context of great projected onto a large overhead screen in real time—served social upheaval: war, betrayal, death, and disease. His use of to heighten the emotional turmoil. Just a few years later, he technology and media manipulates the concepts of public returned with another screen adaptation, this time Ingmar and private space, offering the audience multiple prisms Bergman’s harrowing 1972 film Cries and Whispers (2011 Next through which to view the story and its characters. And he Wave), chronicling the final hours of a fatally ill woman. encourages his actors to take extraordinary liberties, aiming The following year, Van Hove transformed the for performances that he characterizes as “naked-soul BAM Howard Gilman Opera House into a maximalist, acting.” Emotions that are usually left to simmer beneath Photo: Jan Versweyveld modern-day Roman amphitheater with Roman Tragedies the surface become alarmingly and unavoidably apparent.
22 #KINGSOFWAR BAM.ORG/KINGSOFWAR 23 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL PHYSICAL THEATER US PREMIERE
PLEXUS 9—13 NOV A PIECE BY AURÉLIEN BORY FOR KAORI ITO COMPAGNIE 111
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Nov 9—12 at 7:30pm; $20—65 Nov 13 at 3pm SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Harvey Theater Members: PHYSICAL THEATER $14—52 RUNNING TIME General Public: 1hr $15—55.25 “A startling piece that Prices subject to change lands somewhere after July 24. between theatre, dance Entangled in a dense field of 5,000 black nylon wires, a single body moves, incandescent and and optical illusion.” strange. In Plexus, derived from the Latin for “intertwining,” French physical theater maverick —EVENING STANDARD (UK) Aurélien Bory (Sans Objet, 2012 Next Wave; Les sept planches de la ruse, 2008 Next Wave) takes Japanese dancer and choreographer Kaori Ito (a frequent collaborator with James Thierrée and Angelin Preljocaj) as both muse and instrument. Animated by Arno Veyrat’s BAM HARVEY THEATER perception-altering lighting, the wires ripple and shimmer as Ito cleaves and falls against them, then floats delicately in space, radiating an eerie preternatural beauty that’s not quite, or perhaps more than, human. Photo: Mario Del Curto / STRATESPhoto: Mario Del Curto
24 #AURELIENBORY BAM.ORG/PLEXUS 25 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
“All the vast richness of the world dreamed up by Shakespeare THEATER —11 6 DEC shines with blinding splendor in this Winter’s Tale.” US PREMIERE
—EL PAÍS (SPAIN) THE WINTER’S TALE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CHEEK BY JOWL DECLAN DONNELLAN AND NICK ORMEROD
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE THEATER Dec 6—10 at 7:30pm; $25—95 Dec 11 at 3pm SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Harvey Theater Members: $17.50 —76 RUNNING TIME General Public: 2hrs 40min $18.75—80.75 with intermission Prices subject to change after July 24.
Sculptures breathe and kings weep in the Bard’s RELATED EVENT late masterpiece of wit and wisdom. In honor Iconic Artist Talk: of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Declan Donnellan (p 68) director Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl With James Shapiro
(’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, 2012 Winter/Spring) tackle Wed, Dec 7 at 6pm BAM HARVEY THEATER $25; $12.50 for the dizzying scope of The Winter’s Tale—countless members hairpin turns from violence to farce, through multiple countries and over the course of 16 years— with trademark searing intellect and a fiercely contemporary approach.
When King Leontes suspects his wife of infidelity, he throws her in prison and initiates a chain of events that destroys his once-happy family. But can he find redemption for his crimes? Can his senseless acts of violence somehow be undone? When is a man no better than a beast? Donnellan and his cast take up Shakespeare’s most fundamental questions in this tour-de- force interpretation, testing the limits of hope, humanity, and our capacity for wonder.
Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Photo: Johan Persson The Winter’s26 #THEWINTERSTALE BAM.ORG/THEWINTERSTALE 27 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL NOV 17—20 NOV
THEATER DATE/TIME FULL PRICE NY PREMIERE Nov 17—19 at 7:30pm; $30—75 Nov 20 at 3pm SUBSCRIPTIONS MEMORY RINGS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Harvey Theater Members: PHANTOM LIMB COMPANY $21—60 RUNNING TIME General Public: CONCEIVED BY JESSICA GRINDSTAFF 1hr 20min AND ERIK SANKO $22.50—63.75 Prices subject to change CHOREOGRAPHY BY RYAN HEFFINGTON after July 24. “...astonishing puppetry and THEATER
RELATED EVENTS Five-thousand years of environmental change unfold beneath the boughs of the world’s oldest living tree hypnotic original music…”
Master Class: in this phantasmagoric mix of puppetry, choreography, music, and macabre fairy tales from Phantom Limb —LOS ANGELES TIMES Phantom Limb Company Company (69˚S., 2011 Next Wave). In a dark wood filled with tech-savvy forest creatures and humans (p 70) navigating an increasingly Googleable world, a series of surreal wordless vignettes unfolds. Marionettes and Thu, Nov 10 at 10am masked performers channel fragments from Gilgamesh, Snow White, and other tales, resulting in a poetic $30 and enchanted mirror of our hubris and hope that illuminates the long history of humanity’s place in nature, with and without nurture. Talk: Humans and Nature: Examining People and Major support for theater at BAM provided by: Climate Change (p 68) The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust With members of Donald R. Mullen Jr. Phantom Limb Company The SHS Foundation and Daniel Schrag BAM HARVEY THEATER The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Sat, Nov 19 at 6pm $20; $10 for members Photos: Phinn Sriployrung
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THEATER/MUSIC/VISUAL ART The nine members of DIY Norwegian art Gathered in a semicircle on a bare stage, 10 THEATER US PREMIERE collective Verdensteatret—video artists, women and men weave a frenzied tapestry of NY PREMIERE computer animators, sound engineers, musicians, raw physicality and emotion: a Corsican chant and visual artists—specialize in a breed of wailed to the ocean, the visceral howl of funereal
SEP 7—10 BRIDGE OVER MUD SONGS OF LEAR performance that’s equal parts concert, theater, grief. Distilling Shakespeare’s great tragedy to its VERDENSTEATRET and installation. In Bridge Over Mud, a massive, essence, Polish troupe Song of the Goat Theatre SONG OF THE GOAT THEATRE Presented in association with FuturePerfect Productions immersive work that materializes along 195 feet and director Grzegorz Bral make their BAM debut (TEATR PIESN KOZŁA) of train track, the artists manipulate a micro- with the breathtaking song cycle Songs of Lear, a DIRECTED BY GRZEGORZ BRAL landscape of railcars and other kinetic objects to favorite among critics and audiences alike at the DATE/TIME FULL PRICE transform the Fishman Space into a dreamlike 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. King Lear’s storm Sep 7—10 $25 environment. A complex system of more than of the soul—madness, despair, disappointment, DATE/TIME FULL PRICE RELATED EVENT at 7:30 & 9:30pm
60 speakers are complemented by projections love—becomes a feverish deluge of polyphonic Sep 28—Oct 1 at $25 THEATER SUBSCRIPTIONS Master Class: and shadows, plus a live tuba player and two sound, as these formidable vocalists harness the 7:30pm VENUE (four or more shows) SUBSCRIPTIONS Song of the Goat vocalists, resulting in a hypnotic tone poem sheer power of the human body, voice, and spirit. BAM Fisher Members: VENUE (four or more shows) Coordination Technique that charts a journey of infinite possibilities. (Fishman Space) $17.50—20 BAM Fisher Members: (p 70) THEATER General Public: Major support for theater at BAM provided by: (Fishman Space) RUNNING TIME $17.50—20 With Grzegorz Bral $18.75—21.25 Leadership support for Scandinavian programming The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Approx 1hr RUNNING TIME General Public: Thu, Sep 29 at 10am provided by The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Donald R. Mullen Jr. Prices subject to change 1hr $18.75—21.25 $30 after July 24. The SHS Foundation Major support for theater at BAM provided by: Prices subject to change The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust after July 24. Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. BAM FISHER
BAM FISHER “...magical explorations “It is a full-body detox: into hybrid forms in which catharsis pure and simple
performance, installation, of the artists Photo: Courtesy and transcendent.”
animation and sound unite —THE LIST (SCOTLAND) for the good of art.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES Photo: Courtesy of the artists
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Photo: Klaudyna Schubert “Incredible, as was she; the show had me transfixed, joyful, and grateful. It reminded me, yet again, what art is for.”
—THE NEW YORKER BAM FISHER Photo: Marina McClure
THEATER On a normal workday Fräulein Rasch comes home at In 1961, the polymathic songwriter Connie Converse THEATER/MUSIC US PREMIERE about 6:30pm after work and after her shopping. She grew disillusioned with music and New York, NY PREMIERE enters the apartment house, checks her mail, finds only packed her bags for Ann Arbor, and eventually BAM FISHER REQUEST CONCERT an advertisement, takes it, goes to her door, unlocks it, disappeared. Her home recordings from the 50s A STAR HAS and steps in. have only recently come to light—vulnerable, ´ ŁAZNIA NOWA THEATER AND literary songs about loneliness, sexual longing, BURNT MY EYE TR WARSZAWA Not a single word is uttered in German playwright and bad credit—but they were unclassifiable at WRITTEN BY HOWARD FISHMAN Franz Xaver Kroetz’s devastating 1971 experiment the time and she vanished without an audience BY FRANZ XAVER KROETZ in hyper-realism. Alone in her studio apartment, or album to her name. MUSIC AND LYRICS BY CONNIE CONVERSE DIRECTED BY YANA ROSS a middle-aged, middle-class woman—played by renowned Polish actress Danuta Stenka (Krum, In this new play by songwriter and guitarist DIRECTED BY TOM DUGDALE DATE/TIME FULL PRICE 2007 Next Wave), performing a meticulous Howard Fishman, four musicians in a Brooklyn DATE/TIME FULL PRICE RELATED EVENT Oct 26—29 at 7:30pm $25 execution of Kroetz’s stage directions—goes about living room prepare for a concert of Converse’s Nov 9—12 at 7:30pm $25 her well-worn evening ritual: dinner for one, music, rehearsing her songs, reflecting over lyrics, Member Mingle: VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS dishes, a listener request program on the radio. and pondering what it meant, and still means, to VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS A Star Has Burnt My Eye BAM Fisher (four or more shows) As she brushes past audience members, gathered be an outsider artist. A treasure trove of recently BAM Fisher (four or more shows) (p 72) (Fishman Space) Members: in the round and able to peer into director Yana discovered artifacts—personal letters, diary entries, (Fishman Space) Members: Wed, Nov 9 at 6:30pm $17.50—20 RUNNING TIME Ross’ intimate, installation-like staging, this mute poems, along with first-person recollections— $17.50—20 General Public: RUNNING TIME 1hr 15min everywoman’s quotidian gestures, made all the more come to life alongside intimate performances General Public: $18.75—21.25 1hr 35min haunting by her ruthless tidiness, weave a brutal on guitar, piano, and accordion, in tribute to $18.75—21.25 Prices subject to change tapestry of loneliness, repression, and desperation. this enigmatic songstress whose fate still eludes. after July 24. Prices subject to change after July 24. Major support for theater at BAM provided by: Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Donald R. Mullen Jr. Donald R. Mullen Jr. The SHS Foundation The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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“...raw, visceral, disturbing energy...” MONUMENTAL THE HOLY BODY TATTOO —THE GLOBE AND MAIL (CANADA) MUSIC BY GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR CHOREOGRAPHY BY DANA GINGRAS AND NOAM GAGNON
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Sep 16 & 17 at 7:30pm $20—55 VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS BAM Howard Gilman (four or more shows) Opera House Members: $14—44 RUNNING TIME General Public: 1hr 15min $15—46.75 DANCE Prices subject to change after July 24.
Amid a din of ambient guitars, nine dancers confined to two-by-two-foot pedestals belie their workplace-appropriate skirts and slacks in this full-bodied indictment of the daily grind from Canadian dance troupe the Holy Body Tattoo. With live accompaniment by the powerful Montreal-based post-rock ensemble Godspeed
You! Black Emperor, this seething choreography SEP 16 & 17 telegraphs self-preservation against bureaucracy, groupthink, and drudgery. Behind the convulsive scene, projected texts by Conceptual artist Jenny Holzer offer wry commentary on the ambiguous ethics of going about one’s business, as these beleaguered bodies keep on keepin’ on.
Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Photos: Yannick Grandmont Photos: Yannick
Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by:
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DANCE NY PREMIERE REMAINS CHOREOGRAPHY BY JOHN JASPERSE MUSIC BY JOHN KING SEP 21—24 SEP RELATED EVENTS DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Choreographer John Jasperse (Canyon, 2011 Next Sep 21—24 at 7:30pm $25—50 Master Class: Wave) returns to BAM with a dance rumination John Jasperse (p 70) VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS on our existence in time. With a 30-plus-year Thu, Sep 22 at 2pm BAM Harvey Theater (four or more shows) RemainsRemainspresence in the downtown experimental scene, $30 Members: RUNNING TIME $17.50—40 this veteran mines his own legacy and lineage, Talk: 1hr General Public: sampling fragments and phrases from the radical
John Jasperse with Photos: Julieta Cervantes $18.75—42.50 practices of his forbears while repurposing them Tere O’Connor (p 68) Fri, Sep 23 at 6pm Prices subject to change within the contemporary present. Featuring a score after July 24. $25; $12.50 for members by composer John King (Black Mountain Songs, 2014 Next Wave), dancers Maggie Cloud, Marc Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Crousillat, Burr Johnson, Heather Lang, Stuart Singer, and Claire Westby engage in a push and pull of return and reinvention, constructing an altogether new vision of our as-yet-unimagined future while reflecting on the remains left in our wake. Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation
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DANCE WORLD PREMIERE BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE “Coldly sensual, brutally innocent, NEITHER it takes you in and holds you SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS firmly and, finally, audience and MUSIC BY MORTON FELDMAN company form a thing that can LIBRETTO BY SAMUEL BECKETT truly be called meditative, whole.” CONCEIVED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY SHEN WEI
—BOMB DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Celebrated choreographer and painter Shen Wei (Park Avenue Armory, 2011; Oct 5—8 at 7:30pm $20—65 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony) makes his much-anticipated BAM VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS debut with this danced realization of Morton Feldman’s 1977 anti-opera for BAM Howard Gilman (four or more shows) orchestra and soprano. With a sphinxlike 16-line libretto by Samuel Beckett, Opera House Members: Neither folds 12 dancers into Feldman’s cavernous score, setting Shen Wei’s $14—52 RUNNING TIME painterly choreography amid massive moving set pieces and luminous visuals General Public: 1hr of his own design. Bodies flare, sharply and urgently, then settle together into $15—55.25 intricate tableaux, oscillating—like Beckett’s libretto—in the gaps between light Prices subject to change after July 24. and shadow, departure and perpetual return. DANCE Photo: Stephen Xue, Shen Wei Dance Arts OCT 5—8 OCT
Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: SHEN WEI Untitled No.1, 2013 Oil and acrylic on linen canvas 86 x 196 inches Major support for dance at BAM provided by Courtesy of the artist The SHS Foundation.
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“It’s almost shocking how perfectly BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE the movement fits rhythms in the music that you might not have known existed.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
DANCE
Time flies, runs out, stands still. But can it DANCE US PREMIERE be visible? In this penetrating work by the inimitable Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa VORTEX TEMPORUM De Keersmaeker (En Atendant & Cesena, 2013 Next Wave), seven dancers inhabit late French ROSAS & ICTUS composer Gérard Grisey’s three distinct ways of CHOREOGRAPHY BY perceiving the passing seconds, using his spectral 1996 masterpiece Vortex Temporum as guide. ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER Pairing off with seven roving musicians from Ictus Ensemble, they offer a meticulous, measure-by- RELATED EVENT DATE/TIME FULL PRICE measure translation of Grisey’s score, inscribing
Oct 14 & 15 at 7:30pm $30—65 14OCT & 15 Master Class: the air with shadows of its sonic textures. Rosas (p 70) VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS Circles form within circles in this meditative Wed, Oct 12 at 12pm BAM Howard Gilman (four or more shows) procession in which bodies twist, a piano turns, $30 Opera House Members: and time spirals on, luminous and legible. $21—52 RUNNING TIME General Public: 1hr 5min $22.50—55.25 Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Prices subject to change after July 24.
Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: Photos: (left) Anne Van Aerschot; Herman Sorgeloos Photos: (left) Anne Van
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MOVED BY THE MUSIC ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER’S BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE CHOREOGRAPHIC VISION
Thirty years ago, Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De apart in incremental bursts, until an altogether new congruity is Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, made their BAM debut established. Similarly, in 1998’s Drumming and 2001’s Rain, both in the 1986 Next Wave Festival with a deeply compelling work set to music by Reich, De Keersmaeker’s choreography adds a of driving intensity. Weaving repetitive, mundane gestures layer of dimensionality to these dizzying compositions, a kind of with moments of visceral spontaneity—in symbiosis with a physical embodiment of the music. Reich himself said, in The New similarly relentless, minimalist score by Thierry De Mey and York Times, upon seeing a revival of Fase: “My jaw dropped… On Peter Vermeersch—four female dancers demonstrated a kind of an emotional and psychological level I felt I’d learned something stripped down movement idiom that audiences had never seen about my own work.” before. The piece was the now-seminal Rosas danst Rosas. De Keersmaeker has since established herself as among the most influential De Keersmaeker has... choreographers in contemporary dance. established herself as among Her work has evolved dramatically over the decades, exploring new territory and drawing the most influential choreographers inspiration in myriad ways, while what has Photos: Anne Van Aerschot Photos: Anne Van remained constant is her choreographic vision, in contemporary dance.
her propensity for artistic collaboration, and her DANCE unerring interest in the relationship between dance and music. Add to this list names like Ligeti, Brian Eno, Schönberg, She is perhaps most famously aligned with the minimalist Bach, Joan Baez, Mahler, and Coltrane, plus the rhythms of compositions of Steve Reich; her continual interest in Reich’s classical Indian ragas and complex polyphonic tones of ars subtilior, work was the subject of BAM’s 2008 program Steve Reich and the extent of De Keersmaeker’s devotion, to her vocation and Evening. One of De Keersmaeker’s earliest pieces, Fase, Four artistic vision, is clear. In her own formulation of the relationship Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, from 1982, drew upon between the two art forms, articulated in a 2006 interview: “Dance the patterned, propulsive structures of Reich’s Piano Phase, is a language, and as in love, the most beautiful things are said Come Out, Violin Phase, and Clapping Music. Beginning in through the body. I continue to be obsessed by the art of writing perfect synchronicity, the movement and music gradually slide dance as we write music, in time and space.” 14OCT & 15
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RULES OF THE GAME Choreographer Jonah Bokaer’s (ECLIPSE, 2012 BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE Next Wave) crisp, elegant movement aesthetic JONAH BOKAER, DANIEL ARSHAM, animates visual artist Daniel Arsham’s offbeat AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS architectural environments in this evening of “...a Grammy- three works, celebrating a decade of collaboration. RELATED EVENTS DATE/TIME FULL PRICE An original score by Pharrell Williams for the winning musician, Nov 10—12 at 7:30pm $25—55 Dallas Symphony Orchestra sets the tone in Master Class: a top choreographer Jonah Bokaer (p 70) VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS Rules Of The Game (2016), a new work for eight Sat, Nov 5 at 4:30pm BAM Howard Gilman (four or more shows) dancers inspired by the absurdist antics of Luigi and an esteemed $30 Opera House Members: Pirandello’s play. In Why Patterns (2011), set to $17.50 — 4 4 Morton Feldman’s eponymous 1978 score, four scenic designer are Talk: RUNNING TIME General Public: Dance as Visual Art Approx 1hr 45min dancers play unpredictable games with 10,000 $18.75—46.75 making the ultimate (p 68) (with intermission) ping-pong balls. And in the sublimely simple With Jonah Bokaer in Prices subject to change RECESS (2010), Bokaer restages his signature after July 24. power play…” conversation with solo specifically for the BAM Howard Gilman Jenny Schlenzka Opera House stage, featuring lighting by designer —WSJ MAGAZINE Fri, Nov 11 at 6pm Aaron Copp. $25; $12.50 for members Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: DANCE NOV 10—12 NOV Photo: Claire Dorn, courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Paris Photo: Claire Dorn, courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Rules44 #RULESOFTHEGAME BAM.ORG/RULESOFTHEGAME 45 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BAM HARVEY THEATER
DANCE NY PREMIERE CITIZEN REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP CHOREOGRAPHY BY REGGIE WILSON
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Dec 14—17 at 7:30pm $20—50 VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS BAM Harvey Theater (four or more shows) Members: RUNNING TIME $14—40 1hr 5min General Public: $15—42.50 Prices subject to change after July 24. DANCE
Choreographer Reggie Wilson’s (Moses(es), 2013 RELATED EVENT Next Wave; The Good Dance - dakar/brooklyn, Master Class: 2009 Next Wave) deeply expressive postmodern Reggie Wilson/Fist work draws from the languages of the African & Heel Performance diaspora, weaving elements of blues, slave, and Group (p 70) Tue, Dec 6 at 12pm spiritual cultures into contemporary and pedestrian $30 movement vocabularies. Returning to BAM with Fist & Heel Performance Group, Wilson—who tours to the Dominican Republic, Panama, and SM 14—17 DEC Haiti next year as part of DanceMotion USA , an exchange initiative led by the US Department of State and produced by BAM—presents a brand new work inspired by African-American figures throughout history who were conflicted and chose not to leave their home country in spite of pervasive racism. Five dancers engage with video projections in a series of provocative solos that overlap and intersect, asking: What does it mean to belong, and to not want to belong?
Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by:
Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation.
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DANCE A black man and a white man meet on a basketball Brooklyn-based choreographer Faye Driscoll DANCE court. The white man lowers the black man’s is interested in excess, emotionality, and the NY PREMIERE PAVEMENT body gently to the ground, wraps him in a tender messier aspects of what it means to be human. headlock, and places his hands behind his back. In her hyper-theatrical and subversively intimate THANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY KYLE ABRAHAM/ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION This devastating gesture becomes the grounding trilogy Thank You For Coming, performers and refrain of dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham’s audience members come together in a shared FAYE DRISCOLL
RELATED EVENTS DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Pavement, inspired by the 1991 hip-hop drama space of culpability and care. This season, BAM FISHER Nov 2—5 at 7:30pm $25 Boyz n the Hood and his upbringing in the Driscoll—this year’s Harkness Foundation Artist DATE/TIME FULL PRICE RELATED EVENT Master Class: historically black Hill District of Pittsburgh. in Residence at the BAM Fisher—makes her Nov 16—19 at 7:30pm $25 Master Class: Abraham.In.Motion VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS Against a diverse sonic backdrop—clips of the BAM debut with Play, the second piece in the Faye Driscoll (p 70) (p 70) BAM Fisher (four or more shows) VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS film’s dialogue mixed with the music of Handel trilogy, performing with five dancers to explore Fri, Nov 18 at 2pm With Matthew Baker (Fishman Space) Members: BAM Fisher (four or more shows) $30 $17.50—20 and Sam Cooke—Abraham’s dancers bound and the fractured nature of language. Moving in the (Fishman Space)
BAM FISHER Members: Fri, Oct 28 at 12pm RUNNING TIME General Public: rebound with hip-hop attack and balletic flow, spaces between what we say and what we mean, $17.50—20 $30 55min RUNNING TIME $18.75—21.25 while handshakes become fistfights and pas de they interrogate the capacity of words to render General Public: Talk: deux and bodies stack up against each other and reduce our lived experiences. Approx 1hr 15min On Urban Culture in Prices subject to change $18.75—21.25 after July 24. and the ground. the Age of Black Lives Prices subject to change Faye Driscoll is the recipient of The Harkness Dance after July 24. Matter (p 68) Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Residency at the BAM Fisher in 2016. Thu, Nov 3, post-show Free for same-day Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: ticketholders “Faye Driscoll is a postmillennium, postmodern wild
Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City woman. A wild woman with a scrupulous sense of form artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City that she tweaks into eye-opening weirdness. artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Ferocious, hilarious, and disturbing…” Major support for dance at BAM provided by
The SHS Foundation. Major support for dance at BAM provided by —THE VILLAGE VOICE DANCE The SHS Foundation. Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the
DANCE Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
This production is made possible with support from the Joseph V. Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation. Photo: Carrie Schneider
“...a work of great 16—19 NOV subtlety and beauty…. Pavement is a hard, Photo: Maria Baranova
NOV 2—5 unforgiving thing, but for some people it’s also home.”
—THE NEW YORKER
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A NEW EXPERIMENT IN THE NEXT WAVE BROOKLYN-PARIS EXCHANGE
This year’s Next Wave Festival marks the arrival of a new Melillo travels frequently to Paris and has showcased many experiment. The Brooklyn-Paris Exchange is the creative French productions throughout his three-decade tenure as brainchild of BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo and BAM’s programmatic steward. Together they celebrate the many Théâtre de la Ville director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota. The similarities between these two great cities, witnessing firsthand BAM FISHER conceit is simple: four companies or artists, chosen by Melillo and the creative energy and output emanating from both. And Demarcy-Mota, make their respective Paris or Brooklyn debuts despite the great responsibility of their “day jobs,” both men are, as part of the other institution’s season. Melillo’s selections—the at heart, artistic explorers, seeking out work that surprises and explosive Zimbabwe-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire and upends preconceptions of genre, content, and form. They are innovative theater troupe The Civilians—embody the breadth of further connected by a shared belief in the importance of each the borough’s current creative output. Demarcy-Mota’s selections institution’s smaller, more flexible spaces—the BAM Fisher here Photo: Courtesy of the artists Photo: Courtesy are similarly expansive, bringing celebrated circus artist Yoann in Brooklyn, Théâtre de la Ville’s Théâtre des Abbesses (plus Bourgeois and the hip-hop-inflected movement of dance duo its other intimate venues throughout Paris)—as integral to an Wang Ramirez to Brooklyn for their Next Wave debuts. overall mission of cultivating and showcasing artistic innovation. The exchange was born organically out of conversations In the end, this new exchange is about trust. Melillo Melillo and Demarcy-Mota had when their globe-trotting and Demarcy-Mota are, in essence, giving one another itineraries aligned. Demarcy-Mota has been to BAM with carte blanche to program a section of their corresponding Théâtre de la Ville for galvanizing productions of Ionesco’s artistic seasons, while also placing trust in the artists, and Rhinoceros and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author; audiences, that the work will transcend cultural barriers.
DANCE Six decades after the roving, raving bible of the DANCE NY PREMIERE Beat Generation was published, choreographer Zvi Gotheiner and his company set out to retrace Cette année, le Next Wave Festival annonce l’arrivée d’une nouvelle souvent à Paris, en trente ans de direction artistique, a présenté à Jack Kerouac’s most infamous route, tumbling ON THE ROAD expérience, fruit d’une collaboration unique entre le producteur la BAM de nombreux spectacles français. Ensemble, ils célèbrent west over the Rockies toward whatever revelations exécutif de la BAM, Joseph V. Melillo, et le directeur du Théâtre de les nombreuses similitudes entre les deux villes, tous deux étant aux ZVIDANCE America’s roadways might yield today. The result la Ville, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota : Brooklyn-Paris Exchange. Le premières loges pour en apprécier l’énergie créatrice. Au-delà de is this evening-length work, a pulsing synthesis CHOREOGRAPHY BY ZVI GOTHEINER concept est simple : quatre compagnies sélectionnées par Melillo la responsabilité, de l’importance et du sérieux de leurs fonctions, of sensuous movement, original music by et Demarcy-Mota, joueront dans les deux pays, à Paris et à les deux hommes sont des explorateurs artistiques nés, toujours en composer Scott Killian, and kaleidoscopic Brooklyn, au cours de la saison des deux institutions partenaires cet quête de créations qui bouleversent les codes et étirent les frontières RELATED EVENT DATE/TIME: FULL PRICE video footage acquired along the way, courtesy automne. Les choix du côté américain : l’incandescente chorégraphe du genre, du contenu et de la forme. Ils partagent en outre un Master Class: Nov 30—Dec 3 at $25 of artist Josh Higgason. Filtering the reckless ZviDance (p 70) 7:30pm née au Zimbabwe Nora Chipaumire et l’innovante troupe de attachement commun au fait de programmer dans une salle à SUBSCRIPTIONS desire of the Beats through the vantage of the With Zvi Gotheiner théâtre The Civilians, incarnent le champ des possibles au sein de la la jauge plus modeste, et plus flexible—Fisher pour BAM, et le VENUE (four or more shows) present, On the Road is a danced meditation on Mon, Nov 21 at 2pm création à Brooklyn aujourd’hui. Ceux du côté français : le circassien Théâtre des Abbesses pour le Théâtre de la Ville, ainsi que d’autres BAM Fisher Members: youth, freedom, and the call of the open road. $30 Yoann Bourgeois et le duo de chorégraphes Wang Ramirez, qui lieux dans Paris—aspect majeur d‘une mission qui consiste à cultiver (Fishman Space) $17.50—20 NOV 30—DECNOV 3 cultive une danse enracinée dans le hiphop. et présenter l’innovation artistique. General Public: Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: RUNNING TIME Cet échange est né au gré de discussions entre Melillo Ce nouveau projet est basé sur la confiance réciproque entre $18.75—21.25 Approx 50min et Demarcy-Mota lors de leurs rencontres à Paris et à Melillo et Demarcy-Mota. Chacun a donné carte blanche à l’autre, Prices subject to change after July 24. Brooklyn. Demarcy-Mota avec le Théâtre de la Ville a présenté à pour programmer une partie de leur saison artistique, faisant la BAM deux formidables productions : Rhinocéros de Ionesco et ainsi confiance aux artistes et aux publics, grâce auxquels l’œuvre Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City Six Personnages en quête d’auteur de Pirandello. Melillo, qui se rend transcende les barrières culturelles. artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Photo: Francis Dzikowski Photo: Francis Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. UNE NOUVELLE EXPERIENCE DANS LE NEXT WAVE Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. BROOKLYN-PARIS EXCHANGE
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“Chipaumire has become a 21—25 SEP rock star of downtown dance, with a majestic quality that blows everything else out of the water.”
—DANCE MAGAZINE BAM FISHER THEATER
DANCE DATE/TIME FULL PRICE DATE/TIME FULL PRICE THEATER NY PREMIERE Sep 14—17 at 7:30pm $25 Sep 21—24 at 7:30pm; $25 WORLD PREMIERE Sep 25 at 3pm BAM, 651ARTS, AND VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS SUBSCRIPTIONS BAM AND THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE (PARIS, FRANCE) THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE (PARIS, FRANCE) PRESENT BAM Fisher (four or more shows) VENUE (four or more shows) PRESENT Members: (Fishman Space) BAM Fisher Members: $17.50—20 PORTRAIT OF MYSELF RUNNING TIME (Fishman Space) $17.50—20 General Public: THE UNDERTAKING 1hr 15min General Public: $18.75—21.25 RUNNING TIME AS MY FATHER $18.75—21.25 WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Prices subject to change 1hr 10min after July 24. Prices subject to change STEVE COSSON DANCE NORA CHIPAUMIRE after July 24. THE CIVILIANS BAM FISHER
RELATED EVENTS In this visceral exploration of African masculinity, Dans cette exploration viscérale de la masculinité S’approcher au plus près de la mort pour mieux For the ancients, it was essential: a journey unto RELATED EVENT Master Class: Zimbabwe-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer africaine, Nora Chipaumire (Miriam, 2012 Next apprendre à vivre : un sujet qui fut essentiel pour the land of the dead as the only means of retrieving Talk:
Nora Chipaumire (p 70) Nora Chipaumire (Miriam, 2012 Next Wave) is Wave) chorégraphe basée à Brooklyn et née au of the artist Photo: Courtesy nos pères. Dans The Undertaking, l’auteur et something crucial to life. In The Undertaking, On Death (p 68) Thu, Sep 8 at 12pm joined by the specters of her estranged father Zimbabwe, se confronte aux spectres de son père metteur en scène Steve Cosson et la compagnie writer-director Steve Cosson and theater company With Simon Critchley $30 (performed by Senegalese dancer Kaolack, also absent, interprétés par le danseur sénégalais Pape The Civilians offrent une interprétation moderne The Civilians (Rimbaud in New York, 2016 Winter/ Thu, Sep 22, post-show Talk: known as Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye, and Jamaican- Ibrahima Ndiaye, dit Kaolack, et le danseur jamaïcan à la fois enjouée et profonde, de ce voyage dans Spring) offer a playful and profound 21st-century Free On Masculine Identity born dancer Shamar Watt). In a makeshift boxing Shamar Watt. Dans un ring de boxe improvisé, l’autre monde. Prenant pour base de travail des take on that underworld excursion. Using (p 68) ring, under the harsh glow of halogen worklights, sous le halo blafard de lampes halogènes, les trois centaines d’heures d’entretiens avec des shamans, transcripts of actual conversations with shamen, Thu, Sep 15, post-show
the three trade jabs steeped in Chipaumire’s se renvoient les coups, pétris du style inimitable de Photo: Zach Hyman des thanatopracteurs, des philosophes et des morticians, philosophers, and mystics as their Free for same-day trademark synthesis of contemporary African Chipaumire, une synthèse savante de mouvement mystiques, deux acteurs s’aventurent au bord du script, two actors toe the precipice, inhabiting SEP 14—17 ticketholders movements. Clad in boxing gloves, football pads, contemporain et Africain. Affublés de gants de boxe, précipice, entre être et non-être, vivent des visions the twilight between being and non-being, and sacred West African gris-gris (or talisman), de maillots de football américain et de gris-gris transcendantes grâce à l’ayahuasca, oscillent entre transcendent visions with ayahuasca, flirtations they teeter between combat and play, exploding d’Afrique de l’Ouest, ils oscillent entre le combat épouvante existentielle, et élans de béatitude with existential dread, and bouts of cosmic bliss. and exploiting stereotypes of black manhood in an et le jeu, explosent et exploitent en alternance les cosmique. Vidéo et musique les accompagnent dans Inventive video and sound contribute to this portrait of myself as my uncompromising exchange. stéréotypes du mâle noir dans une joute implacable. cette fascinante tentative d’accès à l’invisible, pour engrossing attempt to see the unseeable, moving The Undertaking opens father opens in Paris: mieux suivre le chemin de la vie. toward the light while illuminating how to live. in Paris: Oct 5—8 Sep 28—Oct 1 Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. Major support for theater at BAM provided by: This production is made possible with support from the The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Joseph V. Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation. Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Mertz Gilmore Foundation. The SHS Foundation Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City artists The Shubert Foundation, Inc. supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. This production is made possible with support from Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City the Joseph V. Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation. artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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PHYSICAL THEATER PHYSICAL THEATER DATE/TIME FULL PRICE DATE/TIME FULL PRICE DANCE US PREMIERE Oct 5—8 at 7:30pm; $25 Oct 12—15 at 7:30pm; $25 NY PREMIERE Oct 8 at 2pm Oct 14 at 9:30pm SUBSCRIPTIONS SUBSCRIPTIONS BAM AND THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE (PARIS, FRANCE) BAM AND THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE (PARIS, FRANCE) VENUE (four or more shows) VENUE (four or more shows) PRESENT PRESENT BAM Fisher Members: BAM Fisher Members: (Fishman Space) $17.50—20 (Fishman Space) $17.50—20 MINUIT General Public: MONCHICHI General Public: RUNNING TIME DANCE RUNNING TIME $18.75—21.25 DIRECTED BY YOANN BOURGEOIS $18.75—21.25 55min COMPANY WANG RAMIREZ 1hr 5min Prices subject to change CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL Prices subject to change after July 24. after July 24. DE GRENOBLE
Les identités interculturelles sont le pain bénit Intercultural identities are the bread and butter de Wang Ramirez, le duo polyglotte que forment of Wang Ramirez, the polyglot performance RELATED EVENT Poised somewhere between inhale and exhale, À mi-chemin entre l’inspiration et l’expiration, la danseuse germano-coréenne Honji Wang et duo comprising Korean-German dancer Honji Master Class: night and day, Minuit (“midnight”) marks the entre le jour et la nuit, Minuit marque la première le danseur franco-espagnol Sébastien Ramirez. Wang and French-Spanish dancer Sébastien Yoann Bourgeois (p 70) US debut of charismatic acrobat and performer américaine du charismatique circassien Yoann Partenaires dans la vie comme sur scène depuis leur Ramirez. Partners in life and performance since BAM FISHER Yoann Bourgeois, a major force in France’s Bourgeois, un des incontournables de la nouvelle rencontre à Berlin, où ils dansaient tous les deux, le they met dancing in Berlin, the two communicate
Mon, Oct 3 at 4pm 12—15 OCT $30 nouveau cirque scene. This series of vaudevillian scène du cirque en France. Cette série de vignettes couple exprime la complexité des relations humaines the complexity of human relationships through
vignettes is the result of Bourgeois’ rigorous vaudevillesque est le fruit d’une expérimentation Photo: Géraldine Aresteanu à travers son esthétique personnelle de théâtre dansé. their signature dance-theater aesthetic. Member Mingle: physical experimentation into what he calls the physique rigoureuse sur ce qu’il appelle “le point Minuit (p 72) “suspension point,” the body’s ineffable moment de suspension”, l’ineffable moment où le corps en Sur une scène nue avec pour tout décor un On a bare stage with nothing but a single Thu, Oct 6 at 6:30pm of weightlessness while in motion. As he and his mouvement atteint l’apesanteur. Accompagné de simple arbre, Monchichi croît dans les interstices wooden tree, Monchichi grows out of the spaces dazzling collaborators fall and fly, chairs, stairs, collaborateurs tout aussi fulgurants, ils s’envolent de leurs cultures hybrides, à l’aune des langages between the two dancers’ hybrid cultures and trampolines, and microphones are transformed et s’effondrent, tandis que chaises, escabeaux, chorégraphiques auxquels ils se sont formés : the movement idioms in which they’re trained:
into opportunities for humor, insight, and physical trampolines et micros deviennent facéties, Photo: Grant Halverson ©ADF ballet, b-boying, et arts martiaux. Se confrontant ballet, b-boying, and martial arts. Confronting magic. Bodies mimic pulleys and gears, weights péripéties et prétextes à manifester la magie du aux paradoxes de l’amour et de la différence paradoxes of love and difference with trademark and counterweights, revealing poetry in that mouvement. Les corps imitent poulies et chaînes, avec la singulière intelligence et lucidité Compagnie Yoann clarity and wit, they perform a communicative Company Wang Ramirez elusive space in between. poids et contrepoids, révélant ainsi la poésie d’un qui les définissent, ils présentent une danse Bourgeois performs choreography of near-missed connection. reprises Monchichi in élusif entre-deux. communicative d’une connexion inattendue. Minuit et demi in Paris: Paris: Feb 14—18, 2017 Jun 6—15, 2017 Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
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“With disarming sincerity and NOV 18 & 19 daunting formal sophistication FILM/MUSIC The Tree of Life ponders some of the US PREMIERE hardest and most persistent questions, the kind that leave adults speechless THE TREE OF LIFE when children ask them.” DIRECTED BY TERRENCE MALICK — A.O. SCOTT, THE NEW YORK TIMES WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRA Presented in association with Wordless Music
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE Nov 18 & 19 at 7:30pm $35—75
VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS BAM Howard Gilman (four or more shows) Opera House Members: $24.50—60 RUNNING TIME General Public: Approx 2hrs 20min $26.25—63.75 Prices subject to change after July 24.
More than 100 musicians and singers from the Wordless Music Orchestra perform live accompaniment to a special screening of Terrence Malick’s (Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) 2011 masterpiece The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and hailed by Roger Ebert as one of the 10 greatest films of all time, Malick’s dazzling formal achievement takes a tender portrait of a 1950s Texas family as the seed for a sweeping inquiry into cosmological existence. Music by Mahler, Berlioz, Brahms, Górecki, Mozart, and
Couperin courses throughout this gorgeously shot FILM/MUSIC hymn to the sacred within the secular, where time eternal merges with fallible human love.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: © Fox Searchlight Pictures of Life © Fox Stew; film still: The Tree Fish Joyce, courtesy of Rock Photo: Kate Tree56 #THETREEOFLIFE ofBAM.ORG /THETREEOFLIFE 57 Life BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
MUSIC NOV 30—DEC 3 NOV 30—DEC NY PREMIERE A GUN SHOW - SO PERCUSSION DIRECTED BY AIN GORDON
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Nov 30—Dec 3 at $20—40 7:30pm SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Harvey Theater Members: $14—32 RUNNING TIME General Public: To be announced
$15—34 BAM HARVEY THEATER Prices subject to change after July 24.
Sō Percussion (Where (we) Live, 2012 Next Wave) gives the Second Amendment a soundtrack in this affecting foray into America’s fraught relationship with guns. Taking mallets to disassembled sniper rifles and assorted drums, the musicians serve as Greek chorus, commenting instrumentally on sung and spoken texts drawn from the nightmares and nostalgia of armed experiences. Three- time Obie-winning director Ain Gordon and choreographer and performer Emily Johnson give depth to this probing work in which anger meets inalienable rights, dark memories resurface, and a contested weapon sings a bittersweet song. MUSIC
“Through a mix of consummate skill and quirky charm,
Photos: Stephanie Berger this mercurial quartet has helped to ignite an explosive new enthusiasm for percussion music old and new.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
58 #AGUNSHOW BAM.ORG/AGUNSHOW 59 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL DEC 2 & 3 “Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop’s BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE most beloved and influential artists.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
MUSIC NY PREMIERE THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: 50 SONG MEMOIR
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Stephin Merritt, the master craftsman behind Dec 2 (Program A) & $30—45 the Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, is one
Dec 3 (Program B) MUSIC SUBSCRIPTIONS of our great living songwriters—a sardonic at 7:30pm (four or more shows) Stephen Foster with an expansive literary VENUE Members: wit. Celebrating his 50th birthday and a new BAM Howard Gilman $21—36 album on Nonesuch Records, Merritt and Opera House General Public: band perform two distinct programs of new $22.50—38.25 songs—one for every year of his melodious RUNNING TIME Prices subject to change existence. In a spectacular staging featuring 50 To be announced after July 24. instruments from Merritt’s formidable collection, the seven-member band recounts his five decades on planet Earth, covering everything from bedbugs and Buddhism to his conception by hippies on a houseboat in St. Thomas.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: Photos: Catalina Kulczar Photos: Catalina Kulczar 5060 #50SONGMEMOIR BAM.ORG/50SONGMEMOIR 61 BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
“With eight hands and 24 strings it seems the DEC 14—17 DEC Dublin Guitar Quartet can tackle almost anything.”
—NPR OCT 19—22 BAM FISHER Photo: Paula Court BAM FISHER Photo: Courtesy of the artists
MUSIC Architecture doubles as instrument in this The Dublin Guitar Quartet goes electric for the MUSIC NY PREMIERE compelling collage of offbeat pop songs and third installment of Bang on a Can founding US PREMIERE live construction from the band Open House, composer Michael Gordon’s series exploring the REMEMBERER inspired by Henry Miller’s novella The Smile at untapped possibilities of select instruments. In AMPLIFIED Timber (2012 Next Wave), layered polyrhythms STEVEN REKER the Foot of the Ladder. Building as they play, the DUBLIN GUITAR QUARTET band members, led and directed by Steven Reker rippled from amplified two-by-fours situated in OPEN HOUSE (People Get Ready), coax an array of uncanny the round. In 2012’s Rushes, seven bassoonists used MUSIC BY MICHAEL GORDON sounds from a set of amplified eight-foot-long circular breathing to sustain clouds of mercurial DIRECTED BY JIM FINDLAY DATE/TIME FULL PRICE sheets of Styrofoam wall insulation, erected into sound. For Amplified, Gordon’s experiment takes Oct 19—22 at 7:30pm $25 teetering structures that vibrate, hum, squeak, and a six-stringed turn. With the audience seated on Presented in association with Irish Arts Center MUSIC VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS seem destined to collapse. four sides, the musicians send reverb-saturated BAM Fisher (four or more shows) pulsations across the aural field while redefining DATE/TIME FULL PRICE (Fishman Space) Members: what the guitar as an ensemble instrument can be.
MUSIC Dec 14—17 at 7:30pm $25 $17.50—20 RUNNING TIME This production is made possible with support from General Public: VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS Approx 55min the Joseph V. Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation. $18.75—21.25 BAM Fisher (four or more shows) Prices subject to change (Fishman Space) Members: Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City after July 24. $17.50—20 artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. RUNNING TIME General Public: Approx 1hr $18.75—21.25 Prices subject to change after July 24.
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FILM/MUSIC NY PREMIERE “Waves of happy laughter greet BRENT GREEN & SAM GREEN: The Hard Nut from curtain-up DEC 7—10 LIVE CINEMA to curtain-down, a tribute to the naughty theatrical brilliance of DATE/TIME FULL PRICE One makes narrative shorts. One makes Dec 7—10 at 7:30pm $25 its choreographer...” documentaries. And they aren’t related. VENUE SUBSCRIPTIONS Self-taught animator Brent Green and Oscar- —THE NEW YORK TIMES BAM Fisher (four or more shows) nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather (Fishman Space) Members: Underground)—who have showcased their work at $17.50—20 MoMA, the Whitney Biennial, and all the major RUNNING TIME General Public: film festivals—burst the bounds of cinema by 1hr 5min $18.75—21.25 pairing live music and narration with their singular Prices subject to change films. In this showcase of their best work to date, after July 24. Foley sound artist Kate Ryan and a band comprising Brendan Canty (Fugazi), James Canty (Nation of Ulysses), and Becky Foon (Silver Mt. Zion) perform live alongside the cinematic proceedings: flickering stop-motion forays into Southern Gothic from Brent, engrossing documentaries BAM FISHER about provincial dreamers and doers from Sam.
“...interdisciplinary
work that breaks the Photo: Ed Dittenhoefer, Ithaca Times documentary mold...”
—THE GLOBE AND MAIL (CANADA) FILM/MUSIC
64 BAM.ORG/LIVECINEMA #BRENTGREENSAMGREEN Photo: Julieta Cervantes 65 DANCE BAM 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
BAM AND MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP PRESENT
THE HARD NUT BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE
BASED ON THE BOOK BY E.T.A. HOFFMANN, THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP FEATURING THE MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE AND THE HARD NUT SINGERS MUSIC BY PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY, THE NUTCRACKER, OP. 71 CONDUCTED BY COLIN FOWLER CHOREOGRAPHY BY MARK MORRIS
DATE/TIME FULL PRICE Dec 10—18 $25—125
See calendar on page 76 for details. SUBSCRIPTIONS VENUE (four or more shows) BAM Howard Gilman Members: Opera House $17.50 —10 0 General Public: RUNNING TIME $18.75—106.25 Approx 2hrs with intermission Prices subject to change after July 24. DANCE
RELATED EVENTS Mark Morris Dance Group’s beloved retro-modern Master Class: reimagining of The Nutcracker comes back to BAM Dance with MMDG (p 70) for the holidays. A cascade of wit and wintry With members of Mark beauty, this lavish, gender-bent love letter to the Morris Dance Group classic transplants E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original story Sep 17, Oct 22, Nov 19 from the straight-laced 1890s to the swinging 70s, (adults only) & Dec 3 at with raucous parties, dancing G.I. Joes, whimsical 3pm / Free costumes, and a Waltz of the Snowflakes like no
other. Based on the comic book art of Charles 10—18 DEC Member Mingle: Burns and featuring Tchaikovsky’s complete The Hard Nut (p 72) original score, performed live by the 53-piece Thu, Dec 15 at 6:30pm MMDG Music Ensemble, Morris’ lyrical, modern retelling playfully preserves the warm spirit of an essential holiday tradition.
Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by: Photo: Stephanie Berger Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation.
Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by: Hard66 #THEHARDNUT NutBAM.ORG/THEHARDNUT 67 68 ALSO THIS SEASON BAM 2016NEXTWAVE FESTIVAL
NORA CHIPAUMIRE Season Talks SEASON TALKS Moderated bySimonDove With norachipaumire The BookPhilosophers Dead . of Theater and into thesubjectinbooks Memory The Civilians’ play andCritchley’s new own inquiries discussion sparkedmembers inthisinformal by withaudience over drinks about deathandtheafterlife talks Critchley andprofessor Simon Philosopher FREE BAM FISHERLOWER LOBBY THU, SEP22,POST-SHOW With SimonCritchley (p53) In conjunctionwithTheUndertaking ON DEATH continues toreveal. it thetimelesstruths society—and contemporary reinterpreted across mediatoreflect artistic hasbeen ofPhaedra examine how themyth (tobeannounced) andartists A panelofscholars FREE (209 JORALEMONST, BROOKLYN) BOROUGH HALLCOURTROOM SUN, SEP18AT 11AM A programoftheBrooklynBookFestival In conjunctionwithPhaedra(s)(p12) PHAEDRA INTERPRETED my father inthisseason’s bodyasraised African as myself portrait of andtheblack expounds on questions ofmasculineidentity Nora Chipaumire Choreographer andperformer FREE FORSAME-DAY TICKETHOLDERS BAM FISHER(FISHMANSPACE) THU, SEP15,POST-SHOW ofmyselfasmyfather In conjunctionwithportrait ON MASCULINEIDENTITY with curator and educator Simon Dove. Simon andeducator withcurator (p52)
O’Connor (BLEED, this season withRemains,andchoreographer Tere Choreographer John Jasperse, whoreturns toBAM $25; $12.50FORMEMBERS BAM FISHERHILLMANSTUDIO FRI, SEP23AT 6PM/1HR In conjunctionwithRemains (p36) JOHN JASPERSE WITHTEREO’CONNOR that brings to light new dimensions of historical narrative. dimensions ofhistorical tolightnew that brings implications, work and whatitmeanstocreate anartistic Famine inIreland, of 1845–52 itspresent-day and effects other panelists(tobeannounced)todiscuss theGreat composer ofthisseason’s The Hunger, are joinedby several Tom Creed andDonnacha Dennehy, thedirector and FREE IRISH ARTSCENTER(553W51STST, MANHATTAN) SAT, OCT1 AT 4:30PM/1HR Center byBAMandIrishArts Co-presented With Tom CreedandDonnachaDennehy In conjunctionwithTheHunger(p10) UNDERSTANDING THEHUNGER version oftheepic. BAM.org Visit information. for using selections from Carole Satyamurti’s recent English in thispublicreading,to signupinadvance toparticipate this season’s. Battlefield Readersages ofall are encouraged Estienne’s revisitingoftheIndian epic’s section central in in conjunction withPeter Brook andMarie-Hélène BAM hostsaday-long reading ofTheMahabharata FREE BAM FISHERLOWER LOBBY FRI, SEP30,12—6PM In conjunctionwithBattlefield(p14) THE MAHABHARATA PARTICIPATORY READING OF movement basedinvestigations indance. of embodiedknowledge andacontinued commitment to 2013Next Wave) discussthevalue SIMON CRITCHLEY
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Photo: Steven Schreiber how thecreation itaffects work. ofnew performance house—and toopera changes from gallery Jennycurator Schlenzka, addressing how theperception of ofpresentingdynamics dancewithMoMA PS1 Choreographer Jonah Bokaer discussestheshifting $25; $12.50FORMEMBERS BAM FISHERHILLMANSTUDIO FRI, NOV11AT 6PM/1HR With JonahBokaerinconversationwithJennySchlenzka In conjunctionwithRules oftheGame(p40) DANCE AS VISUAL ART the filmtoday. Boyz ntheHood, in revisiting andthe questions thatarise on thisseason’s Pavement, Abraham’s reimagining of (The Exalted andSteel Hammer, 2015 Next Wave) reflect In.Motion, Rux Hancock Carl andpoet-playwright Choreographer Kyle Abraham, membersofAbraham. FREE FORSAME-DAY TICKETHOLDERS BAM FISHER(FISHMANSPACE) THU, NOV3,POST-SHOW Moderated byCarlHancockRux With Kyle AbrahamandmembersofAbraham.In.Motion In conjunctionwithPavement (p48) AGE OF BLACK LIVESMATTER ON URBAN CULTURE INTHE and sexuality. discussionfield engage inalively on dance, madness, Letter to aMan. Afterwards, leading thinkersinthe inthisseason’s by MikhailBaryshnikov performed his profound alienation anddescentintomadness, as fromexcerpts Vaslav Nijinsky’s diaries, chronicling areadingAn actorof (tobeannounced)performs FREE (16 COOPERSQ,MANHATTAN) CENTER FORBALLETANDTHEARTS MON, OCT24AT 7PM New York University byBAMandtheCenterforBalletArts, Co-presented In conjunctionwithLettertoaMan(p18) INSIDE NIJINSKY’S DIARIES
associate associate Major SponsorforSeasonTalks: BAM over the years. reflect on hiscompany’s presence at extraordinary and renowned JamesShapiro scholar Shakespeare frommaterials theBAM HammArchives, Donnellan Tale, works,Shakespeare thisseason’s including Winter’s The with of Cheekby Jowl, made hisBAM debutin1994 Donnellan,Declan director andco-artistic co-founder $25; $12.50FORMEMBERS BAMCAFÉ WED, DEC7AT 6PM/1HR With JamesShapiro TaleIn conjunctionwithTheWinter’s (p26) DECLAN DONNELLAN ICONICARTIST TALK: Anne moderates. Rademacher NYU Professor ofEnvironmental Studies over time. changeandhow ithasevolved of climate tempestuous relationship totheenvironment inanera theEnvironment, Centerfor University examineour andDanielSchrag, Sanko Erik director oftheHarvard and Grindstaff Jessica Limbco-founders Phantom $20; $10FORMEMBERS BAM FISHERHILLMANSTUDIO SAT, NOV19AT 6PM/1HR Moderated byAnneRademacher With membersofPhantomLimbandDanielSchrag Rings(p28) In conjunctionwithMemory PEOPLEAND CLIMATE CHANGE HUMANSAND NATURE: EXAMINING As As You LikeIt,andhassincereturned withsix among otherseminaltheaterproductions. Using KYLE ABRAHAM
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Master REGGIE WILSON Classes FOR DANCERS OFALLLEVELS $30 SAT, NOV5AT 4:30PM/2HRS conjunctionwithRulesIn ofthe(p44) Game JONAH BOKAER FOR EXPERIENCEDANDPROFESSIONALDANCERS $30 FRI, OCT28AT 12PM/2HRS WITH MATTHEW BAKER In conjunctionwithPavement (p48) ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION FOR EXPERIENCEDANDPROFESSIONALDANCERS $30 WED, OCT12AT 12PM/2HRS WITH MARKLORIMER In conjunctionwithVortex Temporum (p40) ROSAS FOR DANCERS ANDCIRCUS PERFORMERSOFALLLEVELS $30 MON, OCT3AT 4PM/2HRS In conjunctionwithMinuit(p54) YOANN BOURGEOIS FOR EXPERIENCEDANDPROFESSIONALACTORS $30 THU, SEP29AT 10AM/3HRS WITH GRZEGORZBRAL In conjunctionwithSongsofLear(p31) COORDINATION TECHNIQUE SONG OF THEGOAT FOR INTERMEDIATE TOPROFESSIONALDANCERS $30 THU, SEP22AT 2PM/2HRS In conjunctionwithRemains (p36) JOHN JASPERSE FOR EXPERIENCEDANDPROFESSIONALDANCERS $30 THU, SEP8AT 12PM/2HRS as myfather ofmyself In conjunctionwithportrait NORA CHIPAUMIRE Brooklyn). BAM.org/masterclasses moreVisit for andtoregister. information Group andtakeplace DanceCenter(3Lafayette attheMark Ave, Morris master classes. are co-presented classes by All BAM Dance andMark Morris Follow thisseason’s beyond thestage artists andintothestudiowith these MASTER CLASSES (p52)
FOR EXPERIENCEDANDPROFESSIONALDANCERS $30 TUE, DEC6AT 12PM/2HRS In conjunctionwithCITIZEN(p46) PERFORMANCE GROUP REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL FOR ALLEXPERIENCELEVELS FREE SAT, NOV19 AT 3PM/1HR Nut(p66) In conjunctionwithTheHard DANCE WITHMMDG:ADULTS FOR ALLAGES FREE SEP 17,OCT22&DEC3AT 3PM/1HR Nut(p66) In conjunctionwithTheHard DANCE WITHMMDG:AGESALL FOR INTERMEDIATE TOPROFESSIONALDANCERS $30 MON, NOV21AT 2PM/2HRS WITH ZVIGOTHEINERANDMEMBERSOFTHECOMPANY In conjunctionwithOnTheRoad (p50) ZVIDANCE FOR PERFORMERSOFALLLEVELS $30 FRI, NOV18AT 2PM/2HRS Thank You For Coming:Play(p49) In conjunctionwith FAYE DRISCOLL FOR ARTISTSOFALLBACKGROUNDS $30 THU, NOV10AT 10AM/2HRS Rings (p28) In conjunctionwithMemory PHANTOM LIMBCOMPANY JONAH BOKAER
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