THEATER FILM DANCE MUSIC COMMUNITY ART BAM AnnualAnnual Report Report 2011 3–5 GREETINGS Chair Letter, 4 Executives Letter, 5 BAM’s mission is 6–28 WHAT WE DO BAM Campus, 7 2010 Next Wave Festival, 8–9 2011 Spring Season, 10–11 BAM Rose Cinemas First-Run Films, 12 to be the home BAMcinématek, 13 BAMcinemaFest, 14 The Met: Live in HD / National Theatre Live, 15 BAMcafé Live, 16–17 Between the Lines, 18 for adventurous BAMart, 19 Community Events, 20–21 Education, 22–23 Humanities, 24–25 Membership, 26 DanceMotion USASM, 27 artists, audiences, Digital Media, 28 29–31 PAST AND FUTURE BAM Hamm Archives, 30 Capital Projects, 31 and ideas. 32–39 WHO WE ARE BAM Board List, 33 BAM Next Stage Campaign, 34–37 BAM Staff, 38–39 40–43 NUMBERS Measures of Success, 41 BAM Financial Statements, 42–43 44–48 THE TRUST BAM Endowment Trust and Chair Letter, 45 BAM Endowment Trust Donors, 46 BET Financial Statements, 47–48 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Greetings Photo: Peter Jay Sharp Building, by Ben Cohen 3 GREETINGS Dear Friends, engagement benefitted both institutions, bringing sponsor; Time Warner Inc, sponsor of the 2010 thousands of new ballet fans to BAM just as Next Wave Festival; and Bloomberg, sponsor of Happy 150th anniversary wishes to all. Thanks to it introduced this extraordinary New York dance BAM’s 2011 Spring Season. the loyal support of BAM’s audience and friends, institution to thousands of Brooklynites. we’ve enjoyed a productive, rewarding year. And I would like to close by expressing my special through it all, there’s a clear overriding theme: But perhaps most significantly, BAM advanced gratitude to BAM’s tireless board of trustees. We community building. its commitment to engaging with its surrounding were honored to welcome several new trustees community, making major progress on the BAM this year, including Cheryl Della Rosa, Mark Diker, During our 2011 fiscal year (which ended on Richard B. Fisher Building. Located adjacent André Dua, MaryAnne Gilmartin, Gabriel Pizzi, June 30), we created or furthered important to the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, the and Brian K. Stafford. I would also like to take relationships with our neighbors—locally, across BAM Fisher will feature an intimate and flexible this time to acknowledge a number of dedicated the city, and around the world. 250-seat theater, a green roof, and affordable individuals now moving off of BAM’s board, studio and performance spaces for community including Charles Diker, after years of service, and See BAM is now firmly a global organization. Of arts groups. It will also enable BAM to expand its Brian Nigito. I thank them, heartily and publicly, course, we have, for decades, been the nation’s education programs for families and youth. for their extraordinary support and years of service leading presenter of adventurous arts from around to BAM and look forward to continuing to see the world. Our season programs have spanned We are very excited to watch this building them at BAM and elsewhere. every continent except Antarctica. grow and expect it to help change the cultural you environment signficantly. The building looks Thank you for your interest in BAM. This year, we continued to build our importance fantastic, and we look forward to welcoming all in as a presenter of international programming. the fall. See you in the audience! BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo literally circled the planet, preparing for the next Of course, BAM’s continued success is possible DanceMotion USASM and working closely with only because of our generous supporters. In Cordially, in the his London counterparts at The Old Vic and Neal particular, we are grateful for the continuing, Street on the final year of The Bridge Project. critical appropriations provided by the City of We sent a BAM delegation to Havana, Cuba, to New York, with the assistance of Mayor Michael experience the vibrant visual and performing arts R. Bloomberg; the New York City Council, of that amazing city. We also led the city’s ¡Sí including Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Alan Fishman Cuba! Festival, which showcased contemporary Finance Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia Chair, BAM Board of Trustees audi- Cuban work at 14 New York venues. Jr., Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, the Brooklyn Delegation of the Council, We established an important new alliance within and Councilwoman Letitia James; Brooklyn our own city by welcoming American Ballet Borough President Marty Markowitz; and Cultural Theatre to BAM for a holiday season presentation Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin. Special ence! of Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker. This thanks also to Chase, our 150th Anniversary 4 Chair Letter GREETINGS and you are invited Dear Friends, The 2011 Spring Season brought an array of retrospective of Japanese master filmmaker Kaneto acting legends to the BAM Harvey Theater stage. Shindo, while the third annual BAMcinemaFest As the BAM Richard B. Fisher Building rises, and Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona Shaw featured an impressive lineup—including 20 New as we celebrate BAM’s 150th anniversary, it is brought fiery performances to Ibsen’s wintry and York premieres and one world premiere—opening fitting to look back on a year rich with the kind of topical play John Gabriel Borkman, a harrowing with the highly buzzed-about SXSW Audience Award artistic milestones that make such expansion and tale of a disgraced banker; Academy, Emmy, and winner Weekend, by Andrew Haigh, which went on longevity possible. Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush dazzled in to top many critics’ best-of-the-year lists. The Diary of a Madman; and Sir Derek Jacobi The 2010 Next Wave Festival opened with new scaled Shakespearean heights in the devastating In closing, as we celebrate BAM’s 150 years of work from two seminal BAM artists: multimedia Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear. artistic innovation, we want to underscore that storyteller Laurie Anderson kicked off the season Other highlights included The Nightingale and any celebration of the institution is, by its very with the dreamlike, personal work Delusion and Other Short Fables—which brought together definition, a simultaneous celebration of all our late dance-theater pioneer Pina Bausch was celebrated director Robert Lepage, Vietnamese donors, sponsors, audiences, board members, represented by the joyous, soulful, and water- water puppetry, and the talented Canadian staff, the City of New York, and the Borough of We are soaked Vollmond (Full Moon), performed by Opera Company in a production of unparalleled Brooklyn. We are having quite a party, and you her beloved company Tanztheater Wuppertal in artistry and imagination—and American Ballet are invited. its first US appearance since Bausch’s death. Theatre’s presentation of The Nutcracker. Belgium’s performance collective Needcompany From March to June, BAM was proud to be the provoked and astounded in equal measure with originating cultural partner in ¡Sí Cuba!, a city- Sincerely, having its unforgettable work The Deer House; Tony wide celebration of Cuban arts and culture that Award winner Stew and longtime collaborator brought many powerful performances to the BAM Heidi Rodewald took on the borough with the stages, including the first US appearance of the rocking song cycle Brooklyn OMNIBUS, a BAM Creole Choir of Cuba, which features descendants Karen Brooks Hopkins commission; and nouveau cirque sensation of Haitian migrants who fled slavery to work in President James Thiérrée’s enchanting Raoul played to Cuba’s sugarcane fields. quite a standing ovations and made the 2010 Next Wave Gala—which doubled as a celebration of Joseph On the film side, BAMcinématek honored V. Melillo’s 25th BAM anniversary—all the more preeminent French auteur Olivier Assayas with magical and memorable. The season ended on a showcase of his complete filmography in Joseph V. Melillo a high note with the rousing tribute Red Hot + October and closed its 2010 season with a series Executive Producer New Orleans, under the musical direction of young highlighting the work of Martin Scorsese’s World party... jazz superstar Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, Cinema Foundation, an organization dedicated to as well as the welcome return of Mark Morris’ preserving and restoring neglected films worldwide. Photos: humorous and high-spirited holiday favorite, In spring 2011, BAMcinématek partnered with actor Karen Brooks Hopkins, by Randy Duchaine Joseph V. Melillo, by Randy Duchaine The Hard Nut. and cinephile Benicio Del Toro to present a touring 5 Executives Letter GREETINGS What we do Photo: Red Hot + New Orleans, by Jack Vartoogian 6 WHAT WE DO BAM BAM Harvey Peter Jay Sharp BAM Richard B. Theater Building Fisher Building Coming Soon BAM HARVEY THEATER BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE JUDITH & ALAN FISHMAN SPACE CAMPBELL Lobby BAM ROSE CINEMAS RITA K. HILLMAN STUDIO LEPERCQ SPACE (BAMCAFÉ) GERALDINE STUTZ GARDENS HILLMAN ATTIC STUDIO MAX Leavitt Theater WORKSHOP DOROTHY W. LEVITT Lobby SAMUEL H. SCRIPPS Stage AS THE COUNTRY’S HILLMAN PENTHOUSE STUDIO PETER Jay SHARP Lobby OLDEST PERFORMING ARTS DIKER GALLery CAFÉ INSTITUTION, BAM HAS BEEN Natman Lounge CENTRAL TO LIFE IN BROOKLYN FOR THE PAST 150 YEARS. Photos: BAM Harvey Theater, by Elena Olivo Peter J. Sharp Building, by Ben Cohen BAM Richard B. Fisher Building, by Clara Cornelius 7 CampusBAM Campus WHAT WE DO 2010 The 2010 Next Wave Festival’s powerful dance offerings led off with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s exuberant dance-theater work Vollmond (Full Moon), the company’s first BAM presentation since Bausch’s passing. The lineup also included Ralph Lemon’s searing and intimate How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?, Ballet Preljocaj in the structurally and physically rigorous Empty moves (parts I & II), an apocalyptic vision come to life in Sasha Waltz’s Gezeiten, and the return of Mark Morris’ beloved The Hard Nut.