BAM 2016 2 1ANNUAL REPORT 0 6 BAM’s mission is to be the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. 3—6 Community, 31–33 GREETINGS DanceMotion USASM, 34–35 Chair Letter, 4 Visual Art, 36–37 President & Executive Producer’s Letter, 5 Membership, 38 BAM Campus, 6 Membership, 37—39 7—35 40—47 WHAT WE DO WHO WE ARE 2015 Next Wave Festival, 8–10 BAM Board, 41 2016 Winter/Spring Season, 11–13 BAM Supporters, 42–45 Also On Stage, 14 BAM Staff, 46–47 BAM Rose Cinemas, 15–20 48—50 First-run Films, 16 NUMBERS BAMcinématek, 17–18 BAM Financial Statements, 49–50 BAMcinemaFest, 19 HD Screenings, 20 51—55 BAMcafé Live, 21–22 THE TRUST BAM Hamm Archives, 23 BET Chair Letter, 52 Digital Media, 24 BET Donors, 53 Education & Humanities, 25–30 BET Financial Statements, 54–55 2 TKTKTKTK Cover: Urban Bush Women in Walking with ‘Trane| Photo: Julieta Cervantes Greetings GREETINGS 3 TKTKTKTK 2016 Winter/Spring | Royal Shakespeare Company in Henry IV Part I | Photo: Richard Termine Change is anticipated, expected, welcomed. — Alan H. Fishman Dear Friends, As you all know, and perhaps celebrated (!), Anne Bogart, Ivo van Hove, Long time trustee Beth Rudin Dewoody As I end my leadership role, I want to I stepped down as chairman of this William Kentridge, and many others. became an honorary trustee. Mark Jackson express my thanks to all I have met and miraculous institution effective December and Danny Simmons, both great trustees, worked with along the way. Together we have 31, 2016. Change at BAM is in our DNA. Our 2016 Winter/Spring season included runs stepped down as well. accomplished much for artists, audiences, Change is anticipated, expected, welcomed. of the wondrous four-play King and Country and our community. BAM is in great hands In that spirit we welcome Adam Max as our series from the Royal Shakespeare Company. In addition to Katy Clark, we welcome with outstanding board leadership, Katy, new chairman. We want to thank the BAM In a great performance, Rupert Everett Jonathan Auerbach and Anoushka Healy Joe, and a spectacular staff. staff for their support during this time of starred in The Judas Kiss. We had wonderful to the board. change, and President Katy Clark has productions from the fabled Mariinsky Thank you all and see you at BAM. We thank Mayor Bill de Blasio and the done a superb job in leading the effort. Theatre, Les Arts Florissants, RadioLoveFest, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and more. New York City Department of Cultural Sincerely, All of our performance venues have been Last but certainly not least, the beloved Affairs, led by Commissioner Tom incredibly busy with fresh work. In the DanceAfrica celebrated Senegal to a packed Finkelpearl. We also salute the New York 2015 Next Wave, our most intimate theater, house, as always. City Council, including Council Speaker the BAM Fishman Space, has hit its stride Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Alan H. Fishman Our neighborhood continues to change along with work from Miranda July, Carl Hancock Chair Julissa Ferreras, Cultural Affairs with us. More neighbors are coming to our Rux, Souleymane Badolo, and Maya Beiser, Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, the among others. Joe Melillo continued his movie screens and our stages. Fort Greene Brooklyn Delegation of the Council, Council intensive exploration of physical theater with welcomes new folks, new businesses, and a Member Laurie A. Cumbo, and Brooklyn wonderful performances from James Thierrée lot of good new food! We welcome everyone Borough President Eric L. Adams. and Martin Zimmerman. Moreover, we had to BAM! an amazing set of theater and music works In this period Karen Brooks Hopkins, our including great shows from SITI Company/ beloved president emerita, stepped down. 4 GREETINGS | Chair Letter Hello! This report covers the fiscal year from July The 2015 Next Wave Festival, yet another Foundation, hosted Karl Ove Knausgaard, We are grateful to our colleagues, artists, 2015 through June 2016, but given the enduring Harvey legacy, ushered the return of Eileen Myles, and others for dinner and friends, and donors for another exciting and time of this letter’s drafting, we’d be remiss Mark Morris Dance Group’s beloved The Hard conversation. BAMkids presented concerts, fulfilling year––both on stage and off. in not mentioning sad news. This year Nut, a rollicking holiday favorite. Refuse the movie matinees, and special programming for Thank you! BAM lost a foundational member of its Hour, a multimedia chamber opera featuring kids and families, with highlights including family. During his 32-year tenure, Harvey the imitable artist William Kentridge, was the annual Halloween event BAMboo! and Lichtenstein transformed our institution a perfect showcase of the Festival’s hybrid Disney Classic Cartoon Shorts. into a dynamic showcase for emerging nature. Winter/Spring 2016 was anchored by Sincerely, artists and boundary-pushing productions. powerhouse productions from Trisha Brown Our campus continues to grow with the The Harvey Theater, Rose Cinemas, and Dance Company and the Royal Shakespeare ongoing construction of the BAM Karen and Lepercq Space are testaments to his Company, whose epic King and Country the announcement of BAM Strong project. vision for BAM and the ever-expanding cycle marked the 400th anniversary of BAM Karen, located within the mixed-use Katy Clark, President cultural district to which it belongs. As we Shakespeare’s death. apartment tower 300 Ashland, will house gathered in his theater for a music-and- additional cinema screens and the BAM dance-filled farewell, we were touched by BAMcinématek had another groundbreaking Hamm Archives. BAM Strong will connect the dedications and remembrances from year with the world premiere run of Jacques the Harvey Theater to an adjacent vacant artists and colleagues all over the world. It Rivette’s 1971 13-hour masterpiece OUT 1: site and the ground floor of a high-rise Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer cemented what we have always known–– noli me tangere. Eat, Drink & Be Literary, a condominium at 230 Ashland Place. The Harvey was one of a kind. partnership program with National Book space will include a visual art exhibition space and a sculpture terrace. 5 GREETINGS | Executive’s Letter Photo: Jesse Winter THE BAM CAMPUS THE COUNTRY’S OLDEST PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTION DYNAMICALLY LEADS THE BROOKLYN CULTURAL DISTRICT BAM Harvey Theater | Photo: Elena Olivo Fisher Building | Photo: Francis Dzikowski Stars by Leo Villareal, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Photo: BAM Hamm Archives BAM HARVEY BAM PETER JAY THEATER FISHER SHARP BUILDING 651 Fulton Street 321 Ashland Place 30 Lafayette Avenue BAM Harvey Theater Judith and Alan Fishman Space BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Campbell Lobby Rita K. Hillman Studio BAM Rose Cinemas Geraldine Stutz Gardens Lepercq Space (BAMcafé) Max Leavitt Theater Workshop Hillman Attic Studio Samuel H. Scripps Stage Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby Peter Jay Sharp Lobby Hillman Penthouse Studio Diker Gallery Café Natman Lounge 6 GREETINGS | The BAM Campus WHAT WE DO What We Do 7 TKTKTKTK 2015 Next Wave | Continu | Photo: Julieta Cervantes MICRO TO MACRO Extraordinary puppetry was a highlight New ideas in theater came in the form of New of the 2015 Next Wave Festival: Hagoromo, Society by Miranda July, each unique performance a dream-like opera featuring Wendy Whelan dependent on the audience; 17 Border Crossings amid bunraku puppets, and Nufonia Must Fall, by Thaddeus Phillips, an examination of the in which a tiny, lonely robot’s meanderings were perils of travel; a new Antigone by Anne Carson, projected large onscreen. Contemporary music directed by Ivo van Hove; Helen Lawrence, live was represented by collaborations including the action film noir by Stan Douglas; South African big band sound of Real Enemies, Maya Beiser’s polymath William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour, sonorous cello, the neo-rococo stylings of YOU with his distinctive art and set designs; Steel US WE ALL, indie band Other Lives, and the Hammer by SITI Company; and more intimate immersive environment in Epiphany: The Cycle of productions including by Karin Coonrod, Carl Life with the Young People’s Chorus of New York. Hancock Rux, Marguerite Duras, and Paterson Joseph. Eluding category definition but rewarding Dance offerings were intriguingly diverse. intrepid audiences were More Up a Tree and Alas, Hailing from Sweden, Kvarnstrom & Co.’s TAPE the Nymphs, adding to the Next Wave’s spirit of elevated that sticky material; Seán Curran genre mixing. Co. partnered with Kyrgyz music ensemble Ustatshakirt Plus amid gem-hued carpets in Dream’d in a Dream. Next Wave favorites from Asia comprised Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in Rice, with breathtaking visuals, and Sankai Juku in Umusuna: Memories Before History, a mesmerizing work by Ushio Amagatsu. In Yimbégré, Souleymane Badolo played with rhythms; Sasha Waltz & Guests of Germany danced the light and dark Continu; Walking with ‘Trane, a paean to Coltrane, was presented by Urban Bush Women; and Mark Morris Dance Group celebrated the holiday season with a reprise of The Hard Nut. Physical theater productions by James Thierrée, Martin Zimmermann, and Circa delighted audiences, as did the impressive taiko drums of U-Theatre. 8 TKTKTKTK Nufonia Must Fall | Photo: Julieta Cervantes Next Wave 2015 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Rice | Photo: Jack Vartoogian Tabac Rouge | Photo: Jack Vartoogian All Vows | Photo: Stephanie Berger Refuse the Hour | Photo: Stephanie Berger SEP 16—19 SEP 30—OCT 3 OCT 14—17 OCT 28—31 RICE 17 BORDER CROSSINGS HELEN LAWRENCE UMUSUNA: MEMORIES Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Thaddeus Phillips Canadian Stage BEFORE HISTORY Concept and choreography by Conceived and directed by Stan Douglas Sankai Juku Lin Hwai-Min SEP 30—OCT 4 Written by Chris Haddock Choreography, concept and direction by Ushio Amagatsu TABAC ROUGE SEP 17—20 OCT 14—17 James Thierrée OCT 28—31 NUFONIA MUST FALL Compagnie du Hanneton ALL VOWS Kid Koala Maya Beiser THE EXALTED The Afiara Quartet Written by Carl Hancock Rux OCT 7—10 Directed By K.K.