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Next Wave 2023

Oct 17, 2023—Jan 13, 2024

Brooklyn’s creative odyssey returns to BAM in the fall with a dazzling array of groundbreaking work. Next Wave is a definitive haven for today’s most audacious and visionary artists, inviting them to re-define our theatrical spaces and unveil performances that are genre-busting, formally daring, and thought-provoking. It is a chance for audiences to come together and discover art capable of changing the way we look at—and live in—the world.

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DECEMBER

Performance | Film | Theater

HOW TO LIVE (after you die)

Dec 7—Dec 9, 2023

Performance | Film | Theater
BAM DEBUT
HOW TO LIVE (after you die)

Dec 7—Dec 9, 2023

In her BAM debut, this master storyteller shares an incisive and engrossing morality tale for our times, recounting the years she spent as a Bible-interpreting prophetess in a Pentecostal community in Sydney.

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HOW TO LIVE (after you die)
Dec 7—Dec 9, 2023

In this real-life morality tale, a master storyteller recounts her time in a Pentecostal cult.

JANUARY

Opera | Music

Angel Island

Jan 11—Jan 13, 2024

Opera | Music
BAM DEBUT
Angel Island

Jan 11—Jan 13, 2024

Composer Huang Ruo, director Matthew Ozawa, and filmmaker Bill Morrison craft a clear-eyed tribute to the rebellion and resilience of the Chinese immigrants who passed through and perished at Angel Island.

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Opera | Music
Angel Island
Jan 11—Jan 13, 2024

Huang Ruo and Matthew Ozawa pay tribute to the Chinese immigrants detained at Angel Island.

PAST EVENTS

Music

Let X=X with Sexmob

Tue, Oct 17, 2023

Let X=X with Sexmob
Tue, Oct 17, 2023

One of the country’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers, Laurie Anderson, comes to BAM for an unforgettable one-night-only performance with the jazz band Sexmob.

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Let X=X with Sexmob
Tue, Oct 17, 2023

Laurie Anderson and Sexmob collaborate for an unforgettable live music experience.

 

Dance | Music

Broken Chord

Oct 19—Oct 21, 2023

Broken Chord
Oct 19—Oct 21, 2023
BAM DEBUT

In 1891, a South African choir embarked on a taxing tour of the West. Making his BAM debut, Gregory Maqoma revisits a forgotten historical moment in this emotionally galvanizing piece full of music and dance.

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Dance | Music
Broken Chord
Oct 19—Oct 21, 2023

A South African choir confronts racism on tour in this cathartic piece full of dance and music.

Dance

Corps extrêmes

Oct 27—Oct 29, 2023

Corps extrêmes
Oct 27—Oct 29, 2023
BAM DEBUT

Featuring a magnificent rockwall and slackline, athlete-dancers traverse the stage in this breathtaking, gravity-defying piece of aerial dance choreographed by Rachid Ouramdane.

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Dance
Corps extrêmes
Oct 27—Oct 29, 2023

Choreographer Rachid Ouramdane defies gravity with this breathtaking work of aerial dance.

Dance

The Köln Concert

Nov 2—Nov 4, 2023

The Köln Concert
Nov 2—Nov 4, 2023
BAM DEBUT

The virtuosic Trajal Harrell and six members of his Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble unite through the shared language of dance in a heart-stirring piece set to the music of Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell.

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Dance
The Köln Concert
Nov 2—Nov 4, 2023

Trajal Harrell and a cast of six dancers connect to music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell.

Physical Theater

FOOD

Nov 2—Nov 18, 2023

FOOD
Nov 2—Nov 18, 2023

Performer and theater artist Geoff Sobelle hosts a dinner party unlike any other, interweaving audience hallucinatory sleight-of-hand and physical comedy into an absurdist, immersive meditation on how we eat.

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Physical Theater
FOOD
Nov 2—Nov 18, 2023

Geoff Sobelle hosts a dinner party unlike any other in this absurdist meditation on how we eat.

Dance | Theater

adaku, part 1: the road opens

Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023

adaku, part 1: the road opens
Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023
BAM DEBUT

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born stage a collective reckoning that explores ritual and the fraught relationship between ancestors and future generations across a thrumming, textured sonic and visual landscape.

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Dance | Theater
adaku, part 1: the road opens
Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born reckon with ritual across a richly textured sonic and visual landscape.

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