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.
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.
SINGLE TICKETS
BAM Members & Patrons: Fri, Jun 16 at 12pm
General Public: Tue, Jul 11 at 12pm
Thank you to our Next Wave 2023 Supporters
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BAM Members & Patrons get first access and receive 20% off tickets through August 31.
DECEMBER
Dance | Theater
adaku, part 1: the road opens
Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023
Dance | Theater
BAM DEBUT
adaku, part 1: the road opens
Nov 28—Dec 2, 2023
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.
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.
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.
PAST EVENTS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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