A.D. & Colored
Kyle Marshall Choreography
BAM DEBUT
Kyle Marshall, the Bessie Award-winning choreographer and member of Trisha Brown Dance Company, celebrates variations of blackness in Colored. Featuring Marshall himself alongside Oluwadamilare Ayorinde and Myssi Robinson, the piece reflects upon each of their varied backgrounds as black artists who work primarily within white spaces.
The evening also features the world premiere of A.D., a new work that reflects on Christianity’s influence on the body.
Artistic director Kyle Marshall
Performers Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde, Bria Bacon, Miriam Gabriel, Kyle Marshall, and Myssi Robinson
Lighting design Amanda K. Ringger
Stage manager Randi Rivera
Sound design and interactive sound instrument Cal Fish
Costume construction Arielle Davidoff
Kyle Marshall is the recipient of the Harkness Dance Residency at the BAM Fisher in 2019
Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation
Major support for the presentation of New York City artists provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Charles E. Culpeper Arts and Culture Program
Mix and mingle with fellow BAM members over drinks.
Celebrated choreographer Kyle Marshall takes an interdisciplinary approach in this movement workshop, which invites participants to consider the body as a container of history and a source of creativity.
This macabre, enchanting work from director-choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou presents a ravishing mess of disembodied limbs on a shape-shifting floor, set to the strains of Strauss’ Blue Danube waltz.
Set inside barber shops in six different cities, playwright Inua Ellams weaves a rich, joyful tapestry of unfiltered stories about father-son relationships and black masculinity, set to an Afrobeat score.
Come early and join the cast onstage with music, mingling, and dancing. The party continues after the show with a photo booth and pop-up photo exhibition, plus DJs curated by OkayAfrica and Okayplayer on Friday and Saturday evenings!
In this wildly delirious new work, Cape Verdean-born, Lisbon-based choreographer and performance artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas dares you to traverse the order and wild chaos of Euripides.
With no stage and no performers, this hands-on communal experience is an intimate shared adventure through the particularities and nuances of our tactile sense.