Dance

Choreographer Ralph Lemon (Come home Charley Patton, 2004 Next Wave) returns to BAM with How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?, a multimedia dance work that explores loss and transcendence. Incorporating the fruits of Lemon's collaboration with Walter Carter, a 102-year-old ex-sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta, this piece ruminates on the memories and futuristic dreams of a life fully lived. Referencing the film Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky-an artist similarly preoccupied with nostalgia and presentiment-Lemon's work brings footage of Carter's world into dialogue with a cast of dancers and actors whose turbulent movements push the boundaries of exhaustion to create a visceral treatise on what it means to be human.