Steven Reker
Open House
Architecture doubles as instrument in this compelling collage of offbeat pop songs and live construction from the band Open House, inspired by Henry Miller’s novella The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. Building as they play, the band members, led and directed by Steven Reker (People Get Ready), coax an array of uncanny sounds from a set of amplified eight-foot-long sheets of Styrofoam wall insulation, erected into teetering structures that vibrate, hum, squeak, and seem destined to collapse.
Directed by Steven Reker
Sound design by Ryan Seaton and Dan Foley
Lighting design by Vincent Vigilante
Co-Commissioned by BAM and American Dance Institute (ADI)
Howard Fishman’s new play about polymathic songwriter and outsider artist Connie Converse, who vanished without an audience or album to her name but left behind treasure trove of home recordings.
Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret manipulates a micro-landscape of railcars and other kinetic objects along 195 feet of train track to transform the Fishman Space into a dreamlike environment.
Brooklyn-based choreographer Faye Driscoll makes her BAM debut with the second work in her Thank You For Coming trilogy, exploring the fractured nature of language.
