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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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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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    Music

    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.

  • Performance Art | Film | Theater

    HOW TO LIVE (after you die)

    Dec 7—Dec 9, 2023

    HOW TO LIVE (after you die)

    Dec 7—Dec 9, 2023
    BAM DEBUT

    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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    Performance Art | Film | Theater

    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.

  • Opera | Music

    Angel Island

    Jan 11—Jan 13, 2024

    Angel Island

    Jan 11—Jan 13, 2024
    BAM DEBUT

    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.

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