Through headphones, guests experience immersive live documentary cinema from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green, featuring his real-time narration and live original music by JD Samson with Michael O’Neill.

“I am the genre,” singer-songwriter Dawn Richard announces on her latest album. Now live at BAM, she brings her groundbreaking, Björk-inspired mix of R&B, electronic, house, Afrofuturism, and New Orleans bounce.

Moses Sumney’s acclaimed recordings provide beautiful grounding for uncertain times. For his largest NYC performance, he brings the live experience to BAM. Brooklyn-based sound artist L’Rain (Taja Cheek) opens.

The movement language of Rio’s favela culture comes to the stage in this thrilling US debut of Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll and the all-Black, 10-member company Suave.

Singer-songwriter-producer Devonté Hynes, best known for his project Blood Orange, brings his vast, genre-defying ambition to the BAM Opera House as classical composer of three evocative, experimental works.

Direct from London’s West End, James McAvoy makes his BAM debut in a radical new adaptation by Martin Crimp of Edmond Rostand’s masterwork, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival.

This immersive digital projection installation quilts together analog and digital archives from Woolfalk Empathic Universe, where a fictional race of women can alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants.

The UK’s first professional company dedicated to the integration of disabled and non-disabled dancers presents Set and Reset/Reset, a restaging of Trisha Brown’s iconic work, and Jeanine Durning’s Last Shelter.

Choreographer Sasha Waltz creates a dazzling interplay of improvisation and synchronicity inspired by composer Terry Riley’s groundbreaking piece, performed live by the electric Bang on a Can All-Stars.

The Grammy-nominated group plays the hypnotic, spiritual Gnawa music of Morocco, an ecstatic sound that blends West African Islamic ritual poetry with the deep bass motives from the guembri.

The steel pan guru and composer brings a massive orchestra of different sized pans to BAM, using his unique artistry to push this traditional instrument into the future.

Denardo Coleman—son of composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman—and Bang on a Can reimagine and celebrate Ornette Coleman's revolutionary 1959 album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, with six trailblazing composers.

International artists invite us on an expansive tour of contemporary music, drawing on traditional Korean music, electropop, avant-classical, dembow beats, and more musical styles.

The comedian behind the internationally acclaimed, Emmy-winning comedy show Nanette comes to BAM to share a feel-good, brand-new live show.

Omar Offendum connects hip-hop with Arabic storytelling and music in this reimagining of early 20th-century life in Lower Manhattan's vibrant Middle Eastern community.

BAM is thrilled to welcome national treasure Mavis Staples—Grammy winner, civil rights icon, and Blues and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer. Singer-songwriter Amy Helm opens, blending Americana with blues and gospel.

London-based rapper, singer, and actress Little Simz, a vital force in hip-hop, brings her fiercely creative, independent spirit to BAM. Poet-activist Nikki Giovanni opens the show with saxophonist Javon Jackson.

BAM’s beloved annual festival celebrates a home-grown vision of traditional African dances with five guest companies from New York and DC.

Akram Khan offers a breathtaking reimagining of the greatest Romantic ballet in a spectacular production by English National Ballet.

Local youth design, plan, and lead an exploration of Brooklyn at night, welcoming audiences into their lives and neighborhood, in this social-specific performance by Mammalian Diving Reflex.

Everybooty is Brooklyn’s place to party in a city bursting with Pride. This all-inclusive, all-gender celebration of queer nightlife puts on a shimmering show, breaks down barriers, and builds community.