Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Part artist talk, part memoir, part gleefully rambling cultural essay, Suzanne Bocanegra’s performance work mines her Texan upbringing, aesthetic influences, and far-reaching imagination to make sense of our collective subconscious. In Farmhouse/Whorehouse, inspired by her grandparents who lived on a small farm across the road from the Chicken Ranch (better known as the “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”), Bocanegra uses text, costumes, video projections, and a new song by Shara Nova with lyrics by Bocanegra's grandmother to consider the American myth of rural utopia. Following her acclaimed collaborations with actors Paul Lazar (When a Priest Marries a Witch, an Artist Lecture) and Frances McDormand (Bodycast: An Artist Lecture, 2013 Next Wave), this third installment in the series enlists the talents of Brooklyn-based actress Lili Taylor.
Commissioned by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.
Meet fellow BAM members over a glass of wine in the Diker Gallery.
Wales Millennium Centre’s new staging of Manfred Karge’s 1982 play about a woman who assumes her dead husband’s identity in 20th-century Germany.
Rachel Dickstein and her Brooklyn-based company Ripe Time adapt Haruki Murakami’s 1994 short story about a Japanese housewife whose mundane existence explodes after a haunting dream.
A scenically minimalist, emotionally maximalist solo performance by Senegalese dancer Germaine Acogny, choreographed especially for her by Ballet du Nord provocateur Olivier Dubois.