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Next Wave 2024 & Emerging Visions

Sep 17, 2024—Jan 19, 2025
Next Wave is where well-known visionaries and trailblazing rebels unleash their groundbreaking creativity onto the world. This year, we plunge into a spectrum of past, present, and in-progress works that perfectly capture the here-and-now. Join us in exploring dynamic, cutting-edge visions and untapped artistic frontiers as we come together to reconstruct, revitalize, and revolutionize creativity.

Prepare to be captivated and transformed as Next Wave 2024 & Emerging Visions sets the stage for an unforgettable journey, altering our perceptions of what art can achieve in the evolving world.

Thank you to our Next Wave 2024 & Emerging Visions season supporters.
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PAST EVENTS

  • Theater | Music

    Safety Not Guaranteed

    Sep 18—Oct 20, 2024

    Safety Not Guaranteed

    Sep 18—Oct 20, 2024

    If you could go back in time, what would you change? A journalist out to make her name digs into an outrageous ad in a new indie-rock musical with songs by Guster’s Ryan Miller and a book by Nick Blaemire.

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    Theater | Music

    Safety Not Guaranteed

    Sep 18—Oct 20, 2024

    An indie-rock musical poses the question: If you could go back in time, what would you change?  

  • Theater

    Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)

    Oct 24—Oct 27, 2024

    Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)

    Oct 24—Oct 27, 2024

    This meta-theater experiment attempts to excavate how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might continue moving through history together.

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    Theater

    Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)

    Oct 24—Oct 27, 2024

    This theater experiment wonders how we might continue moving through history together.

  • Music

    André 3000: New Blue Sun Live In Concert

    Oct 25—Oct 26, 2024

    André 3000: New Blue Sun Live In Concert

    Oct 25—Oct 26, 2024
    Next Wave

    The legendary, multi-talented André 3000 performs his shimmering new album on the opera house stage.

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    Music

    André 3000: New Blue Sun Live In Concert

    Oct 25—Oct 26, 2024

    André 3000 performs his shimmering new album on the opera house stage.

  • Dance

    Still/Here

    Oct 30—Nov 2, 2024

    Still/Here

    Oct 30—Nov 2, 2024
    Next Wave

    Thirty years after its premiere at Next Wave 1994, the groundbreaking multimedia dance theater work by Bill T. Jones returns to the opera house stage.

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    Dance

    Still/Here

    Oct 30—Nov 2, 2024

    A groundbreaking dance theater work by Bill T. Jones returns to the opera house stage.

  • Poetry | Music | Film

    I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long

    Nov 4—Nov 8, 2024

    I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long

    Nov 4—Nov 8, 2024

    Coinciding with election week, BAM Curator at Large Hanif Abdurraqib celebrates the power of possibility with a new series of poetry events extending throughout BAM’s spaces.

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    Poetry | Music | Film

    I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long

    Nov 4—Nov 8, 2024

    Coinciding with election week, Hanif Abdurraqib celebrates poetry’s power of possibility.

  • Dance | Music

    Frontera

    Nov 8 & 9, 2024

    Frontera

    Nov 8 & 9, 2024
    Next Wave

    This large-scale multimedia dance and live music event created by choreographer Dana Gingras for Animals of Distinction explores personal autonomy in a surveillance age.

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    Dance | Music

    Frontera

    Nov 8 & 9, 2024

    Created by choreographer Dana Gingras, Frontera explores personal autonomy in a surveillance age. 

  • Theater

    Gaviota

    Nov 13—Nov 23, 2024

    Gaviota

    Nov 13—Nov 23, 2024
    Next Wave

    The North American debut of a stripped-down, intimate Spanish-language interpretation of Chekhov’s landmark play, The Seagull. | El estreno Norteamericano de la obra icónica de Chekhov, La Gaviota. Una interpretación íntima y presentada completamente en español.

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    Gaviota

    Nov 13—Nov 23, 2024

    A striking new Spanish-language interpretation of Chekhov’s landmark play, The Seagull. | Una nueva y sorprendente interpretación en español de la obra icónica de Chekhov, La Gaviota.

  • Theater

    Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists

    Nov 13—Nov 17, 2024

    Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists

    Nov 13—Nov 17, 2024
    Next Wave
    Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues returns to BAM with an audacious, penetrating, and impossibly compassionate work about the sacrifices made in the name of a better world.
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    Theater

    Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists

    Nov 13—Nov 17, 2024
    A young member of a Portuguese clan questions her family’s custom in this moving drama.
  • Music | Film

    Sun Dogs: Filmmaker and Composer Pairings

    Nov 18 & 19, 2024

    Sun Dogs: Filmmaker and Composer Pairings

    Nov 18 & 19, 2024
    Next Wave

    Composers and filmmakers create short-format films and new music for live orchestra, featuring compositions by Arooj Aftab, Devonté Hynes, and more.

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    Music | Film

    Sun Dogs: Filmmaker and Composer Pairings

    Nov 18 & 19, 2024

    Composers and filmmakers create short-format films presented alongside live music.

  • Music

    American Railroad

    Sat, Nov 23, 2024

    American Railroad

    Sat, Nov 23, 2024
    NEXT WAVE

    Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad highlight the voices, stories, and songs of African American and immigrant laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad.

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    Music

    American Railroad

    Sat, Nov 23, 2024

    Silkroad honors communities who built or were displaced by the Transcontinental Railroad.

  • Theater | Installation | New Media

    Mercedes, Part 1

    Dec 3—Dec 8, 2024

    Mercedes, Part 1

    Dec 3—Dec 8, 2024
    Next Wave

    This multidisciplinary documentary, gallery, and healing room installation by Modesto Flako Jimenez honors the grandmother who raised him and illustrates her impact on the Latine community.

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    Theater | Installation | New Media

    Mercedes, Part 1

    Dec 3—Dec 8, 2024

    Modesto Flako Jimenez honors his grandmother with a poetic recreation of their home.

  • New Media | Music

    Journey LIVE

    Dec 6 & 7, 2024

    Journey LIVE

    Dec 6 & 7, 2024
    Next Wave

    In an alchemical collision of mediums, live musicians respond to the real-time actions of on-stage gamers as they explore the gorgeous universe within the hit video game Journey.

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    New Media | Music

    Journey LIVE

    Dec 6 & 7, 2024

    Video gamers and musicians collaborate in real time in this alchemical collision of mediums.

  • Dance | Holiday

    The Hard Nut

    Dec 12—Dec 22, 2024

    The Hard Nut

    Dec 12—Dec 22, 2024
    Next Wave
    Mark Morris Dance Group's beloved reimagining of The Nutcracker, a cascade of wit and wintry beauty featuring Morris’ lyrical choreography, playfully preserves the warm spirit of an essential holiday tradition.
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    Dance | Holiday

    The Hard Nut

    Dec 12—Dec 22, 2024
    Mark Morris Dance Group's spin on The Nutcracker playfully preserves a holiday tradition.
  • New Media | Installation

    TECHNE

    Jan 4—Jan 19, 2025

    TECHNE

    Jan 4—Jan 19, 2025
    Next Wave

    TECHNE, a multi-part experience comprising large-scale digital artworks, immerses viewers in realms created with cutting-edge technologies, telling stories of evolution and unlocked potential.

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    New Media | Installation

    TECHNE

    Jan 4—Jan 19, 2025

    TECHNE immerses viewers in stories of evolution, endurance, and unlocked potential.
    Part of Next Wave

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