Within the coming months BAM will collect audiences and communities collectively for an exhilarating vary of performances. Engagements embody the primary main New York revival in additional than 50 years of Lorraine Hansberry‘s gorgeous remaining drama, The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window; Água a US premiere by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Zadie Smith‘s raucous debut play, The Spouse of Willesden; a spring music sequence curated by Solange for Saint Heron; Cie Focus & Cie Chaliwaté Dimanche, a putting work of bodily theater; works by the enduring Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; an electrifying fusion of hip-hop and poetry in Phrase. Sound. Energy. 2023: WORD-The New Storytellers; the forty sixth annual DanceAfrica; NYC’s largest MLK celebration, vigorous household applications, and exhilarating movie applications.
Tickets go on sale for BAM Members and Patrons on December 12, and to most people on December 19. Alvin Ailey public tickets to go on sale Jan 18, 2023.
THEATER
Feb 4: Lorraine Hansberry‘s The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window (NY Premiere) Apr 1-16: Zadie Smith‘s The Spouse of Willesden (NY Premiere)
Could 3-13: Cie Focus & Cie Chaliwaté’s Dimanche (US Premiere)
MUSIC
Mar – Apr: BAM’s 2023 Spring Music Sequence curated by Solange, Saint Heron
Apr 21-28: Phrase. Sound. Energy. 2023: WORD-The New Storytellers
DANCE
Mar 3-19: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Água (US Premiere)
Could 26-29: DanceAfrica 2023
Jun 1-6: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
COMMUNITY & FAMILY
Jan 16: The thirty seventh Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feb 4-12: BAMkids Movie Competition 2023
Jan-Jun: BAMcafé Stay 2023
“We’re thrilled to announce this daring season stuffed with unearthed masterpieces and new creations from a few of the world’s most visionary artists together with Lorraine Hansberry, Pina Bausch, Zadie Smith, and our visitor curator-at-large, Solange together with her collective Saint Heron,” stated BAM Creative Director David Binder. “From music, to theater, to bop, and past, we’re honored to amplify the voices of those artists and uplift the neighborhood that retains the indelible spirit of efficiency alive lengthy after the curtain falls.”
“BAM is profoundly grateful to the overwhelming help of our superb audiences, and our unimaginable civic leaders, council members, neighborhood representatives, and elected officers,” stated BAM President Gina Duncan. “We deeply recognize the generosity of Bloomberg Philanthropies and all of our donors that make it potential for us to serve, interact, and actively take care of our neighborhood.”
BAM continues its mission to current adventurous artwork on all our phases, areas, and in our cinemas, with humanities, literary, neighborhood, visible artwork, and household applications.
**All performances will adhere to protocols developed in accordance with New York State laws and in session with medical professionals for the security of our artists, audiences, and workers. **
The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window
(First main New York revival in additional than 50 years)
By Lorraine Hansberry
With Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Feb 4 (restricted engagement)
Critics are invited to attend Feb 18 at 7:30pm; Feb 19 at 3pm; and Feb 22 at 7:30pm
Opening Evening, Feb 23
Harvey Theater at BAM Sturdy
651 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets start at $35
BAM presents the primary main New York revival in additional than 50 years of Lorraine Hansberry‘s The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window, directed by Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman. Oscar Isaac (Moon Evening, Scenes from a Marriage) and Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Lifeless for a Greenback) star in Hansberry’s sweeping drama of id, idealism, and love. The A Raisin within the Solar playwright invitations us to Greenwich Village within the 60s, crafting a razorsharp portrait of a various group of associates whose loudly proclaimed progressive goals cannot fairly match up with actuality. On the heart are Sidney and Iris Brustein, preventing to see if their marriage-with all its crackling wit, ardour, and petty cruelty-will be the ultimate sacrifice to Sidney’s beliefs. Following Hansberry’s meteoric debut with A Raisin within the Solar (1959), The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window debuted on Broadway in 1964 simply earlier than Ms. Hansberry’s dying on the age of 34. Since then, her play has by no means been produced on a significant New York stage. Director Anne Kauffman offered an acclaimed revival in Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in
2016.
Água
US Premiere
A bit by Pina Bausch
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Mar 3-19
BAM Howard Gilman Opera Home
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets begin at $45
Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, returns to BAM for the primary time in six years with the US Premiere of Água, a virtuosic work carried out with fearless abandon. Created throughout a residency in Brazil in 2001, Bausch refracted the landscapes, sounds, actions, and music she encountered right into a color-saturated fantasy. Whereas infused with hints of hazard, at its coronary heart this work is a joyful triumph that stands out amongst Bausch’s physique of labor, highlighting the legendary choreographer at her most exuberant.
Over the 36 years wherein Pina Bausch (1940-2009) formed the work of Tanztheater Wuppertal, she created an oeuvre that casts an unerring stare upon actuality, whereas concurrently giving us the braveness to be true to our personal needs and needs. Bausch was appointed director of dance for the Wuppertal theater in 1973. The shape she developed in these early years was wholly unfamiliar. In her performances the gamers didn’t merely dance; they spoke, sang, laughed, and cried. Dance-theater developed into a singular style, inspiring choreographers throughout the globe and influencing theater and all types of dance within the course of. Its success could be attributed to the truth that Bausch made a common human want the important thing topic of her work- the necessity for love, intimacy, and emotional safety. Following their 1984 BAM debut, Bausch and her firm continued to captivate audiences for years to return. Their 15 successive appearances have been a few of the hottest and extremely anticipated occasions at BAM, the corporate’s sole New York residence. Bausch’s distinctive ensemble, now led by Creative Director Boris Charmatz (with the joint management of Managing Director Roger Christmann), maintains Bausch’s groundbreaking inventive imaginative and prescient. Daniel Siekhaus will change into managing director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal on August 1, 2023, at the beginning of the 2023/2024 season.
BAM in affiliation with A.R.T. presents
The Spouse of Willesden
New York Premiere
Tailored by Zadie Smith from Chaucer’s The Spouse of Tub
Kiln Theatre
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham
Apr 1-16
Harvey Theater at BAM Sturdy
651 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets begin at $35
In her debut play, bestselling creator Zadie Smith-whose books embody the Man Booker Prizenominated novel On Magnificence- offers us Alvita…a neighborhood legend. Married 5 instances, a mom, a lover, an aunt, and a good friend, Alvita is a Jamaican-born British girl in her mid-50s holding court docket at a North West London pub. This contemporary translation of an excerpt from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales involves NYC after a sold-out, critically acclaimed run in London. Directed by Indhu Rubasingham, with an ensemble forged starring Clare Perkins in an exhilarating efficiency, this exuberant and verbally ingenious play showcases the pleasures of Smith’s fast wit. Wealthy with frank sexuality, this play celebrates the human knack for telling elaborate tales-especially ones about our personal lives.
This manufacturing will run once more at Kiln Theatre in London from Dec 14-Feb 11, 2023 and shall be offered by American Repertory Theater on the Loeb Drama Heart in Cambridge, MA from Feb 25-Mar 18. This engagement marks Kiln Theatre’s return to New York following their current transfers of Moira Buffini‘s Hanbagged and Lolita Chakrabarti‘s Crimson Velvet, each directed by Rubasingham.
Zadie Smith is the creator of the novels White Enamel, The Autograph Man, On Magnificence, NW, and Swing Time in addition to essay collections Altering My Thoughts, Really feel Free and Intimations, and the gathering of brief tales, Grand Union. She lives on the crossroads of Kilburn, Willesden and Queen’s Park.
Phrase. Sound. Energy. 2023: WORD-The New Storytellers
Helixx C. Armageddon, Silent Knight, and extra
Apr 21-28
Fishman Area (BAM Fisher)
321 Ashland Pl
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets begin at $25
As hip-hop’s fiftieth anniversary attracts close to, BAM pays homage to the rhythmic and verbal storytellers of the tradition. Via dynamic flows and dizzying raps, hip-hop emcees carry the African oral custom into the twenty first century. They act as a brand new form of griot-creating a significant file of experiences which have lengthy been silenced and shaping the story of now by way of spoken phrase.
BAM’s annual showcase of hip-hop and spoken phrase consists of performances by Helixx C. Armageddon of the gender justice collective the Anomolies and MC and activist Silent Knight; choreography by artist and filmmaker Jade Charon; and hosted by longtime director and cocurator MC Baba Israel.
Efficiency artist, lyricist, poet, and music producer Helixx C. Armageddon is a founding member of the gender justice collective the Anomolies -a staple within the 90s underground hiphop scene. Immediately Helixx performs and creates charming uncooked artwork. Helixx channels an area for neighborhood, connection, and dialogue. For her, phrases are highly effective and create greater than narrative; phrases create motion and momentum towards a extra simply world.
Helixx has carried out in notable venues round New York Metropolis, together with Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Membership, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Hammerstein Ballroom, Knitting Manufacturing facility, Gene Frankel Theatre, Howl! Taking place, Blue Observe Jazz Membership, Tibet Home US, and the LeslieLohman Museum of Homosexual and Lesbian Artwork. Silent Knight is a New Brunswick, NJ-based, Brooklyn-born, solo hip-hop artist and the frontman of the soul-rock group The Band Referred to as Fuse. His music could be heard on the hit Hulu miniseries Wu-Tang: An American Saga. He’s a Information Beat podcast authentic artist-in-residence. Since 2018 he is served as an envoy for the Innocence Mission, furthering the rapper’s dedication to social justice points.
Silent Knight has shared the stage with a number of influential artists throughout genres, together with Craig Robinson, Nneka, and Inspectah Deck of the Wu-Tang Clan. He is been a featured performer at South by Southwest, CMJ music competition, and Van’s Warped Tour.
Jade Charon is an award-winning filmmaker, choreographer, creator, and entrepreneur. Charon is an intercessor utilizing dance, movie, digital know-how, and theater to carry consciousness to the Black neighborhood. Charon’s spirited and soulful motion fashion earned her the coveted Chuck Davis Rising Choreographer Fellowship at BAM. She’s an Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers School in Brooklyn, New York. Her dance movie, Recharge, talking on to the racial dialogue taking place in Black America, acquired vital acclaim when it premiered on-line in 2020.
Hailing from New York Metropolis, Baba Israel is a multitalented emcee whose mother and father had been core members of the Living Theatre. He is shared phases with musical heavyweights, together with Outkast, The Roots, Ron Carter, and Arturo O’Farrill, and is a core member of the Hip-Hop/Soul venture Soul Inscribed. He has toured as an emcee, beatboxer, and theatre artist throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Baba Israel has served because the host of Phrase. Sound. Energy for greater than ten years.
Dimanche
New York
Premiere
Cie Focus & Cie Chaliwaté
Could 3-13
Fishman Area (BAM Fisher)
321 Ashland Pl
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets begin at $45
Of their small metropolis home, a household is about to spend their Sunday collectively, however the partitions are shaking, robust winds and torrential rain rage exterior and the storm has solely simply begun. Amidst the climatic chaos, they absurdly try to keep up their household traditions. In the meantime, three wildlife reporters are doing their greatest to doc Earth’s final residing species.
Between dreamlike fiction and factual actuality, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity overcome by the uncontrollable forces of nature, observing the absurdity of maintaining appearances amidst an ecological collapse. Utilizing lo-fi FX, miniature autos, puppetry, video, deadpan mime, and ingeniously easy bodily recreations of movie language, Dimanche observes the ingenuity and stubbornness of people as they attempt to protect their day-to-day habits, going to extremes to maintain up a way of normalcy regardless of the chaos of an ecological collapse.
The inventive work of Cie Chaliwaté is nourished by many alternative manners of approaching the mime artwork to create bodily and visible exhibits. Since their first present Joséphina in 2009, they’ve continued to increase and enrich their stage writing and artistic course of, consistently searching for new views, participating in workshops and collaborating with different artists from completely different theatrical genres. They created Îlo in 2011 after which collaborated with Loïc Faure (Jongloic Firm) to create Jetlag in 2015. They’ve labored in affiliation with Cie Focus (Julie Tenret) since 2017 with whom they created Backup and Dimanche.
DanceAfrica 2023
Creative Director Abdel R. Salaam
Nationwide Dance Firm of Ghana BAM Debut
Could 26-29
BAM Howard Gilman Opera Home
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets begin at $35
In 1977, dancer and choreographer Chuck Davis put in an “African village” within the BAM Lepercq Area for his dance engagement. Nobody anticipated his imaginative and prescient would evolve into DanceAfrica-BAM’s longest steady program and one among its most beloved. The nation’s largest African dance competition returns with its conventional Memorial Day weekend extravaganza- that includes dance, music, artwork, movie, and neighborhood occasions, together with the beloved DanceAfrica out of doors bazaar. The forty sixth annual DanceAfrica celebrates the wealthy cultural heritage of Ghana, that includes the Nationwide Dance Firm of Ghana. Plus, the DanceAfrica Spirit Walkers return, together with the beloved RestorationArt Dance Youth Ensemble. Extra taking part artists and applications shall be introduced later; please test BAM.org for updates.
Abdel R. Salaam grew to become DanceAfrica’s inventive director in 2016. He’s additionally the chief inventive director/co-founder of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre (FONDT), based in 1981. Born in Harlem, Salaam is a critically acclaimed choreographer and has served as a dancer, instructor, and performing artist on 5 continents all through his 50-year profession within the dance world. He has acquired quite a few awards and fellowships for excellence in dance, together with the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts, New England Basis on the Arts, New York Basis for the Arts, New York State Council for Arts, Nationwide Council for Arts and Tradition, and Herbert H. Lehman School. Salaam and Forces of Nature Dance Theatre had been honored with a 2017 Bessie for Excellent Manufacturing for DanceAfrica’s centerpiece efficiency, Therapeutic Sevens.
He’s presently a director on the Harlem Kids’s Zone/Forces of Nature Youth Academy of Dance and Wellness at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem. The corporate additionally acquired the 2013 Audelco Award for Dance Firm of the Yr. Salaam has served on the American Dance Competition’s schools within the US and Seoul, Korea; Herbert H. Lehman School; Alvin Ailey American Dance Heart; Restoration Youth Arts Academy; and Harlem Kids’s Zone. Impressed by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Salaam created Kwanzaa Regeneration Evening Celebration on the Apollo Theater, now in its forty second 12 months.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Full program to be introduced.
Jun 6-11
BAM Howard Gilman Opera Home
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets begin at $35
The long-lasting Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings its passionate vitality and dazzling approach again to BAM with a to-be-announced program of current works, and traditional viewers favorites, together with Alvin Ailey‘s must-see masterpiece Revelations. Ailey’s long-standing relationship with BAM started in 1969 when the trailblazing choreographer established The Ailey Faculty in Brooklyn and offered his firm’s first BAM performances. Immediately, underneath the management of inventive director Robert Battle, the corporate that modified American dance eternally stays a significant drive in New York Metropolis-and across the globe.
2023 Spring Music Sequence curated by Solange for Saint Heron
Line-up to be introduced
Mar-Apr 2023
A number of BAM venues
From one of many world’s most extraordinary artistic minds comes BAM’s 2023 spring music sequence, this 12 months curated by visionary composer and recording artist, Solange Knowles for Saint Heron-her artistic arts establishment. The sequence will fill BAM’s multi-theater campus with thrilling performances from an eclectic lineup of artists spanning genres and practices. This engagement follows final 12 months’s acclaimed efficiency sequence curated by poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abduarraqib. These applications are a part of BAM’s path ahead to current an ever-expanding curatorial lens to a variety of audiences.
Knowles will curate a dynamic sequence of live shows, movies, dance, and efficiency artwork items honoring the intergenerational and genre-spanning impression of inventive icons and can transport visitors by way of a multi-decade aural-visual odyssey. The sequence’ intention is to introduce the Saint Heron and BAM audiences and communities to progressive musicians and artists by way of fellowship and efficiency.
Full lineup to be introduced. Performances will start within the winter of 2023. Knowles was final at BAM in 2013 when she headlined the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry music competition.
Saint Heron is a multidisciplinary platform and establishment that seeks to amplify very important voices and works in artwork, design, music and literature. Saint Heron stays devoted to empowering future practitioners of artwork by reverencing the non secular act of making and spotlighting artists’ unwavering devotion to the intergenerational language of expression. Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and visible artist, Solange Knowles has used her platform to advocate for illustration and justice whereas offering constructive and empowering messages. Via her work Knowles has invoked themes of id, empowerment, grief and therapeutic which have resonated with tens of millions of voices. This coupled together with her work in different inventive mediums has led to a defining profession of music, visible artwork, and activism.
COMMUNITY & FAMILY PROGRAMS
The thirty seventh Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduced by BAM and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Jan 16 at 10:30am
BAM Howard Gilman Opera Home
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Free
Persevering with a practice that has developed into the most important such gathering in New York Metropolis, BAM hosts the annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This beloved Brooklyn custom is free, open to the general public, and accessible by way of livestream. Artists, activists, civic leaders, and neighborhood members come collectively to have fun Dr. King’s life and mission. The annual tribute encourages us to proceed in his radical spirit: relentlessly urgent ahead in pursuit of justice-even in opposition to the odds-and celebrating the energy and energy of neighborhood to create change. Extra program data shall be introduced quickly, together with keynote speaker, musical visitors, complimentary children applications, neighborhood movie screenings, BAMcafé Stay program, visible artwork, and extra. Go to BAM.org/MLK for program updates.
BAMkids Movie Competition 2023
In affiliation with Worldwide Movie Competition and Melbourne Worldwide Animation
Competition
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Feb 4 & 5 (in individual)
Feb 4-12 (on demand)
Ages 3-11
Highlighting the very best children shorts and have movies from across the globe, the twenty fifth annual BAMkids Movie Competition returns with US and New York premieres, the BAMkids Younger Filmmakers Showcase, and pre-film leisure and actions.
BAMcafé Stay 2023
Jan-Jun 2023
The Adam Area (BAMcafé)
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Free
BAMcafé Stay contains a various mixture of stay music and efficiency from Brooklyn and world wide. On choose Fridays and Saturdays by way of June, with new artists introduced every month, the free sequence options a mixture of surprising encounters and genres, together with rock, jazz, R&B, world music, and extra. Since 1999, the beloved sequence has served as a launchpad for artists like Antibalas and Bilal and an intimate residence for established artists like Vernon Reid and Nikki Giovanni.
