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See, smell, taste, listen, touch. Which of our sensory actions is the one you least consider? Part laboratory, part expedition, and part meditation, In Many ...

Édouard Louis was born into poverty in working-class France. He was bullied relentlessly for being gay. And he was utterly desperate to escape. Written when ...

Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet. He was 11 when he died. A tragedy that passed as barely a footnote in history. This is our ...

Two audiences arrive: one starts at the BAM Fisher, the other at BAM Rose Cinemas. Both see the same performance, but through two very different ...

One woman. 100 men. 24 hours. In this epic feat of endurance theater, an actor performs the same scene—inspired by Cassavetes’ meta-theatrical 1977 film Opening ...

This immersive opera, which mixes traditional performance with cutting-edge technology and emerging neuroscience, draws narrative inspiration from Sophocles classic tragedy Oedipus Rex. Elli Papakonstantinoua 2018-19 ...

Nimbus returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music April 26-28 (BAM Fisher 4/26 at 8:00 pm; 4/27 at 8:00 pm; 4/28 at 2 pm), bringing ...

The Dublin Guitar Quartet goes electric for the third installment of Bang on a Can founding composer Michael Gordon’s series exploring the untapped possibilities of ...

Six decades after the roving, raving bible of the Beat Generation was published, choreographer Zvi Gotheiner and his company set out to retrace Jack Kerouac’s ...

Brooklyn-based choreographer Faye Driscoll is interested in excess, emotionality, and the messier aspects of what it means to be human. In her hyper-theatrical and subversively ...

In 1961, the polymathic songwriter Connie Converse grew disillusioned with music and New York, packed her bags for Ann Arbor, and eventually disappeared. Her home ...

A black man and a white man meet on a basketball court. The white man lowers the black man’s body gently to the ground, wraps ...

On a normal workday Fra?ulein Rasch comes home at about 6:30pm after work and after her shopping. She enters the apartment house, checks her mail, ...

Intercultural identities are the bread and butter of Wang Ramirez, the polyglot performance duo comprising Korean-German dancer Honji Wang and French-Spanish dancer Se?bastien Ramirez. Partners ...

Poised somewhere between inhale and exhale, night and day, Minuit (“midnight”) marks the US debut of charismatic acrobat and performer Yoann Bourgeois, a major force ...

Gathered in a semicircle on a bare stage, 10 women and men weave a frenzied tapestry of raw physicality and emotion: a Corsican chant wailed ...

For the ancients, it was essential: a journey unto the land of the dead as the only means of retrieving something crucial to life. In ...

In this visceral exploration of African masculinity, Zimbabwe-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer Nora Chipaumire (Miriam, 2012 Next Wave) is joined by the specters of her estranged father ...

The nine members of DIY Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret—video artists, computer animators, sound engineers, musicians, and visual artists—specialize in a breed of performance that’s equal ...

South African physical theater company Magnet Theatre uses image, song, and the human body to tell the story of a human relationship with a tree—and ...

South African physical theater company Magnet Theatre uses image, song, and the human body to tell the story of a human relationship with a tree—and ...

Native Brooklynite Ben Munisteri brings his group of dancers to BAM for four performances of the premiere of Antimony (51), named for the 51st element. ...

The charming acrobats of Australian circus-theater ensemble Circa present a gravity-defying celebration of life on earth, set to French composer Camille Saint-Saens' musical suite Carnival ...

The charming acrobats of Australian circus-theater ensemble Circa present a gravity-defying celebration of life on earth, set to French composer Camille Saint-Saens' musical suite Carnival ...

Captivating solo performer Shona Reppe presents a witty reinterpretation of the classic fable. Set on an inventive tabletop stage this production uses puppetry, secret hatches, ...

He smoked a clay pipe, stole books, wrote hymns to bodily orifices, and, by the age of 21, had changed the face of literature forever. ...

This captivating performance stages the legend of Zaul & Rudabeh, one of the stories in the Persian Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran. Featuring puppets, ...

There is evil on the loose in the fantasy realm of Jarð and it’s up to a rollicking troupe of adventurers—and one lucky newcomer—to save ...

He was born on a slave ship but never a slave, was immortalized by the great English painter Thomas Gainsborough, and in 1774 became the ...

The ancient Greek myth of Hylas—about an Argonaut presumed to have been abducted by water nymphs—is resuscitated by theatrical auteur John Jahnke and New York-based ...

In the Mooré language, yimbégré means “beginning.” For the powerful dancer and choreographer Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and currently based in Brooklyn, ...

Two women in a pristine white room: one young, one old. “Who was she?” one asks the other, referring to a third who had long ...

Poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux (The Temptation of St. Anthony, 2004 Next Wave) recounts the life of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein—an influential scholar ...

Her reign saw the rise of Shakespeare’s theater, but what did she have to say herself? Dissecting the persona of Elizabeth I through Joycean deconstructions ...

Jimmy Page power chords meet Yom Kippur prayers in cellist Maya Beiser’s convention-flouting survey of her eclectic musical personality. In Part I, Beiser—along with bassist ...

A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty ...

In this contemporary baroque playground of dance, music, and monologue from Finnish choreographer Kenneth Kvarnström, dancer-applied duct tape sets the terms for a range of ...

Summation Dance Company, led by Sumi Clements and Taryn Vander Hoop, presents At the Hour, inspired by prophetic events that occurred in Garabandal, Spain in ...

Satellite Collective presents seven new dance works by choreographers Devin Alberda (New York City Ballet), Manuel Vignoulle, and Esme Boyce, featuring live music composed and ...

Prime Evil is what South Africans call him: a paid white political assassin currently serving two life sentences for crimes committed in the name of ...

Returning to BAM Education after its beloved 2012 performance of Kindur, Italian company Compagnia T.P.O. offers another remarkable blend of environmental performance and immersive technology ...

Adapted from the beloved young adult novel by Paul Gallico—a favorite of J.K. Rowling’s, among others, and the winner of the 2014 International Performing Arts ...

The year is 1889. Nellie Bly, the enterprising 25-year-old American journalist, becomes an international celebrity when she embarks on a voyage around the world to ...

Tracing arcing parabolas and sine waves with hands, arms, and feet, a single dancer transforms a movement-responsive environment into a web of interconnecting lines, points, ...

Through conversations and hands-on demonstrations, world-renowned company Pilobolus Dance Theater offers students a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process. Company and audience members alike participate ...

Teatre Tre, one of Sweden’s oldest and most respected troupes presents this delightful physical comedy, created especially for younger audiences. Wearing blue workman’s overalls, three ...

Kate Weare Company celebrates its 10th anniversary with performances of works spanning its decade-long repertory and the world premiere of Unstruck Sound, a new trio ...

Cora Dance presents an evening of stories, including two world premieres, told by and created with people—boys and girls, men and women—about things we all ...

A kinetic combination of hip-hop styles—locking, breaking, popping, and house—blends with tap, step, and modern dance in this electrifying dance showcase. With jaw-dropping technique and ...

Illystyle & Peace Productions blends an ecstatic combination of hip-hop styles—locking, breaking, popping, and house—with tap, step, and modern dance. In IMpossible IZZpossible, a celebration ...

A dead fighting fish and a bout of scabies incite revenge in Mark O’Rowe’s 1999 play, inspired by Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy, chronicling the cat-and-mouse ...

Do you have what you need? Do you need what you have? Imagine every “thing” that ever passed through your hands—a massive, meaningful, meaningless pile ...

A thousand pounds of salt become a punishing Middle Eastern desert, plastic tanks barrel down paper streets, and a faceless, nameless puppet[1] emerges a rebel ...

Chelsea (formerly Bradley[1]) Manning has many identities: adrift adolescent, emboldened whistleblower, traitor to her country. In this penetrating music-theater work, Brooklyn-based composer Ted Hearne and ...

New York-based artist Pablo Helguera corresponds with audience members in advance of his performance—and asks them to trust him—for his installment of Brooklyn Bred, a ...

Dynasty Handbag offers a feminist gloss on Homer’s Odyssey as part of Brooklyn Bred, a performance art showcase curated by Franklin Furnace Archive founder and ...

Artist Clifford Owens deconstructs the lecture format through a talk on performance art in this installment of Brooklyn Bred, a performance art showcase curated by ...

Choreographer Jodi Melnick revels in the hidden narratives that emerge when a multitude of dance methods and modalities, both schematic and autographic, intertwine. Backed by ...

Developed by Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and German visual artist Julius von Bismarck while in residence at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics lab[1], QUANTUM ...

In this landmark festival, BAM celebrates the artists of Nonesuch Records, in honor of the influential label’s 50 years. With a shared dedication to connecting ...

Eccentric techno-futurologist Paul Abacus (who may or may not be the fabricated alter-ego of artist Lars Jan) presents his multimedia talking tour of our hyper-networked ...

“riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay...”[1] Adherents of James Joyce’s 1939 tome Finnegans Wake espouse the idea that ...

David Dorfman Dance returns to BAM fresh from a four-week exchange and performance tour of Armenia, Tajikistan, and Turkey, as part of the fourth season ...

Michael Hersch’s long-awaited first work for the stage receives its world premiere. Scored for soprano and an ensemble of eight, the two-act work follows the ...

From a Firefly’s Eye embodies haiku by Yuko Otomo, capturing the changing moods of the seasons. Six dancers create a ritual of delicate gestures that ...

A hybrid music ensemble and production hub that puts “a new face on classical music” (NPR’s Deceptive Cadence blog), the Nouveau Classical Project creates imaginative ...

Confused by what is real and what is not, Rose climbs a mountain looking for an answer. Armed with a blue chair and a host ...

A combat soldier is inflicted with an incurable and insufferable injury. The soldier’s comrades cannot bear to hear the cries of pain or the sight ...

Students discover Japanese cultural and religious traditions and the artistry of puppet performance in this heartfelt tale, based on the Newbery Award-winning book by Elizabeth ...

Known for fierce dancing and polished dance making, this all-female troupe makes another major stride in its 4th season with two dance works that showcase ...

Hindered by her overprotective parents, a young girl seeks the freedom to search for true love—and her true self. Based loosely on a popular fairy ...

Art-house luminary Isabella Rossellini reveals the surprisingly kinky and confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this one-woman show, adapted from the celebrated ...

To sleep. To dream. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we confront the most fundamental questions of our humanity. But what exactly do we confront when the play ...

Marking the culmination of a two-year endeavor, choreographer Tere O’Connor collapses three of his dance works—Secret Mary, based on themes of authorship and agency; poem, ...

Inspired by the two teenage years visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra spent in a body cast due to scoliosis, Bodycast is an inventive theatricalization of the ...

In an electric guitar-fueled evening of postmodern dance-theater, Susan Marshall couples her intimate, structured choreography with the seductiveness of pop culture to explore our complex ...

Theater, music, sculpture, Nesquik bunnies, Greco-Roman masks, and a gigantic mountain find common cause in this irreverent performance work by the award-winning British visual artist ...

An original cello score by Chris Lancaster ushers us into this suggestive realm, fetishized and electrified by Weare’s sensual, aggressively intertwined movement vocabulary. Brilliantly attuned ...