Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM) announces 2011 Next Wave Festival-featuring seventeen music, dance, and theater engagements from Sep 21-Dec 18
BAM celebrates 150th anniversary, Sep 2011-Dec 2012
American Express is the BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival sponsor
Dynamic music events:
Kronos Quartet's Awakening: A Meditation on 9/11 is a resonant program of works from international composers including Michael Gordon, Osvaldo Golijov, Gustavo Santaolalla, Ram Narayan, Terry Riley, and others-also featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) fuses music, art, and movement with Symphony for the Dance Floor-a Next Wave Festival commission featuring photography and video by Jonathan Mannion
Composer Darcy James Argue and Secret Society join graphic artist Danijel Zezelj to explore a futuristic urban cityscape in Brooklyn Babylon, a Next Wave Festival commission
Portugal's soulful national song style is the focus of Tudo Isto É Fado-a two-program, two-night engagement featuring artists Camané, Lisboa Soul, Deolinda, and Amália Hoje
Visceral dance engagements:
Belgium's Compagnie Thor makes its BAM debut with a striking exaltation of pure form in To the Ones I Love, choreographed by company founder Thierry Smits
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan performs the NY premiere of choreographer-founder Lin Hwai-min's Water Stains on the Wall, a meditative work inspired by the aesthetics of calligraphy
The renowned contemporary Beijing Dance Theater makes its US debut with Haze-a socially conscious, evening-length work choreographed by Wang Yuanyuan and set to music by Henryk Górecki
The Forsythe Company returns to BAM with the NY premiere of I don't believe in outer space, a darkly comic exploration of absence made present
The latest work by New York-based choreographer John Jasperse, Canyon, is a collaboration with its performers featuring original music by Hahn Rowe
Big Dance Theater's moving adaptation of Euripides' Alkestis-translated by
Anne Carson- Supernatural Wife features choreography by
Annie-B Parson and direction by
Paul LazarIn its final BAM engagement as part of The Legacy Tour, Merce Cunningham Dance Company celebrates its legendary founder's collaborative works in three programs over four nights-featuring Roaratorio, Second Hand, BIPED, Pond Way, RainForest, and Split Sides
Resonant international
Theater Productions:
Robert Wilson directs
Bertolt Brecht and
Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera in a US premiere production featuring the renowned Berliner Ensemble
Kuwait-based director Sulayman Al-Bassam returns to BAM with the SABAB Theatre production of The Speaker's Progress-a theatrical metaphor for contemporary dissent and defiance of the state
Director
Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam adapt
Ingmar Bergman's unflinching 1972 film Cries and Whispers for the stage
Phantom Limb, led by Erik Sanko and Jessica Grindstaff, melds puppetry, film, music, and dance to create 69ºS.-a dynamic work inspired by Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition-featuring music from Skeleton Key and Kronos Quartet
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer features
John Malkovich as author/sociopath Jake Unterweger in Musikkonzept's dramatic and musical production-written and directed by Michael Sturminger and conducted by Martin Haselböck
Gate Theatre, Dublin's acclaimed production of
Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape features
John Hurt-presented in its US premiere
The 2011 Next Wave Festival is complemented by music, humanities, film, and visual art events.
Brooklyn, NY/May 24, 2011-Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), today announced programming for the 2011 Next Wave Festival, which runs from September 21 to December 18. The Festival, now in its 29th year, comprises 17 music, dance, and theater engagements and includes BAMcinématek series, BAMcafé Live weekend music performances, Artist Talks, Next Wave Art exhibitions, and the Between the Lines storytelling series.
September 2011 marks the start of a 16-month celebration of BAM's 150th anniversary, featuring commemorative events, special programs, and the publication of BAM: The Complete Works (Quantuck Lane)-a narrative and visual chronicle of the institution and its artists. Scheduled for unveiling in 2012 is the newest addition to the BAM campus-the Richard B. Fisher building, the first new BAM venue since the Majestic Theater (now BAM Harvey Lichtenstein Theater) opened in 1987.
Next Wave Festival Season Tickets for Friends of BAM are on sale Jun 8; Season Tickets for Spring 2011 and Next Wave 2010 subscribers are on sale Jun 13; Season Tickets for the general public are on sale Jun 20. Single tickets for Awakening are on sale for Friends of BAM on Aug 22 and for the general public on Aug 29. Single tickets for all other Next Wave Festival productions are on sale Sep 6 (Aug 29 for Friends of BAM). For information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100 or visit BAM.org.
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