BAM Closes Gezeiten 11/6

German choreographer and provocateur Sasha Waltz returns to BAM with Gezeiten (Tides), an evening-length work for 16 dancers with live cello accompaniment. The piece explores themes of destruction and renewal, investigating life's transformation following catastrophe. Viewed from a perspective of relative refuge, the work raises existential questions and terrors-deliberations regarding ownership and power, the shifting levels of compassion for others, and the rebuilding of a civilization. Gezeiten combines the surreal theatricality of Waltz's early work-where everyday objects transform into living dance partners-with the abstraction and dynamism of her more recent productions.

BAM 2010 Next Wave Festival is part of Diverse Voices at BAM sponsored by Time Warner Inc. Leadership support for the Next Wave Festival provided by The Ford Foundation

Leadership support for Gezeiten provided by Brigitte NYC.

Gezeiten
Featuring Sasha Waltz & Guests
Directed and Choreographed by Sasha Waltz
Music by Jonathan Bepler and Johann Sebastian Bach
Stage design by Thomas Schenk and Sasha Waltz
Costume design by Beate Borrmann
Lighting design by Martin Hauk

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave)
Nov 3, 5 & 6 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20, 30, 45, 55

Artist Talk with members of Sasha Waltz & Guests
Moderated by choreographer and curator DD Dorvillier
Nov 5, post-show (free for same-day ticket holders)