The Next Wave Festival returns for its 30th season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) from September 5 to January 9, presenting an array of contemporary performance, artist talks, storytelling, visual art, and film that showcases work by emerging artists and innovative modern masters.
The season includes the BAMcinématek film series, BAMcafé Live weekend music performances, artist talks, art exhibitions, and the highly anticipated “Einstein on the Beach” opera.
Next Wave Festival (Film): The Loves of Pharaoh
BAM Harvey Theater
Thu, Oct 18, 2012 - Sat, Oct 20, 2012
Lost for decades, a landmark silent film lives again. Meticulously reconstructed, revered German auteur Ernst Lubitsch's 'The Loves of Pharaoh' (1922) is returned to near-original form in the New York ...
Next Wave Festival (Film): The Shooting Gallery
Thu, Nov 08, 2012 - Sat, Nov 10, 2012
The show is an interactive installation in which the audience will trigger short video and audio clips with lasers while circulating through the theater.
Next Wave Festival (Theater): The Channel
Wed, Sep 19, 2012 - Sat, Sep 22, 2012
A lively, seriocomic performance, presented in the style of educational programs like Sesame Street, exploring the relationship of American popular culture, commerce, and the development of self-image.
Next Wave Festival (Theater): Paris Commune
Wed, Oct 03, 2012 - Sun, Oct 07, 2012
A revival of the radical cabaret of 19th-century Paris to tell the story of the 1871 Paris Commune - arguably the first socialist revolution in Europe - and a concert ...
Next Wave Festival (Theater): Rhinoceros
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Thu, Oct 04, 2012 - Sat, Oct 06, 2012
"A masterpiece... A veritable tour de force on the part of the director... [and] a magical embrace between the show and the spectator." -Le Monde (France)
Next Wave Festival (Theater): HOUSE / DIVIDED
BAM Harvey Theater
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 - Sat, Oct 27, 2012
From Obie Award-winning company The Builders Association and director Marianne Weems comes HOUSE / DIVIDED, a high-tech hymn to America's dispossessed. Alternating between vignettes from John Steinbeck's Depression-era novel The ...
Next Wave Festival (Theater): red, black & GREEN: a blues
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Wed, Oct 31, 2012 - Sun, Nov 04, 2012
A performed documentary and poetic vision for sustainability and social change, preceded by an interactive visual arts exhibition surveying environmentalism across African America.
Next Wave Festival (Theater): Donka: A Letter to Chekhov
BAM Harvey Theater
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 - Sun, Nov 18, 2012
Featuring a spectacular melding of acrobatics, juggling, clowning, and music, internationally renowned circus artist Daniele Finzi Pasca delivers an imagistic love letter to Anton Chekhov. A visually and physically stunning ...
Next Wave Festival (Theater): Roman Tragedies
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Fri, Nov 16, 2012 - Sun, Nov 18, 2012
Visionary director Ivo van Hove transforms the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House into a modern-day Roman amphitheater with this interactive, hyper-modern take on Shakespeare's powerful trilogy about the use and ...
Next Wave Festival (Theater): Trojan Women (After Euripides)
BAM Harvey Theater
Wed, Nov 28, 2012 - Sun, Dec 02, 2012
Jocelyn Clarke's Trojan Women (After Euripides), a highly modernized adaptation of Euripides' enduring drama, takes place that grim morning, as the women of Troy await their fate amid a wasteland ...
Next Wave Festival (Theater): Faust: A Love Story
BAM Harvey Theater
Brooklyn
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 - Sun, Dec 16, 2012
Music by longtime collaborators Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is harnessed to Vesturport's trademark acrobatics—including a high-flying act performed above a vast trampoline net stretched over the audience. Having succumbed ...
Pan Pan Theatre Company: All That Fall
Brooklyn
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - Sun, Dec 23, 2012
A radio play by Samuel Beckett-a multilayered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle, or a quasi-musical score.
Next Wave Festival (Dance): ECLIPSE
Wed, Sep 05, 2012 - Sun, Sep 09, 2012
Choreographer Jonah Bokaer and artist Anthony McCall explore total motion in this breathtaking collaboration that places dance within an installation built from shifting avenues of light and spatialized, sonic images. ...
Next Wave Festival (Dance): Miriam
Wed, Sep 12, 2012 - Sat, Sep 15, 2012
A character-driven danced funeral. A rite, a ritual, a crime scene. A sacred and profane theater of crime.
Next Wave Festival (Dance): Lighthouse / Lightning Rod and Griot New York
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Thu, Sep 27, 2012 - Sun, Sep 30, 2012
The evening opens with excerpts from the beloved Griot New York (1991 Next Wave). With sets by renowned sculptor Martin Puryear, this celebrated work depicts different eras in the city's ...
Next Wave Festival (Dance): Political Mother
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Thu, Oct 11, 2012 - Thu, Sep 13, 2012
A heart-stopping, explosive assault on the senses, Political Mother invokes an atmosphere of struggle and conflict, where repression is met with resistance and survival is paramount. A heavy metal rock ...
Next Wave Festival (Dance): como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brooklyn
Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 7:30 pm - Sat, Oct 27, 2012, 7:30 pm
Set to the contemplative sounds of Chilean folk legend Violeta Parra and guitarist Victor Jara, como el musguito conjures Chile's social dances, distinctive musical tradition, and bustling capital metropolis, while ...
Next Wave Festival (Dance): Ímã & Sem Mim
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Thu, Nov 01, 2012 - Sat, Nov 03, 2012
Based on Sea of Vigo, the 13th-century song cycle by Martin Codax, Sem Mim draws on stories of maidens weeping in the absence of their lovers and professing their sorrows ...
Next Wave Festival (Dance): Sans Objet
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Fri, Nov 09, 2012 - Sat, Nov 10, 2012
An astonishing and harmonious meeting of technology and artistry. —La Dépêche (France)
Next Wave Festival (Dance): DanceMotion USA
Brooklyn
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 - Sat, Nov 17, 2012
DanceMotion USA is a collaboration between Trey McIntyre Project and a partnering dance company from Asia celebrating TMP's homecoming from DanceMotion USA, a tour through the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and ...
Next Wave Festival (Dance): Untrained
Tue, Nov 27, 2012 - Sat, Dec 01, 2012
A look at how the untrained approach the act of moving, and what it reveals about them as individuals. It's about bodies recording history.
Next Wave Festival (Dance): And lose the name of action
Tue, Dec 04, 2012 - Sat, Dec 08, 2012
Visionary director Ivo van Hove transforms the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House into a modern-day Roman amphitheater with this interactive, hyper-modern take on Shakespeare's powerful trilogy about the use and ...
Next Wave Festival (Music):Ian and Chad
Fri, Sep 28, 2012, 7:30 pm
The show is a mix of theatrical whimsy and heartfelt soul from two very odd (and handsome) guys looking to connect through song. There will be a piano. Prepare to ...
Next Wave Festival (Music): Tamar-kali: Pseudoacoustic
Sat, Sep 29, 2012, 7:30 pm
The project bridges the gap between the roots of the New York City rock-scene roots and a love of strings and torch songs.
Next Wave Festival (Music): Elsewhere
Wed, Oct 17, 2012 - Sat, Oct 20, 2012
ELSEWHERE is a surreal cello opera depicting a pair of women—an Henri Michaux heroine and the biblical figure of Lot's wife—bearing witness at the end of their worlds.
Next Wave Festival (Music): Out Cold / Zippo Songs
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 - Sat, Oct 27, 2012
Out Cold / Zippo Songs is two dramatic song cycles-one based on soldiers' Zippo-lighter poetry about sex, drugs, and death in Vietnam, the other about a man at a bar, ...
Next Wave Festival (Music): “Love Fail”
BAM Harvey Theater
Thu, Dec 06, 2012 - Sat, Dec 08, 2012
The latest work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, love fail marries evocative new music with timeless storytelling to tell a tale of love both found and unfulfilled, performed by ...
Next Wave Festival (Music): Timber
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 - Sat, Dec 15, 2012
The New York premiere of Michael Gordon's evening-length percussion sextet, Timber, for six amplified 2x4s.
Next Wave Festival (Music): Where (we) Live
BAM Harvey Theater
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - Sat, Dec 22, 2012
Masters at crafting alluring sonic landscapes from the most unlikely found objects, Brooklyn-based quartet Sō Percussion explores the idea of home with a bold experiment in collaborative art-making. Directed by ...
Next Wave Festival (Opera): Einstein on the Beach
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 7:00 pm - Sun, Sep 23, 2012, 3:00 pm
In 1976, audiences around the globe experienced a collective dream. Time slowed, sound tumbled everywhere and nowhere, and cryptic images froze in light. It was the collaboration of the century: ...
Next Wave Festival (Literary): Andrew Zolli
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 7:30 pm
Andrew Zolli is joined by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, radio host Jad Abumrad, and other special guests to discuss resilience, the emerging field of study explored in Zolli's new book, ...
Next Wave Festival (Literary): Orhan Pamuk
BAM Harvey Theater
Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 7:30 pm
The Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk (Snow, My Name is Red) comes to BAM for the official New York launch of his newly translated second novel, Silent House (to be ...
Next Wave Festival (Literary): Gary Shteyngart Roast
BAM Harvey Theater
Tue, Nov 20, 2012, 7:30 pm
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Gary Shteyngart's debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Unbound hosts a Friars Club-style roast in which Shteyngart's friends and colleagues take shots at ...
Next Wave Festival (Literary): Brooklyn Literary Mash-Up
Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 7:30 pm
The Brooklyn Literary Mash-Up celebrates the multifarious literary voices of Brooklyn over the past 150 years, mixing excerpts of work from classic writers like Walt Whitman to contemporary voices such ...
Next Wave Festival: Iconic Artist Talk: Pina Bausch Legacy
BAM Cafe
Thu, Oct 25, 2012, 7:00 pm
Since its premiere in 1984, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch has made BAM its exclusive New York home. This Iconic Artist Talk introduces New York audiences to the work of the ...
Next Wave Talk: On Shakespeare’s Rome
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Sat, Nov 17, 2012, 1:00 pm
Acclaimed scholar and Columbia professor James Shapiro, whose work has been described as 'brilliantly researched, highly readable, thoughtful and wise' (The New York Review of Books), delves into Shakespeare's Rome ...
Next Wave Talk: On Chekhov
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Sun, Nov 18, 2012, 12:30 pm
Author Anya Ulinich (Petropolis) moderates this panel of fellow Russian-American fiction writers—Irina Reyn (What Happened to Anna K.), Lara Vapnyar (Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love), and Ellen ...
Next Wave Talk: On Truth (and Lies) in Greek Tragedy
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Legendary theater director Anne Bogart joins Critchley to discuss how truth and deception are revealed in tragedy. Bogart has ventured into the world of tragedy in several works, including Orestes, ...
Next Wave Talk: On Truth (and Lies) in Art
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 7:00 pm
French visual artist Pierre Huyghe and British conceptual artist Liam Gillick join Critchley to discuss truth and illusion in art. When we think about the links between the art world ...
Next Wave Talk: On Truth (and Lies) in Literature
BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 7:00 pm
Is literature a true representation of our commonly shared world? The celebrated author of Remainder, Men in Space, and C (shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize), Tom McCarthy joins ...
Next Wave Talk: On Ionesco
Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU Kimmel Center
Manhattan
Fri, Oct 05, 2012, 5:00 pm
In conjunction with 'Rhinoceros' with Edward Albee, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Israel Horovitz, and Marie-France Ionesco. Moderated by Tom Bishop.