The Look of Love, BAM Winter/Spring 2024
Experience the power of artistic community with BAM’s spring season. The world-renowned dance companies founded by Mark Morris and Alvin Ailey share the full force of their talents. Visionary queer performers from across the globe come together in the latest from theater-making renegades Taylor Mac, Matt Ray, and Machine Dazzle. Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso shares new music; MCs and poets celebrate the power of hip-hop; and artists, elders, families, and friends transform Brooklyn for the cultural event that is DanceAfrica. As bands play, dancers whirl, voices raise in song, and audience members gather from near and far, BAM invites you to join in a season of collective art-making.
The 38th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
The 38th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
January 15, 2024
We honor Dr. King’s radical spirit at this beloved Brooklyn tradition, which rings in a new year with musical performances and an invigorating call to action. Keynote speaker Reginald Dwayne Betts – a poet, lawyer, and founder and CEO of Freedom Reads – offers reflections on freedom anchored in his own journey, his enduring commitment to social justice, and his work to radically transform access to literature in prison. Featuring uplifting performances by Sing Harlem and singer-songwriter Madison McFerrin, this annual tribute invites us to reflect, recharge, and support one another as we carry on Dr. King’s relentless pursuit of equality and justice.
Our Class
Our Class
January 12 – February 4, 2024
Ten Polish classmates – five Jewish and five Catholic – grow up as friends and neighbors, then turn on one another with life and death consequences. Inspired by real life events surrounding a horrific 1941 pogrom in a small Polish village, this shocking, timely story follows their lives from childhood through eight decades in a new contemporary production of Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s masterpiece, from Ukrainian-born Jewish director Igor Golyak.
Bark of Millions
Bark of Millions
February 5–10, 2024
A powerhouse collective of international artists ignite an electrifying collision of performance, live music, and drag spectacle in the latest from theater-making renegades Taylor Mac, Matt Ray, and Machine Dazzle. The team unleashes their creativity in a rock opera meditation on queerness, featuring 55 original songs by Mac and Ray and a bevy of costumes by Dazzle. With the fierce elation of a pride parade, Bark of Millions is a luxuriant, provocative spectacle unlike any other. From the award-winning creative and producing teams behind A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, this joyous epic is both a celebration of and a gift to the queer canon, expanding the archive for generations to come.
The Look of Love
The Look of Love
March 20–23, 2024
Playful and profound, Mark Morris’ sumptuous choreography finds an ideal counterpart in the chart-topping songs of Burt Bacharach. The legendary composer’s soaring melodies and unique orchestrations shine in lush new arrangements of songs like “Alfie,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” and “What the World Needs Now” by Pepperland composer Ethan Iverson. Broadway star Marcy Harriell offers a rich interpretation of Hal David’s bittersweet lyrics, backed by a live band. In his first major production in five years, Morris draws out both the joy and the piercing depths of these works to craft a heartfelt exploration of pop music’s most timeless theme: love.
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
April 3–4, 2024
A towering figure in popular music around the globe – and national hero to many at home – Brazilian virtuoso Caetano Veloso returns to BAM with Meu Coco, his first album in nine years. Over an illustrious five-decade career, the father of Tropicália has proved himself as both a piercing social commentator and a romantic balladeer, drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as The Beatles, concrete poetry, the French Dadaists, and Brazilian modernist poets. Playful, tender, and uncompromising, this new album finds Veloso as original as ever.
Word. Sound. Power. 2024: SOUND – Rhythm is Rhythm
Word. Sound. Power. 2024: SOUND – Rhythm is Rhythm
Apr 19–20, 2024
BAM honors the bond between beat and rhyme at our annual celebration of hip-hop and spoken word. Drawing on 50 years of hip-hop greatness, let’s pay homage to the masters of vocal instrumentation whose sounds reverberate all the way to the stratosphere. Join us as we celebrate the aural soul of the genre and write a collective love letter to hip-hop’s sonic heart.
DanceAfrica 2024
DanceAfrica 2024
May 24–27, 2024
BAM’s corner of Fort Greene transforms into a pulsing celebration of community, discovery, and collective joy at this beloved annual festival. We join with longtime neighbors, first-time visitors, the DanceAfrica Council of Elders, and our partners at Weeksville Heritage Center and The Billie Holiday Theater (formerly Restoration Arts) to create the nation’s largest festival of African dance – and Brooklyn’s unofficial start of summer. Featuring the iconic outdoor bazaar, traditional dance and music from Cameroon, classes, workshops, late-night dance parties, and FilmAfrica’s lineup of cinematic gems, this can’t-miss cultural celebration electrifies Brooklyn for a 47th year.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Jun 4–9, 2024
The company that changed American dance forever returns to Brooklyn with a robust program of dazzling recent works and modern classics. See “America’s most popular dance company” (The New Yorker) on the BAM stage, where Alvin Ailey first performed in 1956. Over 65 years later, the company continues to champion African American artistry and forge a bold new path for Ailey’s legacy – and modern dance itself.
BAM Winter/Spring 2024
January 15 – June 9, 2024 / BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
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