Age of Content / Ballet national de Marseille – (LA)HORDE
BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Winter/Spring 2026 season delivers a slate of innovative, full-tilt artistic visions, featuring major theatrical events like the National Theatre’s Hamlet and new works by American Opera Projects and V (formerly Eve Ensler), plus exhilarating performances by Mark Morris Dance Group, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Ballet de Marseille. Winter/Spring 2026 also sees the return of tentpole celebrations Word. Sound. Power., DanceAfrica, Everybooty, and BAMkids Film Festival, plus so much more. Let’s come together, be bold, and stand in awe of unflinching artistry executed at monumental scale.
Age of Content
Ballet national de Marseille – (LA)HORDE
Feb 20 – Feb 22, 2026
As hyperrealistic avatars and endless streams of images flood our screens, the line between our physical bodies and virtual selves has begun to blur. In Age of Content, the French multidisciplinary collective (LA)HORDE and Ballet national de Marseille explore how identity is fractured in the digital age, asking what remains singular about the living, breathing body.
Harnessing the kinetic immediacy of live performance, Age of Content hurtles audiences through the digital landscapes that saturate our screens—from viral TikTok dances to Grand Theft Auto—in a stunning, high-velocity dance work for our chronically online age.
Artistic concept and direction by (LA)HORDE — Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel.
Choreography by (LA)HORDE in collaboration with the dancers and rehearsal coaches of the Ballet national de Marseille.
Music by Avia, Gabber Eleganza and Philip Glass
Scenic design by Julien Peissel
Lighting design by Eric Wurtz
Costume design by Salomé Poloudenny
Hair design by Charlie Le Mindu
Backdrop visual design by Frederik Heyman
Hamlet
National Theatre
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Robert Hastie
Apr 19 – May 17, 2026
Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
Since its first staging at BAM in 1861, Hamlet has returned more than a dozen times, helmed by luminaries like Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook, and Thomas Ostermeier. Now, Hastie’s fresh new production marks yet another groundbreaking entry into BAM’s legacy of daring Hamlets.
Lise Davidsen as Isolde in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” Photo: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera
The Met: Live in HD 2025–2026
Oct 18, 2025 – May 30, 2026
Experience the new season of the Metropolitan Opera’s live transmissions in stunning HD! The Met’s pioneering series returns to BAM Rose Cinemas with eight extraordinary presentations. The season ahead includes the company premiere of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, a dazzling new opera by esteemed composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, as well as a new production of Wagner’s ravishing Tristan und Isolde directed by Yuval Sharon, with operatic superstar Lise Davidsen portraying the tempestuous Isolde here for the first time. The rest of the season promises beloved classics, new stagings, and Met favorites like Nadine Sierra, Piotr Beczała, Asmik Grigorian, Lisette Oropesa, and Lawrence Brownlee. See everything from the best seat in the house, enhanced by pre-show discussions with opera experts.
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown and Cunningham Onstage
Choreography by Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham
Original Design and Costumes by Robert Rauschenberg
Feb 26 – Feb 28, 2026
Fifty years after its BAM debut, the Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to the opera house to honor the centennial of one of its most influential collaborators: Robert Rauschenberg, the visionary artist behind the stage designs for Set & Reset – Brown’s watershed work from the inaugural Next Wave Festival in 1983.
Experience Set & Reset, hailed as an “instant masterpiece” (The New York Times) and featuring music by Laurie Anderson, alongside Merce Cunningham’s Travelogue, a collaboration with Rauschenberg and composer John Cage. Last performed by a professional company in 1979, Travelogue marks the first time a Cunningham dance has been staged by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Don’t miss this rare convergence of some of the world’s most revolutionary artists.
Set & Reset (1983)
Choreography by Trisha Brown
Music by Laurie Anderson
Original Design and Costumes by Robert Rauschenberg
Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons
Travelogue (1977)
Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Music by John Cage
Original Design and Costumes by Robert Rauschenberg
Produced in partnership with the Merce Cunningham Trust
Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble
45th Anniversary Season
MOON, V and Via Dolorosa
Choreography by Mark Morris
Mar 26 – Mar 29, 2026
Returning to BAM as a part of its 45th-anniversary season, the Mark Morris Dance Group presents two programs featuring the New York premiere of two major recent dances. The first program is devoted to MOON, Morris’s latest work, celebrating our enduring fascination with our celestial neighbor. With costumes by Isaac Mizrahi and vivid projections by Wendall K. Harrington, this evening-length dance is set to a lunar playlist including unearthly classics by György Ligeti and Marcel Dupré, vintage pop songs, and the fabled Golden Record sent into space by NASA in 1977.
The Group’s second program includes another New York premiere, Via Dolorosa. Set to hauntingly beautiful music for solo harp by composer Nico Muhly played live by Parker Ramsay, the “serenely shattering” (San Francisco Chronicle) dance evokes the 14 Stations of the Cross and features a vibrant set design by the painter Howard Hodgkin. The program opens with V, a life-affirming Morris classic danced to Robert Schumann’s soaring Piano Quintet in E-flat.
Moby Dick
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Music by Anna Calvi
Direction, design and lighting by Robert Wilson
Apr 29 – May 3, 2026
Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.
Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson (1941–2025) was among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists, renowned worldwide for his poetically deliberate use of time, space, and light. His longstanding relationship with BAM commenced with The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud (1970), and included visionary collaborations with such disparate artists as Philip Glass, David Byrne, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Lou Reed, and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. He was last here to present Letter to a Man with Mikhail Baryshnikov during Next Wave 2016.
Anna Calvi is an award-winning English singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist, who previously collaborated with Wilson on the opera The Sandman. Moby Dick is her BAM debut.
BAM Winter/Spring 2026
January – June 2026 / BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
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