Next Wave 2023

One of the country’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers, Laurie Anderson, comes to BAM for an unforgettable one-night-only performance with the jazz band Sexmob.

In 1891, a South African choir embarked on a taxing tour of the West. Making his BAM debut, Gregory Maqoma revisits a forgotten historical moment in this emotionally galvanizing piece full of music and dance.

Featuring a magnificent rockwall and slackline, athlete-dancers traverse the stage in this breathtaking, gravity-defying piece of aerial dance choreographed by Rachid Ouramdane.

The virtuosic Trajal Harrell and six members of his Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble unite through the shared language of dance in a heart-stirring piece set to the music of Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell.

Performer and theater artist Geoff Sobelle hosts a dinner party unlike any other, interweaving audience hallucinatory sleight-of-hand and physical comedy into an absurdist, immersive meditation on how we eat.

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born stage a collective reckoning that explores ritual and the fraught relationship between ancestors and future generations across a thrumming, textured sonic and visual landscape.

In her BAM debut, this master storyteller shares an incisive and engrossing morality tale for our times, recounting the years she spent as a Bible-interpreting prophetess in a Pentecostal community in Sydney.

Composer Huang Ruo, director Matthew Ozawa, and filmmaker Bill Morrison craft a clear-eyed tribute to the rebellion and resilience of the Chinese immigrants who passed through and perished at Angel Island.