Next Wave 2024 & Emerging Visions

Coinciding with election week, BAM Curator at Large Hanif Abdurraqib celebrates the power of possibility with a new series of poetry events extending throughout BAM’s spaces.

This large-scale multimedia dance and live music event created by choreographer Dana Gingras for Animals of Distinction explores personal autonomy in a surveillance age.

The North American debut of a stripped-down, intimate Spanish-language interpretation of Chekhov’s landmark play, The Seagull. | El estreno Norteamericano de la obra icónica de Chekhov, La Gaviota. Una interpretación íntima y presentada completamente en español.

Composers and filmmakers create short-format films and new music for live orchestra, featuring compositions by Arooj Aftab, Devonté Hynes, and more.

Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad highlight the voices, stories, and songs of African American and immigrant laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad.

This multidisciplinary documentary, gallery, and healing room installation by Modesto Flako Jimenez honors the grandmother who raised him and illustrates her impact on the Latine community.

In an alchemical collision of mediums, live musicians respond to the real-time actions of on-stage gamers as they explore the gorgeous universe within the hit video game Journey.

TECHNE, a multi-part experience comprising large-scale digital artworks, immerses viewers in realms created with cutting-edge technologies, telling stories of evolution and unlocked potential.

If you could go back in time, what would you change? A journalist out to make her name digs into an outrageous ad in a new indie-rock musical with songs by Guster’s Ryan Miller and a book by Nick Blaemire.

This meta-theater experiment attempts to excavate how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might continue moving through history together.

The legendary, multi-talented André 3000 performs his shimmering new album on the opera house stage.

Thirty years after its premiere at Next Wave 1994, the groundbreaking multimedia dance theater work by Bill T. Jones returns to the opera house stage.