Brooklyn Academy of Music

Fy2023 spring season - bam's 2023 spring season featured 12 world-class presentations, showcasing artists and companies from countries such as united kingdom, belgium and ghana. Highlights included: lorraine hansberry's 1964 play the sign in sidney brustein's window; tanztheater wuppertal pina bausch's agua; author zadie smith's first play the wife of willesden; the us premiere of chaliwate company and focus company's dimanche; danceafrica 2023: ghana, and the return of the acclaimed alvin ailey american dance theater. In addition, the spring 2023 season featured the second annual Music at bam concert series, this year curated by solange knowles for saint heron. Programs in the series included: kelela, res, keiyaa,; type of guest, by interdisciplinary artists autumn knight and maren hassinger; glory to glory (a revival for devotional art), a celebration of spiritual and devotional Music featuring mary lou williams and performances by twinkie clark, the clark sisters, artina mccain, and angella christie; and the cry of my people, a work of performance, poetry and revolutionary thought by archie shepp, linda sharrock, and claudia rankine.

Fy2023 film programs - in fy23, bam film served audiences through programs that focus on presenting marginalized voices in cinema. Select film series from fall 2022 include working class musicals, contemporary arab cinema, metamorphosis: the films of shinya tsukamoto, and watch the cops! Policing new york in the movies. In january 2023, bam also presented shadow, an adaptation of back to back theatre's the shadow whose prey the hunter becomes, a joint effort between bam film and bam's artistic programming team. Select films and film series from spring 2023 include a string of pearls: the films of camille billops & james hatch, rewind & play (dir. Alain gomis), viruses on film a film series curated by steven thrasher, dry ground burning (dir. Joana pimenta & adirley queiros) and both sides of the camera: actor/directors a film series also co-curated by steven thrasher.

Fy2023 next wave - over the course of the fy23 next wave, bam showcased 12 mainstage presentations featuring creatives from 15 countries including argentina, austria, belgium, brazil, the czech republic, france, germany, greece, hungary, israel, the netherlands, singapore, south korea, the united kingdom, and the united states. Presentations included: fc bergman's 300 el x 50 el x 30 el; choreographer constanza macras' dance theater work open for everything; everything rises, a duet between violinist jennifer koh and bass-baritone davone tines; crowd, choreographer gisele vienne's dance piece inspired by the berlin club scene; a little life, ivo van hove's unflinching adaptation of hanya yanagihara's classic novel; hamlet, from german director thomas ostermeier and schaubuhne; embarqued: stories of soil, stefanie batten bland's exploration of memory and colonial foundations; brazilian choreographer lia rodrigues' encantado; dimitris papaioannou's new dance theater work transverse orientation; trojan women, an operatic adaptation of the euripides tragedy starring the national changgeuk company of korea; lovetrain2020, a contemporary dance tableau from emmanuel gat; and are we not drawn onward to new era, from belgian theater company ontroerend goed.

Expenses in this category include education and community programming. Expenses in this category also include overhead costs covering production management, artist services, marketing, and building operations all in support of the organization's programming.