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Korean Musical Traditions Meet Greek Tragedy in Trojan Women

Avatar photo by Farah Abdessamad November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

Speaking and singing in Korean with English subtitles, the cast leans on the traditional Korean folk storytelling tradition of pansori, and more modern musical accompaniment.

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A Crash Course in Method Acting 

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 19, 2022July 20, 2022

Hyperallergic talks to historian Isaac Butler and curator Livia Bloom Ingram about how performance technique evolves and what is and isn’t method acting.

Posted inArt

Light Up Your Family’s Winter With These Animated Shorts

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel December 1, 2020December 1, 2020

The 2020 Best of BAMkids Film Festival presents a program of charming shorts.

Posted inNews

BAM Administrative Workers Ratify Union Contract, a Hard-Won Victory

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia September 24, 2020December 29, 2021

Union organizers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music said the coronavirus caused them to shift their bargaining priorities to job security.

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A Minimalist Take on Medea Delivers Maximal Drama

Avatar photoby Angelica FreyFebruary 11, 2020September 16, 2020

In Simon Stone’s adaptation, the conflict is not cultural but psychological, and viewers can’t help but empathize with her.

Posted inArt

A Week of Film and Performance Honors Toni Morrison and Black Womanhood

by Hakim Bishara February 4, 2020February 5, 2020

“Happy Birthday, Toni! A Celebration of Black Women” will launch on February 18 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in honor of the late author’s 89th birthday.

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BAM Opens Doors to Its First Dedicated Visual Art Space

by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

The Ruden Family Gallery and additional programming deepen the performing arts institution’s commitment to visual art.

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Millennial Cinema Without the Cheap Stereotypes

by Dana Reinoos July 31, 2019

We Can’t Even: Millennials on Film, a series of films at BAM about, by, and for millennials, is a rebuttal to the narratives that dominate the discourse around a generation’s priorities and perspectives.

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Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps

by Gabriel Grossman and John Sherer July 24, 2019July 29, 2019

Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music Employees Vote in Favor of Union

by Hakim Bishara June 13, 2019June 13, 2019

BAM administrative workers and cinema staff voted in favor of forming BAM’s seventh union by an 82% margin. “It’s heartening to see workers coming together and standing up for themselves,” one employee tells Hyperallergic.

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Workers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Move to Unionize

by Hakim Bishara May 20, 2019

A BAM employee says the union for administrative workers and cinema staff has been in the works for a year and a half, after workers “noticed a lack of transparency and discrepancies in codes of standards of conduct that BAM was holding for itself.”

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Black American Cinema of the ’90s Was Filled with Promise

by Kelli Weston May 6, 2019May 7, 2019

Revisiting the movies made by Black American filmmakers, which could only really be fully appreciated decades later.

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