#BAMNEXTWAVE

The 2015 Next Wave Festival is art for right now—32 shows that blur boundaries, raise big ideas, and take risks—all in the name of the new. Take apart. Get lost. Explore.

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Not Joaquin, but James Thierrée, who continues to hit us through Sunday with his latest, Tabac Rouge.

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Legendary experimental composer Meredith Monk receives National Medal Of Arts

The legendary composer and performer Meredith Monk received the National Medal Of Art from President Obama today at the National Humanities Medal Ceremony.

Congrats to the amazing Meredith Monk! Can’t think of anyone more deserving!

CBS News has a great segment on her extraordinary and influential body of work.

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Congratulations, Meredith Monk!

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Hip hip, hooray!

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An ode to life. An origin story. Surveillance mirrors, ecological catastrophe, and the Illuminati. 〰〰 Subscribe and explore what happens when the band plays on.

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Happy #BeyDay, Yoncé. With additional inspiration from Walt Whitman, John Coltrane, John Henry, and G.I. Joe...you're in good company this fall. 〰〰 Take apart. Get lost. Explore.

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Cue the violins. 〰〰 Subscribe and explore a life with strings attached.

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To embrace or refuse the video archive? 〰〰 Subscribe and take apart a mediated world.

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Human rights (and abuses thereof) in international passage, American mythology, the 1940s, and the zeitgeist itself. 〰〰 Subscribe and explore the unspeakable.

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Folk traditions from Appalachia, Burkina Faso, Taiwan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and beyond… 〰〰 Subscribe and get lost in the rhythm.

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Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s RICE was originally performed in rice paddies in the Chihshang growing region in the southeastern part of the island. 〰〰 Choreographer Lin Hwai-min has since adapted it to the stage, and RICE kicks off the 2015 Next Wave Festival in the opera house on Sep 16! 🌾

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Listen to the America Is Hard to See audio guide with commentary by curators, scholars, and artists.

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Tenor Vocalist Timur Bekbosunov still looking glam, on and off stage. #theselfieissue

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Gerald Clayton and Carl Hancock Rux in The Greene Space (by wnycradio)

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Ushio Amagatsu (天児牛大) of Sankai Juku (山海塾) wandering around the city.

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TABAC ROUGE, “CHOREDRAME” DE JAMES THIERREE

Tabac Rouge, chorédrame de James Thierrée / dans le cadre du Festival Printemps de comédiens à…

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