Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), is Brooklyn’s main performing arts center. It presents art, dance, film, music, and theater. The DanceAfrica festival is Memorial Day Weekend tradition.
DanceAfrica, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Mozambique
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇸🇳
New York African Film Festival 2025 Celebrates Fluid Horizons in Films from Mother Afrika
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Harlem, Manhattan
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Legacy in Motion Honors Judith Jamison and Jody Gottfried Arnhold
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸
New York Film Festival Screens the Year’s Most Anticipated Films at Lincoln Center and In The Boroughs
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Cinema, Staten Island
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS, Concourse Village, The Bronx
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, Astoria, Queens
BAM News
MAY
African and Diaspora Dance Festival
DanceAfrica Tribute to the Ancestors is a drum, song, and dance ceremony led by Artistic Director Abdel R. Salaam and the DanceAfrica Council of Elders; at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 10am. FREE. bam.org 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
DanceAfrica Community Day, the DanceAfrica Festival kickoff, presents the Billie Holiday Theatre’s Youth Arts Academy for the 27th year; in Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza; on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 1pm. FREE. bam.org 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
DanceAfrica Memorial Room, an altar to the ancestors, at the DeVitre Lounge in the Peter Jay Sharp Building in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; opens on Thursday, May 23 from 6-10pm. Through Monday. FREE. bam.org 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
DanceAfrica 2024 celebrates the dance and music of Cameroon with “The Origin of Communities / A Calabash of Cultures,” featuring the DanceAfrica Spirit Walkers, Billies Youth Arts Academy Dance Ensemble, and the Women of The Calabash singers; at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from Friday-Monday, May 24-27, 2024. From $25. bam.org 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
FilmAfrica, part of the New York African Film Festival, screens and talks films from and about Cameroon at BAM Rose Cinemas in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, (BAM), in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from May 24-30, 2024. $17.50. bam.org 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
DanceAfrica Visual Art commission “La course 2” by Cameroon-born artist Salifou Lindou, is on view in the Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby at the Peter Jay Sharp building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from May 7-31, 2024. The piece explores the conflict between challenge and play. Life is challenging at times. We can be upset about it which makes us more likely to lose, or turn it into a game which makes us more likely to win. bam.org 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
JUNE
African American Modern Dance
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs African American modern dance; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from Tuesday-Sunday, June 4-9, 2024. From $35. bam.org 🇺🇸
About
The Brooklyn Academy of Music opened in 1861, before Brooklyn was part of New York City. BAM was conceived as the home of the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn.
After the original building burned down, the current BAM campus opened in 1908.
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Artists
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the African American dance company that popularized modern dance around the world. 🇺🇸
Caetano Veloso Brazilian música popular brasileria (MPB). 🇧🇷
DanceAfrica is America’s largest festival of African and Diasporic dance. 🇺🇸
BAM Tickets
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Avenue
(between Ashland Pl and St Felix St.)
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Subways
(2)(3), (4)(5) to Nevins St, walk 3 blocks