Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), is Brooklyn’s main performing arts center. It presents art, dance, film, music, and theater.
Reflecting Brooklyn’s neighborhood cool, this is a great place for African Diaspora and Jewish culture. The future is here.
The DanceAfrica festival is an New York Memorial Day Weekend tradition.
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BAM News
MARCH
New York Modern Dance
Mark Morris Dance Group dances “The Look of Love” to Burt Bacharach with live music featuring vocalist Marcy Harriell; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from Wednesday-Saturday, March 20-23, 2024 at 8pm. From $35. bam.org
This is the first major Mark Morris production in five years.
APRIL
Brazilian MPB
Caetano Veloso “Meu Coco” brings his 2021 MPB album (rumored to be his farewell) to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Wednesday-Thursday, April 3-4, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇧🇷
MAY
African and Diaspora Film
The 31st New York African Film Festival screens more than 90 African and Diaspora films from 30 countries on the theme “Convergence of Time;” from May 8-30, 2024. The Festival starts at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, from Wednesday-Tuesday, May 8-14, 2024. $17. All-Access $99. The Festival continues at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem from May 17-19, and ends as FilmAfrica from May 24-30 at the DanceAfrica festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). 🇧🇷 🇨🇬 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 🇳🇦 🇳🇬 🇷🇼 🇸🇳 🇸🇱 🇿🇦 🇹🇿 🇺🇸 🇿🇼
African Dance
DanceAfrica partners with the Weeksville Heritage Center and Billie Holiday Theater in Americas largest festival of African Dance; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; over Memorial Day Weekend, from Friday-Monday, May 24-27, 2024. From $35, Kids from $22. 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 🇺🇸
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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
About the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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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