Tonight marks the New York premiere of Laurie Anderson's Delusion at BAM's Harvey Theatre, launching BAM's Next Wave Festival. Time Out New York includes the concert among today's "must-see shows." The Wall Street Journal previews the festival with a look at Anderson's long history with BAM, having, over the years, "given audiences something profoundly rewarding: an ongoing emotional engagement that, like a good friendship, allows you to think about life from different perspectives."
Tonight marks the New York premiere of Laurie Anderson's latest stage piece, Delusion, at BAM's Harvey Theatre in Brooklyn, the first of Anderson's 12 performances there and the launch of BAM's Next Wave Festival. Time Out New York includes the concert among today's "must-see shows."
The Wall Street Journal has a preview of the 2010 Next Wave Festival that begins, fittingly enough, with a look at Anderson's long history performing at BAM, becoming "an essential part of the BAM artistic sensibility." In the article, the Journal's Pia Catton examines the rewards that come from maintaining such a deep connection with certain artists over the years, as with Anderson and fellow Next Wave artist Pina Bausch.
"Although new and emerging artists are regularly presented at this festival, the returning veterans—especially in the case of Ms. Anderson and Ms. Bausch—have given audiences something profoundly rewarding," says Catton, "an ongoing emotional engagement that, like a good friendship, allows you to think about life from different perspectives."
Read the complete article at wsj.com.
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TheaterMania takes a look at this year's Next Wave festival as well. "For more than two decades," writes TheaterMania's Chris Kompanek, "the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave festival has been bringing together a wide range of events that push the boundaries of convention and comforts of traditional narratives. This year is no exception," says Kompanek, with works like Delusion "by BAM favorite Laurie Anderson." Read more at theatermania.com.
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"Anderson, the legendary experimental artist, seeks to capture the mysterious world of dreams in her mind-bending new show, Delusion," says the Brooklyn Paper's Adam Warner. Anderson discussed the show with Warner, who cites in it "such diverse subjects as ghost ships, punctuation, Icelandic elves, dead relatives, the Swiss super collider, the decline of the American empire, the mystic who started the Russian space program, and her Swedish-Irish heritage." Read more and see what Anderson has to say at brooklynpaper.com.
Classical TV features a Q&A with Anderson that looks at the origins of the new work, what to expect on stage at BAM, and the relationship between Delusion and her latest Nonesuch release, Homeland. You can read the interview at classicaltv.com.
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For more information and tickets, visit bam.org. For information on additional upcoming performances by Anderson, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. And to pick up a copy of the album Homeland, with audiophile-quality 320 kbps MP3s of the album included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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