After more than two decades immersed in the world of experimental performance, Leslie Cuyjet is sharing her voice on larger and larger stages. The 2025 Guggenheim Fellow returns to New York City to present her tour de force solo For All Your Life at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival December 3–7.

A bevy of intriguing premieres, international companies debuting or returning stateside, Broadway-bound musicals that turn what’s expected on the Great White Way on its head—the 2022–23 performance season promises to be full of surprises.

In the October 1983 issue of Dance Magazine, we explored the work of then-breakout contemporary artist Molissa Fenley. Having spent the late ’70s sending shockwaves through the New York City arts community with her experimental works, she was tapped by Brooklyn Academy of Music to create a new commission for its first-ever Next Wave Festival. […]

Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, which contributed to the rise of dance icons like Trisha Brown, Pina Bausch and Bill T. Jones, will be memorialized in print this month. BAM: The Next Wave Festival offers an inside glimpse at the past 35 years. Photo courtesy BAM The book takes readers on a trip […]