BAM on Tuesday announced two additional programs for its Winter/Spring 2026 season, as well as programming details for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, DanceAfrica, and BAM’s Fisher Takeovers.
As part of their 45th anniversary season, the Mark Morris Dance Group presents two New York premieres, MOON and Via Dolorosa in addition to a previous work, while America Opera Projects presents The Post Office, making its New York premiere featuring sets designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Charles Renfro.
MOON makes its New York premiere on March 26 and 29. The hour-long dance for nine performers explores humanity’s enduring fascination with its celestial companion, drawing inspiration from the Golden Record—an audio message placed aboard NASA’s Voyagerspacecraft in 1977 as a means of communicating with extraterrestrial life. Dreamy and quietly expansive, the work blends humor, wonder and reflection through Morris’s signature musicality, with a score that combines live music performed by Mark Morris Dance Group Music Director Colin Fowler and recorded selections, alongside costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, “mathematicalmagic” projections by Wendall K. Harrington, and a set completed with astronaut sculptures by Ottmar Hörl.
The group’s second program includes another New York premiere, Via Dolorosa. Set to evanescent music for solo harp by acclaimed American composer Nico Muhly played live by Parker Ramsay. The dance takes its title from the processional route traditionally associated with the Stations of the Cross and unfolds against a painted backdrop by British artist Howard Hodgkin. Morris sets the dance to Muhly’s “TheStreet” --a luminous score inspired by the evocative and poetic texts of Alice Goodman.
The ghost of Benjamin Franklin, the first US Postmaster General, is drawn into a thoroughly contemporary conflict among co-workers in a one-room post office about gay marriage, free speech, racial and class divides, and democracy itself in a provocative new opera by composer Laura Kaminsky (As One) and poet/librettist Elaine Sexton (Site Specific). Produced by American Opera Projects, The Post Office makes its New York premiere featuring a cast of five singers, piano accompaniment, and a set designed by Charles Renfro, a partner in the distinguished architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro with a long history of involvement in the performing arts.
New details regarding some of BAM’s iconic tentpole engagements include: the rhythms and culture of Uganda will be at the center of DanceAfrica 2026, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform works by Judith Jamison, Medhi Walerski, and Mr. Ailey during its June run in the Howard Gilman Opera House.
The BAM Fisher comes alive with two building-wide Fisher Takeovers—this year featuring Omar Offendum’s Bringing the Shãm (شام) to BAM and BAM’s iconic Pride celebration, Everybooty.
These works join a slate of innovative, full-tilt artistic visions for the Winter/Spring 2026 season featuring major theatrical events like the National Theatre’s Hamlet, Robert Wilson’s Moby Dick, V’s (formerly Eve Ensler) Dear Everything; iconic works by Trisha Brown Dance Company and Ballet de Marseille; the BRC Orchestra’s joyful Stevie: A Life in the Key of Songs, Todd Almond’s humorously profound I’m Almost There, the inspiring Word. Sound. Power. and the annual favorite, BAMkids Film Festival, plus much more.
Tickets for new programs are on sale for BAM members and patrons, and to the general public on Jan. 29 at 1:00pm.
