Fall 2016 BAC Resident Artist Kota Yamazaki and collaborators in the John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio 
NOW STREAMING
PLAYBAC: KOTA YAMAZAKI

Japanese-born, New York-based choreographer Kota Yamazaki was in residence at BAC in 2016 to develop the second part of his Darkness Odyssey trilogy: I or Hallucination. The work's 2017 World Premiere, presented in our Howard Gilman Performance Space, is screening now as part of PlayBAC: Peformances from the Archive.

During a 2016 studio visit, BAC Story writer Cori Olinghouse observed the performers creating "a fragmented reality, in which a simultaneity of gestures, utterances, and inflections form an interconnected network. Kota offers a vision of the body becoming like a black hole, which absorbs everything." The dancers can be seen rehearsing at BAC in this Dance Magazine video feature.

PlayBAC: Kota Yamazaki
FREE / Available until Thursday, Dec 17 at 5PM ET
LAST CHANCE TO WATCH: SOMI

in the absence of things, a work-in-progress short film written and performed by Somi, is available on demand for only one more day. The meditative film features music from the singer/songwriter's Grammy-nominated live album, and registers what she calls "the emotional vibration and undemocratic fragility of cultural space and the living stage."

SOMI: in the absence of things
FREE / Available until Tuesday, Dec 15 at 5PM ET
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Leadership support for BAC has been provided by Altman Foundation, Anonymous, Blavatnik Family Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Estate of James. H. Duffy, The Enoch Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, Princess Grace Foundation-USA, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Shubert Foundation, Thompson Family Foundation, Robert and Kathleen Wallace, and Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of November 2020.