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If the Dancer Dances

April 15, 2019 7:00pm

General Admission: $15

Coinciding with the centennial of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham, If the Dancer Dances invites viewers into the intimate world of the dance studio. Stephen Petronio, one of today’s leading dancemakers, is determined to help his dancers breathe new life into Cunningham’s iconic 1968 work RainForest. With help from three members of the former Cunningham company, the film tracks Petronio’s dancers as they strive to restage this great work, revealing what it takes to keep a dance—and a legacy—alive.

Post-screening Discussion
Director Maia Wechsler, producer Lise Friedman, Stephen Petronio (choreographer, dancer, and artistic director of Stephen Petronio Company), Gus Solomons, Jr. (dancer, choreographer, professor, critic, actor), Rashaun Mitchell (choreographer, performer and teacher), moderated by Joseph V. Melillo (moderator, BAM Executive Producer, Emeritus)

Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Dreamers

April 15, 2019 9:30pm

General Admission: $15

Disenchanted with their lives in Prague, six 30-something friends consider chucking it all for a fresh start in the country. But is that really what they want? This bitingly funny, all-too-real portrait of quarter-life anxiety from Chytilová protege Jitka Rudolfová updates some of the New Wave icon’s key concerns—generational ennui and societal disillusionment—for the 21st century.

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Traps

April 16, 2019 6:00pm

General Admission: $15

Chytilová hits toxic masculinity where it hurts in this audacious blend of rape revenge film and absurdist comedy in which a veterinarian makes use of her surgical skills to get emasculating retribution on the men who assaulted her. A furiously angry takedown of rape culture couched in the guise of an outré slapstick farce, Traps finds the late-career Chytilová as edgy and daringly confrontational as ever.

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

In Perpetual Flight: The Migration of the Black Body

April 16, 2019 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Price: Free

The National Black Theater (NBT), in partnership with the Schomburg Center, presents a one-day event examining the movement of the Black bodies in America and the impact it has had in the quest for liberation.

Utilizing Schomburg Center archives, multidisciplinary performance, and community dialogue, NBT will commission new pieces by theater-makers of African descent to examine the works of James Baldwin, Harriet Powers, Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, and Jacob Lawrence to understand the complexities Black people have faced migrating in America.

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Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street, New York NY 10037 US

Community Preview: Boss: The Black Experience in Business

April 17, 2019 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Free

Join WNET/THIRTEEN and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for a special preview of highlights from Boss: The Black Experience in Business, directed by Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson. This new documentary traces the lives of African American entrepreneurs over 150 years, from those bound by bondage to moguls at the top of million-dollar empires. From the country’s earliest days, African Americans have embodied the qualities of innovation, risk-taking and determination to forge a path toward a better life. Stories featured in the film include those of entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, publisher John H. Johnson, Motown CEO Berry Gordy, and business pioneer and philanthropist Reginald F. Lewis, among others. The film features new interviews with Vernon Jordan, senior managing director of Lazard, Freres & Co. LLC.; Cathy Hughes, CEO and founder of Urban One; Richelieu Dennis, founder, CEO and executive chairman of Sundial Brands; and more.

Following the screening, a talk back will feature the film's director Stanley Nelson; founder of The HistoryMakers, Julieanna Richardson; Marcia Chatelain, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University; and entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Richelieu Dennis.

Boss: The Black Experience in Business premieres nationwide Tuesday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Boss: The Black Experience in Business is a Firelight Films production for THIRTEEN Productions LLC, in association with The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive.

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Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street, New York NY 10037 US

Ceiling + A Bagful of Fleas + Automat Svět

April 17, 2019 7:00pm

General Admission: $15

Ceiling

Informed by the director’s experiences working as a fashion model, Chytilová’s remarkably assured graduation film—which she was able to make only by duping state censors with a phony script—mixes vérité observation and New Wave stylistic experimentation to depict the everyday life of a model, the ways in which her body is commodified by the industry, and the alienation she feels.

A Bagful of Fleas

The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Chytilová’s work begin here, an almost docu-realist look at women finding freedom and joy amid the rigid conformity of life in a communal factory dormitory.

Automat Svět (from Pearls of the Deep)

Awash in hypnotically surreal images, Chytilová’s contribution to an anthology film based on stories by renowned Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal concerns a wedding celebration interrupted by death.

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Pleasant Moments

April 18, 2019 7:00pm

General Admission: $15

Chytilová’s ironically titled final film induces a sense of whiplash as it careens between the chaotic personal lives of a much-put-upon Prague psychologist and her hysterical patients. In its fever-pitch portrait of a society in the throes of a seemingly mass emotional breakdown, this black comic psychodrama proves a fittingly unhinged conclusion to a singularly radical career.

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

From Swastika to Jim Crow

April 17, 2019 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Tickets: $10 ($7 for seniors)

The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow. Based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film tells the little-known story of two very different cultures, sharing a common burden of oppression. In the 1930s, German universities were some of the first targets of Nazi activity. Jewish professors and intellectuals who were able to immigrate to the United States faced an uncertain future. Confronted with antisemitism at American universities and a public distrust of foreigners, a surprising number sought refuge in a most unlikely place – the traditionally black colleges in the then- segregated South. Securing teaching positions, these scholars came to form lasting relationships with their students, and went on to significantly impact the communities in which they lived and worked.

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Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St., New York NY 10011 USA

State Fair

April 19, 2019 10:00am

This event is for senior citizens 65 and older and is not open to the general public.

To reserve movie tickets please contact Community Affairs at 718.636.4122 or CommunityAffairs@BAM.org.

The music of Rodgers and Hammerstein enlivens this charming Technicolor slice of Americana in which hopes, dreams, and romance blossom against the backdrop of the Iowa State Fair. The only musical that the renowned duo penned directly for the screen, State Fair overflows with memorable melodies, including “It’s A Grand Night For Singing” and the Oscar-winning “It Might as Well Be Spring.”

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Rafiki

April 19-25, 2019 2:00pm

General Admission: $15

This Kenyan coming-of-age saga follows the journeys of Kena (Mugatsia) and Ziki (Munyiva), two fearlessly individualistic young women who, despite the fact that their fathers are rival political candidates, form a steadfast bond. When their friendship develops into romance, they must fight to protect their love in the face of societal prejudices determined to tear them apart. With a remarkable feeling for color, music, and the bustling street life of Nairobi, rising star director Wanuri Kahiu crafts an empowering, sublimely moving love story that defied censors in her home country and went on to become the first Kenyan film to premiere at Cannes.

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Location: Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn NY 11217 USA

Easter Wreath Making

April 21, 2019 11:00am - 2:00pm

Price: Free with Museum admission.

Join us for a festive celebration of the Easter Holiday. Use elements of spring in New York City as inspiration to create a seasonal wreath for your home.

Registration suggested, but not required.

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Location: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue btwn 103rd and 104th Streets, New York NY 10029 US

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