Laurie Anderson, Ping Chong, Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Julia Stiles, et al. Set for BAM’s 2010 Next Wave Festival

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has announced programming for the 2010 Next Wave Festival, which will feature 16 music, dance, theater, and opera engagements.

Theater highlights include Julia Stiles starring in the title role of Persephone (October 26-30), Tony-winning playwright Warren Leight’s reimagining of the classic Greek myth, featuring music by Ben Neill and Mimi Goese (who also performs). Writer/director Ping Chong’s Throne of Blood (November 10-13) is an interdisciplinary stage adaptation of Kurosawa’s classic film version of Macbeth. Laurie Anderson will present Delusion (September 21-October 3), a new work that explores themes of identity and memory. Stew and Heidi Rodewald — with their band The Negro Problem — will present the world premiere song cycle Brooklyn Omnibus (Octobert 20-23).

Additional theater works include Needcompany’s The Deer House, James Thiérrée’s Raoul, director Thomas Ostermeier’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Kafka’s existential classic Metamorphosis, featuring music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Dance engagements include Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s U.S. premiere of Vollmond; Ralph Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?; Ballet Preljocaj’s Empty moves (parts I & II), choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj accompanied by John Cage’s Empty Words; Sasha Waltz’s Gezeiten; and the Mark Morris Dance Group’s holiday favorite The Hard Nut.

Other highlights will include the concert series Red Hot + New Orleans , Evan Ziporyn and Paul Schick’s opera A House in Bali, and Mikel Rouse’s Gravity Radio.

For more information, visit www.bam.org.