The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories
Saturday, November 14, 2026
7:30 PM
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Scheduled
About This Event
The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories is a group project that shapes interview-based testimony into staged narrative, favoring clear, direct delivery over theatrical display. At BAM, the ensemble presents its documentary methods as a form of public record, using structure and voice to place individual lived experiences in a performative context.
About The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories
Now at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), *The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories* is a free live event built around personal testimony, framed as performance. The piece treats biography as public record, tracing how memory, identity, and the face we present are shaped by family, migration, work, and the city’s daily pressures. In New York, where stages often double as civic space, this kind of storytelling carries cultural weight. Its quiet rigor is the point: it asks audiences to listen without rushing to conclusions.
About the Artist
The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories
The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories is a group project built around personal testimony and performed as a live event at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). The work draws on interview-based storytelling and a documentary approach, shaping lived experience into staged narrative.