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Moby Dick

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At BAM, Robert Wilson brings Herman Melville’s sea epic to the stage as a hybrid of play and dance, where the hunt for the white whale becomes a study in obsession, labor, and fate. Music is integral rather than incidental, with original work and performance by Anna Calvi, alongside Serbian pop-dance artist Moby Dick and Les Arts Florissants, with choreography by David Rivera y La Bámbula. The material has circulated in notable theatrical forms, including Orson Welles’s midcentury adaptation, and remains a touchstone in New York’s port-city imagination. Wilson’s cool, architectural staging treats the story less as adventure than as ritual, which suits its themes.