BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Home of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre & the Bronx Dance Coalition

841 Barretto Street, Bronx, NY 10474 - 718-842-5223 for tix and information.

 

 

BIG THANK U

 

To special donors who are celebrating

Arthur Aviles’s turning 50 years old by joining

the Big / Five / Oh!  Club and supporting BAAD!

 

Big / Five / Oh! Club

$1000+ Donors

William Aguado and Kathi Pavlick

Richard P. Baks

Barbara Berliner and Sol Rymer

Reginald Bullock, Jr. and Laurence

Bill T. Jones and Bjorn Amelan

Glenn Ligon

Robert Longo

Cybeale Ross

Cindy Sherman

 

Nifty 50’s Club

Donors of $50+

Jocelyn Burrell

Amy Casello

Rosa Castro

Lilian Jimenez

Dirk McCall

Jordan Mejias and Peter Hammel

Beatrice Moreno

Jody Oberfelder

Hector and Erica Prud’homme

Alice Tierstein

Joan Waitkevicz

Arthur Ziffer

 

 

NEXT UP at BAAD!

 

The Boogie Down Dance Series

May 4 – June 1, 2013

 

BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance presents its annual spring dance festival. Tickets for concert costs $20 with discounts available for students, seniors, groups, Bronx Cultural Card Holders and Hunts Point residents. 

 

The Boogie Down Dance Series is sponsored in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

 

The Boogie Down Dance Series includes:

 

Saturday, May 4 – 8pm/$20

Jessica Danser’s JD/Dansfolk
THE PROLETARIAT TALES

The Bronx-based dance company, JD/Dansfolk presents a full evening of works that employ contemporary dance-theater, blues music, philosophical texts, work songs, and hip hop to vibrantly explore the human’s relationship to work. Choreography by Jessica Danser/dansfolk, live music by Karl Schwarz, and performances by Noele Phillips, Kristin Dexnis, Natafa Doujan, Amin Jai, and Jenna Steiner.

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Saturday, May 11 – 8pm/$20

IN THE BRONX

This evening of contemporary works by choreographers who’ve worked or presented work at BAAD! includes Malinda Allen, Arthur Aviles, Emily Berry, Jennifer Chin, Jessica Danser, Ranardo Domeico-Grays, Jule Jo Ramirez, and Antonio Ramos.

Click here to purchase tickets or call 718-842-5223.

 

Friday, May 17 - 8pm - $20

FULL CIRCLE-ISMS!

Full Circle, the Bronx-based hip hop company, presents a full course meal of hip hop performance, dance and music. Rokafella leads the women of Full Circle, Soulsistahs, in an energetic dance segment to music by MC Lyte, dancer/performer Flash will serve up the solo performance, Now and Then, and the evening will be topped off with a musical segment by La Roka and Kwikstep. The audience is invited to join the performers after the show to shake its own groove thing.

Click here to purchase tickets or call 718-842-5223.

 

Sunday, May 19 – 1-5pm/Free

BRONX DANCE MAGAZINE POTLUCK BRUNCH

To mark and celebrate the latest issue of the Bronx Dance Magazine, which includes articles about Bronx-based dance groups Kraven Seneca Dance Company and Richard Rivera’s Physual, the Bronx Dance Coalition brings together the dance community of the Bronx and beyond to a potluck brunch.

Call 718-842-5223 to RSVP.

 

Sunday, May 19 - 6pm/Free

PEPATIAN PRESENTS SHOWING OFF

Pepatian has been supporting the work of artists for decades and its current director, Jane Gabriels has collaborated with BAAD! since its early days.  For this presentation choreographer/performers Marion Ramirez, Jung Woong Kim, Alicia Diaz and Matthew Thornton will spend four days in Hunts Point to create a site specific work that will be shown off.  The location of the work will be announced and audience members can also arrive at BAAD! by 6pm and be directed to the site. 

Call 718-842-5223 to RSVP.

 

Friday & Saturday, May 31 & June 1 – 8pm - $20

PHYSUAL: 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Dancer/choreographer Richard Rivera began his Physual dance company at BAAD! in 2002.  He marks 10 years of nearly two dozen dance works with a special concert.  The evening’s pieces include: excerpts from Cafe Tabac, Flirting Flamingos and 212 (degrees). Performing with Mr. Rivera are Alethea Pace, Jen Pavlakovich, Ariane Garcia, Miguel Anaya, Seiko Fulita and Gen Hashimoto.

Click here to purchase tickets or call 718-842-5223 to RSVP.

Classes and Special Meetings

Thursday, May 9 at 5:30-7:30pm/Free

DANCING IN THE STREETS: BRONX DANCE CONVENING

Dancing in the Streets, an organization dedicated to developing and presenting site specific works, is now located in the Bronx and is convening a special meeting to develop future Bronx projects.  Refreshments served.

 

Saturdays, May 4, 11, 18 and June 1 - 9:30-11am/$7 per class

CAPOEIRA DANCE CLASSES WITH “BRONX” of GINGA MUNDO

Bronx native Moses McCarter leads a class for dancers of all levels in this amazing folk dance from Brazil that ritualizes movement from martial arts, African dance and acrobatics.

 

Crowned “a funky and welcoming performance space” by The New York Times, BAAD! is a 70 seat workshop and performance space that presents cutting-edge and challenging works by established and emerging choreographers, playwrights, poets, musicians and artists.  BAAD! was co-founded by Arthur Aviles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez in 1998.

 

The Boogie Down Dance Series received support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Councilwoman Carmen Arroyo.  BAAD! and AATT receive support from the above mentioned sources and from The Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, The Union Square Arts Grant, The Simon Bolivar Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, JPMorgan Chase, and individual donors.

 

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BAAD! and AATT receive support from The NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Councilwoman Carmen Arroyo, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Lambent Foundation, The Union Square Arts Grant, The Simon Bolivar Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and private donations. 

 

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ONGOING DANCE CLASSES

AND WORKSHOPS @ BAAD!

 

 

Saturdays, 9:30-11am/$7 per class

CAPOEIRA DANCE CLASSES WITH “BRONX” of GINGA MUNDO

Bronx native Moses McCarter and Sasha McCarter lead a class for dancers of all levels in this amazing folk dance that ritualizes movement from martial arts, African dance and acrobatics. Guaranteed to get your blood pumping and your body moving.

 

 

For more info on classes please call

718 842 5223

 

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CALL FOR ARTISTS…

 

BAAD! is ACCEPTING PROPOSALS

FOR UPCOMING FESTIVALS AND EVENTS!!!

 

 

OUT LIKE THAT! (June 2013)
Submission Deadline – February 28, 2013

 

BlakTino Performance Series (October 2013)
Submission Deadline – July 1, 2013

 

BAAD!Ass Women Festival (March 2014)
Submission Deadline – November 30, 2013

 

BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES (MAY 2014)
Submission Deadline – January 31, 2014

 

We are looking for works in all performance disciplines,
film and visual art (for art talks and slide presentations)
that are empowering to women, people of color and
the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community.

 

Call 718-842-5223 for info and application or e-mail rice-gonzalez@usa.net.

Most performances take place Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm

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Crowned “a funky and welcoming performance space” by The New York Times, BAAD! is an art, performance and workshop space that presents cutting-edge and challenging works by established, evolving and emerging choreographers, playwrights, poets, musicians and visual and performing artists that are empowering to women, Latinos and people of color and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. BAAD! is home to Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre and the Bronx Dance Coalition.  BAAD! presents four annual festivals, BAAD! ASS WOMEN, THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES, OUT LIKE THAT! and the BlakTino Performance Series.  BAAD! was co-founded by Arthur Aviles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez in 1998.

 

BAAD and AATT received support from the

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

The Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Union Square Arts Grant

The Simon Bolivar Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The New York State Council on the Arts

JP Morgan Chase

Councilwoman Carmen Arroyo

And

Individual donors. 

 

 

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Board of Directors

Marion Dienstag, Chair
Reginald Bullock, Treasurer
Hamid Razik, Secretary

Arthur Aviles
Kelly McGowan
Charles Rice-Gonzalez

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YOU CAN HELP KEEP IT GOING BY MAKING A DONATION TO BAAD! ONLINE

JUST CLICK AND VISIT http://www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/donations.htm

 

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OR YOU CAN MAIL A DONATION TO:

BAAD! P.O. BOX 740082, BRONX NY 10474

 

…ALSO YOU CAN SHOP FOR YOUR BAAD! ASS WOMEN PANTIES, BAAD! BASEBALL CAPS, T-SHIRTS, TOTE BAGS AND MORE AT OUR ONLINE STORE. CHECK IT OUT! http://www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/store.htm

 

 

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Contact us
BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Home of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre
Arthur Aviles – Artistic Director – arthuraviles@gmail.com
Charles Rice-Gonzalez – Executive Director – rice-gonzalez@usa.net
Carlo Quispe – Program Manager – CarloBAAD@gmail.com

All events at BAAD!

Call 718-842-5223 for more info or visit

www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org

 

BAAD! is at 841 Barretto St., Bronx, NY 10474
(in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx)

Take #6 Train to Hunts Point Avenue.
Cross underneath Bruckner Expwy to 1st block, Garrison Avenue.
Make right on Garrison and go 2 blocks to Barretto Street. 
Make left on Barretto to 841.

 

Updated 4/23/2013