BlakTinX Performance Series Announced

SUSANA COOK

RUN! IT'S GETTING UGLY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 | 8PM

A pretty ordinary white nationalist family falls into a muddy and despereate identity crisis when they are attacked by La Contaminación Cultural. Their sense of language, grammar, and origin get altered, making them confused about who they are.

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SOULS OF OUR FEET: BLAKTINX DANCE CONCERT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 | 8PM

BAAD!'s signature compilation dance concert brings together a bevy of dance styles and talents from the Bronx and beyond. This year's choreographers include Miki Tuesday, J. Bouey, Edgard Toro, Titilayo Mayogdbe, Shango Bartley, Rokafella, and Sarah Sandford.

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COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS

ROSE ARCE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 | 7PM

Courageous Conversations is a free forum that brings together leading thinkers and doers from the arts, media and politics to offer strategies to queer people on how to navigate and thrive in the current political climate.

Supported by The Liberty Fund of The New York Community Trust.

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TRIBUTE TO BABA CHUCK DAVIS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 | 8PM

BAAD! celebrates the legendary Baba Chuck Davis with an intimate gathering and tribute to his Bronx roots. In 1967, Baba Chuck formed the Chuck Davis Dance Company at the South Bronx Community Action Theatre and later moved it to Bronx Community College. A decade later Baba Chuck would bring Chuck Davis Dance Company to BAM in what eventually became DanceAfrica.

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EXPERIMENTS IN CREATIVE EMANCIPATION

CURATED BY EBONY GOLDEN

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 | 8PM

Audrey Elaine Hailes, Jaime Yawa Dzandu, and Malcolm-X El-Shabazz Betts make work that is challenging, thick, messy, purposeful, durational, muscular, textured, and requires full-bodied participation from the audience. This is the kind of art we need. Cheers to these bold and necessary artists for making work that challenges the times and sets a vision for emancipation in action.

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MARTA AND ARTHUR

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 | 3PM

In 2004, Marta Renzi met Arthur Avilés at Prodanza Italia where they compared stories of the New York dance world. Marta had already aired her first PBS special in 1987 when Arthur was just beginning his professional dance career. This event brings two artists together in a multimedia program presenting dance books, a dance film by Marta, and live dance created by Arthur featuring Jonathan Gonzalez.

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BAAD! HALLOWEEN:

PARTY & OPEN STAGE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 | 7PM

BAAD! brings it on Halloween with costumes, dancing and artful fun. Doors open at 7pm, and everyone is invited to sing, dance, read or perform for the open stage beginning at 8:30pm, and MC'd by Appolonia Cruz and Vivika Westwood Mugler . Then dance the night away.

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MALEEK WASHINGTON

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 | 8PM

Rooted in reflective narration and mapping, Washington's work engages the complexities of family, labor, and passage of time through the lens of the Black male experience in America.

Part of Pepatian/BAAD!'s Dance Your Future residency funded by the Jerome Foundation.

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WINDS OF RESISTANCE

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 | 8PM

Bombazo Dance Co shows a work in progress of Crowns, a piece inspired by headwraps, a fabric of resistance, and STAYCEE PEARL dance project shares a duet from ABBEY: In The Red, an evening length work celebrating Jazz vocalist and civil right activist, Abbey Lincoln.

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TATIANA DESARDOUIN/ PASSION FRUIT DANCE COMPANY

DANCE WITHIN YOUR DANCE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 | 8PM

What is your process to find your groove? Hip hop and house dancer/choreographer Tatiana Desardouin uses her teaching method "Technique Within Your Groove" using isolations, lines, waves, rhythms, and steps to find herself within her dance. She questions how we become unique, even if we are strongly and naturally influenced by each other in our hip-hop and house communities.

Part of Pepatian/BAAD!'s Dance Your Future residency funded by the Jerome Foundation.

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BEATRICE CAPOTE & MIGUEL APARICIO/THE SABROSURA EFFECT

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 | 8PM

Through storytelling and historical Latin contemporary movements, To Infinity and Beyond takes a closer look into the power of the spiritual realm versus the power of the system controlling humanity.

Part of Pepatian/BAAD!'s Dance Your Future residency funded by the Jerome Foundation.

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LATIN BALLET OF VIRGINIA

NUYORICAN

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18 | 8PM

NuYoRican pays tribute to NYC's Puerto Rican community, celebrating their stories of struggle and triumph. This collaboration between award-winning choreographer and artistic director of the Latin Ballet, Ana Ines King, and award-winning author and journalist, Julia Torres Barden, is based on her book, "NEWYORICANGIRL...Surviving my Spanglish Life." NuYoRican shares true stories of the Puerto Rican migration to the US at its peak in the 1940s - spotlighting the discrimination, cultural assimilation and hurdles faced and overcome.

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THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS

BAAD!/AATT receive support from:

The SHS Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Liberty Fund of the New York Community Trust, Lincoln Center Innovation Fund, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The NY State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), NYC Councilmember James Vacca, and private donations.

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