Arthur Aviles at BAAD! Oct. 27 and 28

 

ARTHUR AVILES TYPICAL THEATRE ANNOUNCES PERFORMANCES 

OF HOMAGE! “UNTITLED SERIES” ON OCTOBER 27 and 28th 2022 

Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre, a Bronx-based contemporary modern dance company, announces performances  of “Homage! Untitled Series” at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, located at 2474 Westchester Avenue in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx. Performances are at 8 PM on Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28.  Tickets are $20 in person and free to $20 for the livestream (Friday only).  For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.BAADBronx.org.

The “Untitled Series” pays tribute to Martha Graham,  Jose Limon and Loie Fuller via Jody Sperling with contemporary interpretations that braid in queer and intersectional perspectives into classic works orginally created in the twentieth century.  The works will be performed by Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Priscilla Marrero, Dea’Shinique Ramsey, Hunter Sturgis, Josiah Vasquez and Rafael Cañals Pérez with live drumming by Mobey Lola Irizzary and costumes by Liz Prince.

 

The company is led by Arthur Aviles, an award-winning New York-Rican dancer/choreographer,  who was crowned “...one of the great modern dancers of the last 15 years” in 2003 by The NY Times chief critic Anna Kisselgoff. Aviles founded his Bronx-based contemporary dance company, Arthur Aviles Typical Theater (AATT) in 1996, and co-founded BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in 1998. He toured internationally for eight years as a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and was honored with New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards for his outstanding creative achievement during the Jones/Zane seasons in 1988 and 1989. In 2020, the Bessies honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Dance.  He’s choreographed nearly three dozen works through AATT that have been performed at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow, Central Park Summerstage, and dozens of venues in NY,  Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Connecticut. He’s been awarded dance residencies at dozens of universities in the US and Italy, and he’s danced with two dozen choreographers including pioneers Toby Armour and Aileen Passloff and contemporary artists Merian Soto and Tina Croll & Jamie Cunningham in “From the Horse’s Mouth.”

BAAD! was crowned “a funky and welcoming performance space” by The NY Times. It was co-founded by dancer/choreographer Arthur Aviles and writer/activist Charles Rice-Gonzalez in 1998, and presents five, multi-disciplinary arts festivals with programming that is empowering to women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ communities.