BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance presents
THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES 2019 May 4 – 23, 2019
The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance presents its annual spring dance and performance festival THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES from Tuesday, April 30 to Saturday, May 26, 2019 at BAAD!, 2474 Westchester Square in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx. The BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES makes way for professional, contemporary dance and performance in the Bronx and takes its title from the borough’s nickname, The Boogie Down. The festival features dance that vibrates with Bronx energy and a diversity of expressions from around the city, and performance that flirts and engages with cutting-edge ideas. This year includes the screening of Bronx Gothic, a documentary about the award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili’s groundbreaking national show that had its final performances at BAAD!, and performance partnerships with PEN World Voices and the Itinerant Festival. Tickets for events range from $10-$25 with some free events and discounts available for students, seniors, groups, Bronx Cultural Card Holders, NALAC (National Association of Latino Art and Cultures) and to Bronx residents. Call 718-918-2110 or visit website: www.BAADBronx.org for tix, info and additional directions. 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
IN THE HOUSE
This evening bubbles with the energy of club, house and street dance. Curated by Rokafella (Full Circle), performers include Samantha Reyes (Sam-I-Am), Kristine Bergasse, Hip Hop Theory andThe ICONIC Legendary House Of Ninja. Followed by a dance party.
Saturday, May 11 | 8pm | $20
ELYLA SINVERGUENZA | COUNTERING COLONIALISM: A QUEER RITUAL OF HEALING
Growing up in rural Nicaragua, queer performance artist Elyla Sinvergüenza (Fredman Barahona) endured the country’s toxic and ongoing legacy of colonialism. In their visceral new performance piece Saint Peter Goose/Duck Pulling, Sinvergüenza transforms a violent and hyper-masculine ritual from the country’s patriarchal tradition into an immersive experience of healing for artist and audience members alike. Supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and co-presented with PEN America World Voices Festival and the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC).
Thursday, May 16 | 8pm | $15, $20
STONEWALL 50 @ BAAD!
STREET THEATRE
The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) presents is founder, Doric Wilson’s seminal work which focuses less on the events of June 28, 1969 Stonewall uprising and more on the panoply of diverse individuals who made those events happen. Originally produced in New York City at The Mineshaft bar in 1982, this play is one of the most annually produced works. Directed by Mark Finley.
Friday, May 17 | 8pm | $20
FEMME/DANGER
From the Femme-identified Michiyaya Dance group to the gender expansive Mx Oops and the dynamic duo of Pittsburgh Slowdanger, a deliciously daring dance evening sweeps onto BAAD!’s stage with work that is unpredictable and engaging.
Saturday, May 18 | 9pm | $20
DANCIN’ IN THE BRONX
BAAD!'s signature compilation dance concert brings together a bevy of dance styles and talents with 8 choreographers from the Bronx and beyond. Choreographers include Tadashi Kato, John Kovach, Moriah Ella Mason, Cynthia Paniagua, Margia Shriti, and Rourou Ye.
Tuesday, May 21 | 7pm | Free
BRONX GOTHIC
From director Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times, The First Monday in May) comes an electrifying portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her acclaimed one-woman show, Bronx Gothic, which had its final performances at BAAD! Rooted in memories of her childhood, Okwui fuses dance, song, drama, and comedy to create a mesmerizing space in which audiences engage with a story about two 12-year-old black girls coming of age in the Bronx in the 1980s. With intimate vérité access to Okwui and her audiences off the stage, Bronx Gothic allows for unparalleled insight into her creative process as well as the complex social issues embodied in it.
Thursday, May 23 | 7pm| Free
ITINERANT AT BAAD!: ITINERANT 2019 PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL NYC
ITINERANT, the annual Performance Art Festival of NYC, is a week of Live Action Art in different boroughs in New York City. ITINERANT at BAAD! presents a selection of Performance Art works by local and international artists. This year’s festival focuses on works that explore, treat, propose, and consider somatic (re)constructions and (re)presentations regarding gender, nationality, identity, and civil status. The program, organized and curated independently by interdisciplinary artist Hector Canonge, brings a mix of local and international artists. The full festival takes place Monday, May 20th to Saturday, May 25th at various venues in the city.
Also at BAAD!
Tuesday, April 30 | 7pm & 8:30pm | $15, $20
PART OF IN SCENA ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY (Each performance is 60 minutes, in Italian with English supertitles.)
7:00pm:
AS WHITE AS FENNEL IN A SALAD (BIANCA COME FINOCCHI IN INSALATA)
Bianca’s life as a dull elementary school teacher is boring and frustrating until Antonino, the school’s dean, enters it. The hope of an improbable love affair illuminates a life of solitude, injustice, and denial.
Written and directed by Silvia Marchetti and presented by Compagnia del Calzino – Region Emilia Romagna.
8:30pm:
SPANKER MACHINE
Anita’s everyday life masks a hidden 'otaku.' Marked by a difficult past, she finds refuge at home, where her contradictions coexist with her controversial sexuality. Written and directed by Tiziana Troja, and presented by Lucidosottile.
PART OF IN SCENA ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY (Each performance is 60 minutes, in Italian with English supertitles.)
7:00pm:
AS WHITE AS FENNEL IN A SALAD (BIANCA COME FINOCCHI IN INSALATA)
Bianca’s life as a dull elementary school teacher is boring and frustrating until Antonino, the school’s dean, enters it. The hope of an improbable love affair illuminates a life of solitude, injustice, and denial.
Written and directed by Silvia Marchetti and presented by Compagnia del Calzino – Region Emilia Romagna.
8:30pm:
SPANKER MACHINE
Anita’s everyday life masks a hidden 'otaku.' Marked by a difficult past, she finds refuge at home, where her contradictions coexist with her controversial sexuality. Written and directed by Tiziana Troja, and presented by Lucidosottile.
Crowned “a funky and welcoming performance space” by The New York Times, BAAD! is a performance and workshop space that presents cutting-edge works in dance and all creative disciplines 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 (AATT) and the Bronx Dance Coalition and was founded by Arthur Aviles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez in 1998 in Hunts Point. BAAD! moved to Westchester Square in October 2013 to a gothic revivalist building on the grounds of St. Peter’s Church.
BAAD!/AATT receive support from The Ford Foundation, The SHS Foundation, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and administered by Lincoln Center, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, The Jerome Foundation, The Dance/NYC Dance Advancement Fund supported by the Ford Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The New York State Regional Economic Development Corporation, he New York State Council on the Arts, Councilmember Mark Gjonaj and Ruben Diaz, Sr., and private donations.
