BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance presents
The 18th Annual
OUT LIKE THAT! FESTIVAL
PROUDLY CELEBRATING GAY PRIDE IN THE BRONX
WITH A ZESTY FESTIVAL OF DANCE, FILM, THEATER & PERFORMANCE
with work by choreographers Antonio Ramos, Lawrence Goldhuber and Erick Montes, performances by Gus Solomons, Jr., an outdoor screening with the the Dance Film Association, the closing event for the TransVisionaries Performance Series and mucho more!
FESTIVAL RUNS JUNE 8-26, 2018
(Bronx, NY) – For the past 18 years, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) has marked LGBTQ pride month by presenting the Bronx’s longest consistent gay pride celebration - The OUT LIKE THAT! Festival. The festival runs Friday, June 8 through Tuesday, June 26, 2018 and most events are centered at BAAD!’s home at 2474 Westchester Avenue, with some events in other Bronx venues. Out Like That! presents a fierce line-up of dance, theatre, film and wonderful performances featuring queer artists from the Bronx and beyond. For information and directions call (718) 918-2110 or visit www.BAADBronx.org.
The OUT LIKE THAT 2018 festival performance schedule is as follows:
Friday, June 8 at 8pm/$20, $15
QUEER SIGHTINGS: PIONEERS GO EAST COLLECTIVE | SENTELL HARPER
This shared evening brings the drama! Pioneers Go East Collect brings “Gemini Stars + Virgo Cowboy,” two interdisciplinary performances part of Queer Signs: LGBTQ+ stories IRL works created by the colletive, written by Gian Marco LoForte in collaboration with choreographer/performer Daniel Diaz, and designed by Bessie recipient Philip Treviño, and sound designer Hao Bai. Sentell Harper is known for his zesty solo performance works that explore Black queer identities. He is an actor and playwright whose one man show Seek and Ye Shall Find premiered in NYC at the United Solo Festival where he won the Festival’s Emerging Actor award.
Saturday, June 9 at 8pm / $20, $15
OUT DANCE!
Through the beauty, daring and grace of dance, this shared bill of choreographers express their strength and pride with work by Germaul Barnes, Kharis Collins, Filip A. Condeescu, Amada Dominguez, Elena Valls, and Alicia Raquel.
Thursday & Friday, June 14 & 15 at 8pm / $20, $15
ANTONIO RAMOS/ANTONIO & THE GANGBANGERS presents
“LOS QUE NO SON BELLAS SON HERMOSAS” (Those Who Aren’t Beautiful are Gorgeous)
The deliciously daring Antonio Ramos presents an evening of new work titled Los Que No Son Bellas son Hermosas (Those Who Aren’t Beautiful are Gorgeous). Ramos dances along with Saul Ulerio, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora and Marielys Burgos who infuse power and verve into his signature movement vocabulary that throb with Latinx cultural themes. Ramos is BAAD!’s 2018 Artist-in-Resident which received support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
Saturday, June 16 at 8pm / Free
OUT ON FILM!
PRESENTED BY DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION AND BAAD!
DFA teams up with BAAD! for a free outdoor screening of LGBTQ-themed thought-provoking, sexy/sensual dance films especially curated by BAAD’s own Arthur Aviles and Joseph Hall with Marta Renzi of DFA. Filmmakers in attendance include: Winnie Cheung, Jasmine Hearn, Jason Rodriguez, and Rami Shafi.
Friday, June 22 at 8pm / $20, $15
LAWRENCE GOLDHUBER | ERICK MONTES
Lawrence Goldhuber and Erick Montes, two choreographers who are alum of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, bring fresh work to BAAD! Goldhuber’s “Apple v. Oranges” explores several themes including Age versus beauty with performances by Gus Solomons, Jr. and Alexandra Montalbano. Montes’ “Otherwise” bursts forth from his personal urgency to find truth in his own body, and employs humorous commentaries and sparks of parody in defiance against normativity.
Monday, June 25 at 7pm / Free
BLAQ AND BAAD! WEB SHOW
BLAQ and BAAD! is a new web show focused on queer culture of The Bronx. It's The View meets The Tonight Show with a (BAAD!) twist. A panel of LGBTQ members meet to discuss current events, culture, and creativity in our city with special performances by local QPOC in front of a live studio audience. Co-hosted by Rosaly Ruiz and Whitney Dav-Rho.
Tuesday, June 26 at 7pm / Free
TransVisionaries Performance Series: Closing Night
(This event takes place at the Mott Haven Bar and Grill, 1 Bruckner Blvd., Bronx, NY)
This closing event features actors, movement artists and writers whose dynamic performances are sure to move you. With Michael Michelle Lynch as our emcee and performances by Zave Martohardjono, Sparklez Catiriana Reyes, Tamara Williams, and Kit Yan.
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 LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community. BAAD! is home to Arthur Avilés Typical Theatre (AATT) and the Bronx Dance Coalition which produces The Bronx Dance Magazine and was founded by Arthur Avilés and Charles Rice-González 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 Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and administered by Lincoln Center, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The Dance/NYC Dance Advancement Fund supported by the Ford Foundation, Councilmember Jimmy Vacca and Annabel Palma by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and private donations.
