Susana Cook Kicks Off BlakTinX Festival at BAAD!

BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance kicks off its fall season with the BlakTinX Performance Series from October 13 to November 18, 2017. This annual multidisciplinary festival inaugurated in 2002 celebrates art and performance by Black, Latinx and artists of color. BAAD! is located in a neo gothic style building at 2474 Westchester Avenue. For tickets and information call 718-918-2110 or visit www.BAADBronx.org.

Friday, October 13 at 8pm / $20, $15
RUN! IT'S GETTING UGLY by SUSANA COOK
Susana Cook's comedic and satirical newest theatrical work looks at an ordinary white nationalist family that falls into a muddy and desperate identity crisis when they are attacked by La Contaminación Cultural. Their sense of language, grammar and origin gets altered, making them confused about who they really are.

Saturday, October 14 at 8pm / $20, $15
SOULS OF OUR FEET: DANCE CONCERT
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 J. Bouey, Beverly Lopez, Houiea LOVE, Titilayo Mayogdbe, Rokafella, Edgard Toro, Ea Torrado, and Miki Tuesday.

Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7pm / Free
COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS: Strategies for Living and Loving in America
with Rose Marie Arce and YaliniDream
Three-time Emmy award-winning news producer, Rose Marie Arce & the celebrated, insightful performing artist/activist YaliniDream lead this installment of Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living and Loving in America. BAAD!'s new free series offers topical talks and resilience workshops led by leading thinkers and doers from the arts, media and politics and is followed by a facilitated/open community forum for queer people and their allies on how to navigate and thrive in the current political climate.

Friday, October 20 at 8:00pm / Free
TRIBUTE TO BABA CHUCK DAVIS
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.

Saturday, October 21 at 8pm /$20, $15
EBONY GOLDEN
EXPERIMENTS IN CREATIVE EMANCIPATION
Ebony Golden curates and evening with choreographers Audrey Elaine Hailes, Jaime Yawa Dzandu, and Malcolm-X El-Shabazz Betts who make work that is challenging, thick, messy, purposeful, durational, muscular, and textured. This bold and necessary art challenges the times and sets a vision for emancipation in action.

Sunday, October 22 at 3pm / Free
Marta Renzi & ARTHUR AVILES
In 2004, choreographer/filmmaker Marta Renzi met dancer/choreographer 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 Renzi featuring and live dance created by Arthur featuring Jonathan Gonzalez.

Saturday, October 28 at 7pm / Free
BAAD! HALLOWEEN PARTY & OPEN STAGE
BAAD! brings it on for 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. Come dance the night away.

Friday, November 3 at 8pm / $20. $15
MALEEK WASHINGTON
Rooted in reflective narration and mapping, Maleek Washington's work engages the complexities of family, labor, and passage of time through the lens of the Black male experience in America. Washington is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. He began his dance training at Harlem School of The Arts, and later went on to continue his studies at Broadway Dance Center and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. Part of Pepatian/BAAD!'s Dance Your Future residency funded by the Jerome Foundation.

Saturday, November 4 at 8pm / $20, $15
WINDS OF RESISTANCE
STAYCEE PEARL AND MILTERI TUCKER
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.

Tuesday, November 7 at 7pm/Free
COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS: Strategies for Living and Loving in America
with Staceyann Chin and Zanele Muholi
Spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist Staceyann Chin, an urgent voice for our time, and Cape Town-based Zanele Muholi, a New York Times Magazine featured visual activist who explores representation and visibility of black and queer figures in public life, lead this installment of Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living and Loving in America. BAAD!'s new free series offers topical talks and resilience workshops led by leading thinkers and doers from the arts, media and politics and is followed by a facilitated/open community forum for queer people and their allies on how to navigate and thrive in the current political climate.

Friday, November 10 at 8pm / $20, $15
TATIANA DESARDOUIN/PASSION FRUIT DANCE COMPANY
DANCE WITHIN YOUR DANCE
Hip hop and house dancer/choreographer Tatiana Desardouin serves up movement using isolations, lines, waves, rhythms, and steps to find self within dance. Her Passion Fruit Dance Company questions uniqueness, even when the hip-hop and house communities are strongly and naturally influenced by each other. ?Part of Pepatian/BAAD!'s Dance Your Future residency funded by the Jerome Foundation.

Friday, November 17 at 8pm / $20, $15
BEATRICE CAPOTE & MIGUEL APARICIO/THE SABROSURA EFFECT
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
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.

Saturday, November 18 at 8pm / $20, $15
LATIN BALLET OF VIRGINIA
NuYoRICAN
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.

BAAD!/AATT receive support from The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The SHS Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Liberty Fund of the New York Community Trust, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Lincoln Center Innovation Fund, The New York State Council on the Arts, Councilmember Jimmy Vacca, The Jerome Foundation and private donations.