Bronx Academy of the Arts and Dance Presents OUT LIKE THAT! Festival

For the past 15 years, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance has presented the Bronx's only consistent celebration during gay pride month - The OUT LIKE THAT! Festival at BAAD! The festival takes place at BAAD!'s home base at 2474 Westchester Avenue and continues through Friday, June 26, 2015 with a fierce line-up of dance, theatre, and wonderful performances featuring queer Bronx artists including Elizabeth "Macha" Marrero's new show WHOLLY MACHA, events by Bronx choreographers Richard Rivera and Ni'Ja Whitson, and a closing night dance concert celebrating dance diva Sylvester and Gender Freedom. For information and directions call (718) 918-2110 or visit www.BAADBronx.org.

The OUT LIKE THAT 2014 festival performance schedule is as follows:

Friday & Saturday, June 12 & 13 at 8pm/$25
WHOLLY MACHA!
The award-winning actress/comedienne/drag king, Elizabeth "Macha" Marrero, returns to BAAD!'s stage with her first solo show in years with her beloved characters Petronelia, Willy G?iso Jugo, Dicky DooLittle, and others averting life's curve balls with humor and fierce ghetto flava. Directed by Arthur Aviles.

Friday, June 19 at 7pm / Free
B! YOUth!
This new monthly initiative at BAAD! celebrates young LGBTQ people with an event that begins with an art/ culture presentation followed by an open mic, dance off (with a two $25 prizes) and an after-party. This month's offering will include short gay films and the coming out scene from the TV show Empire.

Saturday, June 20 at 1pm / Free
Richard Rivera / Open Rehearsal
Bronx-based choreographer Richard Rivera, who was recently granted a Pepatian/BAAD! Open Call Artist Residency presents new work in progress. Audience members are invited into the intimate creative process as Richard shows and shares dances he is preparing for a show in November.

Saturday, June 20 at 8pm / $15
NI'JA WHITSON in When Water Dries the Mouth: Experiments & Suite Prayers
The award-winning Bronx-based Dancer/Choreographer/Artists Ni'Ja Whitson / The NWA Project will present a culminating event of a year-long inquiry into the Divine in ritual, religion, sexuality, and sex. While investigating the corrosive and subversive powers of institutionalized religion, this evening of experiments, statements, and prayers draws upon the complicated legacies of Queer, Black, and African Indigenous expressions of/toward salvation.

Friday, June 26 at 8pm / $15
Celebrating SYLVESTER and Gender Freedom: The Out Like That! Dance Concert
Through the power and verve of dance, this shared bill of choreographers express celebrate the dance diva Sylvester and gender freedom through works that either use his music or express their ideas of gender freedom with Filip A. Condeescu, Kharis Collins and eight other choreographers.

BAAD!, crowned a funky and welcoming performance space by The New York Times, creates, supports and presents works in all creative disciplines that are empowering to women, people of color and the LGBT community.

OUT LIKE THAT! receives support from the Simon Bolivar Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Councilwoman Carmen Arroyo. BAAD! and AATT receive support from the above mentioned sources and from The Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The New York Community Trust and individual donors.

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