Pepatián’s Dancing Futures Residency, in partnership with our wonderful partner BAAD!, offers emerging Bronx-based and/or dance artists of color with resources, performance opportunities, mentorship, and documentation to strengthen and shine a spotlight on The Bronx as a creative incubator of new dance and performance work.
DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2023
CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company
Mai Lê Hô
Queerly Femmetastic
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Mai Lê Hô
Walking in Layers by Mai Lê Hô
March 22 & March 23 2024
Dance artist Mai Lê Hô and collaborators debut Walking In Layers , a multidisciplinary 2-day festival addressing layers of identity while merging Vietnamese, French, and American influences and artists through dance, live improv music, documentary video, eco-fashion, and more.
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Queerly Femmetastic
WE BEEN HERE: BLACK BURLESQUE LEGACY
Nov 3 & Nov 4 2023
Starring: Queerly Femmetastic, Nita B. Yellowcakes, Miss Aurora BoobRealis, Perle Noire, Susie Dahl & Dominant Jeane.
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CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company
INTERLUDES
Nov 17 & 18 2023
The piece choreographed by CocoMotion and performed by NuTribe Dance Company. The piece about love, friendship, self love, the space between those pivotal movements and the seasonal changes that accompany these shifts in life. Interludes features live musicians included a bassist, beatboxer, keyboardist and emcee. In addition to dancers who both partake in choreography and freestyle.
Dancing Futures Residency Artists 2023 -24
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CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company
photo: @qlickphotography
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Mai Lê Hô
photo: Lauriane Ogay
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Queerly Femmetastic
photo: Maxine Wallace Photography
MENTORS 2023
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Tatiana Desardouin
mentor, CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Company
photo: Lauriane Ogay
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maura nguyễn donohue
mentor, Mai Lê Hô
photo: courtesy of the artist
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Perle Noir
mentor, Queerly Femmetastic
photo: Ellen Stagg
RESIDENCY WRITERS & EDITOR
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Jazelynn Goudy
writer, CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Company
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Anh Vo
writer, Mai Lê Hô
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Dominant Jeane
writer, Queerly Femmetastic
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Ashayla Byrd
Project Editor 2023
ANCILLARY PROJECT 2023
Three additional artists were selected to receive support, including an artist honorarium, free rehearsal space, peer-to-peer meetings and workshops.
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ARGELIA ARREOLA
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MAWU AMA MA’AT GORA
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SHIZU HOMMA
Residency Facilitators
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photo: S*an D. Henry-Smith
BC in The BX residency, March 22-26 2024
Dance West Network’s Re-centering/Margins Residency alumni Jennifer Aoki, Sophie Dow, Isaac Gasangwa, Robyn Grant-Moran, Aryo Khakpour, Nick Miami Benz, Mohammed Rashead participated in a four-day residency in The Bronx, NYC, March 22-26, 2024. The artists met with Dancing Futures alumnae: Rebecca Gual, Alicia Raquel Morales, Queerly Femmetastic, Mai Lê Hô, CoCoMotion.
With artists sharings and exchanges at BAAD!, attending performances with impromptu community dancing, seeing other performances, meeting artists, taking class, touring the new Bronx Music Hall, the artists left The Bronx with new creative ideas and connections. Until the next !
Produced by Dance West Network in collaboration with Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance with funding from Canadian Heritage and the Jerome Foundation.
ANNOUNCING
Dancing Futures Residency 2023
CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company
Mai Lê Hô
Queerly Femmetastic
MEET THE 2023 ARTISTS
Thurs June 15 2023 @ 7:30pm, live/livestreamed at BAAD!
Wed June 28 2023 @ 7:30pm, Online
2023 DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY
9th Annual
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Thurs April 20 , 11:59 pm
CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION & GUIDELINES
Pepatián:Bronx Arts ColLABorative’s Dancing Futures: Artist and Mentor Collaborative Residency offers three selected BIPOC artists and/or Bronx-based artists with opportunities to create new performance works at BAAD! with access to rehearsal space, mentorship support, written documentation, and professional development opportunities.
Dancing Futures: Artist and Mentor Collaborative Residency is a project initiated by Pepatián in partnership with BAAD! and funded in large part by the Jerome Foundation, as well as in part by public funds from the Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts.
Dancing Futures Residency
