11th annual
DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2025
Applicants notified in late April 2025.
Selected artists receive:
$4000 artist honorarium
mentorship
performance opportunities and other professional support
Applications & Guidelines link:
Begun in 2014, Pepatián’s Dancing Futures Residency, produced 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.
RESIDENCY ARTIST ALUMNI, 2020-2024
2020-21
Alicia Raquel Morales
Kayla Hamilton
Rourou Ye
2021-22
Dare Ayorinde
Alexander Diaz
Rebecca Gual
2022
Megan Curet
Janice Tomlinson
Babacar Top
2023
CoCo Motion Presents NuTribe Dance Company
Mai Lê Hô
Queerly Femmetastic
2024
Imani Gaudin / gaudanse
Maima The Water Spirit aka Mai'yah Kau
Babou Sanneh, RareBreed productions
RESIDENCY ARTIST ALUMNI, 2014-2019
2014
Awilda Rodríguez-Lora
2015
Milteri Tucker Concepción / Bombazo Dance Co
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones
Richard Rivera/Physual Dance Company
2016
Fana Fraser
Jasmine Hearn
Alethea Pace
2017
Beatrice Capote and Miguel Aparicio / The Sabrosura Effect
Tatiana Desardouin, Mai Lê Hô, Lauriane Ogay /Passion Fruit Dance Company
Maleek Washington
2018
Cain A. Coleman and Matthew Perez / ColemanCollective
Kayla Farrish / Decent Structures Arts
Ebony Noelle Golden / Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative (BDAC)
2019
Joan Bradford
Nile Harris
Candace Tabbs
