Write Your Future, Volumes I & II

Write Your Future, the literary companion to the Dancing Futures Residency, offers emerging dance artists additional creative documentation with writers accompanying artists in Pepatian’s Dancing Futures Residency, produced in collaboration with BAAD!.

Write Your Future shines a spotlight on The Bronx as a creative incubator of new work.

  • WRITE YOUR FUTURE, VOLUME II

    Collected essays, 2020-2024


    Writers include: bhumi b patel (editor), Nina Angela Mercer (editor), Anh Vo, Kirya Traber, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Makeda Thomas (editor), Ninoska M’Bewe Escobar, Benedict Nguyễn, Malaika Adero, Julissa Contreras, Joya Powell, Ashayla Byrd (editor), Dominant Jeane, Jazelynn Goudy.

    Dance artists include: Kayla Hamilton, Alicia Raquel Morales, Rourou Yen, Rebecca Gual, Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde, Alexander Diaz, Babacar Top, Megan Curet, Janice Tomlinson, Queerly Femmestastic, CoCo Motion, Mai Lê Hô.

    Copy writer: Tara Aisha Willis

    COVER IMAGE Credits: Photo credit: M J Abiva, 2023. Performance: PRN, Choreographer: Janice Tomlinson. Featuring: Abril Amparo, Jessica Figueroa, Sebastian Jeremy, Ashley Sampson. Nov 18 & 19, 2023. BAAD! culminating Dancing Futures Residency showing.

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  • WRITE YOUR FUTURE, Volume I

    Collected Essays, 2017, 2018 & 2019

    Writers: Yasmeen Chism, Stephanie George, Nina Angela Mercer. Eva Yaa Asantewaa (editor), Niya Nicholson, Joya Powell, Melanie Greene, Nicole L. Martin, Ph.D. (editor), Demetrius Shields.

    Dance artists: Nile Harris, Joan Bradford, Candace Tabbs, Maleek Washington, Tatiana Desardouin, Beatrice Capote & Miguel Aparicio, Cain Coleman & Matthew Perez / Coleman Collective, Kayla Farrish / Decent Structure Arts, Ebony Noelle Golden / Betty’s Daughter Arts

    *CORRECTION: In the 2017 essay "A Grooveology: Reflections on Dance within Your Dance," references to Afropunk were incorrectly named. The event is called Soul Summit (at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn). Also, Passion Fruit Company members: Tatiana Desardouin is Swiss-Haitian, Mai Lê is French-Vietnamese, and Lauriane is Swiss.

    Cover Image: Photo credit Marisol Díaz-Gordon, 2019. Kayla Farrish and Dare Ayorinde.

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