The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance Launches Season with BlakTinX Performance Series, 9/30

The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance begins its fall season with the BlakTinX Performance Series from September 30 to December 7, 2016. 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 & Saturday, September 30 and October 1 at 8pm / $20

LET'S GO CRAZY: DANCE TRIBUTE TO PRINCE

Two evenings of choreographers presenting short works inspired by the music and legacy of Prince. Originals, remixes, and covers play like a gapless album throughout the night of dance. After the show the audience is invited to dance to a Prince super mix. With Cashel Sapphire Campbell , Filip A. Condeescu, Jessica Danser, Shizu Homma, kNOw SHADE, Jackie OH!, Noele Phillips, Richard Rivera, Jason Rodriguez, The Stanley Love Performance Group and Vir-Amicus.

Thursday, October 6 at 7pm / free

PERIODIC SOLUTION: A DANCE FILM (premiere)
BAAD's celebrated choreographer Arthur Aviles dances in this film of "Periodic Solution," a dance choreographed by Jean Churchill for Aviles when he was her student at Bard College in the 1980s. The piece includes "The Element Song" by humorist Tom Lehrer and was shot in upstate NYC and the Bronx. Cinematography and editing by Peter Richards. Receptions begin and follow the screening with a post-show Q&A with the artists.

Tuesday, October 11 at 7:00pm / Free
JULIO OF JACKSON HEIGHTS
Richard Shpuntoff's celebrated documentary film tells the story of how the 1990 gay bashing murder of Julio Rivera sparked the subsequent organizing for justice and played a crucial role in expanding the LGBTQ movement into New York's outer boroughs. Post-screening panel with filmmaker and discussion on LGBTQ activism in the Bronx during the early 1990s.

Saturday, October 22 at 3pm & 8pm / $20
Antonio Lyons
WE ARE HERE
When the allure of Hollywood loses its shine a seasoned actor begins to question what living life is all about. He embarks on a life-changing journey moving from Los Angeles to Johannesburg. The journey would turn out to be more than he could have ever imagined as he used theatre to engage men and boys in themes of gender violence, identity, relationships and HIV/AIDS.

Sunday, October 23 at 6pm / Free
La Movida NYC (Counter)Storytelling Project
UNA NOCHE DE JOTERIA
Juan Fernandez's La Movida returns to BAAD! with a reading of PRIETO by Yosimar Reyes and other guests. This event will highlight and reflect the various experiences of Queer Chicana/o/x in the U.S. (and in NYC).

Tuesday, October 25 at 7pm / Free
CALL ME KUCHU
Call Me Kuchu is a 2012 American documentary directed by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. The film explores the struggles of the LGBT community in Uganda, focusing in part on the 2011 murder of LGBT activist David Kato. Filmmakers gain access to Uganda's secretive LGBT community and follow a group of gay women and men - derogatorily called "Kuchus" - lead by Kato, as he fights to repeal the country's anti-gay laws and as they rail against the ongoing, sometimes violent, persecution. The film won a 2014 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.

Saturday, October 29 at 7pm / $5 sugg. Donation
HALLOWEEN PARTY & OPEN STAGE
In partnership with In the Live Ministries and Montefiore's Mpowerment Project, BAAD! brings it on 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. Then dance the night away. Free snacks and candy.

Saturday, November 5 at 8pm / $20
BAAD!/JACK
Brooklyn's JACK and Bronx's BAAD! present an evening of dance by two BK choreographers, Niall Jones and IsaBella Diaz and two BX choreographers Filip A. Condeescu and Milteri Tucker who bring contemporary dance and folkloric moves and spiritual grooves. The program will also be presented at Jack on Nov. 3 and 4.

Sunday, November 6 at 3pm / $20
Alethea Pace's
TRYING TO SWEEP BACK THE OCEAN WITH A BROOM
This dance work is an investigation of racial ambiguity and the color line, inspired by the Alice Rhinelander case of 1925 about a mixed race woman who was accused of defrauding her white aristocratic husband by passing herself as a white woman and denying her black ancestry. Choreographed by Alethea Pace with text by Urayoán Noel and a visual installation by Tracie Hervy. The concert is part of the Pepatian/BAAD! Open Call supported by the Jerome Foundation.

Saturday, November 12 at 3pm & 8pm / $15

Dr. Herukhuti
MY BROTHER IS A KEEPER
Set in the 1990s-during the golden age of Hip Hop-in Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant, this play depicts a weekend in the lives of Kevin, Basil, Cecil, Mona and Charlene a group of friends who are living their dreams. The play raises important questions about the nature of Blackness and puts bisexuality in African-American and Caribbean-American communities front and center.

Friday, November 18 at 8pm / $20
BETWEEN LINES/BRONX PASSPORT
Vermont-based choreographer Chrystal Brown returns to BAAD! on a shared program with a dynamic group of dynamic movers and innovative thinkers Maree ReMalia (DC) with Hyunjung Lee (South Korea), Kensaku Shinohara(Queens.Japan), and devynn emory (BK).

Saturday, November 19 at 8pm / $20
Fana Fraser's
IMELDA, IVETH & IRENE
This solo performance by Fana Fraser delves into an erotic dreamscape of delicious secrets, obsession, and the unraveling of a soul. Our leading ladies are caught in a loop of desire. The concert is part of the Pepatian/BAAD! Open Call supported by the Jerome Foundation.

Wednesday, December 7 at 8pm / $20
Jasmin Hearn's
MONSTER
Choreographer Jasmin Hearn's Monster gives space and time for moving, queer bodies to remember how shame found them. A conversation with ourselves on how we were raised to fear our flesh when we were neither clean nor dirty.The concert is part of the Pepatian/BAAD! Open Call supported by the Jerome Foundation.

BAAD! and AATT receive support from The NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The SHS Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts and individual donors.