Brooklyn Arts Exchange Announces its 2016/17 Performance Season

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange's presenting season is an integral part of their core work - developing emerging and mid-career artists. Our dedication to presenting new work, work-in-progress, and work in a critical phase of development and experimentation reflects our mission to support artists rather than outcomes. This commitment is further reflected in our guest curated series that includes evenings curated by current and former Artists In Residence, as well as guests from the community.

The 2016/17 season kicks off with SUBMERGE 2016: will you? curated by Naimonu James, produced by Dan Fishback (2016/17 BAX Doris Duke Artist in Residence), and presented by
BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange in association with The Helix Queer Performance Network. From November 6 - 13, this festival will feature work by Taja Lindley, marikiscrycry/Malik Nashad Sharpe, Mette LouLou von Kohl, Coda Wei, Mieke D, Katherine Marie and Salome Asega, a reading of "Permitted" by Kirya Traber, a pop-up installation and performance by the Free Black Women's Library, and Femmepremacy -- a party crafted by Shayna Janelle. Celebrating black and brown femmes, will you? asks what does the journey to healing look like. If you see enough people performing Black Joy and Black Love and Black Vulnerabilty and Black Subjectivites and BLACK AND QUEER for you will you be moved?

The season continues with a series of open-studio and informal showings, and formal works-in-progress showcases created by BAX Artists In Residence (AIR) Tanisha Christie (interdisciplinary), Catherine Galasso (dance), Kristine Haruna Lee (theater), Marissa Perel (interdisciplinary), Mariana Valencia (dance), and Ni'Ja Whitson (dance). The Fall Space Grant Showcase will feature work by BAX Fall Space Grant recipients Ashley Brockington, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, and Brittany Williams. These performances offer artists and audiences opportunities to engage in a variety of artistic processes to share intentions, perceptions, and feedback in a way that is influential in the development of the artists' work, and impacts the audience's experience of the work.

The Upstart Festival, curated by former BAX Artists In Residence Jillian Peña (2011-13) and Fernando Maneca (2004-06), is returning for its 8th year. This festival is designed to give creators of dance, theater and performance work, who have no more than three years of experience showing their work in NYC, an opportunity to show work. The festival facilitates networking opportunities that pave the way for fruitful artistic careers.

The 2016/17 season features a range of exciting works from the provocative and socio-politically to the formal, abstract, and compositional.

To view a complete list of the 2016/17 performance season composed of adult and youth events, visit events.bax.org/2016-17-performance-season.

ABOUT BAX
Founded in 1991, BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, is a community based performing arts center dedicated to developing artists of all ages, from children to professionals. The organization offers community access to arts and culture, supporting the creation of new work by emerging artists, engaging diverse audiences and providing arts education to youth and families. BAX has intentionally constructed an environment where children study and professional artists create under the same roof. Students are mentored by professional directors and choreographers. The organization's distinct focus on developmental process makes it a nurturing incubator for experimental dance and theater artists and is an important advocate for under-represented voices in the New York City performing arts community.

For more information about BAX and its programs please call 718-832-0018, email press@bax.org or visit us on the web at www.bax.org.

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange receives generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Brad Lander, Astoria Bank, Bay and Paul Foundations, the Brenner Family Foundation, Con Edison, Copper Beech Foundation, Corcoran Cares, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Eileen Fisher Inc., the Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Houlihan Lokey, the Jerome Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Scott Klein Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, M&T Charitable Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the Pritchard Family Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, and the Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust.

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