#dancingwhileblack

[inthedeathofthedope]

Afro futurism was the theme tonight

[afronautlab]

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mood. . . #blackjoy #blackbirthmatters #dancingwhileblack https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWzUeXFTtN/?igshid=173m7jb4r98wz

[ganessajames]

TONIGHT! BAX (@baxarts) is honoring these awesome folks and orgs doing work in the performing arts and social justice space.So many faves on this list! @onliestismusic is glad to offer musi. To the celebration. Come warm your hearts with us. Fam: DM for discount code! #ACRE, #EvaYaaAsantewaa, #IrondaleEnsembleProject, #TheLaundromatProject, #DancingWhileBlack Paloma McGregor, and #LetterOfMarque at #BAXArts.❤️ TIX: https://events.bax.org/2019-bax-awards/ (at BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuhIdoThh3R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gd6j7crvlgf5

[melanie-greene]

Hooray! We did it @ubwdance Generative Dancer Intensive #angelaspulse #dancingwhileblack #dwbfellows2017 with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and @mopdance. So grateful. Looking forward to the days/weeks/months to sit with all that I learned. Thanks to all who made it happen!

[baxarts]

Well hello Dancing While Black Fellow Joya Powell! #dancingwhileblack Check out her work and the other #dwbfellows2017 at events.bax.org/fists-hands

[baxarts]

Greetings Dancing While Black Fellow Brittany Williams. View her work and the other #dwbfellows2017 during with fists, with hands, March 31 - April 1 @8pm @bax. #dancingwhileblack #baxarts #angelaspulse

[baxarts]

Well hello Dancing While Black Fellow Kesha McKey! #dwbfellows2017 #dancingwhileblack #angelaspulse Show March 31 - April 1 @ 8pm | events.bax.org/fists-hands Photo by Melisa Cardona

[baxarts]

Creating Space

For almost twenty five years, BAX has been home to new ideas and a place for dialogue and discovery. In our 2015/16 season we are fortunate to be working with a group of artists and activists, many of whom are current or former Artists in Residence, who with the support of the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation have developed a set of programs that support the development of artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aesthetic traditions. It is by partnering in this work that we insure BAX is truly an artistic home that is at safe, supportive and nurturing for our many communities.

Former AIR KATY PYLE and current SPACE GRANTEE JULES SKLOOT will continue to develop BALLEZ, a dance class that explores the virtuosity of genderqueer embodiment by radically re-imagining the form. Current AIR PALOMA MCGREGOR is developing a new component of DANCING WHILE BLACK (also supported by the Surdna Foundation) that will support a Dancing While Black Fellowship program to offer a cohort of Black emerging dance artists free master classes and platforms for developing work. Former AIR DAN FISHBACK is still at the helm of SUBMERGE, an annual series presented by the HELIX QUEER PERFORMANCE NETWORK. This season SUBMERGE is partnering with awQward, the world’s first QTPOC talent agency. FACULTY MEMBER MARIA DUARTE along with Geneva Manley will have a home base at BAX for DANCE TO THE PEOPLE, an open collective of dancers looking to generate opportunities for training, research and choreography. And last, but not least, BAX will continue to provide a free monthly home to ACRE (Artists Co-creating Racial Equality) in affiliation with the People’s Institute for Survival and beyond. ACRE is a monthly meet up for artists, cultural workers, and cultural advocates working to understand and undo racism in our field and in our daily lives.

There is a lot going on at BAX and we’re running full force into the season. Continue to visit bax.org to learn about upcoming events and programs. 

See you around!