BRONX GROWS DANCE
Connecting professional dance artists with local youth to inspire each other
Thank you to our partners: BAAD!, DreamYard and Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
BRONX GROWS DANCE 2026
Residency with MindBuilders Creative Arts Space:
Maleek Washington offered pre-professional dance students five workshops leading to new choreography for their end of year performances.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Bronx Dance Fund, a regrant program administered by the Bronx Council; by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
BRONX GROWS DANCE 2025
Bronx Grows Dance
Master Classes and Teaching Residencies produced by Pepatián in a second annual collaboration with Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center.
Jan/Feb 2025 - Argelia Arreola
March & July 2025 - Megan Curet, Dorchel Haqq, Maleek Washington.
August 2025: Christian Warner, Babou Sanneh.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Bronx Dance Fund, a regrant program administered by the Bronx Council; by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the Foley Hoag Foundation.
BRONX GROWS DANCE 2024
Bronx Grows Dance
featuring:
Master Classes and Teaching Residencies produced by Pepatián in a first annual collaboration with Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center.
“It was truly a pleasure and privilege to partner with Pepatián and the amazing team of dancer/choreographers. The intimate learning exchange provided the best atmosphere for vulnerability, curiosity, creativity, and connection to manifest. Thank you Pepatián!”
- Julia L. Gutiérrez-Rivera, Educational Partnerships Manager,
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Bronx Dance Fund, a regrant program administered by the Bronx Council; by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the Foley Hoag Foundation.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Bronx Dance Fund, a regrant program administered by the Bronx Council; by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
BRONX GROWS DANCE 2023
Master Classes and Teaching Residencies produced by Pepatián at DreamYard
Featuring:
2nd annual Bronx Grows Dance 2023
Bronx Grows Dance, 2nd annual project is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, support from the Bronx Council on the Arts through the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, and individual contributions to Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative.
Thank you to BAAD! for our ongoing partnership in support of this project.
Bronx Grows Dance, 2nd annual is a live, interactive dance event produced by Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative in collaboration with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance that centers the question: How could our youth re-imagine the future of dance if given space and time to gather and ignite?
The sole purpose of this event is to gather youth from the Bronx and surrounding uptown communities to engage with the potentiality of dance in their lives.
As a space to gather, learn, exchange and present, this event offers youth in dance a way to collectively begin shaking up the future directions of thinking of and knowing dance. Often, this kind of meeting exists primarily in spaces and settings that are out of reach from those communities that would benefit the most from them.
Initiated and organized by Megan Curet, this project is inspired by Pepatián’s collective project, Dancing la Botanica, a platform for Latino/a/x choreographers, dance makers and movement artists.
This symposium of classes and conversation with professional teaching artists - produced and born in The Bronx, the electric borough of the boogie-down - continues to be an historic event.
FOR TEENS: dance workshops & conversations led by
Bronx-based choreographers
Saturday April 1, 2023 @ BAAD!
10am-4pm, lunch provided
with teaching artists:
JENNIFER “Beasty” ACOSTA
MEGAN CURET
CYNTHIA PANIGUA
JANICE TOMLINSON
BRONX GROWS DANCE 2022, 1st annual
Bronx Grows Dance, 1st annual
a symposium for teens led by Bronx-based choreographers, with a kick off performance with
Post-perf conversation facilitated by Leenda Bonilla with the artists: Megan Curet, Milteri Tucker Concepcion, Beverly Lopez
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Bronx Dance Fund, a regrant program administered by the Bronx Council; by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and NALAC.