DANCING FUTURES 2025
CULMINATING RESIDENCY SHOWINGS, NOV 2025
CHRISTIAN WARNER - Nov 7 & 8, 8pm
ABIDE WITH ME
asmara - Nov 14 * & 15, 8pm
Venus has four eyes: Histories of calculated mistrust and desire.
*NOTE: Nov 14th is a BIPOC sacred space. If you are a white person or experience white-privilege (despite cultural ethnicity), please plan to attend the Nov 15th show. If you are a BIPOC person, you are welcome to attend either night, but encouraged to share space with us on Nov 14th. Each performance is specific to the audience.
QUABA V. ERNEST - Nov 21 & 22, 8pm
Huis Clos
11th annual
asmara
DANCING FUTURES 2025
MEET THE ARTISTS
Dancing Futures 2025: Meet the Artists, live event on May 15, 2025, 8pm at BAAD!
Meet the three emerging NYC dance artists handpicked for this year’s eleventh anniversary Dancing Futures Artist Residency!
https://www.baadbronx.org/
Mentors & Writers invited by the Residency Artists
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Du’Bois A’Keen, mentor: Christian Warner
photo: James Drakeford
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Fana Fraser, mentor: Christian Warner
photo: Lindsay Morris at The Watermill Center
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Darvejon A. Jones, mentor: asmara & writer, Christian Warner
photo: Jenelle Gaerlan
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Kirya Traber, Project Editor
photo: Texas Isaiah
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Kendall Rideout, writer asmara
photo: Dumebi Malaika Menakaya
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Charmaine Warren, writer Quaba V. Ernest
photo: Tony Turner
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Jonathan McCrory, mentor: Quaba V. Ernest
11th annual
DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2025
Selected artists receive:
$4000 artist honorarium
mentorship
performance opportunities and other professional support
Applications & Guidelines link: NOW CLOSED
Artists must have some evidence of professional achievement (with three 7-10 minute physically-based movement works already publicly presented in a 2 year timespan) but must be early career and not recognized as established artists with a substantial record of accomplishment.
Artists must be wiling to work with a mentor, and commit to rehearsals and showings at BAAD! in The Bronx.
Begun in 2014, Pepatián’s Dancing Futures Residency, produced in partnership with our wonderful partner BAAD!, offers emerging Bronx-based and/or dance artists of color with resources, performance opportunities, mentorship, and documentation to strengthen and shine a spotlight on The Bronx as a creative incubator of new dance and performance work.
RESIDENCY ARTIST ALUMNI, 2020-2024
2020-21
Alicia Raquel Morales
Kayla Hamilton
Rourou Ye
2021-22
Dare Ayorinde
Alexander Diaz
Rebecca Gual
2022
Megan Curet
Janice Tomlinson
Babacar Top
2023
CoCo Motion Presents NuTribe Dance Company
Mai Lê Hô
Queerly Femmetastic
2024
Imani Gaudin / gaudanse
Maima The Water Spirit aka Mai'yah Kau
Babou Sanneh, RareBreed productions
RESIDENCY ARTIST ALUMNI, 2014-2019
2014
Awilda Rodríguez-Lora
2015
Milteri Tucker Concepción / Bombazo Dance Co
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones
Richard Rivera/Physual Dance Company
2016
Fana Fraser
Jasmine Hearn
Alethea Pace
2017
Beatrice Capote and Miguel Aparicio / The Sabrosura Effect
Tatiana Desardouin, Mai Lê Hô, Lauriane Ogay /Passion Fruit Dance Company
Maleek Washington
2018
Cain A. Coleman and Matthew Perez / ColemanCollective
Kayla Farrish / Decent Structures Arts
Ebony Noelle Golden / Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative (BDAC)
2019
Joan Bradford
Nile Harris
Candace Tabbs
