DANCING FUTURES 2025

CULMINATING RESIDENCY SHOWINGS, NOV 2025

CHRISTIAN WARNER - Nov 7 & 8, 8pm

ABIDE WITH ME

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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.

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QUABA V. ERNEST - Nov 21 & 22, 8pm

Huis Clos

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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

  • Du’Bois A’Keen, mentor: Christian Warner

    photo: James Drakeford

  • Fana Fraser, mentor: Christian Warner

    photo: Lindsay Morris at The Watermill Center

  • Darvejon A. Jones, mentor: asmara & writer, Christian Warner

    photo: Jenelle Gaerlan

  • Kirya Traber, Project Editor

    photo: Texas Isaiah

  • Kendall Rideout, writer asmara

     photo: Dumebi Malaika Menakaya

  • Charmaine Warren, writer Quaba V. Ernest

    photo: Tony Turner

  • Jonathan McCrory, mentor: Quaba V. Ernest

ANCILLARY ARTISTS 2025

11th annual

DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2025

Selected artists receive:

  • $4000 artist honorarium

  • mentorship

  • performance opportunities and other professional support

Applications & Guidelines link: NOW CLOSED

https://rb.gy/ens5i2

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