CALL FOR ARTISTS !
12th annual, DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2026
Thank you all for applying!
Applicants will be notified in late April.
Dancing Futures Residency 2026 is an annual project created by partners Pepatián and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance which provides professional development opportunities for three NYC-based early career dance artists of color and/or emerging Bronx-
based dance artists.
Selected artists will receive:
* peer-to-peer support/feedback
* mentorship
* $4,000 honorarium total to fund their creative research/ project development
* opportunities to share new
dance or dance theater work developed during the residency as a public work-in-process showing, November 2026.
All rehearsal and performance activities will take place at BAAD! 2474 Westchester Ave, The Bronx
Any questions, please reach out to: pepatian@gmail.com
We look forward to reading your application !
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!
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
