ZAINAB FLOYD, Dancing Futures 2026 Residency culminating showing
Experience the premiere of Zainab Floyd's Rituals for the Black Caribbean.
Pepatián presents, Dancing Futures: Zainab Floyd
Rituals for the Black Caribbean is a cross-cultural and political production of solidarity through the quest of movement with the underlying beat of resistance, rebellion, romance and liberation using movements from Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, and Suriname.
Produced in partnership with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Westchester Ave, The Bronx
To purchase tickets, click HERE
JEEVIKA BHAT: Dancing Futures 2026 Residency culminating showing
Experience Jeevika Bhat's Miyan.
Pepatián presents, Dancing Futures: Jeevika Bhat
Miyan explores the magical music of Tansen, a legendary 16th century musical prodigy who pioneered the Hindustani Gwalior Gharana. Born mute, it is mythologized that Tansen was mystically gifted with the ability to sing, and grew up to master magical raagas which calmed rogue elephants, caused lamps to spark and burn, and summoned sweet rain from the sky.
The dancers, as music notes and sound waves, exist first entirely within the artist's mind, synesthesially responding to instinct and creative impetus. As these metaphysical ideas come bursting out of the brain to manifest as physical reality, Miyan seeks to uncover the actual mechanism of the artistic process. How can we conceive the immense intricacy of what subconsciously happens within someone who finds their art to be easy?
Produced in partnership with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Westchester Ave The Bronx
For tickets, click HERE
WENDY ANN POWELL: Dancing Futures 2026 Residency culminating showing
Experience Wendy Ann Powell's The Portal Within.
Pepatián presents: Dancing Futures: Wendy Ann Powell
Wendy Ann Powell’s The Portal Within is an exploration of memory, lineage and voices of the past to forge the future. It is the Black spiritual dance practices where strength, joy, resilience, love and pain all converge. The realms of the past, present and future meet to share history, wisdom and destiny.
Collaborators Include:
Mohamed Amin, Dancer
Katarina Smith, Dancer
Nailah Roberts, Dancer
Brother Ryan Greenidge, Drummer
Lamar Diop Coard, Drummer
And more to be announced!
Produced in partnership with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Westchester Ave The Bronx
For tickets, click HERE
Public event, Home-Based Visual Arts Residency
CULMINATING PUBLIC SHOWING OF NEW WORK
Dec 10 at Hostos Gallery
Featuring:
Roselyn Grullon
Alexis Marie Montoya
Sheryl Saly Touré
the three visual artists in Pepatian’s inaugural residency, created in collaboration with Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
BRONX ARTIST SHOWCASE
SAVE THE DATE ! Industry event
17th annual
BRONX ARTIST SHOWCASE & CONVERSATION
Friday January 15 2027,
New time** 1:00pm-5:00pm **
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
TO register for the Industry Event, click HERE
SPRING 2027 !!
We look forward to Spring 2027
Hip-Hop Academy workshops and performance & Hip-Hop Homelands showcase
Bronx Indigenous Futurisms, 10th annual gathering !
Dancing Futures Residency, the new call for artists will be announced in early 2027
and more ~ check back for info!
Residency ANCILLARY ARTISTS DANCE SHOWING
Featuring Nhyira Asante and Kar’mel Small
hosted and with post-performance conversation facilitated by Christian Warner
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, 2474 Westchester Ave
check back for more details ~
Health & Hip-Hop with Janice Tomlinson
Health & Hip-Hop with Janice Tomlinson @ BAAD!
“Feel the Pulse” workshop with Janice Tomlinson (first hour) and FDNY/Fire Dept of New York Hands-Only CPR Workshop (second hour).
Dancing Futures Residency 2026 “Meet the Artists” showing,
Saturday MAY 30 2026
Dancing Futures Residency 2026 “Meet the Artists” showing, 5pm-6pm (Free)
with 12th annual cohort: Jeevika Bhat, Zainab Floyd, Wendy Ann Powell
and readings with Ashayla Byrd, Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, Darvejon A. Jones and Anh Vo (host)
PLUS
Dancing Futures Residency alumni gathering and book celebration , 6pm-8pm
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Bronx Indigenous Futurisms, 9th annual gathering
Bronx Indigenous Futurisms, 9th annual gathering, 2pm-3:30pm
Lead artist and Host Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja plus group performances by Cynthia Paniagua, Argelia Arreola, with visual artist Leenda Bonilla, and others TBA
Concrete Plant Park
8th annual Hip Hop Homelands: dance and poetry collaborations
Claudia “cap” Alvarez-Plaud and Ava “Kimimilla Flo” Davis
C.I.C.T and Sumbodies Mama
curated by Rokafella and Caridad De La Luz aka La Bruja
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Hip-Hop Homelands features women, gender non-conforming dance artists and poets,
Recite Dance and get Hype! with ROKAFELLA
Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative
in collaboration with Full Circle Productions and The Point CDC
presents
Recite Dance and get Hype! with ROKAFELLA
Multidisciplinary Workshops leading to a Group Rehearsal and Performance at the Hunts Point Fish Parade & Arts Festival, June 20 2026
For Bronx Residents - Teens & Young Adults
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM. (90minutes)
- May 27th
- June 3rd
- June 10th
- June 18th
June 20 2026 - Hunts Point Fish Parade & Arts Festival, 12Noon-4pm (exact perf time TBA)
Environment, Freedom, Bronx
Come through and participate!
TOOFLY Visual Arts Workshops at The Point CDC
Hip-Hop Academy
Visual Art workshops at The Point C.D.C.
Tuesday, March 31st
4-6PM
Tuesday April 14th
4-6PM
Thursday April 16th
4-6PM
TOOFLY Visual Arts Workshops at The Point CDC
Hip-Hop Academy
Visual Art workshops at The Point C.D.C.
Tuesday, March 31st
4-6PM
Tuesday April 14th
4-6PM
Thursday April 16th
4-6PM
Trans-Visibility Day
We Will Not Be Silenced: Trans Day of Visibility
Join us for an evening of Queer and Trans resilience! There will be artist offerings and community gathering, featuring artists Egyptt LaBeija, NIC Kay, Heather Hills, Dr. Z Paige, Princex Amis, and more!
For reservations: eventbrite.com/e/we-will-not-be-silenced-trans-day-of-visibility-tickets-1984161879594?aff=oddtdtcreator
TOOFLY Visual Arts Workshops at The Point CDC
Hip-Hop Academy
Visual Art workshops at The Point C.D.C.
Tuesday, March 31st
4-6PM
Tuesday April 14th
4-6PM
Thursday April 16th
4-6PM
Dancing Futures Residency ancillary artists showing
Dancing Futures Residency ancillary artists cohort showing
Thursday March 19, 2026 @ The Bronx Music Hall
BEATRIZ CASTRO, ELINOR KLEBER DIGGS, MORGAN GREGORY
sharing new works in a shared evening with post performance talk moderated by Megan Curet
CALL FOR ARTISTS, Dancing Futures Residency 2026, 12th annual
CALL FOR DANCE ARTISTS ! 12th annual, Dancing Futures Residency 2026
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO APPLIED! 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 !
CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, HOME BASED RESIDENCY
NEW !
Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative in partnership with
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture presents
HOME BASED RESIDENCY 2026
An inaugural residency for visual artists based in and/or making work in The Bronx.
Our submission program is open to early career BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) visual artists who live and/or make work in The Bronx. The work must be interdisciplinary, community inspired/site specific. Women and gender expansive artists are encouraged to apply.
APPLICATION - click HERE
PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES FOR COMPLETE DETAILS- click HERE
APPLICATION DEADLINE - EXTENDED !: Tues March 31, 2026 11:59pm Eastern time
There is NO submission fee. This residency is for visual artists in NYC who are based in and/or making work in The Bronx.
Applicants will be notified by April 28 2026.
Bronx Artist Showcase & Conversation, ANNUAL INDUSTRY EVENT
Bronx Artist Showcase & Conversation
Friday January 9, 2026
Our 16th annual INDUSTRY EVENT held at The Bronx Music Hall and Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture.
Produced in collaboration with The Bronx Music Hall, Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, and co-curated with award-winning folklorist and co-artistic director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC), Elena Martinez. With additional supporr from the Literary Freedom Project and Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
Featuring artists:
Musician: Salieu Suso
Convo: Caridad De La Luz aka La Bruja, Rokafella, Leenda Bonilla, conversation moderator: Cynthia Paniagua
Collaboration: poet cap and dancer Ava "Kimimilla" Davis
Convo: Milteri Tucker Concepcion, Beverly Lopez, Alethea Pace, Cynthia Paniagua, conversation moderator: Arthur Aviles
Dance: The Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts, Mazarte Mexican dance ensemble,
and Dancing Futures 2025 Residency artists: asmara, Quaba V. Ernest, Christian Warner
Conversation moderator: Alethea Pace
2pm-3:30pm Lunch provided for artists and presenters/funders.
DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2025: Quaba V. Ernest
Quaba V Ernest
Nov 21 & 22, 8pm
Tickets, click HERE
Huis Clos is a dance theater play unfolding in a single room, where movement, text, and silence reveal shifting dynamics between three figures and an unseen guide. With an atmosphere of questioning - of what keeps us here, of whether we choose to stay, of when the door last opened -the work lingers in uncertainty. Inspired by Sartre’s No Exit and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, it explores confinement, memory, and the barriers we create for ourselves and each other.
Tickets, pay what you can : $5-$20
tickets:baadbronx.org
Location: BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
2474 Westchester Avenue The Bronx
DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY: asmara
asmara + Penelope Montilla, Lia Aleman, and Alivea Allen
Nov 14 * (BIPOC sacred space; see link for more info) & 15, 8pm
Tickets, click HERE
Venus has four eyes: Histories of calculated mistrust and desire.
An experimental musical rooted in the truths that emerge from studying historical and contemporary relationships between black women. There is more to our lives than the violence we endure, and the relationships between us are a rich area of study to understand the importance of interpersonal intimacy in navigating oppressive realities.
Tickets, pay what you can : $5-$20
tickets:baadbronx.org
Location: BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
2474 Westchester Avenue The Bronx
DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2025: Christian Warner
CHRISTIAN WARNER
Nov 7 & 8, 8pm
TICKETS: click HERE
ABIDE WITH ME
This is a world of glittering promise and sudden shadow, a fleeting dream you can only witness where strings pull tighter in the name of devotion. In ABIDE WITH ME, Christian Warner and collaborators weave movement, voice, and sound into a surreal playland of obedience and rupture.
Tickets, pay what you can : $5-$20
tickets:baadbronx.org
Location: BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
2474 Westchester Avenue The Bronx
Bronx Indigenous Futurisms
Pepatián
8th annual, Bronx Indigenous Gathering
Saturday Sept 20, 1pm-2:30pm
rain or shine
Dance * Poetry * Percussion * Song * Storytelling * Installation *
Performances near The Bronx River Foodway with the closing at the Kayak Launch
Concrete Plant Park
Bx4, Bx4a, Bx5, Bx11, Bx27 OR 6 Whitlock Ave or 2, 5 Simpson St
Hip-Hop Academy , TOOFLY
Hip-Hop Academy
Visual Art workshops with TOOFLY
Banner-making workshop series celebrating the spirit of the Hunts Point Fish Parade!
Participants will learn design and painting techniques to create bold, expressive banners that amplify community pride, culture, and environmental justice.
All ages are welcome—come make art, make noise, and make a statement for Hunts Point!
at The Point C.D.C. 940 Garrison Ave
May 19, 20 & 21 2025
4pm-6pm
Dancing Futures Residency 2025 MEET THE ARTIST
Pepatián’s 11th annual
Dancing Futures Residency 2025
Meet the Artists
asmara
Quaba V. Ernest / Venza Dance
Christian Warner
Thursday May 15 at 8pm | Free
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, 2474 Westchester Ave.
Reservations: baadbronx.org
Hip-Hop Homelands
Pepatian’s 7th annual Hip Homelands
hosted by Rokafella
Wednesday, May 14 · 8pm EDT
at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance 2474 Westchester Ave
TIX: https://www.baadbronx.org/boogie2025
In person $10, Virtual $0-$10
Features poets and dancers in collaboration: dancer Ava "Kimimilla" Davis with poet cap, and dance group Creative Individuals Coming Together C.I.C.T and poet Sumbodies Mama
This project is co-curated by La Bruja and Rokafella. On May 14, Roka will host the event and moderate the post-show talkback.
Imani Gaudin, gaudanse
As Artistic Director of gaudanse, Imani Gaudin creates a collaborative space for artists while exploring how new ideas translate into dance and movement.
This work forms part of DANCING FUTURES, a residency celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Presented by Pepatián in partnership with BAAD!
presented in-person only
Babou Sanneh / RareBreed Productions
Babou Sanneh is a first-generation Gambian-American multidisciplinary artist, producer and dancer who brings power and fluidity to choreography.
This work forms part of DANCING FUTURES, a residency celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Presented by Pepatián in partnership with BAAD!
presented in-person only
MAIMA, THE WATER SPIRIT
Maima: The Water Spirit is a dance performance exploring the language of movement as a way of communication and time travel through music.
This work forms part of DANCING FUTURES, a residency celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Presented by Pepatián in partnership with BAAD!
presented in-person and virtual
Hip Hop Academy
Join Jennifer Acosta -AKA- BEASTY on Saturday, June 17th at the Hunts Point Fish Parade Arts Fair!
Bronx Indigenous Futurisms
Hunt’s Point Riverside
Caridad De La Luz in collaboration with Leenda Bonilla
Dancing La Botánica: La Tierra Vive! (the earth is alive)
performing at Bronx Music Hall Outdoor Plaza
Collaboration with: Beverly Lopez/REDi Dance Company, Milteri Tucker Concepcion, Rokafella. Stylist/Set Design: Leenda Bonilla
Bronx Grows Dance
For teens: workshops and conversations about dance led by Bronx-based choreographers (Megan Curet, Milteri Tucker Concepcion, Janice Tomlinson)
Hip Hop Homelands @ BAAD!
showcase featuring new collaborative dance work by Janice Tomlinson and Lotus Bomb with additional artists co-curated by Roka and La Bruja.
Bronx Indigenous FUTURISM gathering
5th annual gathering
Bronx Indigenous FUTURISM
co-organized with Caridad De La Luz
with Roberto Mukaro Borrero and Joselyn Kaxhyêk Borrero , Lonnie Harrington, other special guests to be announced.
@ Clason Point Park