Something is blooming in the Bronx 🌱🧑🏽🩰. Join us Saturday, May 16th for In Bloom: Dance Compilation. An evening of original dance works from NYC choreographers exploring transformation, growth, vulnerability, joy, and the many ways we “bloom” through movement.
From intimate solos to explosive ensemble work, this compilation brings together artists from different walks of life to bloom on stage, only at BAAD!
📍BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
🗓 Saturday, May 16, 2026
⏰ 8:00 PM
🎟 Tickets + info at baadbronx.org
Featuring choreography from Darius Gregory, SeF Figueroa, Rainey Scarborough, Jason Herbert, Darren Justice, Shonte Jackson, Elya Osmanova, Sara Thoreson.
#BoogieDownDanceSeries #BAADBronx #BronxArts #ContemporaryDance
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A striking portrait of a person with vivid red hair standing confidently against a blush-toned wall, embodying softness, power, and individuality.
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A powerful dancer leaps through the air with sculptural precision, a striped fabric trailing behind him like movement made visible against a soft gray backdrop.
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A performer wearing a dark sculptural headpiece gazes upward with emotion and intensity, illuminated by warm theatrical light.
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Two performers reach and pull toward one another under a dark spotlight, their bodies stretched with tension, vulnerability, and connection.
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A dancer with blond-tipped locs poses intensely against a deep red background, arms framing his face with fierce control and intimacy.
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A dancer in a flowing green dress bends dynamically through space, caught in a moment that feels both grounded and airborne.
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A dancer in a flowing blue floral garment balances in a sweeping pose, suspended between softness and strength in a minimalist studio.
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Three young people in colorful outfits and sunglasses huddle together from a low-angle perspective, radiating youthful energy and rebellion in a city park.
Come BLOOM with us this Saturday for the premiere of a New Work in progress by Jason Herbert, performed by Grace McDaniel titled, FEELING GOOD 🥀
Feelin Good is a solo set to the music, voice, and words of the great Nina Simone, in tribute to the evenings theme: IN BLOOM Dance Compilation - an evening of original works by local NYC choreographers exploring transformation, growth, and in many ways we “bloom”, personally, politically, and poetically.
May 16th • 8pm • Location: @baadbronx • $20 Entry (DM for FriendsOfJason Discount) • Limited Seats • Link in Bio
Head uptown and see you there. Let’s BLOOM together! 🌹
* I do not own the rights to this music and is not a reflection of the actual work presented.
#INBLOOM #JASONHERBERTDANCE #DAAD #NINASIMONE #CONTEMPORARYDANCE
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𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘: 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗡 𝗨𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗦
A @vitruvio_entertainment Production
Written and performed by @danilo.napoli
Directed by @yarigugliucci
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📍@wow.cafe on 5/14 @ 7 PM
📍 @baadbronx on 5/15 @ 7 PM
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What does it mean to live, love, and move through the world courageously right now? ❤️🔥
Join us for Courageous Conversations, an evening of powerful dialogue, reflection, and community with authors Benedict Nguyễn and Komail Aijazuddin. Together, we’ll explore identity, resilience, queerness, art, politics, and the ways we continue to care for ourselves and one another in challenging times.
📍BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
🗓 May 12, 2026
⏰ 7PM
🎟 Free and open to the public
Image 1 Description: Benedict Nguyễn in a flowing, lace dress gazes confidently ahead against a warm blush backdrop, evoking resilience, elegance, and quiet power.
Image 2 Description: Komail Aijazuddin smiles with warmth and ease, radiating openness and joy.
Unfortunately, SPCUNY has made the difficult last-minute decision to postpone May 9’s event How Do We Move In Public? due to the weather.
We are concerned for the physical safety of the dancers performing on wet streets. We will be in contact with more information once a rain date for this event has been set.
We apologize for the late breaking cancellation and thank you for your understanding.
For 27 years, BAAD! has been a home for movement, culture, and community in the Bronx and we’re not slowing down 🗽.
BAAD’s Boogie Down Dance Series returns May 9–31, 2026 with a lineup that celebrates the beauty of our artists, stories, and community 🩰.
🗓️ May 9–31, 2026
🎟️ Tickets available now at baadbronx.org
🔗 Link in bio
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Three portraits: a man stands confidently before a colorful mural, a duo poses back-to-back with contrasting energy, and a dramatic staged moment shows one figure holding another in an intimate, theatrical scene.
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Three performance shots: a dancer leaps mid-air with powerful form, a performer strikes a bold, stylized pose in shimmering attire, and a spoken word artist stands at a mic as dancers move behind her.
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Two expressive visuals: The glittered body of a performer glistens in a dark, while a woman frames her face with her hands, poised and self-assured against a soft backdrop.
From March through April, we honored Women’s History Month with our BAAD!ASS Women Festival uplifting the brilliance, resilience, and creativity of women, femmes, and gender-expansive artists across the Bronx and beyond.
Over the course of the festival, we hosted 13 incredible events that brought together movement, conversation, performance, and community:
• Empower: Women’s Safety Seminar hosted Connie Pacheco
• En Ritmo Dance Workshop: A Movement Praxis in Decolonization by Megan Curet
• Tender by Heather Robles
• Decolonize La Pelvis (Online Workshop) by Priscilla Marrero
• Decolonize La Pelvis Work In Progress by Priscilla Marrero
• The Olamina Project
• Our Bodies, No Apologies directed Maxine Montilus
• BAAD!Ass Perspectives: Dances and Films by Femmes
• BAAD!Ass Women Festival Dance Compilation
• We Will Not Be Hidden: Trans Day of Visibility
• Decolonize The Pelvis: A Discussion featuring Megan Curet, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora, and Priscilla Marrero
• Awilda Rodriguez-Lora’s Decolonize The Pelvis Open Rehearsal
• Dancing While Black Public Master Class
• A Celebration of Women in the Arts
Each gathering was a reminder of what’s possible when artists are given space to be bold, vulnerable, and fully seen. Thank you to every artist, collaborator, and audience member who showed up and made this festival what it was. 💫
BAAD! prides itself on being a safe and affirming space for all artists especially women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) communities, and this festival is just one of many ways we live out that commitment.
🎟️ Up next: our Boogie Down Dance Series 2026 kicks off Saturday, May 9 through May 31. Tickets are available now at the link in bio. We hope to see you there!
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Been cooking. Now it’s time eat.
Choreographing + Performing an original piece May 16 — Show Starts at 8pm.
Come feel the energy live. #dance #youlikeit #originalchoreography
How Do We Move in Public?
May 9 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free
To RSVP, go to link in bio @socialpracticecuny
How Do We Move in Public? is the second program in Social Practice CUNY’s 2026 series How Do We ___________ in Public?: a cycle of four free experimental events responding to contemporary crises shaping the cultural field, including the defunding and targeting of public institutions and the erosion of shared civic space.
This second program in the series is partnered with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance during the Boogie Down Dance Series.
Organized by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, this event brings together dancers/ choreographers with connections to the Bronx to generate movement-based actions in public spaces in the South Bronx: Argelia Arreola (with support from Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative), Ana ‘Rokafella’ García, Paloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse, and Alethea Pace. Responding to escalating surveillance, policing, and state violence, particularly the terrorization of Black and Brown communities under ongoing ICE raids, the program advances movement as a counter-response to neglect, with care, and shared imagination, asking how bodies navigate, reshape, and reclaim urban space under conditions of threat.
This program will activate several points along 3rd Avenue and 149th Street, a major cultural crossroads at the heart of the South Bronx called The Hub, and is funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation.
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival has opened the Mentorship Program production and is getting ready to have Italian performers on stage soon! One of the selected showcases for this year's edition is
𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘: 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗡 𝗨𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗
May 14th @ 7:00 PM 📍 WOW Cafe’
May 15th @ 7:00 PM 📍 BAAD
A man has kidnapped his mother. He speaks to her, forcing her to listen. He wants to reveal who he really is, what he has done, and why. He has killed transgender women—not out of hatred, he says, but because of what he was taught to hate: himself, difference, and freedom. The stage becomes a journey into his mind, where reality and delirium intertwine, conjuring the ghosts of the past: a lost love, an oppressive family, a blind faith.
🎭 In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY is a showcase of performances from Italy, presented in the five NYC boroughs. Admission to the Festival is on a first-come, first-served basis for guests with an RSVP.
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