BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange‘s presenting season is an integral part of our core work in developing emerging and mid-career artists. Our dedication to presenting new work, work-in-progress, and work in a critical phase of development and experimentation reflects our mission to support artists rather than outcomes. This commitment is also reflected in our guest curated series that includes evenings curated by current and former Artists In Residence, as well as other guests from the community.
The 2017/18 Season features a series of open-studio and informal showings, and formal works-in-progress showcases created by our Artists In Residence (AIR) luciana achugar, Maria Bauman, Tanisha Christie, Catherine Galasso, Aya Ogawa, and Mariana Valencia. These performances offer artists and audiences multiple opportunities to share intentions, perceptions, and feedback in a way that is influential in the development of the artists’ work, and impactful for the audience’s insight and appreciation of the work.
The work presented by this season’s AIR and guest artists range from the provocative and socio-political to the formal, abstract, and compositional.
Stay in touch to learn about upcoming events and announcement.
[Youth Education Event]
Fall Youth Education Open House
Saturday | September 9 @ 10am-2pm
The Youth Education Open House is an opportunity to sample free dance, movement, and theater classes at a nationally acclaimed youth arts education center in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Join BAX families, friends, faculty, and administration staff to learn more about youth programming and register for the Fall term classes.
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[Special Event]
BAX Super Stoop Sale
Saturday | October 14 @ 11am-5pm
3rd Street (near corner 6th ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn
Join BAX for our Super Stoop Sale. Proceeds will be used to support BAX education and artist services programs.
[Curated Event]
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Presents A Helix Queer Performance Network Event
SUBMERGE 2017: Break Time
Curated by Ali Rosa-Salas
Presented by BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange and The Helix Queer Performance Network
Hosted by Minka brooklyn
With bklyn boihood, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Taja Cheek, Jonathan Gonzalez, LifeCycle Biking, Natalie Sablon, and MINKA brooklyn
Thursday, November 2- Sunday, November 6
We are concerned with the expectation to bounce back, the practice of checking in, the call to take care.
How do you sound when you break?
What does it feel like to pay grief its rightful dues?
We want to know how you are doing.
Break Time brings together healing practitioners, musicians, visual and movement-based artists in a network of support and contemplation around grief. A transformative process that we all inevitably encounter, grief breaks and makes conceptions of our very being and the sensorial phenomena of time, memory and permanence. Break Time proposes that healing is an interdependent practice, and that no loss is too small to mourn.
[Special Event]
BAX’s Bodywork Sampler Day
Sunday | November 12 | All Day
The day celebrates and brings attention to the wide array of bodywork forms and practitioners that exist in our community, while also serving as a fundraiser for BAX’s programs & services. Our goal is to offer a large range of bodywork forms for people to experience.
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[Artist in Residence Event]
AIR Open Studios 1a
Featuring work by luciana achugar, Tanisha Christie, and Catherine Galasso
@ Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Saturday | November 18, 2017
The Artists in Residence (AIR) Open Studio Series begins a shared journey into the creative process. Audiences will have an opportunity to engage with AIR artists as they open the doors to their rehearsal practice and artistic process.
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[Artist in Residence Event]
AIR Open Studios 1b
Featuring work by Maria Bauman, Aya Ogawa, and Mariana Valencia
@ Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Sunday | November 19, 2017
The Artists in Residence (AIR) Open Studio Series begins a shared journey into the creative process. Audiences will have an opportunity to engage with AIR artists as they open the doors to their rehearsal practice and artistic process.
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[Artist in Residence Event]
Fall Space Grant Showcase
Featuring work by Natalie Green, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, and Ita Segev
Friday | December 1, 2017 @ 8pm
Saturday | December 2, 2017 @ 8pm
This showcase presents works by Fall Space Grant recipients. The Fall Space Grant program gives Brooklyn and Queens based dance, theater and performance artists the opportunity to create new work or build upon existing work in a setting that is conducive to working deeply and exploring new territory.
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[Youth Education Event]
Fall Student Concerts
Saturday | December 9, 2017 | All Day
Sunday | December 10, 2017 | All Day
At the end of the Fall term, student concerts showcase original class work in the BAX Theater. These concerts serve as an exciting and important opportunity for all student/artists to experience being on stage and practice the art of performance.
[Youth Education Event]
2018 YouthWorks Showcase
Saturday | February 3, 2018 @ 7pm
Sunday | February 4, 2018 @ 5pm
Young artists (Ages 7-18) of various disciplines and interests work tirelessly with professional artists, also of various disciplines, to create original artistic pieces.
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[Artist in Residence Event]
AIR Open Studios II
Featuring work by luciana achugar, Maria Bauman, Tanisha Christie, Catherine Galasso, Aya Ogawa, and Mariana Valencia
Saturday | February 10, 2018
Sunday | February 11, 2018
The Artists in Residence (AIR) Open Studio Series begins a shared journey into the creative process. Audiences will have an opportunity to engage with AIR artists as they open the doors to their rehearsal practice and artistic process.
NOTE: The AIR Open Studios II takes place within the Artist Services Weekend.
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[Artist Services Event]
Artist Services Weekend
Saturday-Sunday | February 10-11, 2018
ALL DAY, FREE
Artist Services Day features an array of talks and workshops designed to serve working dance, theater, performance artists and their supporters.
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[Curated Event]
Upstart Program
Curated by former BAX Artists In Residence Jillian Peña (2011-13) and Fernando Maneca (2004-06)
Friday | March 16, 2018 @ 8pm
Saturday | March 17, 2018 @ 8pm
Since 2009, the Upstart Program (formally the Upstart Festival) has ushered in fresh talent with an intriguing festival of performances, pre-performance shares, roundtable discussions, and workshops.
The Upstart Festival Program is designed to give creators of dance, theater and performance works, who have no more than three years of experience showing their work in New York City, an opportunity to show work and to facilitate networking opportunities that pave the way for fruitful artistic careers.
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[Special Event]
25th Anniversary Artist Services Gala
Sunday, March 25, 2018
@ Roulette Intermedium | 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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[Artist in Residence Event]
Covers, Singles, Shout Outs
By Mariana Valencia (BAX AIR 2016/18)
Friday | April 6, 2018 @ 8pm
Saturday | April 7, 2018 @ 8pm
Mariana Valencia’s performance Covers, Singles, Shout Outs is an in-progress research that examines authorship by questioning what gets carried into her work through the modes of proximity, relation, and alliance.
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[Artist in Residence Event]
Sight Lines: A Night of Performance in Dialogue with the Work of Michael Galasso
Curated Evening by Catherine Galasso (BAX AIR 2016/18)
Friday | April 13, 2018 @ 8pm
Saturday | April 14, 2018 @ 8pm
Sight Lines: A Night of Performance in Dialogue with the Work of Michael Galasso is a curatorial project by Catherine Galasso. Initiated to create new dialogues around the body of musical work by composer Michael Galasso, her late father, Catherine has invited six artists/pairings of varied aesthetic, artistic, and creative concerns to create 5-7 minute choreographic responses to unpublished recordings of his compositions. The responses offer new ways to illuminate how the continuous dialogue of music and movement—one that Michael was steeped in— take place across time and artistic tradition. A focused effort in meaningfully locating Michael’s work to audiences that may be unfamiliar with his musical contributions, Sight Lines works broadly to uncover layered artistic histories, while encouraging a personal and proactive approach to performance.
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[Youth Education Event]
Teen Arts Conference
Saturday | April 21, 2018
Kickoff event at Irondale (open to the public): Wednesday | April 18, 2018
For over 15 years, Brooklyn Arts Exchange’s Teen Arts Conference (TAC) has provided teen performing artists (ages 13-18) across New York City and beyond an opportunity to come together as part of a wider cultural community of learners and practitioners. The free, day-long conference, for invited participants, offers a range of theater, dance, and movement workshops; panel discussions with professional artists, companies, and leaders in the field; and culminates with a Performance Gala in the BAX Theater.
Each year the conference engages in current and thought-provoking issues affecting both our political and performance worlds. It both implicitly and explicitly considers the intersection of arts and activism and the radical act we embody by working as creative collectives. This year, this intersection feels as urgent as ever and our conference will be informed by a very specific inquiry into dominant and counter-narratives and the power of storytelling. What stories are allowed by our society? Who gets to tell them? And what stories do we choose to tell as generative artists?
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[Artist in Residence Event]
(re)Source
An investigation-in-process, by Maria Bauman/MBDance (2017/18)
Friday | April 27, 2018 @ 8pm
Saturday | April 28, 2018 @8pm
(re)Source, investigation-in-progress, is shaping up to be an improvisatory piece wherein Bauman dances, sings, and speaks through the assets in her family (both the white and the Blackfolks), what it takes to make it in Trump’s U.S., and what her research into maroonage and her own ancestors have to do with all of that…
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[Youth Education Event]
AcroBAX
Saturday | May 5, 2018 @ 8pm
Sunday | May 6, 2018 @ 3pm
[Artist in Residence Event]
Iona Flies Away
Written and directed by Tanisha Christie (BAX AIR 2016/18)
Featuring Original Music by Kelly Erin Sloan and Chris Vega
Friday | May 11, 2018 @ 8pm
On summer’s sweltering days, a young Iona heads to the beach on a family outing with Daddy, Brother, Mama and Uncle – who always shows up. Even though the sandy shores and the seagulls swirling satiate Iona’s lonely soul, she is already aware that her skin color and gender might have marked her. While younger Brother can ‘do no wrong’, Iona’s path is unclear…[more]
[Youth Education Event]
Dance Performance Workshop III
Friday | May 18, 2018
Saturday | May 19, 2018
This culminating performance features student and director choreography. These Performance Workshops are designed for motivated young people who want to engage in a comprehensive discipline study with an emphasis on technical, performance, and improvisational skills.
[Youth Education Event]
Dance Performance Workshop I/II
Friday | June 1, 2018
Saturday | June 2, 2018
This culminating performance features student and director choreography. These Performance Workshops are designed for motivated young people who want to engage in a comprehensive discipline study with an emphasis on technical, performance, and improvisational skills.
[Youth Education Event]
Spring Student Concerts
Saturday | June 9, 2018 | All Day
Sunday | June 10, 2018 | All Day
At the end of the Spring term, student concerts showcase original class work in the BAX Theater. These concerts serve as an exciting and important opportunity for all student/artists to experience being on stage and practice the art of performance.
[more information to come]
[Artist in Residence Event]
Aya Ogawa | Artist in Residence Show
Friday | June 15, 2018
Saturday | June 16, 2018
BAX’s AIR program provides an artistic home for artists to explore new ideas or dive deeper into existing work. From movement and theatrical creations to experimental explorations, BAX AIRs present work in their own full weekend each Spring. Audiences can engage with the AIRs as they share another moment in their artistic journey.
[Artist in Residence Event]
luciana achugar | Artist in Residence Show
Friday | June 22, 2018
Saturday | June 23, 2018
BAX’s AIR program provides an artistic home for artists to explore new ideas or dive deeper into existing work. From movement and theatrical creations to experimental explorations, BAX AIRs present work in their own full weekend each Spring. Audiences can engage with the AIRs as they share another moment in their artistic journey.
