BAAD! is an intimate performance and workshop space founded in 1998 by award-winning dancer/choreographer Arthur Aviles and writer/activist Charles Rice-Gonzalez.

Every year, BAAD! welcomes thousands of attendees from New York City, specifically from the Bronx, to five annual festivals:

• Get Tough! Get BAAD! (February)

  A film and performance series celebrating queer power, diversity, visibility and defiance

• BAAD!Ass Women (March)

  A multidisciplinary showcase of empowering art by women, non-binary and gender non-conforming artists

• Boogie Down Dance Series (April/May)

  The Bronx’s longest-running contemporary dance series

• Out Like That (June)

  The Bronx's only LGBTQ+ performing arts festival

• BlakTinX Performance Series (October/November)

  A multidisciplinary series celebrating the convergence of works by Black and Latinx artists

Throughout the year, BAAD! also presents a select number of special events, including:

• Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living and Loving in America

  A community conversation where two individuals are invited to offer a gift to the community via their art and/or practice that can offer a strategy for living powerfully to LGBTQ+ people and allies.

• TransVisionaries Performance Series

  A partnership with BAAD! and a Bronx restaurant where we present trans/GNC/non-binary artists.

• Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo

  An annual queer, Latinx holiday play written by Charles Rice-Gonzalez about a gay couple embarking on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve.

Do you have an event or performance you'd like to propose?

CLICK HERE to access the BAAD! Festival Application!