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About Us
BAAD!
The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is a Bronx-based presenting organization and theatre which creates, produces, presents and supports the development of challenging works in dance and all artistic disciplines that are empowering to women, Latinos and people of color and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender community and are created by emerging, evolving and established artists.
BAAD! is home to Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre and the Bronx Dance Coalition.
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LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO
BEGINS DEC. 4
New director! Luis Caballero
2015 Cast: (l-r)
Adriel Muñoz as Richie and multiple characters
Jonathan Cruz as Elena and multiple characters
Arnold Godoy as The Guide
Johnathan Cedano as Carlos
Justin Crowley as Gabriel
Director Luis Caballero
Helen Hayes Award nominee Luis Caballero, the acclaimed writer, actor and film and theater director of Off-Broadway hits La Lupe: My life and My Destiny and DC-7 The Roberto Clemente Story, in addition to dozens of other plays, will direct this year’s production of Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo. He has directed extensively in his native Puerto Rico, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and his credits as a film director includes ”La Gringa: A Tale of a Town,” with Sully Diaz, the award-winning ‘”El Color de la Guayaba,”and his upcoming film is “Romeo y Romeo,” a gay twist on the Romeo and Juliet classic tale. He obtained a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master of Arts in Theater and Education from New York University.
Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo, celebrating its 12th annual production, interweaves two holiday classics, The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, and creates a queer, Latino play about a gay couple who go on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve.
Show dates are:
Fri., Dec. 4 at 8pm
Sat., Dec. 5 at 8pm
Fri., Dec. 11 at 8pm (performance celebrates BAAD’s Birthday)
Sat., Dec. 12 at 3pm & 8pm
Wed., Dec. 16 at 8pm
Fri., Dec. 18 at 8pm
Sat. Dec. 19 at 8pm
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TO DONATE AND CELEBRATE 17 YEARS OF BEING BAAD!
FOR MAKING 2015 THE BEST YEAR EVER!
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THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS
BAAD!/AATT receive support from:
The Lambent Fund of the Tides Foundation
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Mertz Gilmore Foundation
The New York Community Trust
The Simon Bolivar Foundation
The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
The NY State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
and private donations.
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BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance
2474 Westchester Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
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Author: Annie Boller
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