MISSION
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance creates, produces, presents, and supports the development of cutting-edge and challenging works in contemporary dance and all creative disciplines that are empowering to women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) communities.
VISION
For women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community to have a physical space in the Bronx to experience and/or create dance, theater, visual art, written work, and performance that is empowering to them, free from the prejudices of society
VALUES
We believe that, as socially active, creative human beings, we embrace the multiplicity of ourselves as women, people of color, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer people, and that our communities, especially in the Bronx, and people of all income levels, are entitled to have high-quality art and culture in the form of dance and inclusive of all forms of performing arts, and literary and visual arts readily available to them.
We believe that it is our responsibility to provide access to art, and anyone should have the opportunity to experience it and participate in the creation of that art if they so choose.
We believe in providing the resources for the creation of art that is empowering to the communities we embrace and that it be offered to the underserved populations of the Bronx and beyond.
We believe that in order for the Bronx, our communities, and society to develop, we must hold space, physically and intellectually, for the freedom of expression — creative and otherwise.
Core Values
BAAD! brings a queer and dissident perspective to the socio-political dialogue and culture of our neighborhood, borough, and city through first-rate art.
Through partnerships with other community-based organizations, grassroots organizing projects which parallel performances, and programming which gives voice to artists from underrepresented demographics, BAAD! aids in dismantling paradigms of injustice such as sexism, racism and homophobia in the Bronx and beyond.
BAAD! is a Sanctuary Space and has a four-point plan to embrace "vulnerable communities" (immigrants, women, people of color and queer people) and provide resources and a creative outlet to create strategies for living and loving in America.