A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Choreographic Research & PERFORMANCE
Bashi Arts’ performance programming prioritizes works that focus on the intersection of Africanist aesthetics, Disability Justice, and experimental approaches to accessibility, community cultivation, and culture curation.
Bashi Arts currently supports two dance companies-in-residence, RACHEL:dancers and Enya Kalia Creations, in addition to other local Brooklyn and NYC-based artists on a rotating basis through our Choreographic Research Incubator program.
Enya Kalia Creations
Bringing flava to conceptual art.
Enya Kalia Creations (EKC) is a movement-based artistic collective established in 2016. Directed by Enya-Kalia Jordan, EKC creates and performs untold movement narratives of emerging revolutionaries through dance arts. Working in African Diasporic movement forms, the company reimagines what it means to be unapologetically Black, a woman, and free.
Enya Kalia Creations was the 2023-25 recipient of the BAX & CUNY Dance Initiative Arts & Social Justice Residency at Brooklyn College.
Find out more at enyakaliacreations.org
RACHEL:dancers
Building multi-sensory Disabled worlds.
RACHEL:dancers (spoken as “Rachel and dancers”) is a multi-sensory performance company making dance about the little things. Directed by Rachel DeForrest Repinz, RACHEL:dancers is committed to advancing a disability aesthetic in contemporary concert and postmodern dance, and exploring ways to cultivate access for visually impaired audiences and artists through an experimental access-based creative process.
Find out more at racheldeforrestrepinz.com
The Choreographic Research Incubator
The Bashi Arts Choreographic Research Incubator program provides resources for NYC-based emerging and historically underrepresented artists to develop and produce contemporary dance-based work. We currently support dance artists, collectives, and companies through a rolling application process based on funding and resource availability, with a specific focus on supporting Black and Disabled artists.
Examples of support provided to our Choreographic Research Incubator artists include:
rehearsal space
feedback and choreographic mentorship
performance opportunities
and more!
If you are an artist, collective, or company interested in our Choreographic Research Incubator program, please contact us at info@bashiarts.org.
Past Bashi Arts performance partners include:
