Young Artists at BAX

Registration for BAX School Breaks Programs Now Open!

Learn more and register with the link in our bio!

Spring Break Arts Program: April 18 - April 22
grades K-5

Summer Arts Program: July 11 - August 12
entering grades K-5

✨Fun daily dance, drama, music, tumbling & visual arts activities for young artists!

✨Activities take place indoors in the BAX Building and outdoors and JJ Byrne/Washington Park

✨Register by day*, week, mix and match, or for the full program

✨Tiered tuition & scholarships available

✨8:30am to 3:00pm with extended day option until 5:30pm

*Spring Only

ID 1: BAX Summer Arts Program participants play a teamwork building game outside at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. They are all forming a line while holding hands.

ID 2: BAX teaching artist teaches their class some new choreography. The students stand in a powerful pose with one arm raised above their head.

ID 3: BAX teaching artist, Jose, sits behind two drums with a bright blue shirt on. Summer Arts Program participants hold different instruments as they prepare for their music class.

ID 4: A BAX Summer Arts Program participant holds up their 3D construction paper art project. They are wearing a pink mask and a multi colored striped t-shirt.

BAX’s February bulletin board features the 13 guiding principles of BLM At School:
✨Restorative Justice
✨Empathy
✨Loving Engagement
✨Diversity
✨Globalism
✨Transgender Affirming
✨Queer Affirming
✨Collective Value
✨Intergenerational
✨Black Families
✨Black Villages
✨Black Women
✨Unapologetically Black

As the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action comes to a close, BAX is looking forward towards a Year of Purpose, a Lifetime of Practice, and exploring how the 13 guiding principles of BLM At School intersects with art and creative expression.

You can find further resources on BAX’s virtual bulletin board as well as a collection of anti-racist resources for families and children. The link is in our bio!

ID: Colorful images of the Black Lives Matter At School’s 13 guiding principles are hung up on a grey and red bulletin board. Above the images is a red sign that says “Black Lives Matter Week of Action. January 31 through February 4, 2022,” in black writing.

DEADLINE EXTENSION: BAX’s FREE annual YouthWorks Festival invites young artists grades 2nd-9th to develop original performance work in dance, theater, performance, and more with support from professional artist coaches during Mid-Winter Recess, February 22th-27th. Link in bio to learn more and apply!

ID: Two students are sitting down, one on a chair and one on the ground, with their backs toward us. They are in the BAX theater and sat in front of an image of the moon. The student sat on the ground is looking over their shoulder.

Curious about BAX's FREE YouthWorks program taking place over Mid-Winter Recess? Join us tonight (Wednesday, January 12) at 5:30pm on Zoom to learn all about the program, meet the program staff, and to jump start the creative process! RSVP at www.bax.org/youthworks. 
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BAX’s FREE annual YouthWorks festival invites young artists grades 2nd-9th to develop original performance work in dance, theater, performance, and more with support from professional artist coaches during Mid-Winter Recess, February 22-27, 2022. A YouthWorks 2022 day includes morning rehearsal sessions, a lunch break with time for community building and group games, afternoon production and technical workshops, with early drop-off and add-on extended day options. The program will culminate with a professional technical rehearsal and showcase featuring all the young artists’ work on Sunday, February 27, 2022.

BAX Spring Youth Education Classes are Open for Enrollment!

✨The link to register is in our bio✨

ID 1: Four BAX students gleefully practice their back bends in a tumbling class. They are all masked and their upside down heads face the camera. Above the image writes “BAX Spring Classes Registration Open!” Below the image writes, “Free Trials & Scholarships Available. Ages 1-18. January 31-June 25.”

ID 2: A BAX teaching artist runs across mats with her class who are all holding hula hoops up in the air. The word “Tumbling” lays across the image in a glowing peach color.

ID 3: A BAX dance class stretches out sideways on a studio's floor. Their arms and legs extend outward as far as they can reach. The students look to be young teenagers and are all masked. The word “Dance!” lays across the image in a glowing peach color.

ID 4: A BAX teaching artist happily poses with her class of four BAX students. They are all wearing masks and their Halloween costumes.

Calling all teaching artists! Applications are now open for BAX’s 2022 Prospective Teaching Artist Workshop.

Deadline October 25, 2021.

Visit the link in bio to apply!

Image description: Seven, smiling people overlap arms and hold hands while squatting in circle. Above the image white text reads “Applications open: 2022 Prospective Teaching Artist Workshop.” Below the image white text reads, “Curious about teaching at BAX? Link in bio to apply!”

Important framings and fabulous resources shared by Zinn Education Project with which you can celebrate Indigenous resistance all year long, recognizing and resisting the legacies of US settler colonialism with information and actions we can practice every day. From tots to teens and from parents to educators, we all have a part to play in undoing historical and ongoing violence and celebrating the joys of life and solidarity.

Posted • As we celebrate today, we share some resources to teach about the ongoing legacy of settler colonialism in the U.S. — and ongoing Indigenous-led resistance efforts.

Find lessons, teaching articles, and films available through ZEP: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-indigenous-peoples-day-2020/

Read critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books at American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL): https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/

Learn more about the original stewards of the land you are on: https://native-land.ca



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Join Skye for Hip Hop (5th-7th grade) on Saturdays at 2pm🌟Email [email protected] to sign up for FREE Trial Classes! Ready to register? Rolling registration and Financial Assistance available✨Learn more & sign up from the link in bio or .org

Meet Skye Montatnte! Skye began studying ballet at Petaluma School of Ballet at the age of 8. In later years as she was introduced to other forms of dance; she found her true calling with Hip-Hop and Contemporary styles. Skye’s focus as a teacher and creator is to help her dancers find their own individual voice and establish a safe space to move.

Calling all tumblers grades 4th&5th🤩Join Tamika on Thursdays at 4:45pm for Tumbling class! Email [email protected] to sign up for FREE Trial Classes! Rolling registration and Financial Assistance available! Learn more & sign up from the link in bio or .org!

Meet Tamika Charles-Sims! Tamika has instructed and coached gymnastics for the over 20 years in New York City. She has taught gymnastics and sports at the 92nd St Y. She coached competitive and recreational gymnastics at NYC Elite and worked for the non-profit Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation teaching gymnastics to all ages – 18 months to adult.

Looking for movement classes for your little ones? Join Makenna for Creative Movement(PreK&K) on Thursdays and Move&Groove (Ages1.5-3.5) on Saturdays💫Email [email protected] to sign up for FREE Trial Classes!

Meet Makenna Finch! Makenna is a multimedia dance artist and educator with six years of training in Mettler based dance. They believe that dance is a basic human right and need. She facilitates young ones, 18 months to 6-year-olds, in full body expression and creative world building through movement.

Rolling registration and Financial Assistance available! Learn more & sign up from the link in bio or .org!

Join Diane for AcroBAX(Ages 9+) on Wednesdays at 4:45pm! AcroBAX offers young artists opportunities to deepen their practice as performers, creators and collaborators in their chosen discipline and, uniquely, develop and direct original work for performance. Email [email protected] for more information!

Meet Diane Tomasi! Diane is a q***r cis white woman who performs on the ground and in the air, as a dancer and aerialist. She began as a gymnast at the young age of 2, later began to dance, and then was introduced to aerial through an inclusive, abled/disabled body workshop with Blue-Eyed Soul Dance Company in the UK. Diane is interested in the ways in which these movement styles weave in and around each other and is constantly finding ways to fuse them together.

Did you know that BAX offers Performance Workshop Companies for our most motivated senior students (ages 9-18)? Learn more at bax.org/classes/youth/performance-workshops!

Meet Anna Vomacka who teaches Dance Performance Workshop I/II✨Anna is a dancer, activist, and yoga teacher/practitioner based in Brooklyn, NY. She is driven by her curiosities and cravings for community, connection, and spaces of shared learning / (un)learning. Anna grew up dancing in the BAX studios with Helen Tocci and Rachel Lane as her teachers.