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A dance festival that showcases the work of Black and Latinx choreographers LA & PHX!
CURTAIN CALL PHX 2026 October 2-3rd Third Street Theater TIX ⤵️
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Join us for a free screening of Remaining Native, following a young Paiute runner as he pursues his dreams and confronts his family’s history. Join Más Festival for the first of two free Indigenous Film Nights, celebrating Native storytelling, culture, history, and resilience through film. Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Doors at 6:30, screening at 7:00 PM Admission is FREE! RSVP at the link in our bio!! This screening will begin with a short episode of NAVAJO HIGHWAYS, an Emmy award-winning children’s puppet series dedicated to preserving the Diné language and culture. REMAINING NATIVE: Ku Stevens (17) is the solo runner at his high school with no coach. Living on the Yerington Paiute reservation in Northwest Nevada he needs more to be seen by his dream school, the University of Oregon. As Ku trains, unreconciled emotions unearth the memory of his great-grandfather, Frank Quinn. At 8 years old, Frank ran 50 miles across the desert to escape an Indian boarding school. Frank’s story becomes interwoven with Ku’s journey to run a collegiate qualifying time. Will Ku outrun his history or will he learn to run in parallel with it to achieve his dreams? #indigenousfilm #highdesertevents #masfestival #joshuatree #yuccavalley by @blaktinxdance
Hello high desert community! Excited to announce our lineup of film and music for November and December! NOVEMBER: NATIVE FILM NIGHTS Two evenings of indigenous storytelling, both free and open to the public. NOV 11, 7PM: REMAINING NATIVE: Winner of the 2025 SXSW Documentary Feature Audience Award and Special Jury Award As 17-year-old Ku Stevens trains to become a collegiate runner, his journey becomes intertwined with the story of his great-grandfather, who ran 50 miles across the desert to escape an Indian boarding school. NOV 18, 7PM: THE ETERNAL SONG: Winner of Best Documentary Feature at the Rome Prima Independent Film Awards A cinematic journey through Indigenous cultures across generations, exploring the scars of colonization, the healing power of ancestral wisdom, and our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm. Each screening will begin with a different short episode of NAVAJO HIGHWAYS, an Emmy award-winning children’s puppet series dedicated to preserving the Diné language and culture. Both of these events are FREE! DECEMBER 17th: EL VEZ Y LOS CENTURIES Join us for a special night of live music and performance from El Vez y Los Centuries! This will be a ticketed event, more to come. Hope to see you all there! by @blaktinxdance
WE TOOK OUR CURTAIN CALL BOW. And what an incredible weekend it was! Two nights of dance, two beautiful sold out audience, so many familiar faces, new friends, backstage chaos, hugs, laughter, and a whole lot of celebrating! To our artists, crew, volunteers, supporters, and everyone who filled the theater with us, THANK YOU! You made our 10th anniversary something truly special. For 10 years, BlakTinx has been about creating space for artists to share their work, take risks, tell their stories, and build community. Seeing everyone come together for Curtain Call was a beautiful reminder of why we started this festival in the first place. 10 years. So many artists. So many stories. So much love. Thank you for being part of the BlakTinx story. We are going to be working on our website to archive the last ten years, stay tuned! video: @stvn.rdno Thank you to support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and City of Phoenix Office of Arts & Culture. by @blaktinxdance
IT’S SHOW WEEK!!! Ruby Morales is opening up our Saturday night show, you do not want to miss it! Her duet is beautiful, we hope you get tickets to see it! BlakTinx’s artists have been in tech for two days, getting this show up and going! Get your tickets today, we are looking like we are getting close to selling out. Ticket link in bio by @blaktinxdance
The cast of Drinking of Them Like Wine 🍷 So excited to perform @hankjimenex 's piece again at @blaktinxdance Fri (tomorrow) night! And loooooooovvvveeee dancing with these artists ♥️ Go see some dance! Ticket info at @blaktinxdance 🍷 by @blaktinxdance
STEVEN IS READY FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. 🔥 Steven is bringing Fourteen back to the BlakTinx stage, but not quite as you remember it. For Curtain Call, the work has been reimagined, reshaped and brought into something new, and we can’t wait to see Steven and @danzafoto in this new version hit the stage. We’re officially in SHOW WEEK and Friday is selling fast! Come see Steven and the full Friday lineup as we kick off our 10th anniversary celebration. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 | 7 PM Third Street Theater at Phoenix Center for the Arts $20 Friday | $35 Weekend Pass Get your tickets! 🎟️ by @blaktinxdance
IT’S SHOW WEEK! 🔥 Have you gotten your tickets yet? After months of planning, rehearsing, creating and getting ready, BlakTinx Dance Festival: Curtain Call is finally here! A huge thank you to all of our artists who have been working so hard to make our 10th anniversary special. We can’t wait to get into the theater this week and see everything come together during tech! We’re also incredibly grateful to the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture for supporting this year’s festival and helping us bring another year of BlakTinx to the stage. October 2 + 3 | 7 PM Third Street Theater at Phoenix Center for the Arts Two completely different nights of dance $20/night | $35 Weekend Pass It’s show week. Get your tickets! 🎟️ Tickets in bio. by @blaktinxdance
Congratulations to @blaktinxdance for reaching a 10-year milestone! Tickets are officially ON SALE for BlakTinx Dance Festival Phoenix: ONe Final Curtain Call! 🌹 Friday, October 2 🌹 Saturday, October 3 🌹 Third Street Theater at Phoenix Center for the Arts Tickets are available @blaktinxdance bio or at https://linktr.ee/BlaktinxDanceFestival by @blaktinxdance
EMANI “LOTUSXN” SPENCER IS BACK FOR CURTAIN CALL. 🔥 Saturday night, Emani brings an excerpt from In Full Bloom Volume 2: Being, a hard-hitting, unapologetic celebration of the power, beauty and multi-hyphenated nature of Black and Brown women in community. Emani’s practice moves between feminist burlesque, original concert work and hiphop choreography. And she’s continuing to expand that work, now creating and living between Phoenix and Los Angeles. We’re excited to welcome her back to the BlakTinx stage as we celebrate 10 years! See Emani “Lotusxn” Spencer Saturday, October 3! 7 PM | Third Street Theater $20 Saturday | $35 Weekend Pass Tickets in bio. 🎟️ by @blaktinxdance
HELLO FROM TUCSON! Yvonne Montoya is headed to Phoenix for Curtain Call! Yvonne has been part of the BlakTinx story from the beginning, she presented work in the first and only BlakTinx Tucson in 2015, and we’re so excited to welcome her back for our 10th anniversary. Saturday night, Yvonne shares a duet from Stories from Home, performed by Esteban Rosales and Ruby Morales, bringing stories rooted in Northern New Mexico and the oral traditions of home to the BlakTinx stage. Yvonne is the founder and artistic director of Safos Dance Theatre in Tucson and has spent years creating, presenting and touring work rooted in the stories of the Southwest. See Yvonne’s work Saturday, October 3! 7 PM | Third Street Theater $20 Saturday | $35 Weekend Pass Tickets in bio. by @blaktinxdance
Excited to present a selection of ANCESTRAL next weekend at the @blaktinxdance Festival on Saturday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM at Third Street Theater at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. ANCESTRAL uses a multicultural lens to analyze race and geography, acknowledges the corporality of spiritual practice, and approaches movement through Afro-futurism as a pathway to liberation. SECTIONS:  Semente – Seed Espelho – Staring back Poeira Estelar – Stardust Santuário – Shrine Sucesso – Success Choreographer and Performer: Alicia Nascimento Castro Mentors: Vera Passos, Dona Cici, Rainy Demerson Scenic Design and Artistic Direction: Fernando de Castro Tree Design: Arne Johnson  Costume Designer: Vinícius Bicalho Music Score Creation and Editing: Thyer Machado (BlakTinx version: Tiara Galaz) Lighting Designer: Bentley Heydt Lighting Director and Photographer: Alyssa Johnson Special thanks to Vera Passos and Dona Cici for their embodied wisdom. Deep gratitude to Fernando de Castro, Dr. Alexander Patrick-Rolando, LaTasha Barnes, Sam Arrow, Alyssa Johnson, Sean Dahlberg, and Candy Jimenez for their active listening and thoughtful feedback throughout this process. To my ancestors — past and future. To my family — where I learned the true shape of love and the meaning of belonging — Raimundo Ramos, Eva Janet, and Burton Nascimento and his extended family, and the entire extended Castro family — thank you for your care, grace, and grounding. To my Marido, companheiro de vida, e amor, Fabrício Oliveira Castro; and to my minis, Gaia and Chloe — thank you for being daily reminders of the limitless possibilities of the imagination. This work is dedicated to all the people who live lives of resistance in motion! 📍 Third Street Theater | Phoenix Center for the Arts 📅 Saturday, October 3rd ⏰ 7:00 PM 🎭 BlakTinx Festival by @blaktinxdance

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