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thank you to all who joined us for an evening of readings the other night at the beautiful @shed.publi 🦋♥️📖🖤 grateful to read some words alongside brilliant kind souls @nouriabehloul @dartricia_ @sphdjtl_dchss and our wonderful evening steward @ly.diaamr 🖤 you can now find the full set of the @ungovernable_study pamphlet series in @shed.publi’s collection, including contributions by @emilysara12345 @kameelahr @bluekaza @blackofcentre @katieg93 produced with our brilliant assistant editor @annasonnnnn, alongside some @press_press_bmore oldies 🖤 more snippets soon from my time in marseille, and thank you to this year’s iteration of the @capim.se summer school for bringing me to this special place~ ♥️ embedding descriptions~
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𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐒 — 𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐊𝐀𝐘 "NIC Kay is an artist exploring movement, transformation, and the politics of space." For more on NIC Kay's practice, visit: https://tinyurl.com/nic-kay-artmatters #ArtMattersGrantees #ArtMattersFoundation
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From March through April, we honored Women’s History Month with our BAAD!ASS Women Festival uplifting the brilliance, resilience, and creativity of women, femmes, and gender-expansive artists across the Bronx and beyond. Over the course of the festival, we hosted 13 incredible events that brought together movement, conversation, performance, and community: • Empower: Women’s Safety Seminar hosted Connie Pacheco • En Ritmo Dance Workshop: A Movement Praxis in Decolonization by Megan Curet • Tender by Heather Robles • Decolonize La Pelvis (Online Workshop) by Priscilla Marrero • Decolonize La Pelvis Work In Progress by Priscilla Marrero • The Olamina Project • Our Bodies, No Apologies directed Maxine Montilus • BAAD!Ass Perspectives: Dances and Films by Femmes • BAAD!Ass Women Festival Dance Compilation • We Will Not Be Hidden: Trans Day of Visibility • Decolonize The Pelvis: A Discussion featuring Megan Curet, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora, and Priscilla Marrero • Awilda Rodriguez-Lora’s Decolonize The Pelvis Open Rehearsal • Dancing While Black Public Master Class • A Celebration of Women in the Arts Each gathering was a reminder of what’s possible when artists are given space to be bold, vulnerable, and fully seen. Thank you to every artist, collaborator, and audience member who showed up and made this festival what it was. 💫 BAAD! prides itself on being a safe and affirming space for all artists especially women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) communities, and this festival is just one of many ways we live out that commitment. 🎟️ Up next: our Boogie Down Dance Series 2026 kicks off Saturday, May 9 through May 31. Tickets are available now at the link in bio. We hope to see you there! Image Descriptions: We’re including full image descriptions in Instagram’s alt text feature so they’re accessible to screen readers while keeping the caption clean and engaging. Three dancers lean forward in a tight formation on a dimly lit stage, focused and grounded.
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TOMORROW NIGHT ****** March 31***** We Will Not Be Silenced: Trans Day of Visibility Tuesday, March 31 | 7:00PM | FREE Join us for an evening of Queer and Trans resilience! There will be artist offerings and community gathering, featuring artists Egyptt LaBeija, NIC Kay, Heather Hills, Dr. Z Paige, Princex Amis, and more! Produced by BAAD! and Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance 2474 Westchester Ave To reserve: https://www.baadbronx.org/baw
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We will not be silenced. 🩵🩷🤍 This Trans Day of Visibility, we’re gathering in community to celebrate, witness, and honor the power of trans and queer voices through art. Join us for an evening of celebration and performances featuring Egyptt LaBeija, NIC Kay, Heather Hills, Dr. Z Paige, Princex Aimis, and more. This is an celebration you don’t want to miss! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗓️ Tuesday, March 31 ⏰ 7PM 📍 BAAD! Bronx 🎟️ FREE Produced by BAAD! and Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV #WeWillNotBeSilenced #BAADBronx #TransJoy QueerArt BronxEvents LGBTQEvents Image Description: Image 1: A vibrant collage features Egyptt LaBeija, NIC Kay, Princex Aimis, Heather Hills, and Dr. Z Paige, each framed in bold circular portraits. The composition pulses with color and energy, highlighting a powerful collective of artists coming together. Image 2: Egyptt LaBeija commands the stage in a shimmering silver look, one arm raised high as bright pink and white lights burst behind her. Her movement is explosive and celebratory, embodying joy, strength, and spectacle all at once. Image 3: NIC Kay is shown in profile against a soft neutral background, their gaze steady and contemplative. The simplicity of the portrait highlights their strength and presence without distraction. Image 4: Princex Aimis gazes directly at the viewer, holding a pencil while wearing bold, colorful makeup and a vibrant feathered headpiece. Their styling blends playfulness and intention, creating a striking and imaginative portrait. Image 5: Dr. Z Paige stands mid-performance at a microphone, hands animated as she delivers a powerful spoken moment under purple-blue stage lights. Behind her, live musicians blur into the background, amplifying the energy of her voice and presence. Image 6: Heather Hills sits centered in a glowing pink frame, adjusting her vibrant pink hair while wearing a metallic pink outfit that catches the light. Her poised expression and soft movement radiate confidence and control, pulling you directly into her world. Promotional graphic featuring five artists—Egyptt LaBeija, NIC Kay, Princex Aimis, Heather Hills, and Dr. Z Paige—for BAAD! Trans Day of Visibility event.
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So much gratitude for everyone who came to celebrate the opening of An Inherent Undoing. Deeply felt thanks to all the artists for your criticality and generosity. Thank you to @rubinfoundation and all the folks who worked to create a beautiful gathering. The exhibition is open until June 6 and there will be programming throughout that time. Appreciate hearing your reflections on the work and let me know if you visit or would like to do a walkthrough, I can swing by ✌🏾 Photography by the amazing @allycaple Artists: New Red Order (@zackkhalil @jacksonpolys @selledesong) Kearra Amaya Gopee (@kearramaya) NIC Kay (@okaynickay Regina José Galindo (@galindoreginajose) Zaina Zarour & Faris Shomali (@zinazarour @sho_mali1) Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (@ladydangfua) Josephine Sales (@jsxstudio) kimi malka hanauer (@kimi.malka.hanauer)
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An Inherent Undoing opens Thursday, March 12th at the 8th Floor (@rubinfoundation) from 6-8pm, and I am incredibly grateful to think alongside and learn with these artists. The exhibition is a continuous reckoning with structures and histories of harm, with the acute awareness that repair is a fraught concept. What is left in the refusal of inadequate attempts at making amends? There are no conclusive answers, no clearly marked pathways. Nothing is settled. It is a consideration on the capacity to hold fractured realities, to live alongside irresolution and enfold into the rupture.  Immense thanks to the Rubin Foundation team, the art handlers, fabricators and everyone who has poured into this exhibition. Artists: Kearra Amaya Gopee (@kearramaya), Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (@ladydangfua), kimi malka hanauer (@kimi.malka.hanauer), Regina José Galindo (@galindoreginajose), NIC Kay (@okaynickay), New Red Order (@selledesong, @jacksonpolys, @zackkhalil), Josephine Sales, and Zaina Zarour & Faris Shomali (@zinazarour & @sho_mali1) Cover image: NIC Kay, pushit!! an exercise in getting well soon, 2019. Photo documentation from performance. Courtesy of the artist. Image description: A person fully covered in black starry spandex is on their back on a city sidewalk, with a bunch of silver and white balloons floating right above their body. From the pharmacy window behind the person, a small child looks on with curiosity.
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Life = Concerts, Friends, and Food
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Mark your calendars, familia! 🔥 This Friday, Oct 10 @ 7PM, join us at BAAD! for Courageous Conversations, a bold evening of artistry, healing, and community led by dancers, Jonathan González & Nic Kay. 🗣️ Come ready to reflect, connect, and reimagine how we live and love in today’s world. 🌍 🎟️ Free & open to all — reserve your spot now at BAADBRONX.ORG 📍 2474 Westchester Ave, Bronx, NY #BAAD #BLAKTINX #BronxArts #QueerVoices #CommunityHealing #CourageousConversations #NicKay #JonathanGonzalez #BronxEvents ⸻ Image Description (for accessibility): The promotional poster has a dynamic and colorful layout with striking geometric patterns and paint splatters in green, yellow, black, and red. On the left, the word “BLAKTINX” is displayed vertically in bold yellow letters. Two portraits dominate the center — a man with short twists and a mustache looks upward with a thoughtful expression, while beside him, another person with short natural hair looks to the right in profile, symbolizing reflection and dialogue. A pink ticket graphic overlays the bottom right, featuring event details for Courageous Conversations led by Jonathan González and Nic Kay, part of the BAAD! BLAKTINX 2025 series. The BAAD! logo and address sit along the bottom in red and white. Flyer for BAAD!’s 2025 BLAKTINX event titled Courageous Conversations featuring Jonathan González and Nic Kay. The design includes two portraits — one of a man looking upward thoughtfully and another of a person in profile gazing to the side — set against a bold, colorful backdrop of green starbursts and yellow-red paint textures. Event details read: Fri. Oct 10 @ 7PM – 2474 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, NY.
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non-chronological recap of the third season titled 'Hattrick' @marytwo.one @jackpryce with Gaia Del Santo, Nina Emge, DonChristian Jones, Kathy Battista, Samantha Aquilino, Cheryl Donegan, Martine Gutierrez, Hamish Halley, K8 Hardy, NIC Kay, Mark Leckey, Joe Moss, Salomé Engel ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ All photos by marytwo
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Thrilled to announce the third program for IMAGING IMPROVISATION at @anthologyfilmarchives on July 24th. “Choreographies of Spectacality” features works by Jonathan González (@thirdlyrelevant) and NIC Kay (@okaynickay) that engage with camera and the Internet’s role in improvisatory movement, recognizing digital mediation as an instigator of annotation. NIC Kay arranges an archive of Black gestural virality across their research project, #blackpeopledancingontheinternet , taking a close look at the textures and tonalities of spectacality. Works like WAIT, WAIT, WAIT (RENEGADE), US FOR IS THIS, and THRU IT ALL, incorporate hypnotic repetition and glitchy documentation – distinctive framing devices for how Blackness is codified and sensationalized on screen. González also interrogates the mediated gaze, blending a range of performance tactics and filmic histories to manipulate spectatorship. In BLUES TIME, the artist uses animation to chronicle the relationship between the body and geography, arranging renderings of their form between cityscapes and syncopated soundscapes. Within their Super-8 black-and-white short, BODY PREFERENCES, González captures a subject performing a therapeutic practice entitled Authentic Movement, wherein the clinician watches their patient move with closed eyes. Here, the artist documents the performer as they feel their way through two landmarks of resistance: New York City’s Hudson River Piers – a geography critical to the city’s queer history – and an open-air stage in Barbados, located in one of the few areas on the island not transformed into a plantation. Stick around for a Q&A after the screening with @datpiffexclusive, @thirdlyrelevant and @okaynickay! Tickets over at @anthologyfilmarchives <3 Still 1-3: Jonathan González (@thirdlyrelevant) BODY PREFERENCES (DE LA PREFERENCE DU CORPS) performed by Alexis De La Rosa (@delabae_), BLUES TIMES Still 4-5: NIC Kay (@okaynickay , US FOR IS THIS
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Today on @radioalhara Sonic Situation by NIC Kay — our second shared show with Radio Alhara! 🕖 7 AM (New York) 🕑 2 PM (Bethlehem) Sonic Situation is a sonic performance series that draws from the archive: #blackpeopledancingontheinternet Through these collected sounds, we’ll journey into Black movement in the digital realm (2025). NIC Kay @okaynickay is an artist, performer, and conceptual choreographer. ⸻ Deli Radio broadcasting from New York. Submit your pre-recorded work with us through our website: deliradio.nyc
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