From the business:
We train and develop young dancers and actors. We develop and present the work of hundreds of artists work in dance and theater each year. We provide essential art services to our borough and cityâ„¢s artists. We believe this all belongs together. We believe that it is a completely different experience for students to study in a center where professional artists develop work and perform in. We believe that artists who through physical proximity have to acknowledge students and families at BAX become part of a social fabric that might not otherwise exist.
There is no comparable institution in all of NYC that simultaneously and effectively provides for the artistic development of both professionals and students, and places presentations and performances within the context of that development. BAX is a place where children discover theater and dance, become teenage playwrights and choreographers, and return as young adults to teach, completing the cycle of exchange.