Arthur Aviles is a New York, Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer born in Queens and raised in Long Island and the Bronx. He graduated from Bard College, a liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. After graduating from Bard, he became a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and toured internationally with the company for eight years. NY redirects here. ... Queens Borough in New York City, in yellow This article is about the New York City borough. ... Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, USA. It has an area of 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) and a population of 7. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... For other meanings of the word Bard, see Bard (disambiguation). ... Annandale-on-Hudson is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, USA, in the Hudson Valley in the Town of Red Hook, across the Hudson River from Kingston. ...

Mr. Aviles began his own company Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre (AATT) in 1996 in Paris, France, and moved the company to the Bronx that same year. In addition to his work with AATT, Aviles became the company choreographer for Paris-based theatrical company Faim de Siecle, and has choreographed a series of productions that have been performed in the United States and in France. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

In December 1998, he co-founded BAAD!-The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, a new performance and workshop space in the legendary American Banknote Building, a warehouse in the Hunts Points section of the Bronx. The New York Times has said the BAAD! is "a funky and welcoming performance space." In addition to the Bessie Award, Aviles received an Arts and Letters Award from his alma mater in 1995, a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) in 1999, a PRIDE (Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment) Award honoring outstanding contributions and services to the Puerto Rican, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities, and a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times wrote, "If you don’t know Mr. Aviles, you haven’t seen one of the great modern dancers of the last 15 years." Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times dance critic, described his work as follows, "Arthur Aviles has developed an individual voice and style that might be compared to bold street theater and poster art, communicating his truths about life as seen as a gay male Puerto Rican through simple narratives that are always colorful and often poignant and amusing." The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

References

• Arthur Aviles Theatre Company