Dancing La Botánica: La Tierra Vive!

Dance, Multidiscipline, Online, Presenting

FREE ONLINE – 6:30pm on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 – Pepatián’s Dancing La Botánica is a platform for Latino/a/x choreographers, dance makers, and movement artists. Initiated by Jane Gabriels and co-led with dancer/choreographers Beatrice Capote and Alicia Díaz, this event also features multidisciplinary artists Leenda Bonilla, Melanie Gonzalez, and Beverly Lopez. A refreshingly candid audiovisual conversation about creativity, solidarity, and the bounty of life! — RSVP NOW!

Greater Good Theater Festival

Events, Mainstage, Online, Partnerships, Theater

FREE ONLINE – 7:30pm on October 15, 2020 – We are proud to partner with Latinx Playwrights Circle and Darrel Alejandro Holnes for the Inaugural Edition of this brand new theater commission and festival. Five extraordinary AFRO/BLACK LATINX WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS take first honors in 2020: Christin Eve Cato, Julissa Contreras, Candice D’Meza, Shenny De Los Angeles, and Rachel Lynett. New short plays, innovative in form, that reflect the times — bold, brave, and bubbling with energy to meet any and all challenges! — RSVP NOW!

Bringing Copper & Sunflowers

Dance, Multidiscipline, Online, Presenting

FREE ONLINE – July 25, 2020 – We are proud to partner with Jane Gabriels and PEPATIÁN for the first digital edition of their annual Indigenous Women Artists Residency, a project co-directed with and featuring Caridad de La Luz (Taino). An international and inter-nation gathering of artists from across Turtle Island, also featuring dancers/choreographers Olivia C. Davies (Anishinaabe), Jessica McMann (Cree), and Cynthia Paniagua (Andean and Taino). Live Saturday night — RSVP NOW!

REMOJO 2020 Goes Digital!

Ensemble, Events, Film / Media, Music, Online, Presenting, Theater

FREE ONLINE – Encore! August 14, 2020 – We are proud to roll out our 2020-2021 Season with new online content every Monday night starting July 6th. REMOJO, the company’s recurring sneak peek at works in progress goes digital, giving audiences a chance to get up close and personal with Latinx theater, music, dance, and film/media artists. Events will broadcast for free on website, Zoom, and social media platforms. — RSVP NOW!

The Embrace (1990)

Education, Film / Media, Online, Video

In 1990, the artists of Pregones collaborated with documentary filmmaker Diana Coryat to capture a video performance of our long-running interactive forum theater project addressing HIV/AIDS. THE EMBRACE • EL ABRAZO provided hard hit Puerto Rican/Latinx communities in New York City with a bilingual platform where they could voice experiences, get facts, and build solidarity.

ARTIST LENS | Our Bronx Future

Dance, Events, Humanities, Multidiscipline, Online, Partnerships, Poetry, Presenting, Theater

FREE ONLINE – May 16-21, 2020 – We are proud to partner with Jane Gabriels and the extended creative family of PEPATIÁN in bringing together diverse cultural and community leaders to talk about issues impacting the future of the Boogie Down, and how arts and culture can be a conduit towards a better tomorrow. Get thinking, join the dialogue, and let’s all keep it real! Advance RSVP is required; events live via Zoom. — RSVP NOW!

Still from the film Moving Through Love featuring Latinx older adults.

Moving Through Love (2010)

Education, Film / Media, Online, Video

In the spring of 2010, a group of Latinx older adults from Erma Cava Senior Center in the South Bronx collaborated to develop, script, perform, and shoot a short film. This foray into the arts was one of Pregones/PRTT’s signature Seniors In Motion workshops. The enduring result reflects on the idea and lived experience of LOVE in all its richness.

MonkTango (2014) feat. Danny Rivera

Ensemble, Online, Theater, Video

For March Is Music 2014, Pregones/PRTT honorary ensemble member Danny Rivera, together with world-class jazz-tango fusion quintet MonkTango, led by Konrad Adderley, and the fiery yet light as air dancers of Diego Blanco and Ana Padrón, stole our breath and our hearts! The number highlighted here, “El día que me quieras” (The Day You Love Me), is a classic tango song popularized by the great Carlos Gardel, and also featured in his 1935 Paramount Pictures film of the same name.

El Apagón (2014)

Ensemble, Online, Theater, Video

Hailed by critics as “the quintessential Boricua play,” El Apagón / The Blackout has been performed to standing ovations in more than 30 U.S. cities, as well as in Puerto Rico, Canary Islands, Holland, and Slovakia. The segment shown, “De mi corazón” (Of My Heart), from the 2014 Off-Broadway run with Jorge B. Merced and Flaco Navaja, is a typically playful and musical example of Pregones/PRTT’s “No 4th Wall” style.

Brides (2008)

Ensemble, Online, Theater, Video

With the input of artists and audiences of all ages, Brides (2008) bridged cultures, geographies, languages, and performance styles to say something provocative about an experience that continues to touch the lives and loves of women the world over. Lead artists were Rosalba Rolón of Pregones/PRTT in NYC, Mia Grijp of Sering Vzw in Antwerp, Viera Dubačová of Divadlo z Pasáže in Banská Bystrica, and writer Anna Grusková in Bratislava.