FREE ONLINE – EXTENDED through APRIL 30th! – 5th edition of Pregones/PRTT’s 21 Islands International Short Film Fest is online for free streaming and bursting with visual pizzazz! 51 short films from around the world organized into 5 fun-packed festival Groups. Winners include multiple Festival Jury Prizes and Audience Choice Awards. — WATCH & VOTE NOW!
FREE ONLINE – 3:00pm on Saturday, April 24, 2021 – “Trasfondos/Backstories” is an arts- and humanities-based initiative that gives students, educators, and other community members access to our ensemble’s creative process. On April 24 we premiere of the short film Identity Through Art by Brianna Guillén. Created at PregonesPRTT, this fun 6-minute film features candid interviews with artists as they explore the many layers of identity. — RSVP NOW!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
¡Guaracha! (2019) is our fresh musical adaptation of one of the most enduring works of contemporary Puerto Rican literature: La guaracha del Macho Camacho (Macho Camacho’s Beat) by maestro Luis Rafael Sánchez. “Politics, protest and pleasure in a disco swirl,” raved The New York Times. In the segment shown, “La vida es una cosa fenomenal” (Life Is A Phenomenal Thing), a colossal afternoon traffic jam turns into celebration when the hit song of the moment shakes everyone out of their daily worries.
FREE ONLINE – Playing Now for Limited Time! – 4th edition of Pregones/PRTT’s 21 Islands Film Fest is online for free streaming and bursting with visual pizzazz! 51 short films from around the world organized into 5 fun-packed festival Groups including a special showcase just for Children and Families. Winners include multiple Festival Jury Prizes and Audience Choice Awards. — WATCH NOW!
The Marchers / Los manifestantes (2015), a joyous cabaret theater assemblage of protest songs and visionary poems from around the world. The segment shown, “A mi me gustaría” (I Would Like It If), is a musical setting of Cambridge-based puertorriqueña Yara Liceaga Rojas’ poem “No es el final, yet”—done in the style of a new Puerto Rican danza.