Crowns: Fabrics of Resistance

Following its enormously successful inaugural edition in 2018, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater is proud to host the Second Annual Bronx Dance & Drum Festival curated by Milteri Tucker of Bombazo Dance Co. This two-day event showcases the uniqueness of different cultures from the African Diaspora together on one stage! The festival advances Bombazo’s mission to connect the African presence of the Americas through dance and drum. This year’s theme, CROWNS: Telas de resistencia / Fabrics of Resistance, pays tribute to the women of the diaspora who have kept their cultural traditions alive and have passed them down to the next generations. Companies of cultural heritage from Africa, Peru, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico join together to celebrate their rich shared ancestry!

ABOUT BOMBAZO: The word “Bombazo” signifies a Bomba jam. It is where the community gathers to celebrate  life through its rhythms, songs, and dances. Bombazo Dance Company’s mission is to preserve, educate, and showcase traditional Afro Puerto Rican Bomba and Afro Caribbean folklore. Under the direction of founder/choreographer Milteri Tucker Concepción, company artists advance tradition through experiment and fusion with classical, contemporary, and social styles of dance and other urgent creative expressions.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:
Saturday, November 9, 2019
—Dance Workshops
11am: Bomba
12noon: Afro Peruvian
1pm: African Dance
—Performance: 7pm

Sunday, November 10, 2019
—Drum Circle: 11am-1pm
—Performance: 3pm

FESTIVAL ADMISSIONS:
—Drum Circle: FREE
—Workshops: $11
—Performances: $30 / $25 Students & Seniors

CROWNS is supported by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures through a grant from the NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) Program. Visit www.nalac.org. Media support generously provided by Rhina Valentín and La Reina del Barrio, Inc., “Providing messages of transformative thinking.” Visit www.lareinadelbarrio.org.

Program also made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Southwest Airlines is the official airline of Pregones/PRTT. For full list of our funders, visit www.pregonesprtt.org.