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Pepatián projects are: "vibrant and life affirming, like an actual bohemia being sustained and expanded, but a better bohemia, a browner bohemia." -- playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortinas


APAP SHOWCASES


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After five years of producing showcases that featured over 40 artists at City Center, Pepatian then introduced a new showcase model, APAP@HOME. Initiated in 2011 by Jane Gabriels, APAP@HOME works with a network of South Bronx performance spaces to create a unique opportunity for presenters and funders to tour three Bronx venues and see showcases of new work by Latino and Bronx-based multidisciplinary dance and performance artists. Venues include: BAAD!/Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx Council on the Arts, Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture and Pregones Theater.




PEPATIÁN BRONX ARTIST SPOTLIGHT


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Pepatián's Bronx Artist Spotlight series began in 1999 with the Bronx Dance Festival, a two-week dance concert curated by Pepatian's co-founder Merian Soto, at the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. Director Jane Gabriels was inspired from this Festival to initiate the Bronx Artist Spotlight series, with Jump It Up in Spring 2001, then adding another companion series in October 2002, Fall Into It.

The two seasonal projects of this series helped galvanize over 350 artists at seven collaborating performance venues and community spaces throughout the South Bronx. The Bronx Artist Spotlight became a borough-wide festival of performances and community activities with collaborative projects at significant venues throughout the borough, helping to make artists accessible to the public in a variety of neighborhoods.  The series served to nourish, strengthen and support participating artists with consistent performance opportunities.

Venues who participated in Pepatián's Bronx Artist Spotlight include:

BAAD!/Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Bronx High School of Visual Arts
Bronx International High School
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronxworks/Betances Community Center
Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture
Lovinger Theater at Lehman College
PAL/Police Athletic League
Passages Academy, Juvenile Detention Center
Pregones Theater
The Point, C.D.C.

 
As a result of this work, Pepatián began to produce showcases in 2003 at the annual APAP/Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference.

The Bowery Poetry Club
Huntington Summer Dance Festival (through New York State DanceForce)
Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage
The Living Room
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SwingSpace@15 Nassau Street
Nuyorican Poets Café
Queens Museum

in addition to creative residencies at: Cornell University, Lexington Center for the Arts and Temple University.


FUNDING

Bronx Artist Spotlight series has been made possible in part with a grant from National Endowment for the Arts, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group Inc., Association of Hispanic Arts, Fleet Bank and JPMorgan Chase Foundation through the JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program and the Bronx Council on the Arts, with Ford Foundation, as well as individual contributors.






PEPATIÁN BRONX HIPHOP ACADEMY



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Pepatián's Bronx Hip-Hop Aademy began from a desire to respect the borough that began this cultural revolution and to create opportunities to connect Hip-Hop artists with the next generation.
Artists share their knowledge and teach both the history and artistry of Hip-Hop at an accessible, grassroots level appropriate for teens, high school and college students.

BX-RATED: LA MEZCLATINA RISING, VOLUME 1



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Created in collaboration by artists: LA BRUJA/Caridad de la Luz, JESSIE FLORES, NADIA HALLGREN and CYNTHIA PANIAGUA, this collaborative dance theater project explore issues of first and second generation Latina identity in a coming together of powerful, unapologetic voices that speak to personal journeys and female realities in the tight rope between urban life and ancestry.




OUT OF LA NEGRURA / OUT OF BLACKNESS



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Pepatian is the producer and curator for this collaborative dance theater project that explored Caribbean/Latina-American experience through dance. Out of la Negrura was created by Sita Frederick, Anita "Rokafella" Garcia and Marion Ramirez.

Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness was developed in residency at Philadelphia's Temple University and Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), with additional support from Pepatián and the New York State DanceForce, and with the support of space grants from the Taller Boricua at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Pregones Theater.