PEPATIÁN PRODUCTIONS
Pepatián Productions supports the production of video, audio, print and new media material generated by Latinx and Bronx-based artists.
Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative
Videos
WOMEN IN HIP-HOP REP THE BRONX
A documentary video project about four up-and-coming Emcees and Dance Artists - Jennifer "Beasty" Acosta, Nene Ali, Nejma Nefertiti, Janice Tomlinson- who all make work in The Bronx.
Project Mentors and Co-Curators Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja and Rokafella invited these artists to engage with teaching and showcase opportunities.
This project was produced by Pepatián at community centers throughout the Bronx: Bronx Music Heritage Center, New Settlement Program for Girls & Young Women, The Point, and WHEDCo's South Bronx Early College Academy.
Video documentation and editing: Loreto Jamlig, Photo: Marisol Diaz-Gordon.
Out of la Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx: a choreographic collaboration across diaspora
Featuring dance artists: Sita Frederick, Marion Ramirez, Rokafella
Editor: Naeema Jamilah Torres
Produced by Pepatián, distributed by Third World Newsreel
"This project uncovers the often concealed voices of artists of color and the deep well of practice, theory, history, and innovation they call upon to make their work."- Kayhan Irani, Writer/Performer/Social Engagement
"This documentary inspires through its loving attention to three artists' genuine practice of collaboration."- Daniel Alexander Jones, Performance Artist, Writer. Associate Professor, Theatre, Fordham University
"The documentary offers a rare view into the labor of dance and its potential as a transformative agent through dialogue and collaboration."- Alicia Díaz, Co-Artistic Director of Agua Dulce Dance Theater
Available with Spanish subtitles and English closed captions. Study Guide also available.
Production Meeting: Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness. Movement Research Performance Journal #35. Fall 2009. Written by Jane Gabriels with photos by (c) Marisol Diaz, 2006.
Getting Into Out of La Negrura: Latina dancers in residence at Schwartz. SchwartzScene.wordpress. October 2008. By Jim Self.
This documentary video is part of Pepatián’s Hip-Hop Academy and is supported, in part, by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, public funds from the Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, public funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the generosity to individual donors to Pepatián.
Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance. With footage from Pregones/PRTT Theater
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Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour, 4th iteration
Vancouver, Fall 2020
Edited by Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Emily Dundas Oke
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Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Color 2017, Montréal
Includes essay: Curating with Artists & The Bronx
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The Young Roots Performance Series 2011-13 @ Hostos Centre for the Arts & Culture
Featuring:
Noemí Segarra Ramírez
Raquel Z. Rivera & Catarina dos Santos
Sita Frederick
Los Monstritos
Caridad De La Luz
Antonio Ramos
Rokafella
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SHOUT OUT, 2003
Featuring poems by:
Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja
John Rodriguez
Anita Garcia/Rokafella
Jessica Roman
Victoria Sammartino