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.

Documentary is available for rent or purchase.

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

  • Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour, 4th iteration

    Vancouver, Fall 2020

    Edited by Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Emily Dundas Oke

    Contributors:

    Rosario Ancer, Cindy Ansah, Eric Cheung, Olivia C. Davies, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Ralph Escamillan, Jane Gabriels, Jason Owin F. Galeos, Margaret Grenier, Kristy Janvier, Rasu Jilani, Heather Lamoureux, Char Loro, Misha Maseka, Paloma McGregor, Jessica McMann, Sabrina Naz-Comănescu, Emily Dundas Oke, Deanna Peters, Diego Romero, Simran Sachar, Zahra Shahab, Sable Sweetgrass, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Tara Aisha Willis, Sophia Wolfe.

    Supported by:

    The CanDance Network Creative Exchange Project

    Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts

    Dance West Network/Made in BC - Dance on Tour Gatherings - Archival and Oral Histories of Performance

    Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative

    Simon Fraser University Woodward's Cultural Programs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology

    Springboard Performance - Fluid Festival

    PDF available here (Free)

    Printed booklet available here ($15 CAN)

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  • Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Color 2017, Montréal

    Booklet produced by SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology; the departments of African and African-American Studies at Duke University; the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and the Institute for Dance Studies at the University of Toronto; Pepatián; CICA-ICAC/International Community of Performing Arts Curators; the departments of Contemporary Dance and Art Education and the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University. Featured on cover: Rhodnie Désir, rhodniedesir.com/en/

    Essay: Curating with Artists & The Bronx

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  • The Young Roots Performance Series 2011-13 @ Hostos Centre for the Arts & Culture

    Acknowledgements & Intro

    The Young Roots Perf Series 2011

    Noemí Segarra Ramírez

    Raquel Z. Rivera & Catarina dos Santos

    Sita Frederick, page 2 

    Los Monstritos

    Caridad De La Luz, page 2

    Antonio Ramos

    Rokafella

    Artist Bios, page 2

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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

    Edited by Jane Gabriels

    Pepatián’s Jump It Up: Bronx Artist Spotlight

    May 2003

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