Hostos January 12, 2021

PROGRAM

Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative

Welcome to Pepatian's 11th annual Bronx Artists Now: Showcase & Conversation event produced during APAP in partnerships with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx Music Heritage Center, Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, and Pregones/PRTT Theater.

Bronx Dance: Pivot to Thrive

Joan Bradford

presents 2 short excerpts

Stairs Choreographed by Joan Bradford in collaboration with Phoebe Ballard, Gabrielle Burgess, Bethany Chang, Gemma Dalfo-Zay, Rebecca Gual, & Sophie Tibiletti

Presented through Dance Your Future Dance Your Future: Artist & Mentor Collaborative Residency through Pepatián & BAAD! under the mentorship of Alexandra Beller & Sydnie L. Mosely

Music Composed by Robert Poss

and

Orchard Beach, The Bronx created by: Joan Bradford, Blaise Vacca, Jessica Ray performed by; Joan Bradford

Joan Bradford is a choreographer, dancer, teaching artist, and arts administrator born, raised, and still residing in the Bronx, NY. Joan holds her BFA in Dance & minor in Theatre with awards in choreographic achievement from LIU. Joan has performed with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Alexandra Beller, MizantyMoves Dance works, Alethea Pace, Praevado Dance Collective, KamrDANCE, Haven Movement Company, and Mise en Danse in venues throughout City and in residences through Temple University, The Iron Factory, Wilson College, and Lincoln Center Education. Joan has presented work at venues including Symphony Space, Triskelion Arts, Hunter College, School of Music, The Old First Reformed Church, Socrates Sculpture Park, Arts on Site, Hostos Community College, and The Knockdown Center. Joan completed a choreographic residency with Lost Dog Dance Theatre in Lewes, England, and was recently in residence through the Dance Your Future Mentor & Collaborative Residency presented by Pepatián and BAAD! under the mentorship of Sydnie L. Mosley and Alexandra Beller. Currently, Joan performs and rehearsal directs with Sydnie L Mosley Dances while working as a teaching artist and assistant director with The Coalition for Hispanic Family Services Arts & Literacy program, a teaching artist and project manager with The Bronx House, and a producer with WAXworks. Joanbradford.com

Beverly Lopez

presents 2 short excerpts

Code-Switching

and

BLOOM: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage, a Pandemic Birth, a Proposition to Build Better

Beverly Lopez is a dancer, choreographer and educator. She is the Artistic Director of REDi Dance Company. She earned a BFA in Multi-Media/Performing Arts at Herbert H. Lehman College. Her most recent performances “Mo Nife Re” by Beatrice Capote, I Am Pulse by Sekou Mcmiller at Hostos Community College, Move to Change at Oberia Dempsey Theatre, Collective Thread at Dixon Place, Land of Concrete at the Hudson Guild Theatre, Monopoly: The Land Lord’s Game at Mark Morris Dance Center, Voices at the Harlem school of the Arts, and Bountiful by Luis Salgado at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center.

Beverly founded the Dance Bridge Workshop for teen artists in 2015 and REDi Dance Company’s Junior Co. in 2020. She currently works as a teaching artist at the DreamYard Project and Get Empowered. In past years she worked as the Dance Education Associate at the AATT Academy at BAAD! and as the Program Manager for Daniel Fetecua Production's youth program at iD Studio Theatre. beverlylopez.com

Alexander Diaz

Getting Closer Created and performed by: Alexander Diaz

Alexander Diaz (Bronx, NY) began his training at the Bronx Dance Academy and Bronx Dance Theater. During high school he was a Fellowship recipient at The Ailey School, and later received his Certificate from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Alex graduated from the LINES Ballet Training Program in 2017 and is currently working with Maurya Kerr's tinypistol, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, and Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT. For more information visit alexandertheartist.com

Cynthia Paniagua

Sembrando Memoria: Honoring our Abuelas, Awichakuna, Guerreras

Kaypacha Dance performers: Adriana Solange Diaz, Cynthia Paniagua, Carolina Rivera, Claudia Tinageros Choreography: Cynthia Paniagua Videographer and Editor: Ivonne Morales Camera (Peru footage): Jose Luis Franco

Sembrando Memoria is an homage to the indigenous matriarchal root and to the inheritance of our grandmothers' teachings, wisdom and magic. While this is true, Sembrando Memoria searches to heal ancestral wounds by decolonizing the body, empowering and reclaiming our ancestral divine feminine. We carry forth a new generation of consciousness as multicultural migrants, daughters of immigrants, women of the Andean Diaspora living and dancing in NYC and beyond. We plant and harvest our existence as indigenous women by saying " WE EXIST" - KACHKANIRAQMI. This piece is dedicated to the following Awichakuna: Bertha Carrillo, "Mama Chayo' Rosario Carrillo Gaspar, Paulina Juárez Mesa, Marina Valdés.

Cynthia Paniagua is a dancer, choreographer, and educator whose work reflects her Peruvian and Puerto Rican ancestral heritage. She was raised in where she earned a B.A. in Dance at Hunter College and a M.A. in Performance Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is a Fulbright scholar who studied at Peru’s two leading folkdance institutions Jose Maria Arguedas and Universidad de San Marcos. Her dance research led her to journey along the Peruvian coast, Andes and Amazon, where she lived and studied with living masters of Peruvian dance. Her experience was filmed in the PBS aired documentary “Soy Andina” which toured Peru as part of the biggest cultural exchange ever organized by the U.S. Embassy. She performed throughout Peru and the U.S. and has aired on NBC, Univision, PBS, NatGeo and Peruvian national TV. In 2019, her choreographic work was commissioned by the UN Symphony Orchestra as for the musical "El Condor Pasa - Andean Hope" by Dante Valdez. sHer choreographic style interweaves contemporary movement and Peruvian traditional dance, highlighting Andean cosmovision, ritual dance and history. She is launching her company KAYPACHA Dance in 2021 and is honored to continue this amazing ancestral dance journey. “The journeys are part of my quest in order to respect the legacy my ancestors through dance and share that energy with my audience.” https://www.cynthiapaniagua.com

Carolina Rivera was born in Santiago (Chile) where she began her dance training at the school of ballet of Teatro Municipal de Santiago. Continuing her studies, she majored in Dance at the University of Chile with High Honors and the Excellence Award. In Chile, Carolina has performed as a Soloist and as a Ensemble in various operas at the renowned Teatro Municipal de Santiago. Her desire to pursue a career in Dance brought her to New York where she was a scholarship recipient at the Martha Graham School and joined Graham II, performing soloist roles and chorus in the major pieces of Graham repertory. She has danced works by Jacqulyn Buglisi, Yung Yung Tsuai Lerner, Blakeley White- McGuire, Lone Larsen, Martin Lofsnes, Edgar Cortes, Shawn Rawls and Martha Graham. Carolina is currently a senior dancer with Alison Cook Beatty Dance and a fitness instructor and creator of Lotus Sculpt at Sun Lotus Center (sunlotuscenter.com). www.carolinariveradance.com

Adriana Solange Diaz is a creative independent artist who focuses in the art of dance for a living. Her training begun with the styles of Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Modern and Hip Hop. At the age of 16 she began working for well known dance schools such as Ballet Hispanico and continued her training at Callinas’s School of Classical Ballet, Broadway Dance Center and Alvin Ailey. She became the Assistant Director of Dance Soul Company and has produced many shows and events with the company. Her talent as an expressive artist has captivated audiences in NYC. Once her career as a dancer/instructor began she branched off to focus on Rhythmic Gymnastics, learning from the talented Gold medal winning Russian Coach Mila Spivak. Her focus on flexibility, strength and choreography led her to become the head coach in Forest Hills Rhythmic Gymnastics. Her hard work and dedication earned the recreational team of gymnasts the chance to perform at Madison Square Garden on various occasions. In addition, she has also directed and produced shows of her own. HAVEN was originally choreographed and directed by Diaz and was a successful kickstarter campaign. She has performed alongside the UN Symphony Orchestra at the NYU theater. Her choreography continues to be featured at different dance schools such as Elite Dance Academy and Durham School of Classical Ballet.

Claudia Tinageros is a Dancer, artist and Peruvian communicator interested in the dissemination of art and culture as a generator for development and improvement for new opportunities. Dance transformed her life. From dance, she learned to connect with Mother Earth and to capture the energy that flows between us. Her dance is the performance of her life, and of our lives made into movement. She is interested in performing, investigating, educating, and creating art that will enrich the community by inspiring others to perform and to be empowered. She believes this goal can be achieved through education, supported by the rich legacy of contemporary dance. The energy created by dance can flow out into the community and in turn flow back from the community. A community can be enhanced by the dance experience of others. Her objective is to create an appreciation for self through dance. Claudia is currently exploring improvisation in natural public spaces, in a search to understand the cyclical connection that exists between women and nature and how this relationship affects the environment in which we live.

Funding credits:

Over 2020, this project was supported in large part by The Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

Pepatián’s 11th annual Bronx Artists Now: Showcase & Conversation 2021 event is made possible, in part, with public funds from the Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund and the generosity of individual donors to Pepatián.

PEPATIÁN is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to creating, producing and supporting contemporary multi-disciplinary art by Latinx and Bronx-based artists. pepatian.org