Beginning in 1992, Danisarte has sponsored workshops and productions in both English and Spanish in New York. Plays from Latin America and Spain were presented in theatrical festivals entitled Almas Atormentadas/Anguished Souls, Caprichos de Amor/Loves' Whims, The Eternal Conflict/El Conflicto Eterno. The actors were from Colombia, Curacao, La Republica Dominicana, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Spain.
In 1998, Danisarte inaugurated the theatre at the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center in East Harlem, New York, with a performance piece entitled Un Homenaje a Julia de Burgos (A Tribute to Julia de Burgos).
Danisarte has sponsored playwriting workshops under the guidance of renown playwrights Carmen Rivera, Eugene Rodriguez, Candido Tirado, Pedro Monge-Rafuls, and Oscar Colon.
Portraits of Passion/Retratos de pasion, a series of plays spawned by the poetry and lives of celebrated Latin American poets were presented at The Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage House, The Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, El Taller Boricua, Union Settlement House, and El Faro Community Center in East Harlem.
Los Nuevos Valores/The New Treasures theatrical festival entitled Vidas Entrelazadas/Entwined Lives, a series of plays depicting Latino immigrants' turbulent, comical and spritual experiences was presented in December, 2003. Ernesto Villa Bejjani received an A.C.E. award for his performance.
Herencia de Amor y Sangre (A Heritage of Love and Blood) by Arnaldo Rodriguez, became the first play in Spanish to be presented at The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Lower Manhattan in 2003. The New Treasures/Los Nuevos Valores bilingual theatrical festivals were also held in 2004 and 2005 featuring plays that explored the diverse paths of immigrants in search of their dreams. All plays were developed in Danisarte's playwriting and acting workshops at The Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center in East Harlem. Danisarte received an Award from The Association of Latino Entertainment Critics of New York (A.C.E.)in 2005. Danisarte's bilingual "Ilusiones"Theatrical Festival was held at The Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center in December 2006 and Danisarte's theatrical festival "Celebracion",celebrating 15 years of achievements in our artistic/cultural mission, was held in December 2007.
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"La mujer del pirata...un romance del viejo San Juan"
(The Pirates's Woman...a Romance in Old San Juan)
by Sharonah Fredrick
Directed by Alicia Kaplan
with/con Ariel Bonilla, Noelle Esteban, Alfredo Maduro
Joan Manuel Rodriguez & Liana Velazquez
The Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center
El Barrio, New York City: December 2007
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