PRCC Press Releases
Here is where you will find the PRCC's press releases and statements/speeches by the Executive and Program Directors, as well as links to presentations about the PRCC.
5/10/04
PRESS RELEASE
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center brings to Chicago Ballets de San Juan 50th Anniversary National Tour
Friday June 18 at the Clemente Auditorium
5/10/04
COMUNICADO de PRENSA
El Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño trae a la ciudad de Chicago la Gira Nacional de 50 Aniversario de Ballet de San Juan el viernes 18 de junio en el Auditorio de la Escuela Roberto Clemente
3/23/04
Grand Opening new Location
PRCC PRESS RELEASE
5/10/04
PRESS RELEASE
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center brings to Chicago Ballets de San Juan 50th Anniversary National Tour
Friday June 18 at the Clemente Auditorium
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: John Colón
Phone: (773) 278-6737
Email: john@vidasida.org
www.vidasida.org
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center brings to Chicago
Ballets de San Juan 50th Anniversary National Tour
Friday June 18 at the Clemente Auditorium
Chicago (May, 10, 2004) - The Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC), is proud to sponsor, the 50th Anniversary Tour of Ballets de San Juan. Chicago will have the opportunity to experience this unique ballet company in Chicago, one night only, Friday June 18th. There will be a reception at 5:30PM and the ballet program will start at 7:00PM at the Clemente High School Auditorium–1147 North Western Avenue. Special guest and host of the evening is the Honorable Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-I). The proceeds from the presentation will benefit Vida/SIDA, an HIV/STD prevention and education program of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Tickets for the event are now on sale and may be purchased at Vida/SIDA, 2703 W. Division or at PRCC, 2739-41 W. Division. For more information you can call (773) 278-6737 or email to vidasida@vidasida.org.
The Ballets de San Juan (BSJ) was founded as a company and school with the purpose of developing both dance culture in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican dance culture. Its principal objectives are: the preparation and training of Puerto Rican dancers, choreographers, composers and designers; and the development of the dance audience and dance appreciation by presenting an international repertory of classical, neoclassical and contemporary works.
BSJ presented its first performance in November of 1954 and has been active, without interruption ever since. International Figures from the dance scene have danced with the company including Rudolph Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, Margot Fontayn, Cynthia Gregory, Jorge Esquivel, and others. BSJ has presented several full-length classics throughout its history and presented fifteen works by George Balanchine, being one of the few Latin American Companies to receive permission to do so by the George Balanchine Trust.
The 50th Anniversary National Tour is homage to the former artistic director and founder Ana García, a dance pioneer in Puerto Rico, which includes a compilation of works by this daring dance artist from the 1950’s to the present. It also presents three original dance works by Puerto Rican choreographers and musicians based on the lives of Puerto Rican women: Julia de Burgos, Sylvia Rexach and Nilita Vientós Gastón.
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COMUNICADO de PRENSA
Contacto: John Colón
Teléfono: (773) 278-6737
Correo Electrónico: john@vidasida.org
www.vidasida.org
El Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño trae a la ciudad de Chicago la
Gira Nacional de 50 Aniversario de Ballet de San Juan
el viernes 18 de junio en el Auditorio de la Escuela Roberto Clemente
Chicago (10 de mayo, 2004) – El Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño se enorgullece en presentar La Gira Nacional de Ballet de San Juan en su celebración de 50mo aniversario. Chicago tendrá la oportunidad de disfrutar del Ballet de San Juan en su única presentación el viernes 18 de junio. Habrá una recepción a las 5:30pm y el programa comenzará a las 7:00pm el auditorio de la Escuela Roberto Clemente-1147 norte de la avenida Western. Como invitado especial y anfitrión de la noche se destaca el Hon. Congresista Luis Gutiérrez. El dinero recaudado en la taquilla beneficiará a Vida/SIDA, un programa de prevención y educación de VIH y SIDA del Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño. Boletos para el evento están a la venta y se pueden adquirir en: Vida/SIDA-2703 oeste de la Division y en el Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño-2739-41 oeste de la Division. Para mas información puede llamar al (773) 278-6737 o a través de correo electrónico vidasida@vidasida.org.
El Ballet de San Juan (BSJ) fue fundado como escuela y compañía con el propósito de desarrollar cultura de ballet en Puerto Rico y cultural puertorriqueña de ballet. Los objetivos de BSJ son: el adiestramiento de bailarines, coreógrafos, compositores y diseñadores puertorriqueños; y el desarrollo de un audiencia de ballet y la apreciación por el arte de la danza a través de la presentación de un repertorio internacional de trabajos clásicos, neoclásicos, y contemporarios.
La primera presentación de BSJ fue en noviembre del 1954 y la compañía se ha mantenido active desde entonces. Figuras internacionales de ballet tales como Rudolph Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, Margot Fontayn, Cynthia Gregory, Jorge Esquivel, y otros han bailado con BSJ. También ha presentado varias piezas completas de ballet clásico y a través de su historia, BSJ ha presentado quince trabajos de George Balanchine convirtiéndolo en una de las pocas compañías de ballet latinoamericano en recibir permiso directamente del George Balanchine Trust para la presentación del trabajo de este virtuoso del ballet.
La Gira Nacional del 50mo Aniversario de Ballet de San Juan le rinde homenaje a la fundadora y primera directora artística, Ana García, que es una pionera de la danza en Puerto Rico. El programa incluye entre otros una colección de trabajos coreografiados por García desde los años 50 hasta el presente. También incluye tres trabajos originales por coreógrafos y músicos puertorriqueños basados en la vida de tres mujeres puertorriqueña: Julia de Burgos, Sylvia Rexach y Nilita Vientós Gastón.
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Grand Opening new Location PRCC PRESS RELEASE
March 23, 2003
Chicago, IL
Contact person: Jorge Félix
Phone: (773) 278-6737
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Celebrates 30th Anniversary and Grand Opening of New Location
On Saturday, March 29, 2003 the Puerto Rican Cultural Center--previously located at 1671 North Claremont--will celebrate its 30th Anniversary with the grand opening ceremony of its new location at 2739-41 West Division Street between 2:00-5:00pm. The Grand Opening will count with invited guests: Dr. Leonor Osorio Granados, Venezuelan Consul General in New York, and Rodrigo Chaves, National Coordinator of the Bolivarian Circles.
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 by community activists to meet the cultural, educational, and social needs of the Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. The PRCC serves as an umbrella organization to the following five educational, social and cultural projects: Family Learning Center, providing literacy programs; Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, a childcare program; Vida/SIDA, providing HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro, providing a community garden and cultural space; and Café Batey Urbano providing a cultural space for the youth. The PRCC also organizes the annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade and is co-sponsor of Fiesta Boricua, an annual Puerto Rican music festival. Also, PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.
PRCC will celebrate the above programmatic accomplishments, as well as the three decades of work and commitment to community building by showcasing its newly rehabbed two million Dollar facilities. The new Puerto Rican Cultural Center is located in the heart of the dynamic Puerto Rican community know as Paseo Boricua. The new PRCC facilities serve as an addition to the growth and development of the Humboldt Park community and add a new dimension to the evolution of the Puerto Rican corridor along Division Street between Western and Kedzie.
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