ProyectoTEATRO

ProyectoTEATRO is a Latinx performing arts company and cultural non-profit organization founded in Austin, Texas in 2003 with the mission to preserve and promote Latinx culture through socially-responsive arts programming in Spanish. The award-winning organization is driven by the vision to ensure arts accessibility for immigrant communities, first generation youth and bicultural families of Latino/Hispanic descent. For the past 20 years, ProyectoTEATRO has been Austin's leading arts organization offering our Hispanic & Latino community an array of cultural programming that range from main-stage theatrical productions and year-long youth training programs, to city-wide festivals and cultural community activations. Our stage work is entirely originally-devised and centers a collaborative process inspired by the methodology of Theater for the Oppressed that fuels a deeper exploration of the Latinx experience. This approach intrinsically produces: Highly political work that challenges mainstream Latinx tropes within our stories, characters, and aesthetics. Artistically-defiant work that blends theatre, dance, and video media to offer a contemporary portrayal of our Latinx culture. A wider wider representation of the lived-experiences of the most marginalized and segregated communities within the Latinx identity umbrella. ProyectoTEATRO also activates this unique community-centered process to also develop its arts education programs, cultural events, and marketing strategies as a method of ensuring that all perspectives under the Latinx ethnic umbrella are represented. Because our culture is not monolithic, rather, nuanced and richly woven with the lived experiences of different Latin-American nationalities, sexual & gender identities, and cultural upbringings.

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