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FLACC 2017 Proudly presents:
The 4th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers: REST/UNREST Location: Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco November 10-12, 2017, Fri/Sat, Nov.10 -11 (8:00 pm) / Sunday, Nov. 12 (6:00 pm) Tickets $18-25 flacc2017.brownpapertickets.com/ or call 1-800-838-3006 For the last 4 years, FLACC has been breaking through the Bay Area’s dance scene with an exhilarating array of multi-media dance-theater performances celebrating over 30 local and visiting Chicano/Latino and Indigenous choreographers from the U.S. and Latin America. This festival theme for 2017, “REST/UNREST”, which was conceived by one of FLACC’s rotating curators (Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz), is intended to support communities who are directly impacted by current xenophobic, sexist, and anti-LGBTQQI policies. The theme will highlight the varied strategies that Latina/o/x and Native choreographers use to regain their energy in the company of each other, to take care of each other in the face of oppression, and to acknowledge the people and places that have been lost due to police state violence and the silencing of our community members.
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FLACC 2017 Featured Choreographers
Alfonso Cervera & Irvin Gonzalez
Alfonso Cervera and Irvin Gonzalez (Primera Generación, Los Angeles,CA) dissects what it means to be a bi-cultural body, one that negotiates the complex relationships between ballet folklorico, labor, queerness and Mexican-American identity. This contemporary dance journeys with three males who explore their relationships within the concepts of machismo, labor, and femininity.
Dancer: Vincent Chavez/ Photo: Meryl Francolini
Vincent Chavez (SF, CA) was born in Albuquerque, NM, where he raised livestock, rode and broke horses with his Dad. At age 17, he received dance training from Dance Theatre Southwest, Ballet Hispanico, Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre and the LINES Ballet Training Program. Chavez is bringing a solo contemporary dance about honoring his Indigenous ancestry and following a destiny that is true to himself. www.vincentchavez.com
Davalos Dance Company/ Photo Credit: David Gaylord
CatherineMarie Davalos (Davalos Dance Company, SF) is a Chicana choreographer and a founding member of FLACC. Her work aims to challenge the social conventions of patriarchy, masculinity, sexuality, gender and race by examining “the other” in both a Latino cultural context and through the dominant culture. Davalos is also the Director of Dance at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA. www.davalosdance.org
Piñata Dance Collective/ Photo Credit: Su Pang
Piñata Dance Collective (San Francisco/Oakland) Founding director of FLACC, Liz Duran Boubion is performing a response to rape culture and our current patriarchy in a piece titled “Don’t Grab”. She will be accompanied with an original sound score by David Molina, an award winning bay area composer. www.lizboubion.org
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Performer: Violeta Luna/ Photo Credit: Yvonne Portra
Violeta Luna (SF/MX) Working within a multidimensional space that allows for the crossing of aesthetic and conceptual borders, Luna uses her body as a territory to question and comment on social and political phenomena. Luna is bringing a section of a 3 part series: Requiem 3 : Fosas Cuerpo. It is a poetic action intent in rescuing the memory and reclaim the humanity of those buried in Mexican mass graves. Grounded in an inclusive and public creative space, it questions and reveals the impunity of an institutional machine devised to impede the right to access truth, justice, and mourning. www.violetaluna.com
Tranze Producciones/Photo: Uziel Elim Perez
Zarina Mendoza (Tranze Producciones, Mexicali, MX) 4 dancers from Baja California will be bringing a performance that expresses the challenging task of moving through the conditions created when conservatism, homophobia, narcissism, and arrogance share a constrained space.
Caleb Luna/ Photo Credit: Beverly Bland Boydston
Caleb Luna (Oakland, CA) is a working-class, fat, brown queer whose work explores the intersections of fatness, desire, fetishism, white supremacy, and colonialism from a queer of color lens. Their work will offer alternative possibilities for pleasure through burlesque.
Zoë Klein Productions/ Photo Credit: Robbie Sweeny
Zoë Klein Productions (SF) is presenting an acrobatic dance inspired by the political loopholes that make adoptees vulnerable to deportation. She makes work from her experience as an indigenous international adoptee, born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Zoë has toured 28 countries over 6 continents co-directing acrobatic dance company, Paradizo Dance, which has won multiple awards, was seen on So You Think You Can Dance, and was a top Finalist on America’s Got Talent 2009.
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What the press has to say about FLACC:
"Embracing the interdisciplinary nature of dance theater, many of the choreographers explore an array of practices and devices in their pieces. Two threads running through the programs are a commitment to storytelling and an engagement with text." Read full article
- Andrew Gilbert 9-29-16, San Jose Mercury News
"In a form dominated by the white Western purview, a contemporary dance festival that specifically gives voice to Latin American artists allows for discussion on cultural identity." Read full article - Emmaly Wiederholt 12-5-16, Stance on Dance
"The evenings were well-attended and received tremendous feedback from Latin American dance artists..." Read full article - Jessi Phillips 9-22-15, SF Weekly
- Andrew Gilbert 9-29-16, San Jose Mercury News
"In a form dominated by the white Western purview, a contemporary dance festival that specifically gives voice to Latin American artists allows for discussion on cultural identity." Read full article - Emmaly Wiederholt 12-5-16, Stance on Dance
"The evenings were well-attended and received tremendous feedback from Latin American dance artists..." Read full article - Jessi Phillips 9-22-15, SF Weekly
