¡FLACC!
FESTIVAL OF
LATIN AMERICAN
CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS
PRESENTED BY
PIÑATA DANCE COLLECTIVE
FISCALLY SPONSORED BY DANCERS' GROUP
GREETINGS FROM THE ORGANIZERS OF FLACC
¡FLACC! creates a platform of visibility and inclusion that amplifies the radical and traditional aesthetics of Latinx and Indigenous Choreographers from the U.S. and Latin America.
Bienvenidos! The purpose of this annual showcase is to celebrate the diverse heritages and innovations of Chicanx, Latinx and Indigenous choreographers. ¡FLACC! creates a platform to connect and strengthen our communities through multi-media dance performance locally and internationally.
Departing from traditional and folkloric dance forms that typically represent Latino constituencies, FLACC’s culturally nuanced, hybridized and politically charged dance genre brings a refreshing perspective to the contemporary dance sector, igniting conversations with dance-theater enthusiasts and Latina/o/xs internationally. Our decision to create a welcoming space along the “cutting-edge” continuum of classical contemporary dance to conceptual performance art, gives marginalized choreographers more visibility and freedom socially, politically and artistically.
Our sustainability depends on our collaborations with each other and FLACC is rapidly creating a recognizable platform for Latina/o/x artists to meet one another under one roof. The artists’ subjects encompass a broad spectrum of abstract to dramatized themes of identity, immigration, deportation, gentrification, personal story, folkloric/modern fusions and re-appropriated cultural traditions.
Departing from traditional and folkloric dance forms that typically represent Latino constituencies, FLACC’s culturally nuanced, hybridized and politically charged dance genre brings a refreshing perspective to the contemporary dance sector, igniting conversations with dance-theater enthusiasts and Latina/o/xs internationally. Our decision to create a welcoming space along the “cutting-edge” continuum of classical contemporary dance to conceptual performance art, gives marginalized choreographers more visibility and freedom socially, politically and artistically.
Our sustainability depends on our collaborations with each other and FLACC is rapidly creating a recognizable platform for Latina/o/x artists to meet one another under one roof. The artists’ subjects encompass a broad spectrum of abstract to dramatized themes of identity, immigration, deportation, gentrification, personal story, folkloric/modern fusions and re-appropriated cultural traditions.
OUR VISION
¡FLACC! supports emerging and established Dance Artists of the Latina/o/x Diaspora who are choosing to make dances of the non-traditional, border-crossing, rule-breaking, cutting-edge, queer, avant-garde, contemporary, curious, experimental, abstract, sensitive, hybridized, neo-classical, or revolutionary varieties.
¡FLACC! is committed to giving our greater community of Latinxs more access and exposure to contemporary modern and experimental dance forms by offering affordable tickets to the show, panel discussions with the artists, teaching by local Latinx dance educators, hosting international choreographers and aligning with Dancers' Group as our fiscal sponsors. We are also committed to bringing Bay Area Latinx choreographers out of isolation and into a supported arena by providing work-in-progress feedback showings to help in the creative process by engaging with colleagues and established artists who are committed to support FLACC.
FLACC's educational component provides opportunities for FLACC artists to engage with schools locally and internationally. This includes: Offering student tickets to the show, workshops and symposia in high schools, colleges, private studios, community organizations, conferences and other dance festivals.
¡FLACC! is committed to giving our greater community of Latinxs more access and exposure to contemporary modern and experimental dance forms by offering affordable tickets to the show, panel discussions with the artists, teaching by local Latinx dance educators, hosting international choreographers and aligning with Dancers' Group as our fiscal sponsors. We are also committed to bringing Bay Area Latinx choreographers out of isolation and into a supported arena by providing work-in-progress feedback showings to help in the creative process by engaging with colleagues and established artists who are committed to support FLACC.
FLACC's educational component provides opportunities for FLACC artists to engage with schools locally and internationally. This includes: Offering student tickets to the show, workshops and symposia in high schools, colleges, private studios, community organizations, conferences and other dance festivals.
Artistic DIRECTOR
Liz Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT is a second generation Chicana and queer choreographer of the Piñata Dance Collective founded in 2011 and artistic director of Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (¡FLACC!) founded in 2014 in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has held 7 residencies in the US, Germany and Mexico and is an associate teacher of the Tamalpa Institute founded by Anna Halprin. Her work as a choreographer and somatic movement therapist maintains a commitment to the coalescence of rigor, innovation and healing through the arts. She received her BA in Dance from CSU Long Beach and her MFA in Creative Inquiry and Interdisciplinary Art from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Boubion has been published in InDance Magazine, Stance on Dance, Life as a Modern Dancer, Conscious Dancer Magazine and is registered with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). www.lizboubion.org
contact: admin@flaccdanza.org
contact: admin@flaccdanza.org
Managing Director
Zoë Klein is a choreographer, visual artist, acrobat, lighting designer and activist in the Bay Area via Brooklyn NY. She makes work about the importance of origin as an indigenous, international transracially adopted person, born in Colombia. She co-founded Paradizo Dance in NYC which toured 28 countries over 6 continents, performed for NBA halftime shows and “So You Think You Can Dance.'' She was a top finalist on "America's Got Talent,” and a leader in an international Latin Dance community. In 2014 she founded Zoë Klein Productions and was nominated for an Isadora Duncan “Izzie” Dance Award for best ensemble 2018. Zoë has been Producing Director at CounterPulse, Communications Manager at Adoption Museum Project, and Development Associate at Luna Dance Institute. Zoë has performed for Kim Epifano, Ramon Alayo, Rosy Simas, Zaccho Dance Theater, Dancing Earth, and FLACC festivals. She is a proud new mama and continues to make work questioning ethics and policies around adoption and family separation. contact: zoe@flaccdanza.org
Production Manager
Emelia Martínez Brumbaugh honors and hones the unknown for choreography of a more just reality. They meld critical inquiry & strategic thinking with play & ritual in their creative practice as a coach/consultant and project manager. They have supported several liberatory projects and organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including Physical Intelligence, Eye Zen Presents, Fierce Allies, and NAKA Dance Theatre. Their commitment to creating platforms where creative practice and social renewal meet extends to their work as an educator, currently being contracted through LEAP: Arts in Education; a performer, their ongoing solo work, The Mouth, has been shown at Pro Arts Gallery, Temescal Arts Center (TAC), and SAFEHouse Arts; and a creative collaborator, dancing with LXS DXS, a collective of 6 emerging artists from distinct diasporic heritages healing lineages in community, in movement, and in queer conspiracy.
contact: emelia@flaccdanza.org
contact: emelia@flaccdanza.org
Production Assistant
CatherineMarie Davalos, MFA has recently accepted a managing position with FLACC after volunteering her time as a FLACC moderator, featured artist and FLACC advisor for 4 consecutive years in FLACC. She is a Chicana choreographer questioning heteronormativity using a feminist, Latina, and Chicana perspective. Davalos is the Director of Dance at Saint Mary’s College which includes a traditional undergraduate program for young dancers, the LEAP program for professional dancers, and a graduate division which offers an MFA in Dance: Creative Practice, and an MFA in Dance: Design and Production.
Contact: cdavalos@flaccdanza.org
Contact: cdavalos@flaccdanza.org
Language Liberation Staff
Andreína Maldonado is a Venezuelan performing artist, language interpreter, cultural worker, educator, and social justice advocate based in San Francisco, California. She has 4 years of professional experience as an independent contractor and consultant providing language interpretation/ translation services to various social justice organizations in the Bay Area and beyond, has received the 2019 Community Language Interpretation Certificate from the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs, is part of the language interpreters’ bank in the city of San Francisco, and has helped create the first Bay Area Interpreters Network.
LEAD PANEL Moderator
Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Panel Moderator of FLACC. Juan Manuel was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, is the former managing director of FLACC and is currently pursuing a fellowship at Cornell University. As practitioner and researcher, his work focuses on movement, migration and mapping discourses related to undocumented spaces and choreographic processes. Aldape holds a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley, an MA in International Performance Research from the University of Warwick (UK), as well as a BFA in Modern Dance and BA in Anthropology from the University of Utah (USA).
PANEL MODERATORS
Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Eric Garcia
Miguel Gutierrez
Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli
José Ome Navarrete
Liz Duran Boubion
Sandra Pacheco
Ernesto Soprani
CatherineMarie Davalos
Eric Garcia
Miguel Gutierrez
Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli
José Ome Navarrete
Liz Duran Boubion
Sandra Pacheco
Ernesto Soprani
CatherineMarie Davalos
Advisory Committee
Violeta Luna
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Miguel Gutierrez
Eric Garcia
Ernesto Sopprani
CatherineMarie Davalos
David Herrera
Karla Quintero
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Miguel Gutierrez
Eric Garcia
Ernesto Sopprani
CatherineMarie Davalos
David Herrera
Karla Quintero
FLACCistas 2014-present
Featured Artists: Marlet Martinez and Victor Infante’s ALARIETE(Guadalajara, MX), Eric Garcia ofDetour Dance(US/CUBA), Natta Haotzima(MX/US), Diana Lara(Honduras/US), Zari Le'on Dance Theater(US/MX), Liz Duran Boubion’s Piñata Dance Collective(US/MX), Rogelio Lopez(MX/US), CatherineMarie Davalos’ Davalos Dance Company (US/MX). David Herrera Performance Company(US/MX), Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz(MX/US), Sabrina Castillo’s Momentum Dance(Guatamala City), Rulan Tangen’s Dancing Earth(New Mexico), Alfonso Cervera(US/MX), Irvin Gonzalez(US/MX), Rosa Rodgriguez-Frazier(US/MX), Patty Huerta (US/MX), Primera Generación Dance Collective (Los Angeles, CA), Joey Navarrette(US/MX), Victor Talledos(MX/US), Sebastian Hernandez(US/MX), Javier Stell-Frésquez(US/MX) Mother the Verb(US/MX/Brazil), Karla Quintero(US/Ecuador/Nicaragua), Juliana Mendonca(Venezuela/US), Gabriel Mata(MX/US), Adrian Arias(Peru/US), Jesus Cortez’ Cuicacalli Dance Company(US/MX), Tranze Producciones(Baja California, Mexicali, MX), Violeta Luna(MX/US), Caleb Luna(US/MX), Vincent Chavez(US), Zoë Klein Productions(Colombia/US), Vanessa Sanchez’ La Mezcla(US/MX), randy reyes(Guatemala/US), Marisa Plasencia (US/MX), Maribel Plasencia (US/MX), Bruno Augusto and Kate Jordan’s Arts & Above(Cuba/Angola/US), Fabiola Guillén(Puebla, MX), Miguel Gutierrez(US/Colombia), Jocelyn Reyes' Reyes Dance(US/MX), Ariadna Saenz(Brazil/US), Gizeh Muniz(MX/US), Jose Navarrete and Debbie Kajiyama's NAKA Dance Theater + Mujeres Unidas y Activas(MX/US).
Dance Monks(MX/US), Tyler Rivera(US/Puerto Rico), Rosie Herrera (US/Miami/Cuba), Yndira Perea (Colombia), Victor Quijada/Rubberband Dance Group(Montreal/MX).
Master teachers/hosts/moderators/curators: Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli (US/Cuba/Colombia), Rosana Barragán(Colombia/US), Maria Lopéz De Leon(US/MX), Arturo Fernandez(US/MX), Sandra Pacheco (US/MX), Ernesto Sopprani (Peru/US), Rebeca Sanchez(US/MX), Emmeline Gonzalez-Beban(US/MX), Bianca Rodriguez(US/MX), José Ome Navarrete Mazatl, Liz Duran Boubion(US/MX), Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz(MX/US), Catherine Marie Davalos(US/MX), Eric Garcia(US/Cuba), Miguel Gutierrez(US/Colombia), Arturo Moh Mendez(MX/US), Andreina Maldonado (Venezuela/US), Stephanie Sherman (US), Kanyon Sayers Roods (Ohlone-Mutsun/ Chumash/US), Snowflake Calvert (US/Yaqui, Raramuri, Tzotzil Mayan), Emelia Martinez-Brumbaugh (US/MX)
Dance Monks(MX/US), Tyler Rivera(US/Puerto Rico), Rosie Herrera (US/Miami/Cuba), Yndira Perea (Colombia), Victor Quijada/Rubberband Dance Group(Montreal/MX).
Master teachers/hosts/moderators/curators: Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli (US/Cuba/Colombia), Rosana Barragán(Colombia/US), Maria Lopéz De Leon(US/MX), Arturo Fernandez(US/MX), Sandra Pacheco (US/MX), Ernesto Sopprani (Peru/US), Rebeca Sanchez(US/MX), Emmeline Gonzalez-Beban(US/MX), Bianca Rodriguez(US/MX), José Ome Navarrete Mazatl, Liz Duran Boubion(US/MX), Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz(MX/US), Catherine Marie Davalos(US/MX), Eric Garcia(US/Cuba), Miguel Gutierrez(US/Colombia), Arturo Moh Mendez(MX/US), Andreina Maldonado (Venezuela/US), Stephanie Sherman (US), Kanyon Sayers Roods (Ohlone-Mutsun/ Chumash/US), Snowflake Calvert (US/Yaqui, Raramuri, Tzotzil Mayan), Emelia Martinez-Brumbaugh (US/MX)
