¡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 Chicana/o/x/, Latina/o/x 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. For our purposes, choreographers with “Latin American” cultural heritage or ancestry are defined by all countries that speak Spanish, Portuguese, or Indigenous languages in the Americas- from the Borderlands of the US to the tip of South America, including many of the Caribbean Islands. Indigenous contemporary choreographers of North America and US-born Chicana/o/xs and Latina/o/xs are also invited to apply to this Festival.
¡FLACC! is committed to giving our greater community of Latina/o/xs 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 Latina/o/x dance educators, hosting international choreographers and aligning with Dancers' Group as our fiscal sponsors. We are also committed to bringing Bay Area Latino/a/x 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 Latina/o/xs 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 Latina/o/x dance educators, hosting international choreographers and aligning with Dancers' Group as our fiscal sponsors. We are also committed to bringing Bay Area Latino/a/x 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(She/They) 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, Conscious Dancer Magazine and is registered with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). She teaches ongoing dance classes for all ages and is a regular guest teacher in local universities, Contact improv jams and dance festivals. www.lizboubion.org
contact: admin@flaccdanza.org Production Assistant
CatherineMarie Davalos, MFA (She/Her), 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
Production StaffKarla Quintero, Production Manager
Natalie Koski-Karell, Stage Manager Richard Aldag, Consultant Adrian Arias and Ernesto Sopprani, Graphic Design Advisory CommitteeVioleta Luna
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz Miguel Gutierrez Eric Garcia Ernesto Sopprani CatherineMarie Davalos |
Managing Director
Arturo Moh Mendez(He/Him)-Managing director for FLACC. Originally from Puebla, MX, Arturo is an award-winning cultural producer and community organizer working for the past 5 years in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Currently serves as the Executive Director of La Diáspora Festival, and has collaborated with Harvard and Cornell University as well as Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, and has curated and produced International Festivals in Mexico and the US.
His work seeks to empower politically disenfranchised communities, by harnessing the power of Arts and Culture as a catalyzer to recognize the identities and contributions of people and their communities, seeking equitable outcomes and social justice. LEAD PANEL Moderator
Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz(He/Him), 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 MODERATORSDr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Eric Garcia Miguel Gutierrez Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli José Ome Navarrete Liz Duran Boubion Sandra Pacheco Ernesto Soprani CatherineMarie Davalos Language Liberation StaffAndreina Maldonado
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