7TH ANNUAL
FESTIVAL OF Latin American CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS
***FLACC 2020: EL GRITO***
Featured ARtists EVERY WEDNESDAY
Sept. 16 - Nov. 18, 4PM PST/ 6PM CST/ 7PM EST
Resistant, queer, indigenous, international and hybrid choreographers of the Latinx diaspora raising their voices every Wednesday on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Second generation Chicana and queer Artistic Director, Liz Duran Boubion(US/MX) has curated 9 consecutive weeks of virtual dance performances, conversations and lecture demonstrations by prominent members of the international Latinx dance community putting Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidad, Queer Latinx Performance, Immigrant worker rights and Colorism in Latin America at the forefront of the pre-election dance festival every Wednesday.
FLACC 2020’s featured dance makers are responding to the curatorial theme “El Grito” with a contemporary and emergent act of solidarity during a global pandemic. "El Grito" (The Scream) is referring to an historically rooted demonstration that takes place every year on September 16th, marking Mexican Independence Day. El Grito originally took place in 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo urged the people to revolt against Spanish rule in Dolores, Mexico with a call and response speech that included crying out the names of revolutionaries that led to their liberation. The call and response of El Grito (call the name... respond "¡VIVA!") is used all over Latin America as a way to bring the people together for social change.
What do you live for, cry for or fight for?
Víva qué? Víva quien? Víva por qué?
Who has moved you toward liberation?
What/who/how do we honor our sources of inspiration or survival?
In what ways can you call or respond to your community right now?
How does El Grito exist in your body?
In its 7th rendition, FLACC continues to act as a premier resource for the contemporary arts sector by pushing for narratives and personal stories that are not easy to find in the typically hetero-normative arena of traditional Latinx dance forms nor in the typically white-dominated world of U.S. contemporary modern dance. Dancers out of work and greatly impacted by shelter in place mandates of COVID 19 need your support and solidarity to spread the word, donate and put FLACC on your calendar in a crucial time when we need to reimagine a dignified and just society for us all. Let us reinvent reality together.
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Second generation Chicana and queer Artistic Director, Liz Duran Boubion(US/MX) has curated 9 consecutive weeks of virtual dance performances, conversations and lecture demonstrations by prominent members of the international Latinx dance community putting Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidad, Queer Latinx Performance, Immigrant worker rights and Colorism in Latin America at the forefront of the pre-election dance festival every Wednesday.
FLACC 2020’s featured dance makers are responding to the curatorial theme “El Grito” with a contemporary and emergent act of solidarity during a global pandemic. "El Grito" (The Scream) is referring to an historically rooted demonstration that takes place every year on September 16th, marking Mexican Independence Day. El Grito originally took place in 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo urged the people to revolt against Spanish rule in Dolores, Mexico with a call and response speech that included crying out the names of revolutionaries that led to their liberation. The call and response of El Grito (call the name... respond "¡VIVA!") is used all over Latin America as a way to bring the people together for social change.
What do you live for, cry for or fight for?
Víva qué? Víva quien? Víva por qué?
Who has moved you toward liberation?
What/who/how do we honor our sources of inspiration or survival?
In what ways can you call or respond to your community right now?
How does El Grito exist in your body?
In its 7th rendition, FLACC continues to act as a premier resource for the contemporary arts sector by pushing for narratives and personal stories that are not easy to find in the typically hetero-normative arena of traditional Latinx dance forms nor in the typically white-dominated world of U.S. contemporary modern dance. Dancers out of work and greatly impacted by shelter in place mandates of COVID 19 need your support and solidarity to spread the word, donate and put FLACC on your calendar in a crucial time when we need to reimagine a dignified and just society for us all. Let us reinvent reality together.
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PUT Miércoles de El Grito on your calendar! EVERY WEDNESDAY 4PM PST / 6PM CST / 7PM EST.
A series of performance presentations and live interviews with the artists.
***Special opportunity to engage with world renowned choreographers in the LIVE Q & A when you RSVP!***
Suggested donation $10 per session.
***LIVE Spanish Interpretation available con registro with Andreina Maldonado!***
A series of performance presentations and live interviews with the artists.
***Special opportunity to engage with world renowned choreographers in the LIVE Q & A when you RSVP!***
Suggested donation $10 per session.
***LIVE Spanish Interpretation available con registro with Andreina Maldonado!***
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RODRIGO ESTEVA (www.dancemonks.com) was born and raised in Mexico City and is the co-founding director of DANCE MONKS (Bay Area/Yucatán) with Mirah Moriarty which they founded in the year 1999 while living in the mountains of Xalapa, Mexico. He is also the co-founding director of Ook'ot Festival Internacional de Danza, a gathering of artists from around the world. Their interdisciplinary, experimental work delves into the intimate and mythic relationship between people and Nature. Rodrigo and Mirah are committed to making art as a way of life; as a daily discipline in deep listening and responsive action. They often collaborate with experimental artists and change-makers whose work involves mythology, folklore, and ritual of the diaspora.
Tyler Rivera (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer) is a senior at Georgian Court University. While training in ballet and modern techniques, he invests in his own work with the choreographic mentorship of Silvana Cardell and Megan Mazarick. His newest work valIDity was performed at the Mid-Atlantic North ACDA Regional Gala Concert and selected to be presented at the ACDA National Festival in Long Beach, CA. Along with ACDA, some of his other works have been performed at Fringe Arts (Philadelphia) and Koresh Dance (Philadelphia). Tyler will be bringing his collaborators Alonzo Magsino and Quincy Southerland to the post show Q & A with Eric Garcia.
Miguel Gutierrez is a Colombian-American choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and arts advocate based in Brooklyn. He creates dance-based performances, tours with his Madonna cover band SADONNA, and teaches as a guest artist in festivals and universities. Recent work includes This Bridge Called My Ass, a group piece that bends tropes of Latinidad to identify new relationships to content and form. His current project is Are You For Sale? - a podcast that looks at the ethics of money and art making. He is a 2014 Whitney Biennial artist, and a recipient of a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award.
Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli is the author of She Is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body which won the Society of Dance History Scholars' 2016 de la Torre Bueno Prize for best book in Dance Studies. She has been faculty at MIT, University of Surrey, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London where she remains affiliated as a Reader in Dance Theory and Performance. Her research interests include identity and corporeality; blackness in Latin America; dance on screen; film studies; feminist historiography and performance/auto-ethnography; cultural memory; digital humanities; decolonial aesthetics; and thinking beyond "the human." A recipient of a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council grant, she is the Principal Investigator on a project that co-creates digital performance archives with Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities affected by the armed conflict. She is the current President of the Dance Studies Association at University Maryland.
Victor Quijada, Choreographer of RUBBERBAND DANCE GROUP (Canada/MX). Born and raised in Los Angeles, the child of Mexican parents, Victor first danced in the b-boying circles and hip-hop clubs of his native city. He performed with Rudy Perez from 1994 to 1996, then moved to New York City to join THARP! After spending three years with that company and following a stint with Ballets Tech, in 2000 he came to Montreal to join Les Grands Ballets canadiens. In 2002, he founded RUBBERBAND, throwing himself into deconstructing the choreographic principles he had learned by blending them with the raw ideology of his street dance origins. His creations – numerous short works and 14 full-length productions – are distinguished by a powerful theatricality, the energy of improvisation, and certain codes of film language, the whole sculpted with an incomparable precision of movement.
Dance Monks/Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty have taught and performed internationally over the last 20+ years as a duet and extensively with world-renowned companies including as members of the physically integrated AXIS Dance Company (2007-08, Oakland), Pearson Widrig Dance Theater Company (1994-2001, NYC), Apostalia Papadamaki (1993-96, Greece) and Gerado Delgado (1992, Mexico City), in major festivals, universities and venues throughout the United States and Mexico as well as in Canada, Peru, and Europe, including at The Joyce Theater (NY), The Kennedy Center (DC), The Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival (NY), Bates Dance Festival (ME), Middlebury College (VT), CounterPULSE (San Francisco), PS122 (NYC), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Central Park Summer Stage (NY), Symphony Space (NY) and many more.
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CALENDAR:
*ALL EVENTS in English and Spanish on Zoom. 1) September 16. Latinx/Indigenous intersections - Rodrigo Esteva/Dance Monks(MX/US). A talk on El Grito de Dolores and the history that led up to that moment, beginning with the Spanish Conquer of Mexico. Inspired by the work of Leon Portilla, one of the foremost historians of Mexico who focused on history as seen from an indigenous perspective. Moderator: Arturo Mendez(MX/US). 2) September 23. Latinx LGBTQ intersections Tyler Rivera(PR/US). Showing of “valIDity” (11 min award-winning trio) followed by a Q&A with the dancers. Moderator: Eric Garcia(US/Cuba) 3) September 30. Dismantling White Supremacy - Miguel Gutierrez(US/Colombia). Are You For Sale? A conversation with Foundation CEO(TBA). Looking at the ethics of money and art-making. 4) October. 7. Panel on Colorism, Afro-Latinidad and Dance - Rosie Herrera(US/Cuba), Yndira Perea/Wangari Danza (Colombia). Moderator, Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli(US/Cuba) Dance Scholar from University of Maryland. 5) October 14. First Generation Chicanx and the Politics of belonging - Victor Quijada/Rubberband Dance Group(Montreal/MX). From early LA B-Boy to Canada’s concert dance sector. Viewing of Victor's most recent solo choreography. “Trenzado”. Moderator: Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz(MX/US). 6) October 21. Premiere: “Fire in the Mountain/ Fuego en la Montaña - Dance Monks/ Rodrigo Esteva(MX/US) & Mirah Moriarty Esteva(US), focused on our sacred relationship to Nature and dance as a medium for interdimensional communication. Followed by Q & A with filmmaker, Eric Koziol. 7) October 28. Decolonizing the Performing Body: Somatics and Choreographic Inquiry. Rosana Barragán(Colombia/US)- Decolonizing the Body- Somatics and movement experience. CatherineMarie Davalos(US/MX) - Moving, Feeling Generating: A Site for Chicana/o/x Resistance- lecture-demonstration chronology of work. 8) November 11. Migrant Mexica perspectives in Theater and Dance - Q & A to follow. Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz/Patas Secas(MX/US). How the Pandemic is effecting immigrant workers in meat factories. Violeta Luna(MX/US) Presenting excerpts of her piece Sanct-u-are. Responding to “sanctuary city”, shelter for immigrants and an expression for the unsafe. 9) November 18. Dance theater for the female body politic within an oppressive regime - Liz Duran Boubion(US/MX) with Andreina Maldonado(Venezuela/US), and members of the Piñata Dance Collective. *note: there is no event on Nov. 4th after elections. |
