PRESENTED BY
PIÑATA DANCE COLLECTIVE
FISCALLY SPONSORED BY DANCERS' GROUP
LOCATED AT Dance Mission Theater / OCTOBER 23-29
3316 24th St., San Francisco, Ca. 94110
*ASL PROVIDED FRIDAY and SATURDAY 8PM Shows + Q & A
*AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROVIDED FRIDAY 8PM and SATURDAY 8PM shows
*Dance Mission Theater is ADA Accessible
Tickets: $25 in advance/$35 at the door
3316 24th St., San Francisco, Ca. 94110
*ASL PROVIDED FRIDAY and SATURDAY 8PM Shows + Q & A
*AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROVIDED FRIDAY 8PM and SATURDAY 8PM shows
*Dance Mission Theater is ADA Accessible
Tickets: $25 in advance/$35 at the door
¡Andale! FLACC's 10th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, FLACC 2023: Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds) is on Oct. 27-29, at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco, California. As FLACC celebrates becoming a double digit, we simultaneously look back on a powerful decade of resistance, inclusivity and innovation while beginning a new one in this milestone. Completing ten years of groundbreaking programming, we open the portal to a new Latine future in contemporary dance with dancers from all over the Americas!
To mark its 10-year anniversary, FLACC will also present a weeklong series of events leading up to the final performances that celebrate the world of Latinx/e contemporary dance. On Oct. 23-27, dance enthusiasts throughout the Bay Area are invited to attend a Master Class Series at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. Come dance and learn from 7 local and visiting leading artists before the shows! Classes are $20 drop-in, $35 for 2, $100 Festival Pass.
FLACC’s anniversary celebration will also include an Art Talk titled “Choreographies of Divergence: Latinx Contemporary Dance in the Americas,'’ by Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz from Cornell University. This talk will take place at Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, and moderated by FLACC founding director Liz Duran Boubion. This event is free and open to the public.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, FLACC will also present a weeklong series of events leading up to the final performances that celebrate the world of Latinx/e contemporary dance. On Oct. 23-27, dance enthusiasts throughout the Bay Area are invited to attend a Master Class Series at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. Come dance and learn from 7 local and visiting leading artists before the shows! Classes are $20 drop-in, $35 for 2, $100 Festival Pass.
FLACC’s anniversary celebration will also include an Art Talk titled “Choreographies of Divergence: Latinx Contemporary Dance in the Americas,'’ by Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz from Cornell University. This talk will take place at Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, and moderated by FLACC founding director Liz Duran Boubion. This event is free and open to the public.
FLACC 2023: Cuatro Vientos
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~All shows are approximately 1 hour in duration~
Post Show Q & A: Friday and Saturday 8pm Shows (Both Programs A + B) moderated by Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz. [Program A] Friday Oct. 27 (8-9pm with Q & A) + Saturday Oct. 28 (5:30-6:30pm)
[Program B] Saturday Oct. 28 (8pm-9pm with Q & A) + Sunday Oct. 29 (5:30-6:30pm)
*AUDIO DESCRIPTION in English PROVIDED (FRIDAY 8PM)
Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tour on [Friday, Oct. 27, 8pm] by Chibueze Crouch of Gravity Access Services for visually impaired audience members. Haptic Access Tour begins at [7pm] Please call (510)302-8575 to reserve a headset. 
*ASL PROVIDED in English and Spanish (FRIDAY 8pm and SATURDAY 8pm) by Juan Ramirez and Norma Sanchez
*Dance Mission Theater is ADA Accessible
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Artist Fana Fraser wearing a blue tank top and white shorts dripping off a small backyard stage backwards with her arms on the concrete below. There is a blow up palm tree in the background.
Master Classes with the artists all week at Dance Mission! Oct. 23-27 (Details are coming soon!)
6 FLACC artists sitting on chairs at the Berkeley Art Museum of Pacific Film and Archives in 2019. Director, Liz Boubion is holding the mic.
Art Talk: Wed. Oct. 25, 4pm “Choreographies of Divergence: Latinx Contemporary Dance in the Americas'' by Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Co-presented with the Latinx Research Center, Berkeley (see below) |
Meet the Artists...
Photo by Iki Nakagawa. Christopher Nuñez squating on one knee with mouth open and eyes closed while holding up a pink toy truck with one arm. The artists is wearing a pink hooded jacket with animals on it, red leggings and tenis shoes with small pink pom poms.
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Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez is a Visually Impaired choreographer based in NYC. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Núñez is a Princeton University Arts Fellow 22’, a Jerome Hill Fellow 22’, a Dance/USA Fellow 22’, and a Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Fellow 18’. His performances have been presented by The Joyce Theater, The Brooklyn Museum-The Immigrant Artist Biennale, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research at The Judson Church, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, CUE Art Foundation, and Performance Mix Festival, among others. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Art In America, The Brooklyn Rail, The Dance Enthusiast and The Archive: The Leslie-Lohman Museum bi-annual journal. He’s been an Artist In Residence at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, Movement Research, and Center for Performance Research. In 2023, Unpezverde was selected by the magazine Art In America as one of the New Talent artists on a global scale and was nominated for A Bessie, The New York Dance and Performance Awards in the Best Performer category for his performance "The Circle or Prophetic Dream." As a performer, his most recent collaboration include “Dressing Up for Civil Rights” by William Pope L, presented at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art. Núñez was invited by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs to share his story as a disabled and formally undocumented immigrant during Immigrant Heritage Week 2020. Núñez received his American Citizenship in 2023 but continues to be an advocate for the rights of undocumented disabled immigrants. unpezverde.com/
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photo by Lucia Arechederra
photo by Lucia Arechederra
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Gabriela Ceceña García is a movement artist coming from Hermosillo, Sonora, México. She has collaborated/worked with artists like Jacques Audiard, Damien Jalet, Paul Thomas Anderson and Meytal Blanaru.
Her experience in film, stage, and language research have transformed Gabriela’s vision. In her work, she questions and explores the possibilities of untangling the language of emotion, for the body and the screen. She has been invited to perform and teach at Le Facteur (Paris, France), Choreographisches Centrum (Heidelberg, Germany), L'Epicerie Moderne (Lyon, France), danscentrumjette (Brussels, Belgium.), CEPRODAC (Mexico City), Entre suelo (Mexico City), among others. She was a fellow of the Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects of the Ministry of Culture of México in the category of Jóvenes Creadores (Young Creators) for the research of “Monosodia”, an experimental film in collaboration with José Esteban Pavlovich. In 2022, FUTURET, a project co-directed with José Ramon Corral, is selected within the National Circuit of Performing Arts of Chapultepec for a national tour. She is currently working on the film Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audriad as a dancer, actress, choreography assistant and movement coach. www.gabrielacecena.com/bio |
Courtesy of Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Courtesy of Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
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Fernando Ramos is a dance artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently serving as Co-Chair of the Dance Department at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe. When he entered college, he immediately joined the university’s pre-professional dance company, MTSU Dance Theatre. While at Middle Tennessee State University he had the pleasure to work with Kim Nofsinger, Marsha Barsky, Jenna Kosowski, Cynthia Gutierrez, Patty Foster, Aaron McGloin, Madia Cooper and Jesse Zaritt. After returning to Puerto Rico in 2014, he joined contemporary ballet company CoDa 21 as a guest artist for multiple productions. He also danced works by Jesús Miranda, Denisse Eliza, Nacho Duato, Telmo Moreira, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. As a choreographer, he has been commissioned by Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Ballets de San Juan, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, CoDa 21, Portland Ballet in Maine, and Ballet 22. He has also choreographed for multiple theatrical productions with director Miguel Rosa, such as: “Billy Elliot: The Musical”, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, “Once on this Island”, “Speak Not!”, and “Little Women: The Musical”. He is a founder of Claroscuro, a contemporary dance collective. His work has been performed by Claroscuro in international dance festivals such as SoloDuo Dance Festival in New York, EDANCO in the Dominican Republic and the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival in Cyprus. His work has focused on community, migration, and the humanities. In 2021, he created two professional training opportunities through the choreographic intensive ‘NEXO’ and the contemporary dance intensive ‘CONTEMPORA’. https://www.ramosfernando.com/
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Photo Credit: Tony Turner at BAM
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Fana Fraser is originally from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago is flying in from Boston. She is an interdisciplinary artist, director, performer, educator, and full spectrum doula. Her work is rooted in narratives of eroticism, power, and compassion. Fana is a 2023-2024 Movement Research NYSCA Artist in Residence and Spring 2023 guest at Northeastern University - College of Media, Arts and Design. A 2022 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Artist in Residence and 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Dance, Fana teaches as an adjunct professor at University of the Arts. At NYU Tisch and Adelphi University she has led workshops in BFA Dance Programs. She has also taught workshops in the MFA Dance Program at Sarah Lawrence. Fana served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20. As a dancer and collaborator, she originated roles and toured internationally with Camille A. Brown and Dancers. Fana has also done performance work with Samita Sinha’s ‘Infinity Folds’, Mirium Simun, Sidra Bell Dance New York, The Metropolitan Opera, Andrea Miller for Hermès, The Francesca Harper Project, Raja Feather Kelly and the Feath3r theory, Ryan McNamara, Ailey II and many others. A certified Gyrotonic® Instructor, she has extensive experience in Yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique and Somatic Experiencing®. https://fanafraser.com/
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Karla Quintero (she/her) is a Latin-American, Bay Area female artist whose work explores intimacy, consumption, and bicultural existence. Though dance improvisation is her primary tool, her creative work orients beyond dance. Recent highlights include the dance film Flavedoom, which screened at the 2021 San Francisco Dance Film Festival (co-created with Shareen DeRyan) and the bilingual audio series "Danzacuentos: Voz, Cuerpo, Y Raíces" (danzacuentos.org; co-curated with David Herrera & Mario Ismael Espinoza for Bridge Live Arts' Anti-Racism in Dance Series). Her current practices include: a solo practice rooted in cross-genre improvisation, and a shared practice with collaborator Belinda He rooted in partnering. Karla also appears in the works of other artists, most recently including Gerald Casel, Catherine Galasso (NYC), Hope Mohr, Maxe Crandall, and Risa Jaroslow. Off-stage, she works at the Movement Care Collective and Bridge Live Arts.
Belinda He is an immigrant cis-gendered woman who grew up in post-colonial Singapore. She received her BA in Literature in English from the National University of Singapore before moving to the US for her MFA in Dance at Sarah Lawrence College, and moved from NYC to the Bay Area in 2017. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who specializes in working with dancers. karlajohannaquintero.tumblr.com/ |
Photo Credit: Yvonne Portra
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Joey Navarrete was born and raised in the Inland Empire in Southern California. He considers himself a facilitator, dance-maker and performing artist currently based in Long Beach, CA. His interest as a first-generation Mexican American queer man values movement as a means to dismantle cultural and racial stereotypes of gender, class, sex, and race on traditional/non-traditional platforms. Comprehensively certified to teach Pilates Reformer and Mat through Body Arts and Science International (BASI), he received his BFA in Dance from the California State University, Long Beach Department of Dance in 2014, where he was awarded The Dizzyfeet Scholarship. He has worked with various artists such as Bill T. Jones, Gerald Casel, Keith Johnson, Robert Moses, Andrew Vaca, Travis Wall and Doug Varone. Navarrete continues to build and perform work with longtime dance partners and collaborators, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier and Jobel Medina.
Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier is an educator, dance-maker, and performing artist based in Riverside, California. As a first-generation Mexican American woman artist, she values “movement” as a means to wrestle with and rejoice in her Mexicanidad. Her movement aesthetic and choreographic interests are rooted in a mix of soulful Contemporary and Latin social dance forms approached by “experimental” dance-making processes and Post-Modern frameworks. Founder and co-director of Primera Generación Dance Collective, Frazier is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Riverside City College. She is a board member of Show Box L.A., a non- profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA; and board member of the Latina Dance Project, a cultural non-profit corporation- originators of the BlakTinx Dance Festival. larosadance.com |
Choreographies of Divergence: Latinx Contemporary Dance in the Americas
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ART TALK! Oct. 25th 4pm
with Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz Location: Latinx Research Center 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 This talk is presented in partnership with the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) based in San Francisco, which is celebrating ten years of showcasing the richness and creativity of Latinx dance in the Americas. 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 Latinx communities through multimedia dance performance locally and internationally. |
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Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz is an assistant professor in Cornell University's Department of Performing and Media Arts. He served as the Managing Director of FLACC from 2017-2019 and has been the lead moderator since 2015. His research lies at the intersection of performance studies, illegality and citizenship, borderlands studies, critical phenomenology, and critical dance studies. In his book project, The Alien Commons: Choreography and Performance Beyond Citizenship, he explores undocumented, queer, indigenous adoptee, and Afro-Indigenous artistic projects spanning from San Francisco, California to the grape fields of the Niagara Region in Canada. Through examining increased securitization and enforcement impacting aliens and citizens alike, he uncovers on how artists respond to the monopoly of movement, fostering creative motion and the formation of unique dance communities. Additionally, Juan Manuel is an accomplished choreographer and professional dancer, with his works showcased on the international stage.
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Choreographies of Divergence delves into the world of Latinx/Latin American contemporary dance, exploring how artists navigate the tensions of its multiple genealogies while weaving in the moment choreographies of unity, avowal, disquietude, and cultural joy of diverging futures. Latinx/Latin American contemporary dance is a dynamic and multifaceted artistic expression that emerges from the intersections of diverse geographies, forms, languages, and histories of colonization in the Americas. This vibrant dance genre reflects the complex frictions between contemporary and historical influences of Africanist and indigenous aesthetics clashing with the impacts of white Eurocentric styles and bodily training. Latinx contemporary dance captures the essence of cultural resilience and artistic innovation. Yet when the term is deployed by artists and institutions, its invocation exposes artists’ divergences and distastes against labels such as ethnic, national, and world dance that forward asymmetrical racial and colonial legacies—all while the term “contemporary” also disguises the inner workings of settler and imperial sentiments. This presentation fleshes out by showcasing artists working with Latinx/Latin American contemporary dance across various stages, providing zones of contact to tease out how friction reshapes dance aesthetics in the now.
Moderator/Responder: Liz Duran Boubion, Director of FLACC
Moderator/Responder: Liz Duran Boubion, Director of FLACC
Earlier This Year...
Read the Review! LA DANCE Chronicle by Jeff Slayton
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Liz Duran Boubion, Director of FLACC + PDC
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Piñata Dance COllective
Cuatro Vientos: Middle of Nowhere is kicking off FLACC's 10th year anniversary this June. It is a multimedia dance-theater production that confronts fears and strategies of walking alone. The Piñata Dance Collective investigates the physiology of fear, the concept of freedom and finding risk and refuge in the natural world. It’s inspired by Choreographer, Liz Duran Boubion's 10-week residency in the Mojave desert during the pandemic and is dedicated to raising awareness and building solidarity for murdered and missing women across the globe. Part of the show is based on research, workshops and conversations with artists and women who are working with families actively searching for missing and murdered loved ones in Mexico.
June 8 & 10 at Joe Goode Annex (SF)
June 16-17 at Highways Performance Space (LA)
June 8 & 10 at Joe Goode Annex (SF)
June 16-17 at Highways Performance Space (LA)
STANCE ON DANCE/FEbruary 2023: Radical Aesthetics and the winds of change
"As I examine my work over the past two decades, I notice a motif of honoring the dead. This existential theme is housed in the tropes of Latinidad, especially through the lens of El Día De Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). In fact, many themes connected to grief and loss lie at the root of social and environmental change work in the arts. This labor includes memorializing family members, honoring ancestors and ancestral lands, naming victims of gender-based violence, gun violence, hate crimes, and police brutality, honoring victims of genocide, slavery, and displacement, dancing for lost waterways, fighting for clean air, crying for the forests, and mourning the extinction of animals." Liz Duran Boubion, director of Piñata Dance Collective and Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers - FLACC, ruminates on how her residency in the Mojave desert has influenced her thoughts on death and political change. Read more in Stance On Dance...
Job OpENING in FLACCThe Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is seeking a strong leader and process oriented, self-starting team member to join our vibrant organization as Managing Director. This is a project-based position, with a minimum commitment through January 1, 2024.
Inquire within... admin@flaccdanza.org |
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