¡FLACC!
FESTIVAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS
presented by
Piñata Dance Collective fiscally Sponsored by Dancers' Group
History
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2023
¡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!
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2022
FLACC 2022: sii agua sí (water water yes) - "sii" is the Ohlone word for "water." In memory of the blocked and soil-filled waterways that once flowed in this region and in honor of the 5700 local Indigenous ancestors buried in the cemetery at the Mission Dolores, FLACC is centralizing the voices and themes of the land-based site in collaboration and solidarity with local Ohlone leaders, SF Parks, Dance Mission Theater, American Indian Cultural District and other community partners. Through community rituals, live performance installations and historical talks, sii agua si is symbolically re-filling the site with water (sii) to bring awareness and healing to a painful history of cultural genocide and ecocide that seeps beneath the streets of the Mission District.
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2021
FLACC’s founding artistic director and lead curator, Liz Duran Boubion, invited a team of local Latinx and indigenous curators and organizers who will guide the festival vision, follow Ohlone Protocol, centralize the voices of indigenous culture bearers, while building alliances with Latinx contemporary dance artists. The curation team includes:
Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Ohlone Mutsun Culture Bearer) Snowflake Calvert (Two spirit Yaqui, Raramuri and Tzotzil Mayan Dancer) Stephanie Sherman (Choreographer and Latin American Studies Scholar) + FLACC's Artistic Director: Liz Duran Boubion(US/MX) FLACC’s Managing Director: Zoë Klein (Colombia/US) FLACC’s Production Manager: Emelia Martinez Brumbaugh (US/MX) Read More... |
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2020
FLACC 2020: EL GRITO celebrated its 7th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers with the theme “El Grito”(the Scream/Call/Cry) placing Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidad, Queer Latinx Performance, Immigration rights, Colorism in Latin America, the impact of Covid 19, philanthropy and other pertinent subjects at the forefront of the pre-election dance festival every Wednesday, September 16th through November 18th, at 4PM PST/ 7PM EST.
9 weeks of virtual dance performances, conversations and lecture demonstrations by prominent members of the international Latinx dance community replacing the live dance theater experience to adapt to COVID19 regulations. Read more... |
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2019
FLACC 2019: Bridges & Bones/ Puentes Y Huesos. 2 weeks of performance, master classes and panel discussions, Bridges & Bones is replacing ideas of borders and walls that separate and erase Latinxs in the US, by creating cultural bridges, honoring ancestors and building artistic alliances that unify 15 dance companies over 2 weekends at Dance Mission Theater and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives(BAMPFA).
The 2019 theme BRIDGES & BONES implies the literal bridge to cross from San Francisco to the East Bay, as well as, the metaphorical bridges and alliances needed to overcome the walls that separate Latinx communities and families across local and national borders. Read more... |
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2018
FLACC’s three-day festival at Dance Mission Theater opened with a performance ritual by a local conceptual artist, Adrian Arias, breaking through a plastic cocoon. FLACC featured 5 additional local companies including: David Herrera Performance Company, La Mezcla (Vanessa Sanchez), Diana Lara, Piñata Dance Collective, Randy Reyes; and 3 visiting visiting companies including: Twin sisters, Marisa and Maribel Plasencia(Santa Barbara, CA), Arts & Above(Missoula, MT) and Fabiola Guillén(MX) who is brought a group of 7 dancers from Puebla, Mexico presenting a piece confronting the restrictions of religion and sexuality. The show concluded with a 5th Annual FLACC birthday reception ceremony on Sunday Nov. 11 after the show. Read more... |
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2017
REST/UNREST, curated by the new Co-Director of FLACC, Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, intended to support communities who are directly impacted by current xenophobic, sexist, and anti-LGBTQQI policies. The theme highlighted the varied strategies that Latina/o/x and Indigenous 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.
FLACC 2017’s featured artists included visiting companies, Alfonso Cervera and Irvin Gonzalez from Los Angeles, Tranze Producciones from Mexicali, Mexico and local choreography by Violeta Luna, Caleb Luna, Vincent Chavez, Piñata Dance Collective, Zoë Klein Productions, and Davalos Dance Company See Video Excerpts Here |
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2016
The 3rd annual festival featured 16 choreographers of the Latinx diaspora, presented in three varied programs. ¡FLACC!’s curator, Liz Duran Boubión, created a regenerative platform of resistance in response to recent social and environmental attacks on our communities. On each night, ¡FLACC! celebrated the intersections of gender, sexuality, nationality and indigeneity among the artists:
Each evening was followed by refreshments and a 20 minute panel discussion with local scholars and choreographers. Moderators included: Ernesto Sopranni, Sandra Pacheco and CatherineMarie Davalos. See Video Excerpts here: |
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2015
Co-presented by Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and Piñata Dance Collective, 7 choreographers performed our 2nd annual showcase at MCCLA, engaged in a panel discussion at California Institute of Integral Studies and offered a teaching series at MCCLA. Featured choreographers, David Herrera, Zari Le'On, CatherineMarie Davalos, Liz Duran Boubion, Rogelio Lopez, Juan Aldape and Detour Dance were featured in SF Weekly, SF Arts Monthly, Dance Anywhere, and garnered a review by Catherine Orloff. See our PRESS PAGE for full details and articles. Video excerpts of FLACC 2015
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2014
With 8 local and visiting choreographers, the humble beginnings of the 1st Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers began! Filling a gap within the contemporary dance community, FLACC finally joined our sisters and brothers of other cultural constituencies with a California-based dance festival of our own. With the generosity of Temescal Art Center's director, Leyya Tawil, in Oakland, CA, and the curation of FLACC's founder, Liz Duran Boubion, the first FLACC production was SOLD OUT with only 6 weeks of preparation upon the arrival of our visiting guest artists from Guadalajara, Mexico. ¡FLACC! 2014 was featured on KPOO FM with FLACC veterans, Natta Haotzima and Diana Lara and reviewed by writer, Heather Desaulniers in Critical Dance. Thank you to all those who have paved the way! Coreógrafos en Movimiento: ALARIETE, Detour Dance, Natta Haotzima, Diana Lara, Zari Le'on, Piñata Dance Collective, Rogelio Lopez, Davalos Dance.
Read ¡FLACC! 2014 Review by Heather Desaulniers : http://www.heatherdance.com/2014/10/flacc.html
Video excerpts from the 1st Annual ¡FLACC! 2014
With 8 local and visiting choreographers, the humble beginnings of the 1st Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers began! Filling a gap within the contemporary dance community, FLACC finally joined our sisters and brothers of other cultural constituencies with a California-based dance festival of our own. With the generosity of Temescal Art Center's director, Leyya Tawil, in Oakland, CA, and the curation of FLACC's founder, Liz Duran Boubion, the first FLACC production was SOLD OUT with only 6 weeks of preparation upon the arrival of our visiting guest artists from Guadalajara, Mexico. ¡FLACC! 2014 was featured on KPOO FM with FLACC veterans, Natta Haotzima and Diana Lara and reviewed by writer, Heather Desaulniers in Critical Dance. Thank you to all those who have paved the way! Coreógrafos en Movimiento: ALARIETE, Detour Dance, Natta Haotzima, Diana Lara, Zari Le'on, Piñata Dance Collective, Rogelio Lopez, Davalos Dance.
Read ¡FLACC! 2014 Review by Heather Desaulniers : http://www.heatherdance.com/2014/10/flacc.html
Video excerpts from the 1st Annual ¡FLACC! 2014
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fill the Piñata to make ¡FLACC! a success!
Your donation supports inclusivity, innovation and connection. Piñata Dance Collective is committed to making contemporary dance practice and performance accessible to underserved Latina/o/x communities and to creating a platform of connection for Latina/o/x choreographers locally and internationally. ¡FLACC! is a project of the Piñata Dance Collective.
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Community Collaborators
- ABD Productions
- Dance Mission Theater
- CounterPulse
- Shawl Anderson Dance Center
- California Institute of Integral Studies
- Joe Goode Performance Group
- UC Berkeley working groups
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Dolores Street Community Services
- Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
- Dancers' Group
- Footloose Dance Company
- NAKA Dance Theater
FLACCistas since 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)
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)
