¡FLACC!
FESTIVAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS
presented by
Piñata Dance Collective fiscally Sponsored by Dancers' Group
History
In 2018, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (¡FLACC!) will celebrate five years of featuring resistant, queer, indigenous, and hybrid choreographers based in the United States and Latin America. FLACC is rapidly creating a recognizable space for marginalized Latina/o/x artists to meet one another under one roof. The artists’ work has encompassed a broad spectrum of culturally nuanced subjects related to identity, citizenship, immigration/deportation, treaty rights, religion, queer politics, re-invented Latino traditions, multi-lingual performance vocabulary and more. Over the last 4 years, FLACC has featured 40 artists in San Francisco and hosted 6 artist panel discussions in venues such as the California Institute of Integral Studies, UC Berkeley, The Center for Latino Policy Research, and post show discussions at Dance Mission Theater.
The festival consists of a dedicated group of artists that have worked together to strengthen the festival over the last 5 years. Founding Director: Liz Duran Boubion; Co-director: Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz; Production Manager: Zoe Klein; Consultants: Ernesto Sopprani and Richard Aldag; Latino Media Outreach: Diana Lara and Andreina Maldonado; Graphic Design: Adrian Arias and several other FLACCistas who volunteer, offer advice and cross-promote.
Founder, Liz Duran Boubion: After returning from an artist residency called, Xochi Quetzal, in Jalisco, Mexico, Ms. Boubion invited two of her dance students from Guadalajara to show a duet in Oakland, in October of 2014. Visiting artists, Victor Infante and Marlet Martinez of company, ALARIETE(MEX), were joined by 7 local, Bay Area Latino/a/x choreographers invited by Ms. Boubion and co-presented by Leyya Tawil at Temescal Art Center. This international collaboration inaugurated the first annual ¡FLACC! Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers which was aligned with Boubion’s community-minded vision as a Chicana and Queer choreographer directing the Piñata Dance Collective.
The founding choreographers of ¡FLACC! 2014, Eric Garcia, CatherineMarie Davalos, Natta Haotzima, Diana Lara, Rogelio Lopez, Zari Leon, and Liz Duran Boubion all continued to support this festival volunteering in significant ways to keep it going. It seemed to fill a void in the community creating a deep impact on the artists involved. FLACC encourages artists to access multiple dance styles and speak in their native tongues to an audience and organization that understands and receives them. The community as a diaspora is vastly diverse, yet shares many of the same social or political experiences in a contemporary dance scene that is dominated by a white, western perview.
Also, sitting in the audience that first year, were Andreina Maldonado (Venezuela) and Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (Mexico).
Maldonado’s role as event coordinator of Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts brought ¡FLACC! to San Francisco in 2015. She continues to bridge our community with other community organizations she is affiliated with and she dances with the Piñata Dance Collective.
Aldape offered to lead the 1st panel discussion at CIIS and showed his work in FLACC 2015. While writing his dissertation on Latin American Performance Art at UC Berkeley, Juan continued to support FLACC in several ways each year. A few of his acts of service were: inviting a representative from the Mexican Consulate to give opening remarks at FLACC 2015; serving as stage manager in 2016; and writing the curatorial them for the festival in 2017. Juan now serves as Co-Director of ¡FLACC!.
The festival consists of a dedicated group of artists that have worked together to strengthen the festival over the last 5 years. Founding Director: Liz Duran Boubion; Co-director: Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz; Production Manager: Zoe Klein; Consultants: Ernesto Sopprani and Richard Aldag; Latino Media Outreach: Diana Lara and Andreina Maldonado; Graphic Design: Adrian Arias and several other FLACCistas who volunteer, offer advice and cross-promote.
Founder, Liz Duran Boubion: After returning from an artist residency called, Xochi Quetzal, in Jalisco, Mexico, Ms. Boubion invited two of her dance students from Guadalajara to show a duet in Oakland, in October of 2014. Visiting artists, Victor Infante and Marlet Martinez of company, ALARIETE(MEX), were joined by 7 local, Bay Area Latino/a/x choreographers invited by Ms. Boubion and co-presented by Leyya Tawil at Temescal Art Center. This international collaboration inaugurated the first annual ¡FLACC! Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers which was aligned with Boubion’s community-minded vision as a Chicana and Queer choreographer directing the Piñata Dance Collective.
The founding choreographers of ¡FLACC! 2014, Eric Garcia, CatherineMarie Davalos, Natta Haotzima, Diana Lara, Rogelio Lopez, Zari Leon, and Liz Duran Boubion all continued to support this festival volunteering in significant ways to keep it going. It seemed to fill a void in the community creating a deep impact on the artists involved. FLACC encourages artists to access multiple dance styles and speak in their native tongues to an audience and organization that understands and receives them. The community as a diaspora is vastly diverse, yet shares many of the same social or political experiences in a contemporary dance scene that is dominated by a white, western perview.
Also, sitting in the audience that first year, were Andreina Maldonado (Venezuela) and Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (Mexico).
Maldonado’s role as event coordinator of Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts brought ¡FLACC! to San Francisco in 2015. She continues to bridge our community with other community organizations she is affiliated with and she dances with the Piñata Dance Collective.
Aldape offered to lead the 1st panel discussion at CIIS and showed his work in FLACC 2015. While writing his dissertation on Latin American Performance Art at UC Berkeley, Juan continued to support FLACC in several ways each year. A few of his acts of service were: inviting a representative from the Mexican Consulate to give opening remarks at FLACC 2015; serving as stage manager in 2016; and writing the curatorial them for the festival in 2017. Juan now serves as Co-Director of ¡FLACC!.
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2020
FLACC 2020: EL GRITO is celebrating 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 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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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.
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)
