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Support comes in many forms! Help us build our capacity through monetary means or lend us a hand in marketing, strategic planning, consultation or "fun raising"!
After 12 incredible years of programming for Latine, Indigenous, and Caribbean choreographers in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers is catching its breath and taking a pause in a state of active rest. (Also, there is travel involved - scroll down!)
Like many of our colleagues in the U.S. dance ecosystem, FLACC's usual sustaining grants have been denied. Therefore, it's time to further collectivize our thoughts and talents in creating a community based care economy for the future of FLACC. It's time for FLACC to surrender to gravity and let the floor support us until the grants return. Our organization is under reconstruction and we want you to be part of it.
Will you help us gain our footing and support us at the ground level?
Become a supporter of the vital contributions that FLACC artists and our allied communities bring to our hearts, our creative processes, and our transformative conversations.
In 2025, FLACC collaborated with many different organizations to bring teach-ins, discussions, performance salons, and sanctuary spaces that unite our struggles internationally and educate our community about the importance of building ICE FREE and Apartheid Free Zones in the cultural sector.
Along with 12 other arts organizations from the ART SOLIDARITY ACTION group, FLACC's artistic director, Liz Duran Boubion, spoke with local funders to talk about sanctuary funding and combating censorship. We are still at ground zero financially, but we are happy to have contributed to the conversation about the needs of all artists as our rights are being stripped away. Sadly, all of our funding has dried up after our last festival and we are raising donations to build back our capacity to continue to create sanctuary spaces, embody welcoming practices, and radicalize our audiences.
Creating Sanctuary space for artists is an intentional act of decolonization, refusing to let our lives be defined only in opposition to harm. Santuario opens space for artists to imagine futures of beauty, self-determination, and resilience as the truth tellers of culture who do the underground embodied work of changing minds and hearts. FLACC events remind us that survival is not the end of the story; what matters is how we thrive together, how we dream together, and how we move when our bodies are no longer only bracing against the world.
FLACC artists and culture bearers curated a potent SANTUARIO on October 18, 2025, which led audiences through 7 different welcoming spaces at Dance Mission Theater. The community-centered program was the beginning of FLACC's reconstruction period and of our ongoing Movimiento Santuario session every Tuesday morning open to the public.
From this nurturing space of an open floor, we move, we fall, roll around, rise up, engage in discussions and share our creative practices. From the ground level, FLACC is responding to the need for a consistent sanctuary space and will find its way back on its feet after giving in to gravity for a while.
Please note the Tuesday open class Movimiento Santuario is on pause until February 2026.
Like many of our colleagues in the U.S. dance ecosystem, FLACC's usual sustaining grants have been denied. Therefore, it's time to further collectivize our thoughts and talents in creating a community based care economy for the future of FLACC. It's time for FLACC to surrender to gravity and let the floor support us until the grants return. Our organization is under reconstruction and we want you to be part of it.
Will you help us gain our footing and support us at the ground level?
Become a supporter of the vital contributions that FLACC artists and our allied communities bring to our hearts, our creative processes, and our transformative conversations.
In 2025, FLACC collaborated with many different organizations to bring teach-ins, discussions, performance salons, and sanctuary spaces that unite our struggles internationally and educate our community about the importance of building ICE FREE and Apartheid Free Zones in the cultural sector.
Along with 12 other arts organizations from the ART SOLIDARITY ACTION group, FLACC's artistic director, Liz Duran Boubion, spoke with local funders to talk about sanctuary funding and combating censorship. We are still at ground zero financially, but we are happy to have contributed to the conversation about the needs of all artists as our rights are being stripped away. Sadly, all of our funding has dried up after our last festival and we are raising donations to build back our capacity to continue to create sanctuary spaces, embody welcoming practices, and radicalize our audiences.
Creating Sanctuary space for artists is an intentional act of decolonization, refusing to let our lives be defined only in opposition to harm. Santuario opens space for artists to imagine futures of beauty, self-determination, and resilience as the truth tellers of culture who do the underground embodied work of changing minds and hearts. FLACC events remind us that survival is not the end of the story; what matters is how we thrive together, how we dream together, and how we move when our bodies are no longer only bracing against the world.
FLACC artists and culture bearers curated a potent SANTUARIO on October 18, 2025, which led audiences through 7 different welcoming spaces at Dance Mission Theater. The community-centered program was the beginning of FLACC's reconstruction period and of our ongoing Movimiento Santuario session every Tuesday morning open to the public.
From this nurturing space of an open floor, we move, we fall, roll around, rise up, engage in discussions and share our creative practices. From the ground level, FLACC is responding to the need for a consistent sanctuary space and will find its way back on its feet after giving in to gravity for a while.
Please note the Tuesday open class Movimiento Santuario is on pause until February 2026.
🪅Support The Piñata Dance Collective (FLACC's ResiDent Dance COmpany)🪅
Clay Pot Piñata by Liz Duran Boubion
& Meryl Juniper 2012
Piñata Dance Collective is celebrating its 15th year in 2026! Part of that journey is visiting some of the places where the Piñata ritual was practiced/appropriated. Italy and Spain! Word has it that Marco Polo brought it back from China where it was an indigenous seed-planting ritual during the New Year. In the process of appropriation, Italy Catholocized la Piñata by symbolically beating away the 7 cardinal sins. They then swung it over to Spain and when the Spanish colonized mesoamerica, they subjugated the Aztec breaking open rituals which involved a clay pot filled with prayers to the Sun God, Huitzilopochtli (AKA"Hummingbird on the Left"). The Mayan culture also had an ancient breaking open ritual but it was more of a game. PDC created 17 deconstructed Piñata rituals in the U.S. and Mexico highlighting the cycles of creation, destruction, consumption and regeneration. Read all about it here!
Liz Duran Boubion has been choreographing under her company name, Piñata Dance Collective since 2011 and serving as the artistic director of FLACC since 2014. Your donation to the Piñata Dance Collective will support her month-long pilgrimage to Rome and Barcelona where she will be teaching, dancing, meditating, praying, gazing up at beautiful things with awe and meeting fellow fans of Francesca Albanese.
Liz Duran Boubion has been choreographing under her company name, Piñata Dance Collective since 2011 and serving as the artistic director of FLACC since 2014. Your donation to the Piñata Dance Collective will support her month-long pilgrimage to Rome and Barcelona where she will be teaching, dancing, meditating, praying, gazing up at beautiful things with awe and meeting fellow fans of Francesca Albanese.
Nuestra capacidad para llevar el arte del performance progresiva por profesionales de la danza latina está creciendo más fuerte con su apoyo. ¡Gracias por llenar la piñata usted!
Liz (bottom Right) begins her Travels dancing at the Winter JAM of Arts Festival in Rome italy 🪅!
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FLACC is fiscally sponsored by Dancers' Group (501c3)
Donations are tax deductable 
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support FLACC By Mail, PHONe or ON-LINE
By Mail or Over The Phone:
Call with your CC or Send a Check by mail:
Make Checks Payable to Dancers' Group **
Include a clear memo "For FLACC" (or "For Piñata Dance Collective"- read above)
Address:
FLACC c/o Dancers' Group
44 Gough St. Suite 201
San Francisco, CA. 94103
(415) 920-9181 ph
** be sure to indicate the check is for FLACC or Piñata Dance Collective either on the envelope, a separate note, or in the memo line of the check.
Call with your CC or Send a Check by mail:
Make Checks Payable to Dancers' Group **
Include a clear memo "For FLACC" (or "For Piñata Dance Collective"- read above)
Address:
FLACC c/o Dancers' Group
44 Gough St. Suite 201
San Francisco, CA. 94103
(415) 920-9181 ph
** be sure to indicate the check is for FLACC or Piñata Dance Collective either on the envelope, a separate note, or in the memo line of the check.
