CELEBRATE 5 YEARS!
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"BREAK(THROUGH)" FLACC 2018
LOCATION: Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, California, USA
DATES: November 9-11, Fri-Sat. 8pm, Sun. 6pm. 2018
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. The co-curators of FLACC, Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz and Liz Duran Boubion, want to celebrate this quintessential year with a BREAKTHROUGH experience.
The concept of “the break” is a common theme that is often associated with the Latinx experience in the United States. We break laws. We break away from traditions. Forced immigration breaks up families across borders. Yet the value of the break(through) can also be celebratory. Such as breaking open a Piñata, breaking down old paradigms, or breaking through personal and social limitations.
The Breakthrough concept can also be a site or process to consider other ways of building community, forming assemblies, and developing artistic practices. For example, there is a recovery period of regeneration after something has been fractured or cracked. The creative process itself encompasses a cycle or set of phases that each choreographer plays with in various ways. Within the cycle of building up or breaking down something, there may be a pause, avoidance or reflection time to harvest, gather, nurture or heal.
¡FLACC! is an endeavor that attempts to construct, build and assemble shattered pieces that have existed to keep Latin American and indigenous contemporary choreographers out of funding pools or out of community building practices in the bay area.
In this time of civil unrest, including political differences within families & friends, we also see transformative waves of conflict resolution, altruistic support, and a common desire to work toward peace. Through our performances, panel discussions and artist-to-artist feedback processes, FLACC is offering opportunities to create new relationships that are more essential, transparent, and intimate.
FLACC has asked the eight 2018 featured choreographers to respond to the idea of breaking through, reflecting on what phase of a creative process are they in and what are they breaking through artistically, politically or personally at this time.
For 2018, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers has welcomed performance entries that examine, but are not limited to, the following ideas or themes:
DATES: November 9-11, Fri-Sat. 8pm, Sun. 6pm. 2018
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. The co-curators of FLACC, Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz and Liz Duran Boubion, want to celebrate this quintessential year with a BREAKTHROUGH experience.
The concept of “the break” is a common theme that is often associated with the Latinx experience in the United States. We break laws. We break away from traditions. Forced immigration breaks up families across borders. Yet the value of the break(through) can also be celebratory. Such as breaking open a Piñata, breaking down old paradigms, or breaking through personal and social limitations.
The Breakthrough concept can also be a site or process to consider other ways of building community, forming assemblies, and developing artistic practices. For example, there is a recovery period of regeneration after something has been fractured or cracked. The creative process itself encompasses a cycle or set of phases that each choreographer plays with in various ways. Within the cycle of building up or breaking down something, there may be a pause, avoidance or reflection time to harvest, gather, nurture or heal.
¡FLACC! is an endeavor that attempts to construct, build and assemble shattered pieces that have existed to keep Latin American and indigenous contemporary choreographers out of funding pools or out of community building practices in the bay area.
In this time of civil unrest, including political differences within families & friends, we also see transformative waves of conflict resolution, altruistic support, and a common desire to work toward peace. Through our performances, panel discussions and artist-to-artist feedback processes, FLACC is offering opportunities to create new relationships that are more essential, transparent, and intimate.
FLACC has asked the eight 2018 featured choreographers to respond to the idea of breaking through, reflecting on what phase of a creative process are they in and what are they breaking through artistically, politically or personally at this time.
For 2018, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers has welcomed performance entries that examine, but are not limited to, the following ideas or themes:
- The breakthrough of artistic practices (Breakthrough)
- Building new relationships after breakups (Break up to Make up)
- Ecological destruction (Breakdown)
- Weaving artistic processes with other collaborative artists (Break Open)
- Breaking down walls
Diana Lara. Photo: Jesse Weiner.
Randy Reyes. Photo: Robbie Sweeny
Arts & Above/ Bruno Augusto y Kate Jordan
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Vanessa Sanchez/ La Mezcla. Photo: John JotaLeanos
David Herrera Performance Company
Marisa Plasencia
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Fabiola Guillen/Pueblo, Mexico. Photo:
Piñata Dance Collective. Photo: Yvonne Portra
Adrian Arias
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Bienvenidos! The purpose of this annual showcase is to celebrate the diverse heritages and innovations of Chicana/o/x/, Latina/o/x and Indigenous choreographers. ¡FLACC! creates a platform to connect and strengthen our communities through multi-media dance performance locally and internationally.
Departing from traditional and folkloric dance forms that typically represent Latino constituencies, FLACC’s culturally nuanced, hybridized and politically charged dance genre brings a refreshing perspective to the contemporary dance sector, igniting conversations with dance-theater enthusiasts and Latina/o/xs internationally. Our decision to create a welcoming space along the “cutting-edge” continuum of classical contemporary dance to conceptual performance art, gives marginalized choreographers more visibility and freedom socially, politically and artistically.
Our sustainability depends on our collaborations with each other and FLACC is rapidly creating a recognizable platform for Latina/o/x artists to meet one another under one roof. The artists’ subjects encompass a broad spectrum of abstract to dramatized themes of identity, immigration, deportation, gentrification, personal story, folkloric/modern fusions and re-appropriated cultural traditions.
Departing from traditional and folkloric dance forms that typically represent Latino constituencies, FLACC’s culturally nuanced, hybridized and politically charged dance genre brings a refreshing perspective to the contemporary dance sector, igniting conversations with dance-theater enthusiasts and Latina/o/xs internationally. Our decision to create a welcoming space along the “cutting-edge” continuum of classical contemporary dance to conceptual performance art, gives marginalized choreographers more visibility and freedom socially, politically and artistically.
Our sustainability depends on our collaborations with each other and FLACC is rapidly creating a recognizable platform for Latina/o/x artists to meet one another under one roof. The artists’ subjects encompass a broad spectrum of abstract to dramatized themes of identity, immigration, deportation, gentrification, personal story, folkloric/modern fusions and re-appropriated cultural traditions.
Co-DIRECTOR |
Co-DIrector |
Liz Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT
Artistic/Managing Director, Piñata Dance Collective The Piñata Dance Collective celebrates our diverse heritages, our inclusive identities and our artistic innovations through multi-media contemporary dance performance and education. FLACC was created in 2014 as a way to build a platform for Latina/o/x artists. www.lizboubion.org |
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Ph.D. Candidate
Co-Director of FLACC since 2017. *Check out Sima Belmar's insightful article featuring Juan Manuel Aldape. http://dancersgroup.org/2017/05/in-practice-borderlines/ www.juanmaldape.com |
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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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