5 YEARS! FLACC 2018, "BreakThrough." Help us reach 10!

Diana Lara/Photo Credit: Jesse Weiner

Celebrate FIVE YEARS! Cinco Años y Contando

In 2018, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (¡FLACC!) will celebrate five incredible years of resistant, queer, indigenous and hybrid Latina/o/x choreographers based in the United States and Latin America.

The Co-directors of FLACC, Liz Duran Boubion and Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, are celebrating this quintessential year with a BREAKTHROUGH curatorial theme for our artists. There are so many artists and friends who have helped us reach this point and we want to share some of our biggest accomplishments thus far:

• Since 2014, we have featured 40 international Latina/o/x and indigenous choreographers at Dance Mission Theater, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and the Temescal Art Center. See Videos here.
• FLACC has 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. 
• FLACC has gained new grant funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2017 and 2018, the California Arts Council 2018 and Zellerbach Family Foundation 2015, 2016, 2017.
• Since our inception in 2014, 8 articles about FLACC have been published and 6 radio interviews have been aired in English and Spanish. View our Press Page.
• In 2015, a representative from the Mexican Consulate, Paula Linares, gave opening remarks in support of FLACC.
• Our first teaching series was offered at Mission Cultural Center in 2015. Classes included: Contemporary Vernacular, Contemporary Ballet, Contemporary Zapateada, Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering and Modern-Release. View teaching archives.
• This year alone, 25 applications were submitted by artists across North America. 

FLACC is a project of the Piñata Dance Collective, founded and directed by Liz Duran Boubion. Our new fiscal sponsorship with Dancers’ Group is providing more visibility and a new online tax-deductible donating platform for FLACC and the Piñata Dance Collective.  See our Donate Page. 

The inspiration for FLACC originated when Boubion built an artistic exchange in Guadalajara to the SF Bay Area in 2014. Liz continues to create work and teach in Guadalajara in an annual residency there, building alliances and cultural exchanges with several choreographers in Mexico.

David Herrera Performance Company/FLACC 2015

FLACC 2016/Photo Credit: Yvonne Portra

SFARTS Monthly Cover, FLACC 2015

Arturo Fernandez/FLACC 2015 Teaching Series at MCCLA

Claypot Piñata/ Liz Duran Boubion & Meryl Juniper 2012.

Piñata Dance Collective, Guadalajara, 2018.

Now what you've been waiting for....

​FLACC 2018 BREAKTHROUGH artists!!!

Inspired by the success of the past four festivals, this year we are celebrating this momentous occasion with the theme of BREAKThough! We are opening the festival with a performance ritual by local conceptual artist, Adrian Arias. Three visiting companies will be participating: Twin sisters, Marisa and Maribel Plasencia (Santa Barbara, CA); Arts & Above (Missoula, MT); and Fabiola Guillén(MX) who is bringing a group of 7 dancers from Puebla, Mexico, presenting a piece confronting the restrictions of religion and sexuality. We will feature five local companies: Randy Reyes, La Mezcla (Vanessa Sanchez), Diana Lara, David Herrera Performance Company, and Piñata Dance Collective. ​

Stay tuned for more information about ticket prices and the panel discussion! 

The Fifth Annual
​Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers:
BREAKTHROUGH  
Location:
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco
Nov. 9-11 Fri/Sat (8:00 pm)
Sun. Nov. 11 (6:00 pm)
Tickets $20/$25/$30 (Student/General/Door)

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We are finding new ways to support FLACC's vision and, with the help of our new fiscal sponsor, Dancers' Group, we found the perfect platform to help you help FLACC meet it's financial goals.

You can use Flipcause to make monthly contributions to the organizing company, Piñata or FLACC.  PLEASE NOTE THE DIFFERENT LINKS!

We have momentum and we want to keep it going. Commit to FLACC every month for just five dollars! Help us reach our ten year anniversary!!!

​Your financial contributions will support our commitment to making contemporary dance practice and performance accessible to underserved Latino/a/x communities and to creating a platform of connection in the dance sector both locally and internationally.
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Nuestra capacidad para llevar el arte del performance progresiva por profesionales de la danza latina está creciendo más fuerte con su apoyo. 
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¡Gracias por llenar la piñata usted! 
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