For the last 4 years, FLACC has been breaking through the Bay Area’s dance scene with an exhilarating array of multi-media dance-theater performances celebrating over 30 local and visiting Chicano/Latino and Indigenous choreographers from the U.S. and Latin America. This festival theme for 2017, “REST/UNREST”, which was conceived by one of FLACC’s rotating curators (Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz), is intended to support communities who are directly impacted by current xenophobic, sexist, and anti-LGBTQQI policies. The theme will highlight the varied strategies that Latina/o/x and Native 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.
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 Latinos internationally. FLACC 2017’s featured artists will include visiting companies, Primera Generación Dance from Los Angeles, Tranze Producciones from Mexicali, Mexico and local choreography by Violeta Luna, Caleb Luna, Vincent Chavez, Piñata Dance Collective and Davalos Dance Company. See slide show below! For more info see: www.flaccdanza.org
Tickets: FLACC2017.brownpapertickets.com
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 Latinos internationally. FLACC 2017’s featured artists will include visiting companies, Primera Generación Dance from Los Angeles, Tranze Producciones from Mexicali, Mexico and local choreography by Violeta Luna, Caleb Luna, Vincent Chavez, Piñata Dance Collective and Davalos Dance Company. See slide show below! For more info see: www.flaccdanza.org
Tickets: FLACC2017.brownpapertickets.com
Click on SLIDE SHOW of Featured Artists!
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The 4th Annual
Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers: REST/UNREST Location: Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco Nov. 10-11 Fri/Sat (8:00 pm) Sun. Nov. 12 (6:00 pm) Tickets $18-25 |
Donate to FLACC 2017
Claypot Piñata by Liz Duran Boubion & Meryl Juniper, 2012.
Your donation supports our growing platform of inclusivity, innovation and connection for Latina/o/x and Indigenous choreographers. Besides being the only West Coast festival of it's kind, FLACC’s founding mission is to establish a supportive community for marginalized Latina/o/x voices. In addition to the annual showcase, FLACC has added an artist feedback showing to bring the artists out of isolation and into dialog as their work develops. Additionally, FLACC offers master classes by leading Latino dance artists. Finally, the audience is invited to join the dialogue with FLACC choreographers in a FREE Panel Discussion on November 8, 2017. This event will feature FLACC artists talking about the role of contemporary dance and performance as a mode of expression to challenge the ongoing oppressive policies at the local and national level. This event is being co-sponsored by the Performance in the Americas Working Group and the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley.
We are 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.
Mil Gracias!
From the FLACC team:
Liz Duran Boubion, Artistic Director
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Curator
Zoé Klein, Production Manager
Richard Aldag, Grant Manager
CatherineMarie Davalos, Advisor
Ernesto Sopprani, Advisor
Andreina Maldonado, Advisor
Bianca Rodriguez, Fundraising
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Fiscal Sponsors
Mil Gracias!
From the FLACC team:
Liz Duran Boubion, Artistic Director
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Curator
Zoé Klein, Production Manager
Richard Aldag, Grant Manager
CatherineMarie Davalos, Advisor
Ernesto Sopprani, Advisor
Andreina Maldonado, Advisor
Bianca Rodriguez, Fundraising
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Fiscal Sponsors
FLACC is fiscally sponsored by Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Funding and support provided by San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Philip and Myn Rootberg Foundation, community partners and generous individuals.
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