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FLACC 2024: El Grito por Thawra الثورة
KPFA 94.1 Full Circle INTERVIEW Oct 24' |
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Frank Sterling interviews FLACC's director, Liz Duran Boubion and 2 members of AntiFaSon, Leslie Quintanilla and Olin Juarez at KPFA's Full Circle on Oct. 25, 7:30pm. The artists talk about international solidarity from an artistic perspective. Highlights include an overview of the festival and the Dancing the Art of Weeping project with visual artist and story teller, Mary Hazboun and 4 Bay area choreographers, as well as the history and political influence of Son Jarocho as an anti-imperialist praxis.
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Dancers For a Free Palestine: Tactics of Resistance that Artists Understand
Written by Liz Duran Boubion, March 2024
I wanted to write this article for In Dance to encourage more dance readers to use their own platforms to take a stand and to highlight a few local dance artists in the SF Bay Area who are tirelessly working against oppression by using their personal and professional resources in solidarity with Palestine. I gathered statements and material from local dancers Leila Mire, Cookie Harrist, Tessa Nebrida, José Navarrete and Leyya Tawil. They are among hundreds of artists in the bay area who are uncompromising towards Israel’s displacing, starving and bombing over half the Gazan population for the last six months with U.S. weaponry. Our efforts, and yours, ultimately gain strength when we are principled and united for a cause against the illegal occupation of Palestine which forces every U.S. taxpayer into sharing responsibility for this genocide in Gaza....Read more.
I wanted to write this article for In Dance to encourage more dance readers to use their own platforms to take a stand and to highlight a few local dance artists in the SF Bay Area who are tirelessly working against oppression by using their personal and professional resources in solidarity with Palestine. I gathered statements and material from local dancers Leila Mire, Cookie Harrist, Tessa Nebrida, José Navarrete and Leyya Tawil. They are among hundreds of artists in the bay area who are uncompromising towards Israel’s displacing, starving and bombing over half the Gazan population for the last six months with U.S. weaponry. Our efforts, and yours, ultimately gain strength when we are principled and united for a cause against the illegal occupation of Palestine which forces every U.S. taxpayer into sharing responsibility for this genocide in Gaza....Read more.
FLACC's 10th Anniversary got PRESS!
iHeart RADIO! KOSF 103.7FM: 14 minute interview with TINKA (OcT 2023) |
ABC 7! Liz Interviews with Jobina Fortson (2023)News Anchor, Jobina Fortson interviews FLACC director, Liz Duran Boubion about FLACC's struggle to survive, disabilities access, and the importance of DANCE in the 10th FLACC Anniversary Oct. 27-29, 2023 at Dance Mission Theater.
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KTVU! Liz Interviews with Heather Holmes (2023)This year marks the 10th year of the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers in San Francisco. KTVU's Heather Holmes speaks with Liz Duran Boubion, Founding Director of FLACC about this year's celebration and special Master Classes being offered with the artists all week long. www.ktvu.com
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Mission Local: A CULTURAL MISSION CATCHING FLACC at DANCE MISSION THEATER (Oct 2023)
If locusts, frogs and lice don’t descend on the Mission in the coming week, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers will reach an impressive milestone. Since Liz Duran Boubion founded FLACC in 2014, it has come through plague, deluge and downturns, surviving to attain double digits with its most ambitious program yet.
The 10th annual festival, running Oct. 23 to 27 at Dance Mission Theater, includes master classes, talks and two distinct programs presenting choreographers and dancers from across Latin America and the Caribbean. Rather than trimming her sails, Boubion has expanded the scope of her scrappy festival, shining a bright spotlight on a disparate array of artists, most of whom would otherwise be absent from Bay Area stages.
... READ MORE in Mission Local by Andrew Gilbert....
The 10th annual festival, running Oct. 23 to 27 at Dance Mission Theater, includes master classes, talks and two distinct programs presenting choreographers and dancers from across Latin America and the Caribbean. Rather than trimming her sails, Boubion has expanded the scope of her scrappy festival, shining a bright spotlight on a disparate array of artists, most of whom would otherwise be absent from Bay Area stages.
... READ MORE in Mission Local by Andrew Gilbert....
LA DANCE CHRONICle: PIÑATA DANCE COLLECTIVE’S POWERFUL CUATRO VIENTOS DEBUTS AT HIGHWAYS (June 2023)
CUATRO VIENTOS translates as four winds and Boubion transports her audience into the four corners of a not so pleasant American history of the disappearance of primarily women and the everyday harassment that men cast upon them everywhere. Boubion does so without causing harm. She does what artists are supposed to do, expose life through art. In this case, it was beautifully created dance art. ...Read More by Jeff Slayton
Stance On Dance: Radical Aesthetics and the Winds of Change- (Feb 2023)
...The organization of which I am the artistic director, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC), is turning 10 this fall. While it is something to celebrate, I am keeping a close watch on current events and political agendas that may impact not only Latinx artists but the world at large as well. Continue Reading Liz Boubion's Essay in Stance On Dance
FLACC PRESS 2014-2022
Mission Local: sii agua sí but not on Saturday (2022)
...The festival seeks to reveal what is hiding in plain sight, with a Latine and Indigenous dance festival celebrating long-buried pre-colonial waterways. The event also commemorates the thousands of unmarked graves where Native Americans were laid to rest during the Mission’s active period (1776 through the mid 1830s). Continue Reading Andrew Gilbert's Story
48Hills: Dance festival honors 5700 indigenous people once buried in Dolores Park (2021)
...a small group gathered around a spot marked by a deep orange marigold and some burning incense. They are members of FLACC (Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers) Community Dance, a collection of like-minded performers who have been developing their own contribution to FLACC’s eighth (and first outdoor) celebration, sii agua sí: Remembering the Waterways in Yelamu Continue Reading Rita Feliciano's story
KRON 4! 2020News anchor, Ella Sogomonian interviewing cultural producer, Arturo Moh Mendez, talking about FLACC 2021: sii agua sí on KRON 4! Centralizing indigneous history, culture bearers and latinx dance artists.
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QueeQueg's Left: Tiempos Desmadrosos: Dancing Latinidad to the Beat of Grief(FLACC 2019)
Time is always breaking, but sometimes we can feel it, the rip and tear, profoundly. Time is always breaking, and we are always grieving it. Time is always. And when we do feel it, take the time to grieve it, care for the endless weight, wait and texture of time, its rupture in space, its… Continue reading Jose Alfaro's article→
SF Chronicle: Dance festivals find creative ways to cultivate community (2019)
...Miguel Gutierrez, one of contemporary dance’s golden boys, used old home videos, power ballads and shattered Plexiglas to bring to life a complicated and shockingly heartwarming duet with his dead dad. Gabriel Mata and Kelisha Gardeen enlivened the legacy of a midcentury modern dance icon, José Limón, with a restaging of his 1950 duet, “The Exiles.” And, Primera Generación Dance Collective’s Nepantla somehow cavorted through and clapped back at a huge range of Latin stereotypes, archetypes and social crises with equal measures of charm, humor and gravitas. Article by Melissa Hudson Bell Continue Reading...
Life as a modern dancer: A personal reflection by our founder (2018)
"Catching Fruit Where they Fall": A Personal Reflection by Liz Duran Boubion in Jill Randall's blog "Life as a Modern Dancer" As the artistic director of the Piñata Dance Collective, the first few years presenting the only Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) in the U.S. felt like I was balancing a huge bowl of fruit on my head while wearing my big sister’s party dress that was falling off my shoulders and tripping me up everywhere I went. Read essay...
The Guardian: 'It's about surviving turmoil,' Latinx dance troupe explores racial trauma (2018)
"Even before Donald Trump was using the presidential pulpit to create division, David Herrera was battling racism from a seemingly unusual place – choreography in modern dance. Before 2016, Herrera’s company dancers were calling out the idiocy of racial profiling: at one point they physically tagged audience members with ready-made name tags denoting their perceived race.
But for this weekend’s fifth annual Festival of Latin American Choreographers (Flacc) in San Francisco, the California native has changed tactics." Continue Reading Jose Fermoso's story.
But for this weekend’s fifth annual Festival of Latin American Choreographers (Flacc) in San Francisco, the California native has changed tactics." Continue Reading Jose Fermoso's story.
Bay Area Dance Watch: FLACC, A Dynamic umbrella (2018)
"Dance Festivals are like Umbrellas - they gather together performances, movement artists and celebrations - all the while protecting them and giving them a dynamic place to create.
The Festival Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is as good an example of that, as you'll find in the SF Bay Area -- FLACC is really the Umbrella. As they enter their 5th year, FLACC is bringing a lineup that's a Who's Who in local dance and visitors from afar." Continue Jim Tobin
The Festival Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is as good an example of that, as you'll find in the SF Bay Area -- FLACC is really the Umbrella. As they enter their 5th year, FLACC is bringing a lineup that's a Who's Who in local dance and visitors from afar." Continue Jim Tobin
In DANCE: 4th Annual ¡FLACC! 2017
Hot off the Press!!! Article by Liz Duran Boubion and Juan Manuel Aldape InDance Magazine October Issue!
REST/UNREST: Latina/o/x Choreographers Provide Community and Craft to Strategize, Recover & Resist.
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REST/UNREST: Latina/o/x Choreographers Provide Community and Craft to Strategize, Recover & Resist.
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Daily California: FLACC 2017
Daily California, 2017 http://www.dailycal.org/2017/11/16/indigenous-latinx-choreographers-cultivate-rest-unrest-flacc-2017/
KALW 91.7FM: Liz Boubion and CatherineMarie Davalos talking with Jen Chien
RADIO Interview: http://kalw.org/post/choreographers-liz-boubion-and-catherine-marie-davalos-celebrate-experimental-latino-dance#stream/0
MerCury News: 3rd Annual ¡FLACC! 2016
Dance Card: Showcase for contemporary Latin American choreographers
PUBLISHED: November 29, 2016 at 5:00 pm, Mercury News, Eastbay Times.
By ANDREW GILBERT, CORRESPONDENT
Though run on a shoestring, the 3rd Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers presents 17 choreographers — from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, New Mexico, Southern California and the Bay Area — Dec. 9-11 at Dance Mission Theater. Each performance will be followed by a 20-minute panel discussion.
The performances are organized around three themes....
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PUBLISHED: November 29, 2016 at 5:00 pm, Mercury News, Eastbay Times.
By ANDREW GILBERT, CORRESPONDENT
Though run on a shoestring, the 3rd Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers presents 17 choreographers — from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, New Mexico, Southern California and the Bay Area — Dec. 9-11 at Dance Mission Theater. Each performance will be followed by a 20-minute panel discussion.
The performances are organized around three themes....
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Stance on Dance : Contemporary Dance Through a Latin American Lens (2016)
The Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers answers the question: What is the value of contemporary dance to the Latin American community?
"...As artists, it is easy to say this has tremendous value for us personally, because it affirms that a huge part of our identity (Latinx) has value within the dominant culture of contemporary dance, which has historically given limited access to our people. Ballet, modern dance, aerial dance, and “high art” performance in general is expensive and requires compromise and sacrifice for the working class, or undocumented, to train and/or attend shows.
For Latinos who are educated, privileged and do have access, I would say tradition, and in this case traditional dance, is one of the highest values as a way to preserve our culture, which presents a bit of a challenge for ¡FLACC!." Liz Duran Boubion
Continue reading Emmaly Weiderholdt's Story...
"...As artists, it is easy to say this has tremendous value for us personally, because it affirms that a huge part of our identity (Latinx) has value within the dominant culture of contemporary dance, which has historically given limited access to our people. Ballet, modern dance, aerial dance, and “high art” performance in general is expensive and requires compromise and sacrifice for the working class, or undocumented, to train and/or attend shows.
For Latinos who are educated, privileged and do have access, I would say tradition, and in this case traditional dance, is one of the highest values as a way to preserve our culture, which presents a bit of a challenge for ¡FLACC!." Liz Duran Boubion
Continue reading Emmaly Weiderholdt's Story...
Prensa Libre: Momentum participa en Festival Flacc (2016)
Un artículo en Guatemala! This article in PrensaLibre.com highlights one of our featured choreographers, Sabrina Castillo, and her company members of Momentum. Momentum is one of Guatemala's leading contemporary dance companies among only a handful of recognized choreographers. Momentum was the only contemporary dance company in Guatemala for at least a decade before now, partially because of Sabrina's teacher training program.
http://www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenario/momentum-participa-en-festival-flacc
http://www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenario/momentum-participa-en-festival-flacc
SF WEEKLY: 2nd ANNUAL ¡FLACC! 2015
¡FLACC! Celebrates Latin Americans in Contemporary Dance Posted in SF Weekly, By Jessi Phillips on Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:00 PM
Every artist needs space. In a city where physical space for the arts is becoming scarce, having space might mean finding acceptance in a community or feeling your identity represented within the artists in your field.
¡FLACC!, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, will present its second annual program this weekend at the Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts in an effort to provide that space for a segment of the contemporary dance world that doesn’t always see itself clearly represented.
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¡FLACC!, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, will present its second annual program this weekend at the Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts in an effort to provide that space for a segment of the contemporary dance world that doesn’t always see itself clearly represented.
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Katherine Orloff
¡FLACC! 2015 Review
Poetry and Politics
¡FLACC! 2015
By Katherine Orloff, Writer, Dancer, Historian
As part of the 2015 Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (¡FLACC!), festival organizers presented a free panel discussion a week prior to the performances. Hosted by the Center for Art and Social Justice at the California Institute for Integral Studies, the panel brought together five of the seven ¡FLACC! choreographers who discussed their creative processes, dominant themes in their work, and the importance of ¡FLACC! – the only annual festival of its kind on the West Coast that celebrates contemporary choreographers of the Latino/a Diaspora. In the discussion’s closing statement, ¡FLACC! Artistic Director Liz Boubion remarked that the festival is simply about supporting Latinos and good contemporary dance work. While the festival is indeed driven by these notions of community and innovative work, ¡FLACC! inevitably runs much deeper than these motivating forces.
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Poetry and Politics
¡FLACC! 2015
By Katherine Orloff, Writer, Dancer, Historian
As part of the 2015 Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (¡FLACC!), festival organizers presented a free panel discussion a week prior to the performances. Hosted by the Center for Art and Social Justice at the California Institute for Integral Studies, the panel brought together five of the seven ¡FLACC! choreographers who discussed their creative processes, dominant themes in their work, and the importance of ¡FLACC! – the only annual festival of its kind on the West Coast that celebrates contemporary choreographers of the Latino/a Diaspora. In the discussion’s closing statement, ¡FLACC! Artistic Director Liz Boubion remarked that the festival is simply about supporting Latinos and good contemporary dance work. While the festival is indeed driven by these notions of community and innovative work, ¡FLACC! inevitably runs much deeper than these motivating forces.
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Piñata Dance Collective at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts/
Photo: Kara Cooper 2015
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DANCE ANYWHERE - 2015¡FLACC! 2015 and Piñata Dance Collective article feature in Dance Anywhere
Choreographer Liz Boubion of the Piñata Dance Collective created a dance anywhere® event at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. The performance included dancers Liz Duran Boubion, Stephanie Sherman, Dominique Nigro, Livier Ayon, Janine Trinidad, Afia Walking Tree with a cameo by Adrian Arias. Together, the dancers performed a structured improvisation, exploring space, environment and the experience of passersby. Continue Reading... |
Dance Commentary: 1st Annual ¡FLACC! 2014
The Temescal Art Center in Oakland was aflame with excitement and occasion for the opening night of the first ever !FLACC!, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. This inaugural evening of movement, music and community featured a collection of eight solos and duets, stylistically spanning the contemporary genre. A packed, enthusiastic house plus diverse performance offerings equals a very successful launching of this new festival program....Read more by Heather Desaulniers
