Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  11/8/2024

End Date:

  11/10/2024

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Nov 8, 9, 10 (Friday, Saturday 7:30pm and Sunday all day), 2024

The 11th Annual Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) has built an alliance of transnational artists and culture bearers from several disciplines coming together for FLACC 2024: El Grito por Thawra (A Cry For Revolution).

FLACC 2024 showcases several performances throughout the weekend representing social justice issues that center local immigrant, queer, feminist and indigenous perspectives that extend to Palestine. Leading up to the festival are Community Care workshops and discussions by local BIPOC dancers and scholars.

"El Grito", meaning the scream, or cry in Spanish, for "Thawra", translated in Arabic as "Revolution," is historically rooted, encapsulating the purpose of the dance festival and the people involved. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where diasporic communities live together and find solidarity in similar political struggles, the artists in El Grito por Thawra are sharing their stories, sorrows, dreams and hopes for communities impacted by the oppression of border walls, militarism, gender oppression and capitalist settler colonialism agendas.

Woven into the festival is a multimedia installation by renowned, Palestinian visual artist, Mary Hazboun (AKA Mary from Bethlehem). Based in Chicago, Mary's work "The Art of Weeping" highlights the nuanced traumas of women and their resistance against different forms of oppression that is manifested in the military machine, patriarchal societies, and forced migrations. As part of the Latinx-Palestinian solidarity project with the Pinata Dance Collective, Bay Area Dance artists Leila Mire, Nefertiti Altan, Liz Duran Boubion and Madyline Jaramillo will be setting works to the images and vocal narrations by Hazboun.

Additional movement and multimedia works will be presented by Nefertiti Altan, CatherineMarie Davalos, j Ome Mazatl (NAKA Dance Theater) and Taja Will.

https://www.flaccdanza.org/

Location:

  Dance Mission Theater

Room:

Address:

  3316 24th Street

Phone:

  510-302-8575

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA