[musical] El Grito por Thawra (A Cry for Revolution) // SF
Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) presents:
FLACC 2024: El Grito por Thawra (A Cry for Revolution)
Solidaridad Internacionál con Palestina | Arte y Resisténcia | Comunidad, Cultura y Academia
In its 11th revolution around the sun, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is calling for “Revolution” (the only solution), with a transnational solidarity approach to art and resistance. El Grito por Thawra الثورة showcases eleven performances throughout the weekend of Nov. 8, 9, & 10, representing social justice issues that center local immigrant, queer, feminist and indigenous perspectives that extend to Palestine.
DATE/TIME:
Nov 8, 9, 10 (Friday, Saturday 7:30pm and Sunday all day), 2024
LOCATION:
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco CA, 94110
415-826-4441
COST/TICKETS/REGISTRATION:
$15-50 including no one turned away for lack of funds (notaflof).
https://FLACC2024.eventbrite.
Sun. All Day
12-3pm- workshop with amara-tabor-smith
4pm-6pm- Purchase food by Asukár, art sale, discussion
4:30- Discussion with Mary Hazboun and collaborating artists in Dancing the Art of Weeping
6pm-8pm Performances
Al-Juthoor Dabke Dancers- Palestine the Beautiful (Sun)
Arnoldo Garcia- Raza Con Gaza Poetry (Sun)
Mattheus Coura- Queer Opera -Excerpts from From the River to the Sea (Sat. & Sun.)
Taja Will- Soft Sediment (Fri. & Sun.)
Dancing the Art of Weeping: (Fri. Sat. Sun.)
Leila Mire, Nefertiti Altán, Liz Duran Boubion, Madyline Jaramillo and Mary Hazboun
DESCRIPTION:
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.
MORE INFO:
Website: https://www.flaccdanza.org/
Email: admin@flaccdanza.org
Phone: 510-302-8575
Contact: Liz Duran Boubion
About Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC):
FLACC creates a platform of innovation and inclusion that amplifies the radical and traditional aesthetics of Latine, Caribbean and Indigenous Choreographers from North America, Latin America and the Caribbean Islands. FLACC offers space to connect and strengthen our communities through movement art and education locally and internationally. FLACC was founded in 2014 by Liz Duran Boubion.
Fri. 7:30pm-9:30pm
Evelyn Donají & Camellia Boutros- Son Jarocho and Arabic Folk Songs (Fri)
j Ome Mazatl (NAKA)- ether-NITY (Fri. and Sat)
Nefertiti Altán- Mapping Names (Fri. and Sat)
Davalos Dance Company- The Sacred (Fri and Sat)
Taja Will- Soft Sediment (Fri. and Sun.)
Dancing the Art of Weeping: (Fri. Sat. Sun)
Leila Mire, Nefertiti Altán, Liz Duran Boubion, Madyline Jaramillo and Mary Hazboun
Sat. 7:30pm-9:30pm
AntiFaSon- Songs for the Revolution (Sat.)
j Ome Mazatl (NAKA)- ether-NITY (Fri. and Sat.)
Nefertiti Altán- Mapping Names (Fri. and Sat. )
Davalos Dance Company- The Sacred (Fri. and Sat)
Mattheus Coura- Excerpts from “From the River to the Sea” a Queer Opera (Sat.&Sun)
Dancing the Art of Weeping: (Fri. Sat. Sun.)
Leila Mire, Nefertiti Altán, Liz Duran Boubion, Madyline Jaramillo and Mary Hazboun
Sun. All Day
12-3pm- workshop with amara-tabor-smith
4pm-6pm- Purchase food by Asukár, art sale, discussion
4:30- Discussion with Mary Hazboun and collaborating artists in Dancing the Art of Weeping
6pm-8pm Performances
Al-Juthoor Dabke Dancers- Palestine the Beautiful (Sun)
Arnoldo Garcia- Raza Con Gaza Poetry (Sun)
Mattheus Coura- Queer Opera -Excerpts from From the River to the Sea (Sat. & Sun.)
Taja Will- Soft Sediment (Fri. & Sun.)
Dancing the Art of Weeping: (Fri. Sat. Sun.)
Leila Mire, Nefertiti Altán, Liz Duran Boubion, Madyline Jaramillo and Mary Hazboun
***Ofrendas and Art Sale for Gaza Relief -Nov 8-10**** Tessa Nebrida & PDC
Apartheid-Free Zone Lobby. Artists Against Aparteid, Theater Workers for a Ceasefire, AROC, Jewish Voices for Peace and others.
*** please contact admin@flaccdanza.org access service needs.
Details about the artists and about more community care events leading up to the festival see: www.flaccdanza.org
