Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers stages its most ambitious program to date at Dance Mission Theater
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. Founded and curated by Liz Duran Boubion, FLACC has come through plague, deluge and downturns, surviving to attain double digits with its most ambitious program yet. , talks and two distinct programs presenting choreographers and dancers from across Latin America and the Caribbean.
No artist better captures the festival’s vision and mission than Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, a visually impaired dancer and choreographer from Costa Rica who’s been based in New York City since 2014. In his West Coast debut he’s presenting an excerpt of his signature solo work “Yo Obsolete,” a ritualistic exploration of how objects can evoke and contain memories and associations.
Núñez performs “Yo Obsolete” Friday Oct. 27 and Saturday Oct. 28 as part of Program A, which also features the in-person world premiere ofPuerto Rican choreographer Fernando Ramos’s “Perenne,” a quartet for four Puerto Rican-based dancers, and the solo piece “Ion” by dancer and actress Gabriela Ceceña from Hermosillo in the Mexican state of Sonora.
Though he was undocumented, Núñez enrolled in culinary school and started working in restaurants around New York, where he quickly found a community with other undocumented kitchen workers “who helped me with connections, banking, renting a room,” he said. “You find your way in the city through that undocumented culture.”
A Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2022-2024, Núñez will be giving a workshop Oct. 24 at Dance Mission as part of FLACC’s , introducing a methodology he calls Vortex. A practice-in-progress, it’s a spiritually informed approach that grew out of his “need to learn how to move through space safely,” he said.
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