The West Coast’s international festival of work by Latin American choreographers is hitting its 10th anniversary with a bold lineup of avant-garde work. Particularly enticing is the opportunity to see a new duet between Karla Quintero and Belinda He, rising dancer/choreographers who have given fierce, provocative performances in recent years with the Bay Area companies of Gerald Casel and Hope Mohr. Also alluring is the opportunity to glimpse experimental work from Fana Fraser, who hails from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and lives in New York.
Southern California’s Joey Navarrete-Medina and Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier are slated to re-stage their 2016 bilingual FLACC offering, “Lost in Translation.” Also on the lineup: Christopher “Un Pez Verde” Nuñez, a Costa Rican artist also based in New York; Fernando Ramos from San Juan, Puerto Rico, now co-chair of dance at the New Mexico School for the Arts; and dancer/actress Gabriela Ceceña from Sonora, Mexico.
Each program is just one hour long, and Saturday offers them back-to-back. Seeking context? On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Cornell University professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz will offer a free discussion, “Choreographies of Divergence: Latinx Contemporary Dance in the Americas.’’