I'm a contemporary dancer, instructor, presenter, activist, choreographer, somatic movement therapist, bird watcher and mother.
Liz Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT (she/her/ella) is the Founding Artistic Director of the Piñata Dance Collective since 2011 and has led the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) since 2014. She is a second generation Chicana, queer and neurodivergent choreographer, educator and presenter who builds bridges between several communities by placing value on intersectional identity, adaptive dance practices, language liberation, care economies, mental health and radical aesthetics for revolutionary times. Her dance practices are based in modern-contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Tamalpa Life-Art Process, EcoSomatics, and Chicana feminist spiritualities. Liz has presented her choreography and performance labs at Galeria Ajolote in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Mitotecali in Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico; Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California, the Joe Goode Annex, Dance Mission Theater and Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. She holds a BA in Dance from CSU Long Beach, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the California Institute of Integral Studies(CIIS) and is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). Boubion offers private movement coaching and teaches dance to all ages and abilities. She has been adjunct Dance faculty at St. Mary's College of California, Sonoma State University and is a visiting artist at the Scripps College Dance Department, Lines BFA program at Dominican College and at CSU Long Beach.
Liz is currently re-rooting in Claremont, Ca. and is available for teaching, collaborating and organizing in So Cal.
