Monthly Archives: May 2008

3 May, 2008

Talks: Local to Global

2008-05-03T00:30:47-07:00By |Categories: Homepage Links, Talks|

Wednesday, April 30, 7:30pm, Free Local rarity in the Franciscan bioregion: Who cares? Charismatic butterflies, delicate lilies, and Still Wild at Heart, a film about nature & wildlife in the city. With Liam O'Brien, Margo Bors and Melissa Peabody

3 May, 2008

A Taste of Contact Improvisation for National Dance Week

2008-05-03T00:31:50-07:00By |Categories: Free Events (donations welcomed), Homepage Links|

WCCIF Teachers Show & Pre-Registration Jam A Taste of Contact Improvisation for National Dance Week Sun. May 4, 8pm Free This features performances by West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival teachers. See great pieces, take a CI mini-lesson, and find out about scholarship and work exchange opportunities for the upcoming festival. Learn more about this dance form that CounterPULSE offers every Tuesday night. Jam and registration reception immediately following show. No Reservations Necessary

8 May, 2008

Dance Discourse Project #3: Dancers Debate the Body Politic

2008-05-08T00:22:27-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Free Events (donations welcomed)|Tags: , |

Hello folks, In a few hours, we'll host our third Dance Discourse Project at Project Artaud Theater in partnership with ODC Theater.  To get the conversation started, I'm posting comments from Rob Bailis, director of ODC Theater, who will not be with us this evening. Please feel free to use this post as a jumping-off-point for a broader discussion about dance and politics. I hope to get my comments up here as well, but for now, I'm off to the

9 May, 2008

Mindball Presents: Research & Development and the R & D Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80

2008-05-09T20:28:52-07:00By |Categories: Events|

Fri. May 9, 8pm (Doors at 7:30) $10 (Members $5) This is the second in Mindball’s new concert series “Music for Interested People”. The horn-heavy avant-funk of Research & Development and the spacey, mind-bendingly catchy songs of the R & B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80 will be accompanied by arresting live video processing and projections by Philip Cole. More Info: www.researchanddevelopment.us.

15 May, 2008

Liz Lerman’s Critical Response

2008-05-15T00:01:39-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Liz Lerman is a choreographer who after years of discussing dance with fellow artists, began to devise a method to effectively provide feedback about artistic work. It's something that CounterPULSE's Executive Director Jessica Robinson is well-versed. I've decided to include it here. The following comes from http://www.communityarts.net. You can also visit Liz's website Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, to learn more about the process and to purchase her The Critical Response Process. Toward a Process for Critical Response See Original Source

21 May, 2008

Winter Artist in Residence Showing: Violeta Luna

2008-05-21T00:42:52-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Winter Artist in Residence Showing: Violeta Luna Burried in  the Body of Remembrance/ Enterrada en el Cuerpo del Recuerdo Wed. May 21 8pm Free for CP Members only Part one of a "border trilogy" on immigrant issues, by the interdisciplinary collective of immigrant artists "Secos & Mojados" the piece aims to develop a language for a more nuanced expression of the place that "the migrant" occupies in an inclusive social imaginary. Buried in the Body of Rememberance explores an immigrant's

25 May, 2008

thirty seven isolated events

2008-05-25T20:39:35-07:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: |

paige starling sorvillo/blindsight • SF International Arts Festival Thu-Sat. May 22-24 & 29-31, 8pm $20 (Members $15, Thursdays: pay-what-you-can) Integrating contemporary butoh dance with stunning live video and an original sound score, blingsight creates a sense-saturated exploration of intimacy and violence. At 37˚celcius we have unprecedented potential to connect, to risk, to make contact inside the noise. Featuring sorvillo (SF), media-artist Lucy HG (LA), composers Hawkins (AUS/UK), Allbee (OAK), and dancers Willey, Robertson, Bonansea, and Jarrett. More Info: www.blindsightperformance.org Buy

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