Located in SOMA in San Francisco, CounterPULSE is a non-profit theater, performance space, community center, and gallery with roots deep in the Bay Area’s provocative performance and dance scenes. CounterPULSE produces its own shows, helps support local artists and activists with its programs and can be rented for productions and rehearsals.
Hi friends! I spent last three months living in India, co-writing the new Nautanki performance script for the “Performing Diaspora” with my father– the renowned Nautanki artist, Pundit Ram Dayal Sharma, I loved my time in India. It was so much fun, and a learning experience, working with my father on this script that focuses [...]
The Ewe say ” … you must cry into the song.” A man in the taxi said “… you are beautiful when you cry.” … But these things are not easy. To cry into the song when you are still so sad … To let your beauty shine thru when you feel as though there [...]
The very spontaneous nature of art rarely gives way to “schedules”, ie. scribbling notes on a bathroom floor at 4am so as not to wake up the household, 2-hour rehearsals that turn into 10 hours, starting with violins and ending up with tambourines, constant breaking of commitments due to double-booking or financial constraints…and yet as [...]
So I haven’t been good with updating the blog regularly – I am the same way about my own personal blog – but when I do it is thorough! We have been traveling all summer and I have been very in my head about this work – working on skill building and movement material but [...]
Archival Photo of Silayan Dance Company featuring dancers Sandy Mendez and Mandy Burgos from article on “Filipino Life”, Los Angeles Times 1986 (Costume idea for Tikling Bird Goddess in “BIHAG” – look at male dancer in the back) I write in my pajamas in this late bright sunny afternoon wondering why I haven’t changed [...]
