Monthly Archives: November 2009

1 Nov, 2009

Bike Tour: Transit

2009-11-01T00:53:45-07:00By |Categories: Events|

Sun. Nov. 1, noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands. It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's transportation past and present. Photo: A horse-drawn omnibus near 2nd and Harrison, heading to the Willows in the 1860s.

1 Nov, 2009

Anticipation, excitement, flood of emotion, heartfelt gratitude

2009-11-01T04:46:08-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , |

Red.  I know this may sound ridiculous but the physicality of priming and painting the prop myself was a thrilling adventure.  Thanks to Ryan's suggestion the visit to Discount Builders was extremely informative and helpful!  Thanks to Sherwood I dabbled in bare feet and added yet another "pañuelo", even took the risk of combining the two at the risk of falling flat on my face.  Thanks to my mother and a few pertinent questions I have the finishing touches on

4 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE presents Words First

2009-11-04T00:56:11-08:00By |Categories: Events|

Wed. Nov. 4, 7:30pm, $7-10 (Members $3-5) Words First is the premiere solo performance event in San Francisco. Each month we invite the finest solo artist, comics, and storytellers to the CounterPULSE stage. Solo performance is a unique brand of theater; One person, one stage. It's one part storytelling, one part comedy, one part drama, and 100% entertainment. Buy Tix Now!

5 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE presents Performing Diaspora Festival

2009-11-05T00:57:06-08:00By |Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 5-8, 12-15, & 19-22 all shows 8 pm $15-25 pre-sale, $18-25 at the door CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora debuts this November featuring thirteen talented California dance, music, theater, media, and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation, truly representing the modern California experience. Single evening tix Performing Diaspora Festival Pass Photo: Gema—She Teaches the Women Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 5-8 Charlotte Moraga Gema Sandoval, Danza Floricanto/USA Danica Sena Gakovich Adia Whitaker Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 12-15

6 Nov, 2009

Devendra Sharma for Performing Diaspora: Helpful Feedback from a Sympathetic Audience – An Artist’s Wish Come True!

2009-11-06T19:29:53-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Devendra Sharma, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , |

Devendra Sharma is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See him at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! After coming back from India in late August, I have been working hard with my group on the rehearsals of “Mission Suhani.” As soon as I landed in America, I had to prepare for the Work-in-Progress (WIP) showing at Counter Pulse, so even though I was totally jetlagged, I got my group together and started

6 Nov, 2009

Giggle and Jiggle: Shaking my Booty

2009-11-06T20:03:06-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Sri Susilowati is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See her at weekend 2 of Performing Diaspora, November 12-15. Buy tickets now! As an Indonesian choreographer who has trained in my own country and the U.S.A, I am interested in looking at a social relation from a third world perspective, and in particular a third world women's perspectives. When first I moved to the States years ago, my artistic mission/intention was to introduce Indonesian dance to Americans and to

6 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

2009-11-06T20:40:17-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Let the Festival begin! Last night, CounterPULSE opened its doors to Performing Diaspora artists and audience members -- check out some of the audience's reactions here!

7 Nov, 2009

Performing Diaspora Symposium

2009-11-07T00:58:49-08:00By |Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora|

Presented by CounterPULSE & the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Sat. Nov 7, 10am-5:30pm, Free Some of the Bay Area's most exciting minds in traditional performance tackle hot topics including criticism and aesthetics, representation and appropriation, and social justice during a day-long gathering. The event is presented by CounterPULSE and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in association with the African and African American Performing Arts Coalition, Dance Mission Theater, and the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley. Non-stop

10 Nov, 2009

Podcasting Diaspora!

2009-11-10T20:24:29-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last Saturday, artists and community members used the CounterPULSE stage not for dancing, but for discussion: participants in the Performing Diaspora Symposium took the day to explore the rich, challenging themes that the Festival explores. In three separate sessions, panelists and audience members articulate some of the ideas that each Performing Diaspora artists stirs up onstage. Give a listen here! Appropriation: Dilemma in Dance Panelists: Deborah Vaughan, Anne Bluethenthal, & Denise Pate Facilitated by Laura Elaine Ellis The subject of

11 Nov, 2009

Bihag, my choreographic take on the Hip hop Tinikling, blog #3

2009-11-11T01:18:31-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Dulce Capadocia is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CounterPULSE. See her at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! BIHAG  Works in Progress showing at Highways featuring Jill Parago and Dulce Capadocia,  Photo Credit:  Rudy Samonte Time. Time ticking. Time ticking loudly as numbered days pass in preparation for the anticipated premiere and performance in San Francisco. My costumes and sound design were finished weeks ago (a feat for me;  usually these production elements come together

11 Nov, 2009

Dear Callie – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

2009-11-11T07:16:03-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Prumsodun Ok|Tags: , |

Prumsodun Ok is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See him at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! Dear Callie, I am walking with a bag in my hand.  It is small and brown, the head of a teddy bear just barely creeping out at the top.  I’ve thought much of my new niece these days: praying to the kru to care for her (even before she was born), asking them to show her the

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