Monthly Archives: December 2009

7 Dec, 2009

Dance Discourse 7: but i really love it…

2009-12-07T21:20:27-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

scribed by Roko Kawai On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about Performing Diaspora at www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ At the exciting event, participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of

9 Dec, 2009

CP T-shirt design contest! Deadline: Jan 4, 2010

2009-12-09T19:26:48-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Homepage Links|Tags: , , |

Calling all designers! We're looking for a design for the official CounterPULSE shirt for this coming year. Since we know we've got some extremely talented supporters out there, we thought we would open it up to all of you! Have you had a design idea since seeing a show here? This is your chance to run with it: the only things that MUST be on there are the name (CounterPULSE), our logo (which can be downloaded here), and the year

9 Dec, 2009

WATCH: CP on Culture Wire

2009-12-09T19:45:17-08:00By |Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Gema Sandoval, Homepage Links, Performing Diaspora, Video|Tags: , , , , , , |

We are super excited to have had the opportunity to meet the truly kind and professional folks from the San Francisco Arts Commission's Culture Wire. Watch the video below to hear from Jessica Robinson Love and 3 Performing Diaspora artists Gema Sandoval, Charlotte Moraga and Adia Tamar Whitaker talk about what Performing Diaspora meant to them.

15 Dec, 2009

Rituals: Violeta Luna and José Navarrete

2009-12-15T06:08:11-08:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Jose Navarrete|Tags: , , |

December 2nd was the fist rehearsal at CounterPulse with Violeta Luna and I. I was a little worried to start since I did not know how Violeta ‘s creative process was in the studio. Before this day we met regularly once a week for the past three months. We created the narrative, brainstormed our ideas, coordinate and organize our meeting with our collaborators and so on. During those meeting we identify 4 characters for each one in regards of our

16 Dec, 2009

Thanksgiving and Performing Diaspora …by Charlotte Moraga

2009-12-16T02:49:31-08:00By |Categories: Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

November.  Thanksgiving.  Well, Performing Diaspora was a thanksgiving feast of a sort, for sure.  Dishes of quiet contemplative explosions and moments of mirth filled the platter,  like when Sri did her nonplussed "boob dance" and her sexy "butt dance."  With her back to the audience, she cocked her head as if to say, "I see you, watching me, watching you."  There was Devendra's utterly charming and engrossing nautanki play, Yannis' virtuosic and athletic dance -- one moment in particular took

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