Monthly Archives: March 2010

This past weekend, audiences at CounterPULSE were treated to a powerful evening of performance from Jess Curtis / Gravity and a talented team of international collaborators.  The first act featured Scotland's Claire Cunningham in thought-provoking, solo exploration of her experience with alternate mobility.  After the intermission, audiences were wowed by a sneak peak at "Dances for Non-Fictional Bodies", a collaborative exploration of alternately-abled bodies at work, at play, on rollerskates, gurneys, and bicycles, dancing, singing karaoke and tumbling absurdly through

CounterPULSE was pleased to host the re-incarnation of Carpetbag Brigade's "You Don't Know Jack" in conjunction with Bad Unkl Sista's "Study of Soft" this past weekend. Carpetbag Brigade writes, "This is without a doubt our best show and it has had a 3 year maturation process with exquisite direction from Varrick Grimes, formerly of Toronto, Canada’s Number 11 Theater. The Carpetbag Brigade adds a Jungian twist with a dash of PTSD to Jack and the Beanstalk. You don’t know Jack

Well, as many of you may already know I have taken leave of my Theater Manager duties (much thanks to Del and Claire for holding down the fort while I'm away) for a month while I am on tour in France with Word For Word Performing Arts production of Two On A Party by Tennessee Williams.  This is my fourth year on the tour and I am finally feeling comfortable and confident with the process and with working in a

So we are just about to pack everything up once again and make the trek up to Montparnasse train station to hit the road for the first time.  We are headed to Angers, one of my favorite cities and just the perfect place to kick off our tour.  But we do have to get there first.  Fortunately, we have help from our friend Muriel in Paris who is graciously offering to drive our bags (and probably our stage manager) to

So, we are finally off and running, making that big trek from the Paris apartment up the road to Gare Montparnasse.  We all made it safe and sound with the help of our wonderful friend Muriel, who lent her car for transporting all the show bags which made it so much easier.  And we got it all on and off the train with reasonable ease.  We always have to be at the train very early the first time because we