Monthly Archives: May 2010

1 May, 2010

The Happening – Audience Reactions

2010-05-01T23:10:41-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Tonight's Happening - the most interactive and least predictable evening of May Day - featured a wide variety of ultracreative installations and performances, evoking a wide variety of audience reactions.  Check out some of the videos to get a feel for the evening ;) 

4 May, 2010

Dance Extravaganza – Audience Reactions

2010-05-04T17:10:22-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

May Day certainly ended with a bang on Sunday night: a spectacular - and completely sold out - revue of some of the Bay Area's favorite dance superstars.  From high fashion to vicious food fights, the audience was kept entertained and impressed throughout the evening.  Thank you to everyone who came out to May Day and helped make this weekend such a resounding success!   Here's a few audience reactions to this past evening's show:

10 May, 2010

May 31 Call For Applications: 2nd Sundays

2010-05-10T15:22:00-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , |

Dancers' Group and CounterPULSE have teamed up to present 2nd Sundays, a series of free salons where artists share work and dialogue with audience members and fellow artists. The Program: The upcoming proposal deadline is for the Fall season, which runs from September through December. Selected artists each present up to 10 minutes of work followed by a facilitated in-depth conversation between the artists and the audience about the work. This program is an ideal opportunity to gain useful feedback

10 May, 2010

Original Synapse: Body Artist

2010-05-10T18:15:59-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Readymade Dance Theater Company's new piece was inspired by Don Delillo’s 2001 novel, The Body Artist. Director Zsolt Palcza listened it to by audiotape—a great one read by Laurie Anderson—while driving to Mexico one year. Her voice is mesmerizing; it puts one into a trancelike state, much like the 300 miles of carretera between Nogales and the Pacific Ocean. “He sat with the newspaper, stirring his coffee. It was his coffee and his cup. They shared the newspaper but it

21 May, 2010

Performing Diaspora Artist Wang Fei at SFIAF

2010-05-21T16:58:21-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , |

We were proud to hear that CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora artist Wang Fei is presenting a finished version of her 2009 Performing Diaspora Festival piece "From Beijing to San Francisco" as a part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Congratulations to her and she has offered followers of CounterPULSE a special discount. Her words and details of the discount can be found below: CounterPULSE's alumnus resident artist Wang Fei will be giving a guqin concert “From Before the Tang Dynasty

27 May, 2010

building things

2016-03-18T22:46:54-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Jesse Hewit|Tags: , |

Today is May 27th, 2010...that never gets old. So, Tell Them That You Saw Me (which I'm realizing is kind of a very Miranda July-esque title...funny how subconscious influences work on us) is being built.  Julie, Maryam, Loren, Shawnrey, and Anna are all pretty much on fire. I'm learning not to fixate so much on identifying dominant themes, and instead trusting the work to kind of reveal itself as it will. Now that Julie's back from Croatia, we've been having

31 May, 2010

Post-Pre-interview…

2016-03-18T22:41:23-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Laura Arrington|Tags: , |

When I was an undergraduate in North Carolina, I would often decide to drive home to Louisiana late at night. Around ten or  eleven pm I'd decide that now was as good a time as any to make the 12 hour southbound drive .  My car only had a radio, and the late night interstate travel radio station options in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana were quite limited.  A solution I came up with to combat boredom/fatigue was to

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