Monthly Archives: March 2012

1 Mar, 2012

Monique Jenkinson at the de Young

2016-03-18T22:55:47-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Monique Jenkinson|Tags: , , , , , , , |

My fellowship at the de Young Museum/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco begins now! All year I will be working at the de Young – researching, creating, performing – enjoying this incredible opportunity to expand the scope and context of my work, to interact with the museum’s collections and curators, to ignite new collaborations, and to bring some of my favorite past collaborators with me to the museum. Starting Wed 2/15  I will begin a 2-week residency at the de

7 Mar, 2012

Aesthetic Passageways: The Aging Dancing Body in Western Performance

2012-03-07T16:56:58-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed)|Tags: , , , |

by: Sarah Ashkin Arts Administration Intern On the evening of February 27th a group of forty or so members of the Bay Area community met at CounterPULSE to engage in the Dance Discourse Project: “Dancing and Aging”. Dance Discourse Project is an “on-going series of artist-driven discussions organized by Mary Armentrout and co-produced by Dancers’ Group and CounterPULSE”. “Dancing and Aging” consisted of a three person panel consisting of choreographer+ Jess Curtis, activist+ Petra Kuppers, and educator+ Dr. Albirda Rose

11 Mar, 2012

Underland Background

2016-03-18T22:15:11-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

As we finish up our first premiere weekend of Arthur in Underland, and move towards our last, (performances run through March 18th) here's some background on the piece, from the Director's Note I wrote for the program: Arthur in Underland is one of the most personally vulnerable pieces I’ve ever made. It is based on a year in my life that turned everything I believed and wanted upside down. When I was 15 I left my native Los Angeles to

17 Mar, 2012

Dance Anywhere Interview with Lisa Townsend Co.

2016-03-18T21:42:13-07:00By |Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Images, Lisa Townsend|

  DA: You mention that indifference is based on Albert Camus' The Stranger. How did you decide to use this novel as inspiration for your performance?  LTCo: As a reflection on the absurdity of free will, indifference questions the troubling impenitence experienced by Camus' protagonist, Meursault. What if free will, which we hold so dear as a marker of individual freedom, actually engenders a lack of empathy for those around us? Does our experience of the world then simply become a series of self-affirming reactions to

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