Monthly Archives: March 2013

3 Mar, 2013

UNTURTLED #4

2013-03-03T22:07:31-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: |

  "UNTURTLED might suggest a removal of the shell from the turtle’s back to reveal what is hidden beneath. The work of Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring, however, doesn’t allow us to peep under the cover. On the contrary, the body is disappearing almost completely underneath the moving accessory that nevertheless exposes its movements as materiality. It appears almost as if the clothes are moving by themselves; in elongations, expansions and contractions, condensations flatulences and tightenings produced by the puffs

7 Mar, 2013

The dancer’s body: A space of resistance?

2013-03-07T22:14:13-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

  The Goethe-Institut San Francisco supports Isabelle Schad's research work for her new production COLLECTIVE JUMPS and has also initiated an artist talk on the CounterPULSE stage that will bring together the Berlin & San Francisco Dance Scene on March 13, 2013. Furthermore Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring will show one piece out of the performance series UNTURTLED. This series deals with the costume as a transitional object: at once a prosthesis of the missing last layer of the body,

10 Mar, 2013

Starting State

2013-03-10T19:24:07-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , |

As soon as I started scripting material for State, I shifted its context by taking it outside. The Djerassi Ranch in Woodside (where I was in residency last May) invites that kind of play, of course, and offers innumerable sites to take advantage of. Here is a short blip from one such adventure: Funsch launch of State: Not Anywhere Near to Now from Christy Funsch on Vimeo.

14 Mar, 2013

Nudes Flash

2013-03-14T00:39:22-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

I'm debating whether to get naked in our upcoming show, Twindependent. I'm waiting to hear if my collaborator agrees with me that we should. I emailed her about an hour ago when I got the "nudes flash;" the vision. It was debated at our last WIP (work in progress) showing. A male friend wanted to see nudity in-the-flesh to offset the voyeuristic feeling nudity in a film gave him. Nudity in the film alone made him uncomfortable. "Considering the amount

17 Mar, 2013

What’s it about?

2016-03-18T22:48:07-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Miriam Wolodarski|Tags: |

It’s about capitalist self-censorship, and whether or not I can feel it in my kidneys. It's about having nothing to say and saying it, as if John Cage needed our poetry, too. About our eternal need for snacks to feed the phantom limbs. About rhetorical silence, felt silence. dead silence. Freedom protection. —That won't sell— Diffidence v. deference. If deference wins, deference v. différance. The show is about the fact that though I know I’ve looked it up on more

21 Mar, 2013

Yesterday and yesterday and yesterday

2016-03-18T22:47:52-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Miriam Wolodarski|Tags: |

Tomorrow was today. This morning I found some of last week's thoughts. And though we open TONIGHT! and time is a jetplane, I'm still crawling around on hands and feet. So here they are, last weeks thoughts, still fresh:   "A major chance operation crept into the show. Stormed in, I should say, with muddy, bloody, war-like little booties. Why? — It certainly wasn’t part of the original plan. Is this a moralistic metaphor about the sick absurdity of a death

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