Monthly Archives: May 2013

5 May, 2013

Introducing Dr. Zebrovksi’s HOUR OF POWER

2013-05-05T10:08:53-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Summer Special 2013|

In November 2012, I staged Dr. Zebrovski's HOUR OF POWER, an hour-long interdisciplinary show that explored commercialism and the occult while building out the world of interpretive dance psychic Dr. Zebrovski. With assistance from an amazing director (Beatrice Thomas) and dynamic performing artists (Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Maryam Rostami), I created a fun and interactive show that sold out two performances at The Garage. Dr. Zebrovski’s HOUR OF POWER (Part II: The Descent). Live performance photo by Robbie Sweeny On July

19 May, 2013

“State: not anywhere near to now” update from the road

2013-05-19T18:53:43-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

I just returned to the Bay Area from packed and generously-attentive houses in Portland. Thanks to Martha Ullman West for her coverage in Oregon's Arts Watch: http://www.orartswatch.org/dancing-to-the-how-and-why-of-it/ And thanks of course to my dear friend and colleague Katherine Longstreth. We met in graduate school some 20 years ago and quickly became comrades in DIY dance production via our performing group ESTRUS WORKS with Julia Wyncoll. Although our dance lives have taken us in different directions, we remain committed to the

19 May, 2013

ImShift

2013-05-19T19:51:48-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Images, Summer Special 2013|Tags: , , , , , |

ImShift explores the shifting identity of "living in the in-between" as Latin American living in the diaspora. Through the ritualistic practice of self-affirmation, one can challenge systemic barriers and create art that transcends borders. The expiration of this piece is my lived reality and the work of performance scholar Diana Taylor. This piece is also about the shifting pressures and negotiations in collaboration. The music, the video and the choreography were developed separate. Its in the later part of the

21 May, 2013

a taxonomy of partisan songs

2013-05-21T17:27:35-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Jewlia Eisenberg, Performing Diaspora|

recently, preparing the ginzburg geography, i have been deep in italian partisan music. i learned a lot of these songs, probably too many... i am all set to do a program for very old men in bologna.  anyway, after thinking about this a lot, i concluded that you can divide the songs  in a variety of ways.  unsurprisingly, there's not songs about people who do the grunt work of starting political parties and then get tortured to death for putting out the

29 May, 2013

Here Now Dance – making a dance game…THIS IS DEDICATED…

2013-05-29T18:52:54-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Summer Special 2013|Tags: , , |

Premiering at CounterPULSE Theater June 21-23: 2013, THIS IS DEDICATED...utilizes the structure of a professional sports games, offering four 20-minute quarters complete with a half-time show and team mascot. Inspired by themes from WWI era dance-marathons and sports culture, the dance game appropriates what is successful and exploits the negative spectacle of the two particular phenomenons. Specifically, the structure of the work revolves around multiple movement games each with their own projection environment and rules of play. These “playing cards”

30 May, 2013

Opening “State: not anywhere near to now”

2013-05-30T11:48:53-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: |

When I started "Moving Still(s)" one year ago at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, I was very resistant to the idea of producing a concert or even creating a piece from the experience. I worked intentionally to derail my choreographic process in order to arrive at deeper states of being and latent approaches to moving. My research in thwarting myself continued through the fall of 2012. Then I realized the practice of derailment was in deed the structure of the

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