Post Show Discussions

thirty seven isolated events

By jez • May 25th, 2008 • Category: CounterPULSE, Events, Latest Updates, Post Show Discussion

paige starling sorvillo/blindsight • SF International Arts Festival
Thu-Sat. May 22-24 & 29-31, 8pm $20 (Members $15, Thursdays: pay-what-you-can)
Integrating contemporary butoh dance with stunning live video and an original sound score, blingsight creates a sense-saturated exploration of intimacy and violence. At 37˚celcius we have unprecedented potential to connect, to risk, to make contact inside the noise. [...]


Liz Lerman’s Critical Response

By jez • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Latest Updates, Post Show Discussion

Liz Lerman is a choreographer who after years of discussing dance with fellow artists, began to devise a method to effectively provide feedback about artistic work. It’s something that CounterPULSE’s Executive Director Jessica Robinson is well-versed. I’ve decided to include it here.
The following comes from http://www.communityarts.net. You can also visit Liz’s website Liz Lerman Dance [...]


Dance Discourse Project #3: Dancers Debate the Body Politic

By Jessica • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Archive, CounterPULSE, Events, Latest Updates, Post Show Discussion, free events (donations welcomed)

Hello folks,
In a few hours, we’ll host our third Dance Discourse Project at Project Artaud Theater in partnership with ODC Theater.  To get the conversation started, I’m posting comments from Rob Bailis, director of ODC Theater, who will not be with us this evening.
Please feel free to use this post as a jumping-off-point for a [...]


Symmetrical Musings

By jez • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: CounterPULSE, Latest Updates, Post Show Discussion

“Two naked bodies interact through a highly structured improvisational score. Manipulating our perception, they reveal the body’s awkwardness; it’s potential failure and finiteness, creating space for the unknown, the wondrous, the infinite.”

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For Jess Curtis/GRAVITY’s Symmetry Project
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This was the description at the core of Intercontinental Collaborations 3 - The Symmetry Project by [...]