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5 Oct, 2017

Keepin’ it Real…down in the TL

2017-10-05T17:54:10-07:00By |Categories: Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Krista Denio, Uncategorized|

by Krista DeNio, Skywatchers Artist Facilitator **NOTE: The names of individuals in this post have been changed for confidentiality. It all started with having one another’s backs. That’s right. I got your back. Whose got your back? I GOT YOUR BACK. We said, we sung, we danced and we meant it. This past year, Skywatchers focused on talking about the people, places, forces, or things that support us. “God’s got my back.” “Ain’t no one got my back but myself.” Michelle

7 Oct, 2017

On change and collaboration…presenting the new CounterPulse org chart

2017-10-13T00:24:21-07:00By |Categories: Organizational Design, Uncategorized|

At CounterPulse, we invite change as our constant, from moving into our new facility to our ever rotating cast of artists and accomplices. We persistently strive to work better together, excited by the way that true collaboration necessitates an aptitude for change. We've updated our org chart to reflect new changes and new ways of working. Not all change is easy. The recent changes to our core administrative staff have certainly come with challenges. There’s no easy path through reforming

25 Oct, 2017

Mother the Verb : Beginnings

2017-10-26T10:38:49-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

A spark in the (Mid)Night - Entre suor e esplendor Our project, like so many sensuous,  creative acts, first took seed on a humid San Francisco summer’s night. In June 2016 Ivy Monteiro, Javier Stell-Fresquez, and Davia Spain found themselves dancing on the same upper balcony of Public Works Nightclub. JAVIER: why did u notice me and Davia that night? What stood out to you, and made u decide to propose collaboration to us? IVY: Well, I was totally struck

1 Nov, 2017

The House Managers of CounterPulse

2017-11-06T20:13:00-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

The House Managers of CounterPulse are the busy bees ensuring our Front of House is running smoothly. These dedicated individuals are seamlessly relaying information among artists and technicians, overseeing our box office ushers, and making sure all our patrons are accounted for. So who are the Managers of The House? Take a moment to read about the dynamic trio holding down the Front of House at all our shows. Kat Cole What is your background? I direct and produce film

7 Nov, 2017

Toxin-laced Living Worlds

2017-11-22T18:41:49-08:00By |Categories: Performing Diaspora, Performing Diaspora Events, Uncategorized|

Javier has been excited to explore how environmental toxicity connects intimately to the motherhood we inhabit and relate to. She's especially inspired by Mowhawk researcher and midwife Katsi Cook, who below writes of our gestational mothers—the ones who bear us in their womb: Of the sacred things that there are to be said about this , woman is the first environment; she is an original instruction. In pregnancy, our bodies sustain life. Our unborn see through our eyes, hear through

21 Nov, 2017

Dancing with Ghosts: A conversation with Randy Reyes

2017-11-27T20:00:44-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

How do you conjure queer ancestry through a dance performance? How can we form and unform psychic territories held through our lineages? Randy Reyes’s new work borrows Chinese Energetics and systems of improvisation to weave queer ancestral lineages throughout an elaborate number. Lxs Desaparecidxs—created in collaboration with performers Jose Abad, Emelia Brumbaugh, Gabriel Christian, Felix (Sol) Linck Frenz, and Stephanie Hewett—is a work that seeks to inquire more than answer. Randy embarks on the rigorous process of asking around displacement, assimilation,

26 Nov, 2017

Let’s start from scribbles, let’s start from scraps.

2017-11-26T19:08:40-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

When given an empty canvas, I stare intently at my toes as I wiggle them, plan which wall to remove and couch to shift were the place mine, examine my palms as I ponder my life as written in wrinkles and wonder which wrinkle is Wednesday's. One might say I do nothing. I certainly do not make a thing. The plain sheet of paper with its limitless possibilities stares back at me blankly. If it had a tongue it would

26 Nov, 2017

Who are your Lxs Desaparecidxs?

2017-11-26T19:51:28-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Questions to Consider (proposed by Randy):   Who are your Lxs Desaparecidxs? In what ways has being in this process shifted your own creative practice, if at all? Where do you see the piece going next and how do you see the work evolving? What questions have persisted since the process began and what new discoveries have arisen? Who are you presence-ing? Can you tell us a story about who they are or what this place is? What is your

1 Dec, 2017

wild child in residence at CounterPulse

2017-12-01T20:36:57-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Combining pompous burlesque acts with intimate confessions, ,wild child" blurs the line between natural and artificial, authenticity and masquerade, reality and fantasy. The performer morphs from one character to the next and reenacts past encounters to discover what sexual desire is. They play with femininity and other gender roles to unveil the joy, fear, shame, violence, power relations and expectations that are embedded within our relationships and desires. ©Lydia Perrot If there is one thing I have learned through

3 Jan, 2018

CounterPulse Spring 2018 Season Announcement

2018-01-11T21:07:50-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

CounterPulse is launching into a mind-bending spring season with a series of performances that activate cultural pluralism through human-scale movements and bodily resistance. In spring 2018 we navigate through interplanetary time as lovers and cultural vanguards. Kicking things off in February, the legendary Kei Takei returns to San Francisco for a rare three nights of iconic performances that connect earth and tribe. Next, James Graham Dance Theatre will tantalize the stage with Dance Lovers 7: Duets by Couples, Crushes, and

16 Mar, 2018

In response to this is an artwork…

2018-03-16T23:16:30-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

What is a body But a thing That we have made life into Flesh and bone and fascia Blood and gut and sinew Just things Lumped together In folds and flops Joints and juts Sewn up in a sack Of fat and skin and hair And we all agree It's a body What is a body But a thing That we make into something That we are told is something That we decide is something That we tell others is

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