CounterPULSE

Located in SOMA in San Francisco, CounterPULSE is a non-profit theater, performance space, community center, and gallery with roots deep in the Bay Area’s provocative performance and dance scenes. CounterPULSE produces its own shows, helps support local artists and activists with its programs and can be rented for productions and rehearsals.

Danica Sena Gakovich

CONTRA-TIEMPO

Colette Eloi
KUNST-STOFF

Performing Diaspora Fall 2009

From Kathak to Flamenco and from Tabla to Taiko, California is home to many diverse and talented practitioners of traditional performance. Despite this abundance, few opportunities exist for artists who wish to challenge, expand or experiment with their own traditional art forms. Many of these artists have begun to flock to CounterPULSE, an organization with a long-standing reputation for nurturing experimentation.

CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora is a festival, residency program, commissioning program, and symposium featuring dance, music, theater, media and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation.

The inaugural year of  Performing Diaspora culminated with a festival November 5-22, 2009 at CounterPULSE.

A select number of Festival artists will be commissioned to create full-length pieces at CounterPULSE in the Fall of 2010.

Stay tuned for updates by joining the CounterPULSE mailing list.


Performing Diaspora is made possible by support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Columbia Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Ken Hempel Fund for the Arts, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the members and supporters of CounterPULSE.

4 Responses to Performing Diaspora

  1. CounterPULSE » Dance Discourse 7: Everyone’s Included, Discussions of Educating the Audience in all Types of Dance
    October 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    [...] On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers’ Group, the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about Performing Diaspora at http://www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ [...]

  2. CounterPULSE » Dance Discourse 7: “Authenticity vs. Tradition”
    October 27th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    [...] On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers’ Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about Performing Diaspora at http://www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ [...]

  3. CounterPULSE » Dance Discourse 7: Traditional Dance is not a Christmas Tree
    October 27th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    [...] On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers’ Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora . Learn more about Performing Diaspora at http://www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ [...]

  4. Soriah: Post-world shaman | Oregon Music News
    November 14th, 2009 at 4:23 am

    [...] to this topic is under way at CounterPulse in San Francisco; for instance, they call it “Performing Diaspora.”  Another brief locus of this debate was the West Coast Post-Asiatic series of compilations [...]

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