• July 7, 2016

    Greetings!

    By Published On: July 7th, 2016

    As I continue to embark on the adventure of being human and making art, I am always considering where and what are my value's. I use this curiosity as a measure for being fully human and present in body, mind and spirit. So I decided to embark in the art making process based on my

  • June 16, 2016

    My Primal Wound

    By Published On: June 16th, 2016

    I have been reading a few books that inspire me to create dance about my adoption experience.  It has been really helpful to free write in rehearsals in order to generate images that I can translate into my group work.  I have been reading these books in particular: “The Primal Wound” by Nancy Newton Verrier

  • June 14, 2016

    International Adoption: In-Between 1st and 3rd World

    By Published On: June 14th, 2016

    I think a lot about the detrimental effects of colonization through an international adoption perspective.  For me, international adoption in the U.S. sometimes mimics an historical pattern of cultural domination.  There are unstated power dynamics between 1st world and 3rd world countries that get glazed over by the pressures to solve poverty or to solve

  • May 16, 2016

    Where are they now? Hey Ali Maricich!

    By Published On: May 16th, 2016

    Catching up with former Community Engagement Fellow, Ali Maricich For the month of May, we’re catching up with some of our past fellows and highlighting what they’ve been up to since their time at CounterPulse. Sound like something you're interested in? We're currently accepting fellowship applications for the Fall 2016 session, learn more >> Ali

  • May 4, 2016

    Where are they now?

    By Published On: May 4th, 2016

    Catching up with former Development & Special Events Fellow, Melissa Lewis For the month of May, we’re catching up with some of our past fellows and highlighting what they’ve been up to since their time at CounterPulse. Sound like something you're interested in? We're currently accepting fellowship applications for the Fall 2016 session, learn more >>

  • April 8, 2016

    A brief genealogy of 35F

    By Published On: April 8th, 2016

    Salinas workshop participants (photo Zen Cohen) Perhaps it is right to begin our blog by positing ourselves this way: Like with much in our contemporary lives, The 35th Floor / Another Stor(e)y Above and Beyond Her Fall (35F) is largely informed by our necessity to face the violence that surrounds our bodies, and

  • March 29, 2016

    Snake Talk and the Zany

    By Published On: March 29th, 2016

    Photo by Robbie Sweeny.Below is some of our writing about Snake Talk, which is in part inspired by Sianne Ngai's book Our Aesthetic Categories. Specifically, we are investigating what she calls the "zany" aesthetic, allowing it to permeate the structure and physicality of our work. For a more in depth conversation regarding Ngai's research on contemporary aesthetics,

  • March 14, 2016

    Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila

    By Published On: March 14th, 2016

    Photo by Ian Douglas Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila Yellow Towel, the much lauded solo by Montreal-based choreographer-performer Dana Michel, makes its San Francisco debut this weekend. Riffing on a blurred range of black stereotypes, the piece has the effect of unsettling the specific in

  • December 1, 2015

    You’re more than your money

    By Published On: December 1st, 2015

    As you may or may not know, today is Giving Tuesday. A day where we can repent with our dollar, and generate enough warm fuzzies to obliterate any feelings around what we do with our money every other day of year. Another day where the forces of mass communication can commodify, essentialize, and spin yet

  • November 8, 2015

    Interview For Our Upcoming Premiere

    By Published On: November 8th, 2015

    A colleague of mine, Katharine Hawthorne, came to our recent work-in-progress showing and asked me a few questions about the work. Below is our interview that discusses why I am making a musical and how working during CounterPulse's construction has influenced the piece: Interview: Liz Tenuto/Dance and a Half This Year is Different: A Self-Help

  • October 29, 2015

    Important 80 Turk Update

    By Published On: October 29th, 2015

    Dear CounterPulse Community, We have an important update regarding the 80 Turk Project. The opening performance of our 80 Turk Inaugural Season, will in fact, not be happening at 80 Turk. Due to sudden timeline delays with the renovation of the theater, our partners and friends at Joe Goode Annex will be hosting all evening

  • October 21, 2015

    Friends, Family, Patrons, Artists and Our New Home

    By Published On: October 21st, 2015

    Executive Director, Tomás Riley, working with staff and volunteers to paint our new theater space! As we enter into the Inaugural Season at our new home on 80 Turk Street, we feel as if coming home from a long journey. The building has not been an easy project - from rallying multi-million dollar