• August 5, 2015

    CounterPulse Interviews: Artist-in-Residency Emily Hoffman

    By Published On: August 5th, 2015

    Julie Phelps: Is there a politic to the ways that the work you are developing in CounterPulse’s ARC Program with the Affinity Project is experimenting with duration, repetition and mutability?  Emily Hoffman: It might be more of an attitude than a politic, but I do feel an impulse to disrupt certain structural tropes in performance. I'm

  • July 25, 2015

    The River

    By Published On: July 25th, 2015

    Focusing on wellness and self help during the process of creating "This Year Is Different..." has been both illuminating and challenging. This morning I read "The River" by Thich Nhat Hanh. I'm sharing it here because it describes a process of self understanding similar to my personal transformation instigated by creating this piece for the Artist-In-Residence

  • July 1, 2015

    Text on stage

    By Published On: July 1st, 2015

    Text does strange things on the stage. For a trained actor, a bit of Chekhov can inaugurate an entire style of performance, with certain assumptions about what's real, what kind of feeling is most powerful, how to get to that feeling. After turning away from text, towards gesture, task, state, other ways of articulating presence,

  • June 30, 2015

    Sourcing, Processing, Book List

    By Published On: June 30th, 2015

    In the studio we are researching the pathways through trauma. We are talking about suffering, grief and how and why people are motivated to move into a new state of being. One of the positive things about trauma is once we begin to climb out of it, I believe we become more open minded, more

  • June 16, 2015

    CP interviews Zürich arts curator, networker, and contexualizer, Marc Streit, for the (X)change micro-festival

    By Published On: June 16th, 2015

    CP: Marc, in one sentence,what is your story? MS: I have a passion for contemporary dance and performance, based in Zurich, loving San Francisco and having a queer mindset! CP: What was the genesis of Zürich Moves? Where did the inspiration to create the festival come from? MS: I wanted to create a platform for

  • June 11, 2015

    legacy, layers and California (by Monique)

    By Published On: June 11th, 2015

    First, I have so enjoyed reading everyone's posts so far. Witches! California! Feminism! Flappers! So in my thinking about the next work I want to make, I am thinking a lot about layers, about simultaneity, and about holding conflict and opposition in one body mind. That which is 'problematic' sometimes enriches, that which is un-feminist

  • May 27, 2015

    Lost and Full

    By Published On: May 27th, 2015

    I am a bit lost with the blog as I have very little time to read the messages of others and when I am trying to write it all goes queer ;-)  I just finished a book by a swiss writer, long time dead by now, Blaise Cendrars "Sutter's Gold"; The story of a swiss

  • May 26, 2015

    vulnerability + universality

    By Published On: May 26th, 2015

    I have never met anyone before who wants to become a shittier person. Nobody has ever told me, "yea, I want to treat others worse." or "I love making myself feel badly." Here we are, all striving to be better. Maybe, like me, you feel like you make a million mistakes a day. And maybe,

  • May 21, 2015

    hipster

    By Published On: May 21st, 2015

    The work i am interested in has been inspired by the roaring twenties was the birth of a new woman. She defied society’s standards of what its women were supposed to do, say, wear, act like and be. She wore shorter skirts, more dramatic makeup, and cut her hair. She flaunted her sexuality. She drank,

  • May 13, 2015

    Reading and More

    By Published On: May 13th, 2015

    I finished the Witches book yesterday (thank you Nils).  I've been reading two books about time, technology and the future: River of Shadows by Solnit (describing the development of the American railroad, westward expansion and the man who developed quick photography, leading to film) as well as After the Future by Biffo Berardi (theory book

  • May 12, 2015

    Mica Quote of the day

    By Published On: May 12th, 2015

    "The supernatural is nowadays often seen as opposed to technologies, but the technologies of the era often seemed supernatural themselves.  In the well-known words of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It is only becuase nature no longer seems so strong and immutable a force that changes no longer

  • May 12, 2015

    from mc

    By Published On: May 12th, 2015

    I just took out a card from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt Oblique Strategies, it came out: Use somebody nearby as a model. Which makes me think of appropriation and Mica's proposal. Yes for that! Otherwise I like to share a training I am used to do at the beginning of the day, an one