• February 8, 2013

    Otto and Emmett Ramstad, A Biography

    By Published On: February 8th, 2013

    Emmett and Otto were born twins in Norway in 1979, the year of the blizzard. You know, the blizzard of 1979 that wiped out all the power to the entire country and left folks cross-country skiing to neighbors’ houses for weeks. Anyhow, when Emmett and Otto were born the electricity had just turned off in the hospital.

  • February 7, 2013

    The Ginzburg Geography: Welcome

    By Published On: February 7th, 2013

    What sustains people in severely oppressive situations? How do you hope when hope seems beyond possibility? How do you unify and inspire when organizing is punishable by death? These are the central questions explored by The Ginzburg Geography, a music performance by Jewlia Eisenberg and Charming Hostess. The Ginzburg Geography is based on the life

  • February 6, 2013

    “Can a mere cloud bear such a message?”

    By Published On: February 6th, 2013

    I was first inspired by Kalidasa’s Meghadhuta (The Cloud Messenger) in 2009. At the time, I was exploring the role of the messenger in Indian texts and poetry. Often times the role of the messenger was simply stated – a person carrying a message from one lover to another. In dance, in some of the

  • January 30, 2013

    The strength of Hope, my journey: The beginning

    By Published On: January 30th, 2013

    Sunrise, one morning in June 1997: Students were readying themselves for school, workers for their jobs, merchants for their businesses in the city, in the markets, peddlers were at their usual occupations, the many unemployed, graduates with or without hope, were looking for work, students were on their way to school, and that's when everything

  • January 23, 2013

    Without Surrender, You Are Just a Robot–Abby Crain interviews Jeremy Wade

    By Published On: January 23rd, 2013

    This post originated as part of (THEOFFCENTER's Dramaturgy In Dance Series). Jeremy Wade is coming to the Bay Area to present his piece FOUNTAIN at CounterPULSE on January 25th and 26th, 2013, followed by a weeklong workshop at Kunst-Stoff Arts from January 28th - February 1st. Abby Crain, a longtime fan of his work, chased

  • January 20, 2013

    Rapunzel reads the news

    By Published On: January 20th, 2013

    Sitting at the window, I repeat to myself: the project is to grapple with my inability to comprehend or speak about my world. From my castle, my ivory tower, my highest, whitest horse, I can read all about it — 87 are dead in Aleppo, 26 in Connecticut— all safely within view, and unreachable.  Next to

  • January 18, 2013

    Sneak peek at TONIGHT’s A Day at the Races by Julie Lythcott-Haims

    By Published On: January 18th, 2013

    Getting excited for the first night of Poets Theater 2013! Here's a sneak peek from rehearsals for A Day at the Races written by Julie Lythcott-Haims and directed by Brandon Jackson.   See you tonight!

  • January 17, 2013

    Time Flies

    By Published On: January 17th, 2013

    LESLIE Time flies insanely around, like a mosquito in the night. Moreover: http://www.gabberwocky.5u.com/installation.htm  

  • January 16, 2013

    Further reflections on Poets Theater

    By Published On: January 16th, 2013

    Small Press Traffic's 12th Annual Poets Theater Festival, held this January 18th and 19th at CounterPulse, both continues and refreshes a tradition of poets theater in the Bay Area's literary communities that dates back at least to the Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissances of the 40s and 50s -- with roots in experimental modernist theater, vaudeville, 19th century

  • January 11, 2013

    Reflections on SPT’s Poets Theater by David Buuck

    By Published On: January 11th, 2013

    Twelve years ago, in collaboration with New Langton Arts and the (sadly missed) Jon Sims Performing Arts Center, Small Press Traffic helped organize a Poets Theater festival, with several plays and panels in multiple locations around San Francisco. Though initially intended to be a one-time celebration of plays from the 80s and 90s, several younger poets

  • January 3, 2013

    Projection experiments 2

    By Published On: January 3rd, 2013

  • January 3, 2013

    Projection experiments 1

    By Published On: January 3rd, 2013