• June 4, 2012

    GROUND SERIES

    By Published On: June 4th, 2012

        The week before I finished my internship with CounterPULSE in May, my collaborator and partner in crime Brittany Delany (also a past intern at CounterPULSE obviously) told me that on a whim she had booked the Temescal Art Center in Oakland for the first and second Thursday nights for the rest of the

  • May 24, 2012

    Sordid Meditations of a Cyborg/Rasquacha Muchacha Cucaracha

    By Published On: May 24th, 2012

    Exodus. Last chapter, last verse of Porn a la Mexicana In the end there was La Cucaracha and she was pronounced dead: dead and alive--alive and dead with a bud light. (response to Guillermo Nericcio Garcia's birth of a Latina Bombshell) Everyone has dealt with at least one in their space and some of us

  • May 17, 2012

    News from Tales of Pangu!

    By Published On: May 17th, 2012

    Here are some thoughts about this Saturday's performance from Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) about the performance this weekend: "Saturday 5/19 'Tales of Pangu' will sparkle!!  If you are at all interested in interdisciplinary performance, multi-media, collaboration and dramatized Asian American history dating back to the early days of 1850, this is the performance for

  • May 11, 2012

    Samuel Steward links and connections

    By Published On: May 11th, 2012

    Phils Tattoo Joynt Okay. Since my first post it has become obvious that I need to make a list of all of the links and connections with Sam Steward that are on the web. The first is this amazing blog that was created by a writer who blogs about Steward's life and his

  • May 10, 2012

    Homo File Begins

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012

                                           Over the past year I’ve been in the research phase for my next Queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1907-1994). I will write, create and direct an ensemble of

  • May 7, 2012

    May Day 2012 on Twitter

    By Published On: May 7th, 2012

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  • May 5, 2012

    CounterPULSE love at May Day

    By Published On: May 5th, 2012

    One of our current artists in residence, Seth Eisen (Eye Zen Art), uncovered a lot of love for CounterPULSE at May Day last night.

  • May 2, 2012

    Join us for Our Daily Bread’s “Seeds to Sprouts” youth showcase

    By Published On: May 2nd, 2012

    http://youtu.be/J1IiEtVIXQQ

  • April 25, 2012

    Monique Jenkinson at the de Young

    By Published On: April 25th, 2012

    When I set out to create an experience for Friday April 27th (both curating the evening and creating a performance), I knew it would be inspired by the work of Jean Paul Gaultier. I did not know that it would lead into such a process of inquiry. I am struck by Gaultier's interest in difference –of shape, size, age,

  • April 20, 2012

    Homo File Audition/Workshop

    By Published On: April 20th, 2012

    Seith Eisen in Residence at CounterPULSE Homo File   Drawing and tattoo by Samuel Steward Over the past year I’ve been in the research phase for my next queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1907-1994). I am thrilled to tell you that I received a four month residency

  • April 18, 2012

    Natya and Narration in India Currents magazine

    By Published On: April 18th, 2012

    See a preview of this performance at http://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2012/04/14/rebelution-poetry-dance-stories  

  • March 17, 2012

    Dance Anywhere Interview with Lisa Townsend Co.

    By Published On: March 17th, 2012

      DA: You mention that indifference is based on Albert Camus' The Stranger. How did you decide to use this novel as inspiration for your performance?  LTCo: As a reflection on the absurdity of free will, indifference questions the troubling impenitence experienced by Camus' protagonist, Meursault. What if free will, which we hold so dear as a marker of individual freedom,