• August 18, 2011

    Getting started on MASTERWORK

    By Published On: August 18th, 2011

    From Keith Johnstone's Impro: "A sacrifice has to be endowed with a higher status or the magic doesn't work" "It's easy to play the role of artist, but actually to create something means going against one's education." Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo 10 Rules for #1-s 1. You must clearly display the trappings postures and

  • August 10, 2011

    Reception

    By Published On: August 10th, 2011

    Reception is a piece for four men, choreographed by Tessa Wills. It melts together diverse choreographic interests, such as the patterns of birds flocking, stylistic references to the Baroque, and modern dance into a bubble that holds these men in unusual intimacy. The piece strives to strip and reveal the inherent humanity of the performers

  • August 8, 2011

    Artist Interview: Charles Slender (FACT/SF)

    By Published On: August 8th, 2011

  • August 8, 2011

    Artist Interview: Lenora Lee

    By Published On: August 8th, 2011

  • August 8, 2011

    thats depressing…

    By Published On: August 8th, 2011

    Why did I decide to do a play about depression? It’s a question I’m being asked a lot, mostly by myself, as we try to “sell” A Mix Tape For Ophelia. Depression is not an easy sell, and doesn’t sound nearly as exciting as becoming a drag queen or exploring interconnectedness. But maybe the hard

  • August 5, 2011

    Summer Snapshot: Raya Light

    By Published On: August 5th, 2011

    Hola, Tessa Maurice, here. Your CounterPULSE Outreach Intern. Watch this vid interview of the crazy/beautiful Curtis/Raya and Todd. If after watching this vid you feel the desire to see Miss Raya Light in the flesh- come to CounterPULSE AUG 5th, 6th, and/or 7th at 8 PM.    

  • August 1, 2011

    dance/theater? dance and theater? theater with dance?

    By Published On: August 1st, 2011

    We've been working on A Mix Tape For Ophelia for about a year now, and from the beginning i knew it would be a combination of dance and theater. but no only has it been an interesting struggle to figure out what that means, where on the spectrum of performance arts we fall, it has

  • July 31, 2011

    Permutae and Reception at Counterpulse…we are ripening!

    By Published On: July 31st, 2011

                          http://dev-counterpulse.pantheon.io/pe​rmutae-reception/ Hello CounterPULSE! This is my first blog post! Ever! We are getting ready for our shows, Permutae and Reception. So I'm excited, and I want to share with you a bit about the feeling of the show ripening! It's going up in two

  • July 30, 2011

    Permutae

    By Published On: July 30th, 2011

    August 12th and 13th at 8pm. Permutae is a collaboration between artists Finley Coyl and Mary Franck with dancers Kyra Rice, Chrysalis Hyon, and Qilo Matzen that maps the expanding technological-biological horizon through representation and recreation of queer bodies, questioning the boundaries of that growth towards greater agency and the manifestation of desire. We began

  • July 28, 2011

    Reflections

    By Published On: July 28th, 2011

    The beauty of the artists I’m working with never ceases to amaze me. When I witness them, I witness the uniqueness of each person’s spirit, each person’s love and passion for her or his art, each person’s gift of giving deeply to the birth of this piece. This creative endeavor is bringing to life the

  • July 26, 2011

    Awesome Footage from FACT/SF’s 2nd Work in Progress Showing!!

    By Published On: July 26th, 2011

    http://youtu.be/fVYkdrORd8U

  • July 12, 2011

    Looking back to move forward (part of FACT/SF’s Tasty Tuesdays)

    By Published On: July 12th, 2011

    You might know by now that FACT/SF is interested in many things...systems and people and movements and implications and meta-theatrical concerns and deep emotive expressions.  As we do our best to innovate and push push push forward - both relative to our own work and also the larger field of dance working/making, we always find