• 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

  • July 12, 2011

    Watch a bitch climb…and then stumble and fall…Aug 5-7!!!

    By Published On: July 12th, 2011

      The Unbearable Lightness of Raya is coming with HALLOWEEN! The Ballad of Michele Myers... Tickets and Info!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4sjyYl1Am8

  • July 11, 2011

    Reaching OUT… Intern Update

    By Published On: July 11th, 2011

    Howdy CounterPULSE Peeps, I'm Tessa, the outreach intern. I had an urge to blog, which has never really happened to me before,  so I figured I would talk about my time at CounterPULSE so far. Well...where to begin? Basically, I love working here. Er'body is really nice and I'm learning a ton. But enough about

  • July 7, 2011

    FACT/SF POv Brief Explanation (part of FACT/SF’s Thirsty Thursdays)

    By Published On: July 7th, 2011

    In an effort to share everything I possibly can about what we're doing, I made a short explanatory video - it's rad and you should check it out! ~Charles Slender Artistic Director, FACT/SF   http://youtu.be/pH63NTPSgk4

  • July 5, 2011

    WORK MORE! is hard work

    By Published On: July 5th, 2011

    Oh my! We had our first CounterPULSE rehearsal on Saturday. It was quite warm outside, and the studio quickly heated up as we ran our opening dance routine over and over. Then our photographer collaborators showed up and hung up the photoshow in the gallery, it looks so gorgeous and should be completed by tomorrow

  • July 5, 2011

    Summer Special Snapshot: Rare Earth

    By Published On: July 5th, 2011