• September 23, 2010

    “Ampey!” Kickstarter http://bit.ly/b6FanA

    By Published On: September 23rd, 2010

    I am very pleased to announce that we launched the "Ampey!" Kickstarter page on Monday September 13, 2010! We've raised $1,140 so far. We now have 79 days left until the end of our campaign. Our goal is $6,500. $73 a day should keep us on track. We're raising funds to assist with the artist

  • September 23, 2010

    The Great Shrinking

    By Published On: September 23rd, 2010

    First there was a dungeon. Then there was a boat. We died. We survived. We got sick and never quite got better. All of us stayed behind thinking the others had been rescued. We found a way in through the skin and the hair, but haven't found another way to talk about it since. Gunshots

  • September 21, 2010

    The PULSE goes Pink!

    By Published On: September 21st, 2010

    So we finally kicked off our facade overhaul starting with a nice pink wash! Don't worry this is just the primer coat, check back in a few days to see the sleek new paint job on CounterPULSE and look for more upgrades in the next week when we add a sign and external lighting! Check

  • September 21, 2010

    Rebellious Women

    By Published On: September 21st, 2010

    Last week, Shaping San Francisco's kickoff to the Fall/Winter/Spring 2010-2011 Public TALKS! Series was a perfect way to begin our next round of free discussions.  We were proud to co-sponsor the evening with PM Press, whose Ramsey Kanaan pulled together a spectacular collection of speakers to speak to the topic "Imprisoned but Unbowed: The Struggles

  • September 15, 2010

    Faux Real with Fauxnique opens in one week!

    By Published On: September 15th, 2010

    Monique Jenkinson & the Climate Theater Present Faux Real with Fauxnique Fresh from a smashing stint in London, Faux Real returns to the Climate Theater (in their temporary home at TJT - please note the venue change)! For those of you who missed it before, here's your chance: twelve shows! For those of you who

  • September 14, 2010

    Selling It

    By Published On: September 14th, 2010

    Sometimes I'm asked what village I grew up in. The answer is a little village of (what is now) 7.4 million people. The idea that I grew up in a ghetto area in one of world's largest cities seems to shock many people. How can the art that I learned and practice be from that

  • September 8, 2010

    Performing Nautanki in Paris, reconnecting to roots in India, and enhancing Mission Suhani

    By Published On: September 8th, 2010

    I spent the last three months in Europe and India, traveling and performing Nautanki to diverse audiences. I also worked with my father on Nautanki Mission Suhani to expand the script and add new scenes for our performance at CounterPULSE this October. I first traveled to Paris, where I stayed at the Théâtre du Soleil

  • September 8, 2010

    Nine years, Nine emotions

    By Published On: September 8th, 2010

    Nine years ago, events occurred that changed the way many people looked at the rest of the world.  On September 11th, 2001, the whole world watched in horror at the catastrophic events that changed the meaning of this day for many people, especially Americans.  As time moved on emotions and memories of this day still

  • September 6, 2010

    The Sound of Shattering Glass

    By Published On: September 6th, 2010

    It started off as a ringtone that made me laugh. It became an ironic reflection of how I broke in Ghana. An upstairs neighbor of Counterpulse threw empty 40 ounce bottles from the window down onto the sidewalk of 9th and Mission the day we practiced at the bus stop. We were playing our shakers too loud. We had to run. There was glass

  • August 27, 2010

    Priyanjali Dancers Performing on 9/11

    By Published On: August 27th, 2010

    Bharata Natyam, an age-old art form from India, graces the CounterPULSE stage in September. Paying a tribute in memory of the victims world wide of 9/11, Priyanjali Dance will celebrate life using colorful traditional pieces and contemporary work titled Navarasas.  Through these Navarasas (nine emotions), the dancers hope to share and explore the human condition.

  • August 24, 2010

    Skin Tight

    By Published On: August 24th, 2010

    I am not actually Rapid Descent. I am Leah, friend of Rapid Descent, fellow theater-maker and guest blogger. These are my brief thoughts and observations on Skin Tight. Living is a messy business – beautiful, lyrical, heart-breaking, bone-crushing. It is my experience that the suffering any of us endures in life comes when we function

  • August 23, 2010

    Prumsodun Ok and NATYARASA: The Origin of Theater, Censorship, and Social Change

    By Published On: August 23rd, 2010

    The world is falling apart. Driven by illusive philosophies, men and women inflict harm upon one another.  They destroy fields and forests that give them life; they kill and rape to own land and water.  And in their cities they stuff their mouths with a gluttonous rage — only to grow evermore sick and evermore