• April 2, 2010

    Kendra Kimbrough Barnes in the SF Chronicle!

    By Published On: April 2nd, 2010

    Great interview with Alexandria Rocha and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/01/NSNT1CLFOG.DTL Don't miss the performance this weekend!

  • April 2, 2010

    Post-BHOPAL – Thank you!

    By Published On: April 2nd, 2010

    Dear Friends, Thank you for attending our staged-reading of Bhopal by Rahul Varma at CounterPULSE on Friday, March 26th! I directed Bhopal to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal Tragedy and to honor Habib Tanvir, a legendary director from India, who translated the play into Hindi as Zahreeli Hawa (Poisonous Wind). Bhopal was staged

  • April 2, 2010

    The Lovely Lily

    By Published On: April 2nd, 2010

    Last week, I was lucky enough to attend "Beyond the Veil" at CounterPULSE. The evening, a mix of music, performance and visuals was an experience I have been needing to have. Lily Taylor took the stage and presented the audience a rare opportunity to see a music artist pair her work with performance artists inspired

  • April 2, 2010

    The Pulse in Paris: Nantes

    By Published On: April 2nd, 2010

    Well, we have finally landed back in Paris after our 7 day trip out on the road and what a whirlwind experience it has been.  Things went so smoothly through Angers that I should have known we'd hit a snag somewhere along the line and that snag turned out to be Nantes.  The crew arrived

  • March 29, 2010

    The Pulse in Paris: Adventures in Angers

    By Published On: March 29th, 2010

    So, we are finally off and running, making that big trek from the Paris apartment up the road to Gare Montparnasse.  We all made it safe and sound with the help of our wonderful friend Muriel, who lent her car for transporting all the show bags which made it so much easier.  And we got

  • March 27, 2010

    The Pulse from Paris Part Deux

    By Published On: March 27th, 2010

    So we are just about to pack everything up once again and make the trek up to Montparnasse train station to hit the road for the first time.  We are headed to Angers, one of my favorite cities and just the perfect place to kick off our tour.  But we do have to get there

  • March 25, 2010

    A Notion of Home

    By Published On: March 25th, 2010

    I am both inspired by and gracious for the opportunity to be a Winter Artist in Residence at CounterPULSE. I have been creating work for over 13 years and realize, that just as in life, there is never a time that an artist does not need support. The moment I stepped into the studio for

  • March 25, 2010

    The final week

    By Published On: March 25th, 2010

    This is the last week of our residency here at CounterPULSE. It has been a honor and a great opportunity for us to be part of this residency, helping us to continue doing our work. The support and help we have received from CounterPULSE staff is invaluable, from their thoughtful feedback to the solutions of

  • March 25, 2010

    The Pulse in Paris Pt. 1

    By Published On: March 25th, 2010

    Well, as many of you may already know I have taken leave of my Theater Manager duties (much thanks to Del and Claire for holding down the fort while I'm away) for a month while I am on tour in France with Word For Word Performing Arts production of Two On A Party by Tennessee

  • March 17, 2010

    So We Think We Can Dance (or thoughts from Dance Discourse Project #8)

    By Published On: March 17th, 2010

    On March 11, 2010 Bay Area arts community members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 8: Dance in Pop Culture. Co-presented by Dancers' Group.  The event attempted to sort through the effects of YouTube and So You Think You Can Dance on dance today. To learn more visit www.counterpulse.org/dance_discourse_project/ At the event participants

  • March 14, 2010

    Why focusing on Water?

    By Published On: March 14th, 2010

    By José Navarrete In 2007 I went to India, and on that journey I experienced everything from horror to beauty: magnificent palaces and temples contrasting with the utmost human misery. Throughout it all, water was at the core of this gigantic human drama. On the one hand, there is a scarcity of the resource due

  • March 12, 2010

    Carpetbag Brigade and Bad Unkl Sista at CounterPULSE

    By Published On: March 12th, 2010

    CounterPULSE was pleased to host the re-incarnation of Carpetbag Brigade's "You Don't Know Jack" in conjunction with Bad Unkl Sista's "Study of Soft" this past weekend. Carpetbag Brigade writes, "This is without a doubt our best show and it has had a 3 year maturation process with exquisite direction from Varrick Grimes, formerly of Toronto,