• September 23, 2009

    TALKS! From India to the Bay Area

    By Published On: September 23rd, 2009

    Wed. Sept. 23, 7:30pm, Free Devendra Sharma & Jaysi Chander (physician & kathak dancer/tabla player/poet & activist) share short performances & discuss important issues surrounding the Bay Area Indian community. Topics include: immigration politics, women in forced marriage, Indian Invitro industry, political economy of Silicon Valley and Indian outsourcing industries. Photo of Devendra Sharma by

  • September 22, 2009

    2nd Sundays Application Deadline Sept. 30

    By Published On: September 22nd, 2009

    2nd Sundays Spring 2010 Call for Applications Application Deadline: September 30, 2009 Dancers' Group and CounterPULSE have teamed up to present 2nd Sundays, a series of free salons where artists share work and dialogue with audience members and fellow artists. We see this as an exciting opportunity to advance discussion of the craft and hope

  • September 22, 2009

    Artist in Residence App. Deadline Oct. 1

    By Published On: September 22nd, 2009

    Artist in Residence Summer 2010 Residency Application Deadline: October 1 at 5pm PST Residency Period: April 1, 2010- July 31, 2010 Performances: August 5-7, 2010 Late or incomplete Applications will not be accepted The CounterPULSE Artist in Residence Program consists of a four-month residency during which two local bay area artists or companies develop and

  • September 22, 2009

    Rembetiko from Asia Minor to Greece

    By Published On: September 22nd, 2009

    After Kemal Attaturk beat Eleftherios Venizelos Greek troups in Turkey there was an exchange of population of the two countries. All the Christians had to move to Greece all Muslims had to move in Turkey. The refugees that went back to Greece had to start all over because although they were prosperous they had to

  • September 20, 2009

    Performing Diaspora Southern California Work in Progress Showings

    By Published On: September 20th, 2009

    Performing Diaspora LA Work in Progress Showing At Highways in LA, www.highwaysperformance.org Sun. Sept. 20, 3-6pm An afternoon of performances from Performing Diaspora resident artists Gema Sandoval, Dulce Capadocia, Ana Maria Alvarez, Prumsodun Ok, and Sri Susilowati. This Work-in-Progress performance allows audiences to engage in the creative process through feedback, and to follow the development

  • September 17, 2009

    One of the most dreamy artistic experiences…

    By Published On: September 17th, 2009

    One of the most dreamy artistic experiences was when Yanni's choreography and Katerina's singing allowed with the help of athletic dancers a simple light source like a flashlight to tell a story while feeling the same breeze that one feels when the shadow of a dozen leaves try to keep still on our faces.

  • September 16, 2009

    Rembetiko by Kunst-Stoff

    By Published On: September 16th, 2009

    Rembetiko is a type of music and lifestyle that was developed by the Greek refugees that lived for countless generations in Turkey and then were forced to move back to the motherland of Greece because of the threat of genocide. Yannis Adoniou Catherine Clambaneva and Leonidas Kassapides are exploring the style and importance of Rembetika

  • September 16, 2009

    CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group present 2nd Sundays

    By Published On: September 16th, 2009

    Sun. Sept. 13, 2pm, Free September's salon of emerging & established choreographers features an investigation of process from Here Now Dance Collective/Michelle Fletcher, Intrepid-Shelley Davis and Dancers probing extremely personal questions of religion and prayer, and Minna Harri's exploration of what emerges out of a moment of impromptu creation. Photo by Quinn Wharton—Here Now Dance

  • September 16, 2009

    Returning to the “Door of No Return”.

    By Published On: September 16th, 2009

    I wonder if my ancestors imaged that their children would ever come back home to Africa. After experiencing being captured beat, chained together and walked miles and miles from their homes, ancestral lands, family, language, culture, religion, food, flora and fauna to sit and wait in a dungeon. To be taken to a place on

  • September 15, 2009

    Untangling Webs

    By Published On: September 15th, 2009

    ind (circle) -  the ghana blogs 2008 - (i feel you Colette!) Where clear crabs slide sideways across broken seashells and glass, there is a magnificent tossing and turning. At night they sing saltwater mountains of rage and revolt, a stampede of white stallions trample screaming angels and choke a caterwauling into the sea. Like

  • September 14, 2009

    Place, Setting and The Beginning

    By Published On: September 14th, 2009

    Myal, like many African based religion is tied intricately to place, location -- the setting and its surrounding fauna/flora play an important role. Myal was initially believed to simple mean "spirit." The first known recorded observation of a Myal ceremony was in 1774 by Edward Long, who documented the performance of a Myal dance intended

  • September 11, 2009

    Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Violeta Luna; La Pocha Nostra Violeta Luna Corpo/Ilicito: The Post-Human Society 6.9

    By Published On: September 11th, 2009

    Fri. & Sat. Sept. 11 & 12, 8pm, $15-20 sliding scale Experimental arts troupe la Pocha Nostra continues to surprise audiences around the world with shocking interactive ritual performances that question power relations and the criminalization of the brown body. In this latest project, la Pocha create a full environment performance setting that is both