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Lauren Simpson is a choreographer, performer, and arts educator. She has danced for Liz Lerman and Risa Jaroslow. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. Lauren is a founding member of the Bay Area dance company, Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations. SSC has been nominated for two Izzie Awards and received support from Dancers’ Group, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and Rainin Opportunity Fund. Recent residencies include the CHIME Program at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and the AIR Program at Shawl-Anderson Dance

Zoë has toured 28 countries over 6 continents striving to inspire audiences through seemingly impossible athletic movement and personal expression. Ten years co-directing Paradizo Dance brought: NBA NY Knicks halftime shows, International Salsa Congresses, 1st place titles in national cabaret competitions, So You Think You Can Dance, and Top Finalist on America’s Got Talent 2009. Zoë is a Circus Center professional acrobatics training program graduate of Master Lu Yi and has performed for Circus Bella, Sweet Can, and Bindlestiff Family

CounterPULSE and Headlands Center for the Arts Present Faye Driscoll You're Me MAR 7-10, THU-SUN at 8PM Friday post-show artist talk with Headlands Program Director Brian Karl  Pictured: Faye Driscoll and Jesse Zaritt; Photo: Steven Schreiber Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me considers how we are constantly made-up and un-done by each other. In this evening-length duet Driscoll probes and obfuscates the inescapable nature of relationship as the contemporary, archetypal, fantastical and personal crash into each other, bending and warping in

Keith Hennessy/CIRCO ZERO "Turbulence" at CounterPULSE, DEC 2011   Turbulence (a dance about the economy)   Portland - PICA's TBA Festival, SEPT 12-15, 2012, 2012 (US premier) at 8pm Seattle  - Velocity Dance Center, SEPT 20 & 21, 2012 at 8pm San Francisco - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SEPT 27-29, 2012 at 8pm New York - New York Live Arts, OCT 4-6, 2012 at 8pm A collaborative failure choreographed by Keith Hennessy and produced by Circo Zero.

Xandra Ibarra (AKA La Chica Boom) Fuck My Life (FML) SEP 20-30, 2012, THU-SUN at 8PM In an era rife with rampant Mexiphobia, a foul-mouthed cockroach maps the journey of a queer burlesque performer named La Chica Boom. After 10 years of performing Spic-tacles on and off stage, La Chica Boom is forced to interrogate her method for insurrection. Inspired by the original Mexican spitfire Lupe Velez who purportedly died with her head in the toilet, Chica spends night after

Photo by Cliff Roles Stephanie Bastos Daughter of Bernadette Chaves Nunes and Aluizio Ribeiro Bastos, started her performance career as a child with the Miami Ballet and later, with the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble in Miami, Fl as an “Is adorable”. After receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts, she has been performing and teaching Modern and Contemporary Dance throughout the United States, Germany and Brazil, after losing her leg in a car

Kegan Marling 2011 Artist in Residence Kegan Marling is a performer, artist and arts-administrator from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kegan has been performing for the past 20 years with artists including Scott Wells, Della Davidson, Lea Anderson, Nigel Charnock and Jane Schnorrenberg. Marling was the co-director of the Renaud-Wilson Dance Festival and has served on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, Dance/USA's national task force on Emerging Leaders, the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals Group, and has

CounterPulse 2015 Artist-in-Residence: Affinity Project  Russian Play   About Affinity Project: Affinity Project is a performance group committed to rigorous formal experimentation in theater. Drawing inspiration from postmodern and contemporary dance and the last forty years of performance in visual art, Affinity remains committed to the theater as a radical, live form. Formed in 2012, Affinity works collaboratively in an investigative practice. Affinity's work-in-progress,Nocturne, was presented at FoolsFury Factory Parts Festival in 2013 and 2014 in San Francisco. They are recipients

FACT/SF Pretonically Oriented v.3 SEP 8-11, 2011 Pretonically Oriented v.3 proposes the creation of a dance work as a metaphor for the creation of identity. Formative experiences, statements of self, the rehearsal process, and performances are all juxtaposed to have a deeper look at what things are and how they came to be that way. POv.3 continues the development of the POv Project and System, which began at ODC’s Pilot 57 in September 2010. Material is sourced from each performer

Krista DeNio — Winter 2014 Artist in Residence About Krista DeNio Krista DeNio is a choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator, committed to developing new forms of performance work, and evolving interdisciplinary thinking and creation between the fields of dance and theater. She collaborates with many artists across disciplines to create collaborative, interdisciplinary performance productions. From original solo theater works, to ensemble dance-theater, community-derived, interview-based theater projects, structured improvisations, and site-specific performance, she is invested in the form that best serves

Lenora Lee Dance Reflections SEP 8-11, 2011 Reflections is a new interdisciplinary work by Lenora Lee Dance in collaboration with Kei Lun Martial Arts & Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo. It features media design by Olivia Ting, music by Francis Wong, videography by Ben Estabrook, and text by Genny Lim. The piece explores the experiences of creating community and a sense of place by succeeding generations in my family and community, beginning with my grandfather, who immigrated through Angel

Amara Tabor-Smith & Sherwood Chen Of Headmistress Headmistress is a collaborative entity between San Francisco Bay Area-based choreographers and dancers Amara Tabor-Smith and Sherwood Chen initiated in 2009. Representing seasoned, distinct and sometimes disparate lineages, they interweave their respective choreographic approaches as a means to navigate intimate movement histories with enduring questions around ancestral, national, transcultural connections. Their work challenges their respective identities and artistic methods in an effort to imagine new performance terrain. Marc Bamuthi Joseph curated Headmistress