Erica Dixon

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1 Dec, 2015

You’re more than your money

2015-12-01T09:16:40-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

As you may or may not know, today is Giving Tuesday. A day where we can repent with our dollar, and generate enough warm fuzzies to obliterate any feelings around what we do with our money every other day of year. Another day where the forces of mass communication can commodify, essentialize, and spin yet another aspect of our lives: our right to community participation. Giving Tuesday is giving us at CounterPulse a moment to reflect. We reject the notion

29 Oct, 2015

Important 80 Turk Update

2015-10-29T14:19:00-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: |

Dear CounterPulse Community, We have an important update regarding the 80 Turk Project. The opening performance of our 80 Turk Inaugural Season, will in fact, not be happening at 80 Turk. Due to sudden timeline delays with the renovation of the theater, our partners and friends at Joe Goode Annex will be hosting all evening performances of Hope Mohr Dance Bridge Project, Rewriting Dance. Tickets can still be purchased though our site here >>http://dev-counterpulse.pantheon.io/rewriting-dance/ We firstly, thank Hope Mohr and

10 Sep, 2015

Ask ME

2015-09-10T15:38:19-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Our new Community Engagement Fellow: Alexandra Maricich Photo Credit: Chelsea Rodino This story begins long ago in Seattle. Where I met my dear friend and collaborator at Cornish College of the Arts: Mariah Martens. We have confided, confronted, confirmed, collected, constructed, created, condensed, conversed every part ourselves to each other. In between graduating from Cornish and the explosive summer there after, we decided to apply to NextFest NW14 New West. The seed of Ask Me About My Ass, came

8 Sep, 2015

80 Turk Inaugural Season Curator’s Note

2015-09-08T12:36:44-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

80 Turk in Fall 2014, Photo by Kegan MarlingOur Inaugural Season crowns a remarkable, highly anticipated move to a state-of-the-art facility at 80 Turk Street. Appropriately enough, the season, creations from artists variously working in New York, Austin, Ireland, Berlin, and the Bay Area, offers a kaleidoscopic set of reflections on metamorphosis whether in the context of the immigrating body, the racialized body, or the consumerist body. This process of renovating brick-and-mortar is consonant with a set of artistic inquiries

17 Aug, 2015

Exploring Engagement: CounterPulse & Violeta Luna in Salinas

2015-08-17T14:46:40-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , |

An update from the field, with CounterPulse executive director, Tomás Riley. With support from the James Irvine Foundation’s Exploring Engagement Fund CounterPulse recently celebrated the stage premier of Como la Tierra/Like the Earth in Salinas, CA. Presented in collaboration with the Alisal Center for the Fine Arts (ACFA), local artist collective Artists Ink and renowned performance artist Violeta Luna, the piece represented 8-weeks of intensive co-creation inspired by the provocative challenge inherent in bridging the perceived geographic and cultural distance between

5 Aug, 2015

CounterPulse Interviews: Artist-in-Residency Emily Hoffman

2016-03-12T00:27:22-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , |

Julie Phelps: Is there a politic to the ways that the work you are developing in CounterPulse’s ARC Program with the Affinity Project is experimenting with duration, repetition and mutability?  Emily Hoffman: It might be more of an attitude than a politic, but I do feel an impulse to disrupt certain structural tropes in performance. I'm wary of the structures of narrative theater even as they – the climax, the end – compel me. Even in more experimental work certain structures

19 Feb, 2015

New project from past ARC resident, Krista DeNio: EchoTheaterSuitcase

2016-03-12T01:59:48-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Krista Denio|

[EchoTheaterSuitcase performance. Photo courtesy of Krista DeNio/MovingGround]   Looking back to this time last year, CounterPulse is reminded of the impactful performances put on by previous ARC participant, Krista DeNio. The result of her residency here was the CONTACT project, which brought together veterans and non-veteran civilians to discuss that which “appears” to divide these groups -- war. Now in its next stage of development, KD/MovingGround in collaboration with The Arts @ CIIS and Veterans Book Project brings us

15 Jan, 2015

New Year, New Leadership

2015-01-15T17:13:22-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

  CounterPulse is pleased to announce the hiring of a new Executive Director - completing the assembly of the new Executive-Artistic dual-leadership team. New hire, Tomás Riley, will serve as Executive Director in partnership with recently appointed Artistic Director, Julie Phelps. Tomás and Julie will lead the next phases of the organization's commitment to catalyze social action through serving and supporting risk-taking, assumption-shattering art. Tomás brings us nearly twenty years of leadership in creative community engagement and education throughout California

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