Fri.-Sun. May 22-24, Thurs.-Sun. May 28-31, 8pm, $20 $25 at the door) Macho Ballads; dances with aggressive overtones & romantic undertones. New works & the recent Litquake collaboration with writer, Michelle Tea--“an aesthetic-pleasure-overload fantasy” SF CHRONICLE. The dances for 10 men & premiere with world class jugglers will rock. Buy Tickets Now!
Wed. May 27, 7:30pm, Free Susan Greene is a public artist, activist, educator and clinical psychologist. Her practice straddles a range of cultural arenas, focusing on borders, migrations, decolonization and memory. Greene is one of four Jewish American women artists who in 1989 founded the ongoing “Break the Silence Mural Project” in solidarity with Palestine.
In celebration of National Dance Week, the company hosts their annual open studio. Join the company as they prepare & perform dances from their upcoming home season, it was this: it was this:—The afternoon will include new work by artistic director Stephen Pelton & company member Christy Funsch.
Twenty-five of the Bay Area's hottest dance companies, theater companies, spoken-word artists and musicians unite over three days to raise money for CounterPULSE— it's our BIGGEST birthday ever! Post-show dancing 'till 12am on Fri. & Sat. with DJ's Durt & Bunnystyle.
Free, A Nature in the City co-production Redesigning urban life off the grid. How can urban dwellers begin immediately to move towards self-sufficiency? We’ll have several permaculture practitioners presenting step-by-step recommendations for the next six months, a 1-year and a 3-5 year transition…K. Ruby (Inst. Of Urban Homesteading), Novella Carpenter (Ghost Town Farm), Kevin Bayuk (SF Permaculture Guild), Laura Allen (Greywater Guerrillas)
Wed. Jan. 21, 7:30pm, Free Years in the making! Shaping San Francisco has finally completed its arduous migration to a wiki-format. Check it out BEFORE Wednesday at foundsf.org! Explore the new living archive of the city’s history with Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott. Get a demonstration of how to use it, and suggestions and guidelines on areas needing focus and attention. Photo: Market Street, c. 1940, when there were still 4 streetcar lines. No Reservations Necessary
paige starling sorvillo/blindsight • SF International Arts Festival Thu-Sat. May 22-24 & 29-31, 8pm $20 (Members $15, Thursdays: pay-what-you-can) Integrating contemporary butoh dance with stunning live video and an original sound score, blingsight creates a sense-saturated exploration of intimacy and violence. At 37˚celcius we have unprecedented potential to connect, to risk, to make contact inside the noise. Featuring sorvillo (SF), media-artist Lucy HG (LA), composers Hawkins (AUS/UK), Allbee (OAK), and dancers Willey, Robertson, Bonansea, and Jarrett. More Info: www.blindsightperformance.org Buy
Winter Artist in Residence Showing: Violeta Luna Burried in the Body of Remembrance/ Enterrada en el Cuerpo del Recuerdo Wed. May 21 8pm Free for CP Members only Part one of a "border trilogy" on immigrant issues, by the interdisciplinary collective of immigrant artists "Secos & Mojados" the piece aims to develop a language for a more nuanced expression of the place that "the migrant" occupies in an inclusive social imaginary. Buried in the Body of Rememberance explores an immigrant's
Liz Lerman is a choreographer who after years of discussing dance with fellow artists, began to devise a method to effectively provide feedback about artistic work. It's something that CounterPULSE's Executive Director Jessica Robinson is well-versed. I've decided to include it here. The following comes from http://www.communityarts.net. You can also visit Liz's website Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, to learn more about the process and to purchase her The Critical Response Process. Toward a Process for Critical Response See Original Source
Wed. May 14, Dinner at 6pm, Music at 9pm Free Erick Lyle looks back at the past ten years of activism and guerilla art in San Francisco. Come join Lyle and collaborators in a night of free food, art, readings, and music, featuring Zara Thustra, Sy Loady, Shotwell, Black Rainbow, and many more!
Sun. May 11, 2pm Free This monthly salon offers emerging and established choreographers the opportunity to show their work and receive feedback from the artists, audience, and presenters. Featuring Cynthia Adams/Fellow Travelers, Jesse Hewit, and Sheena Johnson. No Reservations Necessary.
Fri. May 9, 8pm (Doors at 7:30) $10 (Members $5) This is the second in Mindball’s new concert series “Music for Interested People”. The horn-heavy avant-funk of Research & Development and the spacey, mind-bendingly catchy songs of the R & B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80 will be accompanied by arresting live video processing and projections by Philip Cole. More Info: www.researchanddevelopment.us.
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