Krista DeNio, Author at CounterPulse

5 Oct, 2017

Keepin’ it Real…down in the TL

Keepin’ it Real…down in the TL

2017-10-05T17:54:10-07:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Krista Denio, Uncategorized|

by Krista DeNio, Skywatchers Artist Facilitator **NOTE: The names of individuals in this post have been changed for confidentiality. It all started with having one another’s backs. That’s right. I got your back. Whose got your back? I GOT YOUR BACK. We said, we sung, we danced and we meant it. This past year, Skywatchers focused on talking about the people, places, forces, or things that support us. “God’s got my back.” “Ain’t no one got my back but myself.” Michelle

30 Jun, 2017

REFLECTIONS on Community Engagement with Anne Bluethenthal

REFLECTIONS on Community Engagement with Anne Bluethenthal

2017-06-30T07:04:14-07:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Krista Denio|Tags: community engaged art, education, social justice, socially engaged art, Workshops|

REFLECTIONS on Community Engagement Krista DeNio in conversation with Anne Bluethenthal Why do we enter the process of Community Engaged Art making? More importantly, how do we enter the process and what do we do? In preparation for ART MATTERS: An Introduction to Community Engaged Art, Anne and I reflected on various processes we have or are engaged in as art makers, what brought us to this work and what keeps us here. I asked Anne to talk with me

2 Jun, 2017

What we mean when we say…ART MATTERS

What we mean when we say…ART MATTERS

2017-06-02T20:06:40-07:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Uncategorized|

Artists like Rick Lowe have changed the landscape of Art Practice in this country. In ART MATTERS we survey artists who have created major works that give us powerful models to reference, learn from, be in dialogue with as artists engaged in social change, civic engagement, and/or community engaged work. Project Row Houses, is one of the project models we'll be looking at and discussing: The mission of Project Row Houses is to be the catalyst for transforming community through

19 Oct, 2016

emotional labor

emotional labor

2016-11-16T23:51:06-08:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Krista Denio|

Emotional labor is not unlike physical labor. I build muscles through repetition to lift to hold to erase I build muscles to grieve to honor to process I build muscles

13 Oct, 2016

in this age of dissociated reality

in this age of dissociated reality

2016-11-16T23:51:25-08:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Krista Denio|

"In this age of dissociated reality we must remember the machine is an embodiment of us and we are responsible for its boundaries." -Jennifer Eddy, STAND GROUND. Come engage in the dialogue. STAND GROUND opens Thursday and runs Oct 13-15 & 20-22.

6 Oct, 2016

traces of STAND GROUND

traces of STAND GROUND

2016-11-16T23:52:18-08:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Krista Denio|

Standing sexy at 3 feet tall, 4 feet wide and stretched 6 feet long, this is where I sleep. Sure I can't move around aimlessly, spread my legs sit up or roll over more than once. In the berthing racks are stacked three high. Well, you have to fit 60+ girls in here. The best thing about my middle rack is my curtain. I shut this thing and they all disappear. -Josely Castro, U.S. Navy Veteran Jennifer Eddy and

4 Oct, 2016

my mechanical appendage

2016-10-13T18:52:18-07:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Krista Denio|

I no longer carry the weapon I once thought of as a dear friend, an extension of myself that was intended for killing, yet kept me safe. I know this is not what many want to hear, but you must understand the context, you must understand war, not as a spectator in the audience, but an actor. Without my weapon I wouldn’t have survived relatively unscathed what I have exposed myself to in a theater of war. It is part

18 Sep, 2016

SPEAK: On Being Ally and Aesthetic Warrior

2016-10-13T18:47:44-07:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Krista Denio, Uncategorized|

Recent article written by ETS director, Krista DeNio, for Dancers' Group's In Dance in reflection of the work happening in Stand Ground: October 13-15, 20-22 @ CounterPulse http://dancersgroup.org/2016/09/speak-being-ally-aesthetic-warrior-krista-denio/

20 Jan, 2014

This is a gun.

2016-03-12T02:01:31-08:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Krista Denio|Tags: ARC, Artists in Residence, contact improv, Ensemble, Guns, Joy, Krista DeNio, Pain, Rehearsal process, san francisco, the CONTACT project, theater, Training, What is a Fight?|

From the Rehearsal Room... the CONTACT project process is deepening, and we find ourselves moved...to tears, to anger, to hysterical laughter....to formation, to renovation, to solidarity, to push-ups....pushing up against the fight, the flight, the meeting, the holding of...one another. the pressing into flesh and bone...contact...the memories, the histories, the shared pain and sorrow of fathers and grandfathers and nephews and nieces who would not speak to us of their experiences, who beat her instead...who held in their own, giant,

30 Dec, 2013

Writings from the CONTACT project ensemble

2016-03-12T02:01:42-08:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Krista Denio|Tags: contact, fight, home, veteran, veterans, war, writing|

We're in rehearsal and things are getting interesting... We ask ourselves many questions, to get to the essence of what is meaningful to us, what gives our lives meaning, what we would fight for, what home means to us...who we are... We answer to our own surprise, sometimes; we answer in predictable ways other times; we share out loud sometimes; we keep it to ourselves others; we build trust; we share some....we share some more....we build From the ensemble... What

2 Nov, 2013

Open Workshops for the CONTACT project- FREE- Nov 9 & 10

2016-03-12T02:00:49-08:00By Krista DeNio|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Krista Denio|Tags: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Introductory Workshops, Krista DeNio, the CONTACT project|

The CONTACT project directed by Krista DeNio www.kristadenio.com IN RESIDENCE @ CounterPULSE www.counterpulse.org OPEN CALL: COME TAKE A WORKSHOP (FREE), and learn more about the CONTACT project! CALLING: Veterans (of war and military service), Non-veterans, Artists (Actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, designers) and Non-artists WHAT: Workshop(s) Two workshops investigating the project content (bridging the divide between veterans and non-veteran civilians) through physical theater, movement, vocal work, writing, and dialogue. The intention is for participants to discover whether you are interested

About Krista DeNio

Keepin’ it Real…down in the TL

What we mean when we say…ART MATTERS

emotional labor

in this age of dissociated reality

traces of STAND GROUND

my mechanical appendage

SPEAK: On Being Ally and Aesthetic Warrior

This is a gun.

Writings from the CONTACT project ensemble

Open Workshops for the CONTACT project- FREE- Nov 9 & 10

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