Wed. Nov. 11, 7:30pm, Free AIM-West and friends will revisit the historic occupation of Alcatraz, show video clips, tell stories, and most importantly, connect this important historic event with the decades of organizing and political resistance since that time.
Presented by CounterPULSE, World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group Thurs. Oct. 15, 7:30pm, Free Join us for a lively discussion tackling some of the questions and ideas posed by Performing Diaspora. Questions include: What is tradition? What is innovation? What is preservation? How does one’s identity give access to or create limitations to use of traditional forms? What is authenticity, and how important is it? Who has the right to determine what is authentic? How
19 events of inspiring performance and discussion The Performing Diaspora brochure is now online and viewable on the CounterPULSE website
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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 you'll join us for the conversation. The Program: The Spring series of 2nd Sundays takes place at CounterPULSE at 2pm on the 2nd Sunday of
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 perform new work. The AIR program has evolved in direct response to the needs of artists and is designed to offer maximum support for experimentation
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 of work to be shown in November at the Performing Diaspora Festival in San Francisco. Photo by Medi Irawan—Sri Susilowati More information: highwaysperformance.org
Fri. & Sat. June 26-27, 8pm Sun. June 28, 6pm, $15 Rebecca Whittington, trained by Arul Francis, performs classical Bharata Natyam. Program: alarippu, jatiswaram, varnam, padam. Compositions of the Tanjore Quartet, as choreographed by Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai. More information: arulfrancis.com Buy Tix Now!
Cake In My Face: New Dances with Betty Crocker and Misbehavior Sat.-Sun. June 20-21, 8pm $20 (Members $15, or with donation of non-perishable food item) Five misbehaving, mess making performers serve up an evening of new theatrical dances creatively re-imagining the history and mythology of Betty Crocker. Weaving contemporary dance with circus tricks, storytelling, and of course food - the dance queries how the presence of one Beatrice "Betty" Crocker has affected notions of American female domestic identity. Through it
Hand2Mouth Theatre and the Carpetbag Brigade Thurs.-Fri. June 18-19, 8pm, $18 (Members $13) Special double bill performance, produced in association with the NET (Network of Ensemble Theaters) summit. Buy Tickets Now! You Don't Know Jack Adding a Jungian twist to Jack and the Beanstalk, You don’t know Jack is the Carpetbag Brigade’s surreal, comic tragedy of an alcoholic dead man and his wildly dysfunctional family. Inspired by The Sibling Society by Robert Bly, this hour-long nightmare fairy tale mixes physical
Thurs.-Sat., June 4-6, 8pm, $15 (Members $10) Emerging choreographers Brittany Brown Ceres and Sonya Smith present world-premiere dances in a flight of sensual entwinement through societal lore, fortifying a journey from despair to empowerment. Navigating metaphors of intra- and interpersonal entanglement, hidden limitations, and visceral emotion, Smith & Ceres shape an evening of fluid, curious and frenzied dance. Buy Tickets Now!
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