Check out this great article by Nirmala Nataraj in today's issue of the SF Chronicle's 96 Hours, 'Dancing on Glass' Shatters Call Center Images. Looking forward to seeing you at our show, Director, Vidhu Singh San Francisco, October 7th, 2010
So we finally did it. CounterPULSE got a major facelift this week (sorry to those of you who love the Pepto Bismol colored primer coat). Check out these awesome photos but more importantly swing by in 2 weeks for Sri Susilowati's and Prumsudun Ok's Performing Diaspora shows and you can check it out in person.
For the next year my blogs will be focusing on the development of my piece, “Our Daily Bread” which will premier next April at CounterPULSE…and the journey that this piece is taking me on is already soooo deep… Most recently, I cooked for folks who were taking Rashad Pridgen’s (AKA Soul Nubian) AfroHouseHop class at Dance Mission this past Saturday. I made my recession stew and rice for the students who joined me in the Dance Mission lobby glowing from
We are in the final throes of an intensive rehearsal schedule! A big thank you to our two wonderful actors, Amisha Veda and Amit Sharma, who are breathing life into Ram Ganesh Kamatham's powerful text. Here's a photo from last night's rehearsal. Please come to the show ! You can get tickets here : http://dev-counterpulse.pantheon.io/dancing-on-glass-by-ram-ganesh-kamatham/ Vidhu Singh Director, Dancing on Glass
One of the major challenges I had in preparing for Mission Suhani this year was finding new actors, as many of the previous actors from last year were not available. This situation is expected when you try to involve community members as actors in a participatory effort like Mission Suhani. Most of these community members are not actors by profession. Instead, they have another job in which they are busy. They are extremely interested in the effort, but they are
When you're as far away from India as we are - here in the Bay Area - it's easy to mistakenly think of that distant land as one unified place where you find one unified culture. Of course, the truth is much more complicated. India occupies over a million square miles of the globe and is home to over a billion of the earth's inhabitants. Over such a vast territory with such a large population, unity becomes a very abstract
1. How did you discover and learn about the lifestyle stresses of Call Centre employees in preparing to direct the play? I had heard about the lifestyle stresses of Call Center employees over the last few years— fatigue, insomnia, depression, nightmares, illness, dealing with racist customers, burn-out, inter-generational conflict and gender issues. I was listening to a paper on plays about Call Centers, presented by a colleague of mine (Jisha Menon) at the Asian American Studies Conference in Texas
On Saturday September 18, 2010 the cast of "Ampey!" hit the streets of San Francisco with some short and powerful vocal performances. We performed in front of Rasputin's on Powell Street, Powell and Market, Civic Center and 16th Street BART Stations from 3p to 6p. It was very exciting to see weekend shoppers stop and take notice of our grassroots advertising strategy. We didn't introduce ourselves. We just entered whatever public space we decided to perform in, began to sing and pass out fliers. A special shout out to
I am very pleased to announce that we launched the "Ampey!" Kickstarter page on Monday September 13, 2010! We've raised $1,140 so far. We now have 79 days left until the end of our campaign. Our goal is $6,500. $73 a day should keep us on track. We're raising funds to assist with the artist fees and production costs of expanding my work. To ensure that we surpass our goal, our Kickstarter page will be up until Sunday December 12,
First there was a dungeon. Then there was a boat. We died. We survived. We got sick and never quite got better. All of us stayed behind thinking the others had been rescued. We found a way in through the skin and the hair, but haven't found another way to talk about it since. Gunshots come closest.Our tongues were cut off and replaced with shiny new ones. They had motors that made them move all by themselves. They made funny
So we finally kicked off our facade overhaul starting with a nice pink wash! Don't worry this is just the primer coat, check back in a few days to see the sleek new paint job on CounterPULSE and look for more upgrades in the next week when we add a sign and external lighting! Check out more of these photos by our great tech intern Sarah Fiske!
Sometimes I'm asked what village I grew up in. The answer is a little village of (what is now) 7.4 million people. The idea that I grew up in a ghetto area in one of world's largest cities seems to shock many people. How can the art that I learned and practice be from that environment and not from one of rice fields, palm trees, and poor but happy villagers? The deep origins of my technique are not from the
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