Events

27 Sep, 2022

Community Workshops for Self Care

2023-04-26T16:32:14-07:00By |Categories: Events|

QUAKE is an upcoming solo performance at CounterPulse by Kat Gorospe Cole centered around mental health and ancestral connection. Exploring within what seedkeeper Rowen White calls the “diaspora of disconnect,” Cole looks for the threads that connect her to a maternal history back to the Ilocos region of the Philippines. What has been inherited? What has been lost? What can be refound?  QUAKE weaves together sound, imagery and vibrations to physicalize ideas of grief, longing and closeness. The project also

13 Nov, 2017

Reflecting on Skywatchers: I GOT A TRUTH TO TELL

2017-11-13T23:16:02-08:00By |Categories: Events|

A little over a year ago, ABD's Artistic Director Anne Bluethenthal opened one of our weekly Skywatchers meetings by asking: Who has your back? And what does that look like? It was early fall, a distressing time for many as 45’s campaign gained traction (little did we know…), but there was a tinge of hopefulness in Anne’s prompt. What possibilities exist when we, the people, choose the radical act of having each other’s backs in the face of the powers

4 Apr, 2014

Queer Tattoo History and my visit to Modern Electric

2014-04-04T16:36:51-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed), Homepage Links, Seth Eisen, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Sam Steward's fascinating life as a shapeshifter linked many disparate worlds: literature, sexual research, academia and tattoo art.  For this iteration of Homo File I've taken a dive into researching Steward's life as a tattoo artist. In this world he went by the name Phil Sparrow. I recently read his fascinating and really well written book Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tatoo with Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965. It's pretty pricey since it is a

16 Jan, 2013

Further reflections on Poets Theater

2013-01-16T10:53:06-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events|

Small Press Traffic's 12th Annual Poets Theater Festival, held this January 18th and 19th at CounterPulse, both continues and refreshes a tradition of poets theater in the Bay Area's literary communities that dates back at least to the Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissances of the 40s and 50s -- with roots in experimental modernist theater, vaudeville, 19th century tableaux, Greek drama, and a sometimes baffling array of other sources. Through the past several years of this often ad hoc and participatory, sometimes confounding,

10 Dec, 2012

GROUND SERIES: WINTER

2012-12-10T12:33:39-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events|Tags: , , , , |

Hello incredible CounterPULSE community from former CounterPULSE interns Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany, and curators of Oakland based arts program GROUND SERIES.  GROUND SERIES is a meeting place for artists to experiment with interdisciplinary investigation in a grassroots community arts model. This winter GROUND SERIES can be found at its usual home of the Temescal Arts Center on 2nd THURSDAYS of December, January, and February. We've found inspiration for our winter programming from our recent experiences in art making, presenting,

13 Nov, 2012

Digest in Peace: The Beginning…

2016-03-18T22:34:30-07:00By |Categories: Amara Tabor Smith, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed), Talks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

We are winding our way towards opening night this week. What started out as a conversation with my mother about our gumbo tradition many years ago, has become this little monster of a dance theater piece that has forever changed my life and how I think about food. With this incarnation of Our Daily Bread my collaborator and director, Ellen Sebastian Chang and I engaged in daily conversations about food; about the difficulties of having a slow enough life to

29 Sep, 2012

Homo File is loved by audiences. Last chance to catch a glimpse of “the Zelig of 20th Century homosexuality”.

2016-04-07T01:15:43-07:00By |Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed), Homepage Links, Images, Seth Eisen|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Well the run has been amazing thus far with sell out houses and very enthusiastic audiences for both Homo File and FML. We got wonderful press coverage and  appeared in several blogs. Here are a few. A fabulous article by Kimberly Chun in the SF Chronicle 96 hours Really interesting article by Richard Dodds in the Bay Area Reporter Stance on Dance is a really interesting interview blog by Dancer/Writer Emmaly Wiederholt A lovely review by Rob Avila about Homo

17 May, 2012

News from Tales of Pangu!

2012-05-17T16:18:52-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events|Tags: , , |

Here are some thoughts about this Saturday's performance from Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) about the performance this weekend: "Saturday 5/19 'Tales of Pangu' will sparkle!!  If you are at all interested in interdisciplinary performance, multi-media, collaboration and dramatized Asian American history dating back to the early days of 1850, this is the performance for you!!!  And a great retrospect of the beginning of hapa marriages and their offspring 'dealing with ... ' America!! Really, exciting adventures played out on

25 Apr, 2012

Monique Jenkinson at the de Young

2016-03-18T22:55:28-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events, Monique Jenkinson|Tags: , |

When I set out to create an experience for Friday April 27th (both curating the evening and creating a performance), I knew it would be inspired by the work of Jean Paul Gaultier. I did not know that it would lead into such a process of inquiry. I am struck by Gaultier's interest in difference –of shape, size, age, color and culture – which he celebrates in an irreverent but generous way. Playing with cultural costume (including counter- and queer-cultural costume), he creates a collage –

7 Mar, 2012

Aesthetic Passageways: The Aging Dancing Body in Western Performance

2012-03-07T16:56:58-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed)|Tags: , , , |

by: Sarah Ashkin Arts Administration Intern On the evening of February 27th a group of forty or so members of the Bay Area community met at CounterPULSE to engage in the Dance Discourse Project: “Dancing and Aging”. Dance Discourse Project is an “on-going series of artist-driven discussions organized by Mary Armentrout and co-produced by Dancers’ Group and CounterPULSE”. “Dancing and Aging” consisted of a three person panel consisting of choreographer+ Jess Curtis, activist+ Petra Kuppers, and educator+ Dr. Albirda Rose

3 Jan, 2010

CIRF New Year’s Contact Improvisation Intensive 2010

2010-01-03T20:55:12-08:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: , , , , , |

CIRF New Year’s Contact Improvisation Intensive 2010 Research Into Scores with Brenton Cheng and Jennifer Chien Friday-Sunday, January 1-3, 2010 / Fri 7-10pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm Rejuvenate and re-inspire your dancing body in the New Year with renowned performers, Jennifer Chien and Brenton Cheng. This 3-day Intermediate Level intensive will focus on shifting physical states, deepening into sensation, and refining both solo and ensemble awareness. Explore scores as frameworks for dancing and witnessing, build structures to play in and

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