Krista Denio Archives - CounterPulse

21 Jan, 2025

ARC SEED 2024 featuring De Alma

ARC SEED 2024 featuring De Alma

2025-01-21T15:49:10-08:00By Peekaboo|Categories: Artists in Residence, Krista Denio|

Ātl Verde: "Ātl," the Nahuatl word for water, symbolizing the river flowing through my evolution—connecting past, present, and future. This piece reflects my journey as a migrant trans mujer, immersing the audience in a lush, sonic, and visual landscape, like a spiritual rain that nurtures growth. De Alma is a celebrated trans pioneer in the Bay Area, DE ALMA is a trailblazer of advocacy activism and excellence, leaving endless inspiration and an incredible mark on worlds filled with courage, resilience

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

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/

19 Feb, 2015

New project from past ARC resident, Krista DeNio: EchoTheaterSuitcase

2016-03-12T01:59:48-08:00By Erica Dixon|Categories: CounterPULSE, Krista Denio|

[EchoTheaterSuitcase performance. Photo courtesy of Krista DeNio/MovingGround] Looking back to this time last year, CounterPulse is reminded of the impactful performances put on by previous ARC participant, Krista DeNio. The result of her residency here was the CONTACT project, which brought together veterans and non-veteran civilians to discuss that which “appears” to divide these groups -- war. Now in its next stage of development, KD/MovingGround in collaboration with The Arts @ CIIS and Veterans Book Project brings us

21 Mar, 2014

Before and After War: Post-show panel discussion

2016-03-12T02:00:36-08:00By Shamsher|Categories: Artists in Residence, Charya Burt, CounterPULSE, Krista Denio|

On Friday, March 21st, our Winter 2014 Artists in Residence will be joined by four experts who will discuss the larger themes both works have in common. About the panelists: Susan Maxwell, Mental Health Expert - Susan Maxwell works as a Clinical Psychologist employed in the Posttraumatic Stress Disorders Clinic at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the PTSD clinic. She provides individual and group psychotherapy for veterans coping with post traumatic stress

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

ARC SEED 2024 featuring De Alma

Keepin’ it Real…down in the TL

emotional labor

in this age of dissociated reality

traces of STAND GROUND

my mechanical appendage

SPEAK: On Being Ally and Aesthetic Warrior

New project from past ARC resident, Krista DeNio: EchoTheaterSuitcase

Before and After War: Post-show panel discussion

This is a gun.

Writings from the CONTACT project ensemble

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