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8 Sep, 2010

Performing Nautanki in Paris, reconnecting to roots in India, and enhancing Mission Suhani

2010-09-08T23:40:16-07:00By Devendra|Categories: CounterPULSE, Devendra Sharma, Performing Diaspora|Tags: Devendra Sharma, Indian folk performance, Nautanki, Performance for Communication, Pundit Ram Dayal Sharma|

I spent the last three months in Europe and India, traveling and performing Nautanki to diverse audiences. I also worked with my father on Nautanki Mission Suhani to expand the script and add new scenes for our performance at CounterPULSE this October. I first traveled to Paris, where I stayed at the Théâtre du Soleil (http://www.theatre-du-soleil.fr), a theater founded by the famous French director Ariane Mnouchkine. I watched their latest production, Les Naufragés du Fol Espoirs, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

6 Sep, 2010

The Sound of Shattering Glass

2010-09-06T23:49:18-07:00By Adia|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

It started off as a ringtone that made me laugh. It became an ironic reflection of how I broke in Ghana. An upstairs neighbor of Counterpulse threw empty 40 ounce bottles from the window down onto the sidewalk of 9th and Mission the day we practiced at the bus stop. We were playing our shakers too loud. We had to run. There was glass everywhere. That part wasn't on youtube or in the pictures. Afterwards, we went inside to perform our Work-In-Progress showing to the sound of shattering glass. We ran again.

23 Aug, 2010

Prumsodun Ok and NATYARASA: The Origin of Theater, Censorship, and Social Change

2010-08-23T18:03:19-07:00By Prumsodun|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Prumsodun Ok|

The world is falling apart. Driven by illusive philosophies, men and women inflict harm upon one another. They destroy fields and forests that give them life; they kill and rape to own land and water. And in their cities they stuff their mouths with a gluttonous rage — only to grow evermore sick and evermore hungry of course. Seeing this sadness and unhealth, the Gods began to grow anxious. They asked amongst themselves, “How do we give people the opportunity

16 Aug, 2010

The Chair in My Dance

The Chair in My Dance

2010-08-16T19:07:15-07:00By Sri Susilowati|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: chair, Dance, eat, food, Performing Diaspora, Sri|

A Choreographical Investigation I am currently deep in the process of creating the piece to be performed in October. As I do this, I think about what my intentions are, what I want to convey, and what I use to embody (a good word for a choreographer) those intentions. Intentions exist on the level of creating and exploring themes, such as for this piece, the relationship between dancers and food. Intentions also exist on the level of wanting to create

2 Jan, 2010

From Beijing to San Francisco Report

2010-01-02T13:28:40-08:00By Fei|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Wang Fei|Tags: Wang Fei Guqin Chinese Music From Beijing to San Francisco|

http://www.chineseculture.net/guqin/newsletters/09nagaevents/bjtosfreportweb.htm The world premiere of “From Beijing to San Francisco” – a newly commissioned multi-disciplinary work for the guqin developed by Wang Fei, the Founder and Director of NAGA – was performed to great critical acclaim in the Performing Diaspora Festival at CounterPULSE in San Francisco on four consecutive nights from November 19 to 22, 2009. It was well received and played to a full house almost every day. Wang Fei combines her unique talents as a guqin player and

16 Dec, 2009

Thanksgiving and Performing Diaspora …by Charlotte Moraga

2009-12-16T02:49:31-08:00By Charlotte|Categories: Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: Artists in Residence, charlotte moraga, classical indian dance and music, contact improvisation, Dance, Kathak, Performing Diaspora, theatre, tradition|

November. Thanksgiving. Well, Performing Diaspora was a thanksgiving feast of a sort, for sure. Dishes of quiet contemplative explosions and moments of mirth filled the platter, like when Sri did her nonplussed "boob dance" and her sexy "butt dance." With her back to the audience, she cocked her head as if to say, "I see you, watching me, watching you." There was Devendra's utterly charming and engrossing nautanki play, Yannis' virtuosic and athletic dance -- one moment in particular took

9 Dec, 2009

WATCH: CP on Culture Wire

2009-12-09T19:45:17-08:00By Ryan Crowder|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Gema Sandoval, Homepage Links, Performing Diaspora, Video|Tags: adia tamar whitaker, charlotte moraga, CounterPULSE, Culture Wire, Gema Sandoval, Jessica Robinson Love, san Francisco arts Commission|

We are super excited to have had the opportunity to meet the truly kind and professional folks from the San Francisco Arts Commission's Culture Wire. Watch the video below to hear from Jessica Robinson Love and 3 Performing Diaspora artists Gema Sandoval, Charlotte Moraga and Adia Tamar Whitaker talk about what Performing Diaspora meant to them.

28 Nov, 2009

Koreni, reflections and afterthoughts…is it really over?

2009-11-28T01:16:51-08:00By Danica|Categories: CounterPULSE, Danica Sena Gakovich, Performing Diaspora|Tags: Danica Sena Gakovich, flamenco, Performing Diaspora|

Sitting in front of my computer on this rather chilly autumn afternoon I cannot believe that we PD artists have seemingly come to the end of this portion of our "journey". Over the course of practically one year we have created, critiqued, blogged, organized, rehearsed, coordinated, risked, stumbled, fumbled, doubted, questioned and actively participated in the development of intimate artistic visions as well as have acted as key players in the birth of this unique and ambitious Counterpulse Festival. I

25 Nov, 2009

To be a Rembetis one has to find Stavros

2009-11-25T02:41:08-08:00By Leonidas Kassapides|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

The 1923 exchange of population was a forcefull way for the Greek refugees to preserve their memory of their experiences and art forms because deep inside they knew that they were never going to return back to their beloved Asia Minor. My grand parents Leonidas and Despina spoke mostly in Turkish at home and they always were nostalgic about their Greek community in their town of Koula in the middle of Turkey. Amongst the golden coin liras that they managed

25 Nov, 2009

Rembetika Performaces

2009-11-25T01:49:44-08:00By Leonidas Kassapides|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

The actual performance of Rembetika was a very powerful experience because it felt dangerous in way that reminds me when we had to do experiments in chemistry class and didn't know the outcome. The performers were all very brave precise and fluid and seemed to understand the heavy soul of a Greek spirit that is resurected when three art forms meet in the black box theater on 9th and Mission. The Singing of Katerina connected my heart with my ancestors's

23 Nov, 2009

Colette Eloi – Blog #3

2009-11-23T22:22:56-08:00By Colette|Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

Now that I am on the other side of Performing Diaspora where I presented the piece “The Politics of Poverty” – Sankofa Wisdom, I would just like to say whew. I really enjoyed all the different cultural groups and learning more about their artistry. Looking into the subject of Poverty was painful on my heart. The statistics that I found relating the people of the African Diaspora and poverty were shocking and depressing. The subject is quite mammoth and I

13 Nov, 2009

Contra-Tiempo, Colette Eloi, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Sri Susilowati premiere their work! A new line-up of artists re-define Diaspora

2009-11-13T20:28:18-08:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

It wasn't easy to say goodbye to last weekend's Performing Diaspora artists, but yesterday, CounterPULSE eagerly opened its doors to all of the incredible performers who are taking the stage for the second weekend of the Performing Diaspora Festival -- some coming to us from all the way down in L.A. We caught up with a couple of audience members last night to get their take on opening night's performance.

Performing Nautanki in Paris, reconnecting to roots in India, and enhancing Mission Suhani

The Sound of Shattering Glass

Prumsodun Ok and NATYARASA: The Origin of Theater, Censorship, and Social Change

The Chair in My Dance

From Beijing to San Francisco Report

Thanksgiving and Performing Diaspora …by Charlotte Moraga

WATCH: CP on Culture Wire

Koreni, reflections and afterthoughts…is it really over?

To be a Rembetis one has to find Stavros

Rembetika Performaces

Colette Eloi – Blog #3

Contra-Tiempo, Colette Eloi, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Sri Susilowati premiere their work! A new line-up of artists re-define Diaspora

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