Performing Diaspora Archives - Page 7 of 10

23 Oct, 2009

Dance Discourse 7: How do we keep our dances from becoming museum pieces? Defining Tradition, Innovation, and Preservation in the Artistic Process

2009-10-23T17:47:02-07:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: activism, art, arts, authenticity, avant-garde, community, conversation, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, grassroots, innovation, mission, Performance, performing, Performing Diaspora, preservation, san francisco, sf, soma, theater, tradition|

On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about Performing Diaspora at www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ At the exciting event participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of pertinent issues concerning traditional

23 Oct, 2009

Dance Discourse 7: Traditional Dance is not a Christmas Tree

2009-10-23T17:28:58-07:00By Volunteer Perspectives|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: couterpulse, critics, Dance Discourse Project, Dancers' Group, innovation, Jeanne Pfeffer, Performing Diaspora, tradition, world arts west|

On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora . Learn more about Performing Diaspora at www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ At the exciting event participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of pertinent issues concerning

23 Oct, 2009

Dance Discourse 7: Everyone’s Included, Discussions of Educating the Audience in all Types of Dance

2009-10-23T16:05:20-07:00By Volunteer Perspectives|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: audience education, CounterPULSE, Dance Discourse Project, Dancers' Group, maureen walsh, Performing Diaspora, world arts west|

On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers’ Group, the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about Performing Diaspora at www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ All the exciting event participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of pertinent issues concerning traditional arts,

22 Oct, 2009

Notes from a Scribe – Dance Discourse Project: Dancing Diaspora

2009-10-22T19:14:15-07:00By Julie Phelps|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

Dance Discourse 7: Discussion of “How does one’s identity give access to or create limitations on the use of traditional forms? What are the burdens…what are the freedoms?” On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora.

22 Oct, 2009

Performing Diaspora on the Airwaves!

2009-10-22T17:30:44-07:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Danica Sena Gakovich, Homepage Links, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: activism, adia tamar whitaker, adia whitaker, african american women, Afro-Haitian, ampey, art, arts, avant-garde, charlotte moraga, children's games, chitresh das, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, Danica Sena Gakovich, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, flamenco, folkloric, gender issues, ghana, grassroots, India, Kathak, mission, oakland, Performance, performing, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, serbia, Serbian dance, sf, soma, spain, theater|

With Performing Diaspora fast-approaching, some of the artists took a break from the stage and headed over to KPFA's radio studios in Berkeley for a musical sneak-preview of their work on Stephen Kent's show, "Music of the World." In between tracks, our Executive Director Jessica Robinson Love joined them in the conversation about their performances November 5-8. If you missed the program live, give it a listen here!

18 Oct, 2009

Performing Diaspora Work in Progress Showings

2009-10-18T00:47:15-07:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora|

Sun. Oct. 18, 11am-2pm: Charlotte Moraga, & Devendra Sharma Sun. Oct. 24, 11am-2pm: Opal Palmer Adisa, Colette Eloi, and Adia Whitaker Sun. Oct. 24, 2-5pm: Yannis Adoniou, Catherine Clambaneva, and Leonidas Kassapides; Wang Fei; and Danica Sena Gakovich Three groups of artists present work to be shown in November at CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora Festival. This set of work-in-progress performances will allow audiences to engage in the creative process through feedback and to follow the development of the work before the

5 Oct, 2009

Kathak Made a Man Out of Me…..And a Bird!

2009-10-05T00:46:53-07:00By Charlotte|Categories: Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: classical indian dance, Kathak, Performing Diaspora, The Conference of the Birds|

Kathak made a man out of me....And a Bird! by Charlotte Moraga Gender-bending, gender-blending--This is ardhinariswara. It’s nothing new for a Kathak dancer. We have to explore the depths of extreme masculinity and extreme femininity as we portray different characters and characterization in stories. This kind of role playing requires an artist to get in touch with conflicting feelings and emotions within. What does it mean to be a man? a woman? As a woman, a mother, a grandmother, I

29 Sep, 2009

You have tried

2009-09-29T10:43:08-07:00By Adia|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: adia whitaker, ampey, Performing Diaspora|

now and then adia wrote: not heads, just faces april 13, 2009 In sidewalk cracks and florescent puddles, busted spindles stack grief and silence. Violent at the core a snake rises unraveling in a double helix born of war. A blank stare slips and falls into the wrong hands. Crimson bends black across corners in Brooklyn. The blood has been washed away. A new ancestor waits to pass. One on Dean street, the other on Bergen. I went home. The new skyscrapers in Frisco are the

28 Sep, 2009

Rembetiko

2009-09-28T02:13:07-07:00By Leonidas Kassapides|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|Tags: Greek, KUNST-STOFF, Leonidas Kassapides, Performing Diaspora, Rembetiko|

Rembetiko is not just a stylle of music, it is also a way of life an attitude that constanly questions authority in crative ways. The solo dance of the rembetes although based on traditional moves and technique is always breaking rulles and evolving as a living art. The Rembetika lyrics touch subject matter that is dangerous and threatening to normal law obeying citizens. The shadow theater of refugees of the lost lands of Asia Minor tell stories of living in

26 Sep, 2009

Work-in-progress showing

2009-09-26T13:32:41-07:00By Sri Susilowati|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: Performing Diaspora|

The process of creating parts of the piece and showing them has been stimulating. At the showing in San Francisco, there were comments on things that surprised me. At one point I finish drinking a glass of wine and someone remarked on the how my exhalation into the glass fogged it up and thought that was quite beautiful. Another thing I do in the piece is change costume on stage while I talk. Many seemed to like this, but one

22 Sep, 2009

Rembetiko from Asia Minor to Greece

2009-09-22T12:16:53-07:00By Yannis|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|Tags: Greece, Performing Diaspora, Rembetiko, yannis adoniou|

After Kemal Attaturk beat Eleftherios Venizelos Greek troups in Turkey there was an exchange of population of the two countries. All the Christians had to move to Greece all Muslims had to move in Turkey. The refugees that went back to Greece had to start all over because although they were prosperous they had to escape massacre with nothing except wat they would carry. Most of them carried liras (gold coins) a hand full of soil from their garden to

17 Sep, 2009

One of the most dreamy artistic experiences…

2009-09-17T12:47:48-07:00By Yannis|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|Tags: KUNST-STOFF, Performing Diaspora, yannis adoniou|

One of the most dreamy artistic experiences was when Yanni's choreography and Katerina's singing allowed with the help of athletic dancers a simple light source like a flashlight to tell a story while feeling the same breeze that one feels when the shadow of a dozen leaves try to keep still on our faces.

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