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How do you conjure queer ancestry through a dance performance? How can we form and unform psychic territories held through our lineages? Randy Reyes’s new work borrows Chinese Energetics and systems of improvisation to weave queer ancestral lineages throughout an elaborate number. Lxs Desaparecidxs—created in collaboration with performers Jose Abad, Emelia Brumbaugh, Gabriel Christian, Felix (Sol) Linck Frenz, and Stephanie Hewett—is a work that seeks to inquire more than answer. Randy embarks on the rigorous process of asking around displacement, assimilation,

A spark in the (Mid)Night - Entre suor e esplendor Our project, like so many sensuous,  creative acts, first took seed on a humid San Francisco summer’s night. In June 2016 Ivy Monteiro, Javier Stell-Fresquez, and Davia Spain found themselves dancing on the same upper balcony of Public Works Nightclub. JAVIER: why did u notice me and Davia that night? What stood out to you, and made u decide to propose collaboration to us? IVY: Well, I was totally struck

Julie Phelps Interviewing Judith Butler Original Interview conducted on July 18, 2013 On Friday, November 3, 2017, renowned gender theorist Judith Butler will be conversing with Monique Jenkinson, the artist behind the cis-female drag persona Fauxnique in an evening entitled “Ordinary Practices of the Radical Body” at CounterPulse. Let’s take a look back to 2013 at CounterPulse’s 16th Dance Discourse Project, a conversation between Judith and Julie Phelps. The two respond to contemporary Bay Area body-based performance as it resonates

So here we are, just before the last performance. It has been 5 exciting performances so far. With all of them going 'perfect'... And of course nothing is never the perfect but those imperfections and the performers response to them make each night unique and different. This is the nature of things. Now let's look at from another perspective. The Combustible program aims to bring the community of performative arts and technology arts together. Where the foci are on dance

This is how my co-artists and I started and completed our first coloring book. To begin, we asked the larger questions then focused on the technicalities and details. Large questions are, for example, what is your message or general theme for the book? What do you want to say or share with your audience? We wanted to engage the Tenderloin community specifically on Turk Street. We decided that site specific imagery would do the trick. Then we wanted to present it

My Path: My career trajectory seems foreign to my family. “You’ve been studying water for 2 years and now you’re at a dance organization?” Well, not quite. You see, I got my Masters in a social science research program entitled Environment & Community, where I interrogated the disparate cultural themes surrounding water management in search of policy solutions. Thesis Defense at Humboldt State University In school I advocated for equitable water rights for disadvantaged communities. At CounterPulse I