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31 Mar, 2011

Impermanence Made Visible

2016-03-18T22:16:34-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: Artists in Residence, choreography, CounterPULSE, Dance, dancetheater, dandelion, Eric Kupers, friend, impermanence, Performance, residency, sharon mussen, theater|

My current favorite definition of the word "dance" is: "Impermanence made visible." That seems to cover the immensity and the minutia of this slippery form. I'm particularly in touch with impermanence as Dandelion moves into our premiere of Friend tonight. It strikes me as odd how performance is what I pour my most extreme efforts and longings and strivings into--and then it's gone so quickly after it arises. This is particularly true in the experimental dance world wherein we often

30 Mar, 2011

Entering the Temple of Tech Week

2016-03-18T22:16:47-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: ARC, artist in residence, CounterPULSE, Dance, dandelion, dandelion dancetheater, Eric Kupers, Performance, Performance art, sharon mussen, theater, Video|

I've come to love tech week--the week leading up to a performance run in which we have tech (technical) rehearsals, dress rehearsals and last minute scramblings to finish. I notice that during this time I am highly energized with a mix of anxiety, anticipation and joy. And I notice that the main thing that keeps me grounded is spending as much time as possible at the theater. I like to get to the place we're performing hours before each event,

29 Mar, 2011

Showings, Feedback and Protecting Clarity

2016-03-18T22:16:59-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dance, dandelion, dandelion dancetheater, Eric Kupers, Performance, sharon mussen, Video|

The showings that Dandelion has been doing as part of our residency at CounterPULSE have taught me a lot. Here's an incomplete list of insights, reminders, clarifying moments that I've gathered so far from the three monthly public showings of our Friend project: 1. Public showings are crucial to the development of the kind of experimental performance we create. They force us to get things together on a deadline, to try them out and then to retreat and re-tool. There

27 Mar, 2011

Art vs. Fundamentalism

2016-03-18T22:17:11-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: eric kupers counterpulse dance theater performance friend artists in residence residency dandelion dancetheater|

For Dance Anywhere Day this year we performed a minimalist movement structure in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland. Ensemble Member David Ryther led us in an improvised piece based on a street performer he had witnessed many times in Santa Cruz. We traveled slowly around the plaza, waving and looking back and forth with a highly exaggerated and slow motion smile. There happened to be someone shouting what sounded like Fundamentalist Christian doctrines on the plaza for a good

10 Mar, 2011

Artist Interview: Kegan Marling

2016-03-18T22:13:29-07:00By Shamsher|Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Kegan Marling, Video|Tags: artist, artist in residence, artist residency commissioning, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, in, jump ship mid way, kegan, kegan marling, marling, residence, residency|

PART 1 PART 2

10 Mar, 2011

Artist Interview: Eric Kupers of Dandelion Dancetheater

2011-03-10T17:45:34-08:00By Shamsher|Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: Artists in Residence, choreography, CounterPULSE, Dance, dancetheater, dandelion, Eric Kupers, friend, Performance, residency, sharon mussen, theater|

PART 1 PART 2

3 Mar, 2011

Surprise Gifts

2016-03-18T22:17:32-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: Artists in Residence, choreography, CounterPULSE, Dance, dancetheater, dandelion, Eric Kupers, friend, Performance, residency, sharon mussen, theater|

There always seems to be surprise gifts that come from creating a performance work--things that enhance my life and/or art making that I didn't expect to receive from the project. With the Friend project, a major gift has been a reminder about the joy of making stuff. By stuff I mean visual art (sculpture, collage, installation, etc.) This gift has come at me from two sources. My friend Sharon was a visual artist at heart, always making sculptures of various

1 Mar, 2011

Our Daily Bread Video Preview

2011-03-01T17:58:15-08:00By Shamsher|Categories: Amara Tabor Smith, Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Video|Tags: amara, artist, artist in residence, bread, commissioning, CounterPULSE, daily, our, program, residency, tabor smith|

13 Feb, 2011

2nd Work in Progress Showing

2016-03-18T22:18:25-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: Artists in Residence, choreography, CounterPULSE, Dance, dancetheater, dandelion, Eric Kupers, friend, Performance, residency, sharon mussen, showing, theater|

I was reminded yesterday of how helpful work in progress showings are. I often forget that this is an experimental form we're working in, and that experimental forms need actual experiments. While performances are experiments, they are high-pressure ones, and I learn as much, if not more from showings along the way. Here's some excerpts from ours yesterday:

8 Feb, 2011

The proof is in the pot, in the forest….

2016-03-18T22:35:50-07:00By AmaraTaborSmith|Categories: Amara Tabor Smith, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Video|Tags: AIR, Amara Tabor-Smith, ARC, artist residency commissioning, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, deep waters dance theater, food activism, Keith Hennessey, our daily bread, tabor smith, tenderloin national forest, The Luggage Store Gallery, too much!|

18 Jan, 2011

Injury as Teacher

2016-03-18T22:19:18-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: artist in residence, choreography, CounterPULSE, Dance, dandelion, dandelion dancetheater, Eric Kupers, friend, music, Performance, theater|

I'm often able to tell other people when they are injured how much every injury can be a teacher. When it's not me having to hold back from moving with physical abandon, I see the benefit of learning about our limitations and our vulnerability through our injuries. When I have an injury, my vision is a lot murkier and I have to wade through a lot of resistance before I come to some kind of acceptance of what happened and

9 Jan, 2011

Synchronicities

2016-03-18T22:19:45-07:00By Eric Kupers|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dandelion Dancetheater, Video|Tags: ARC, artist residency commissioning, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Dance, dandelion, dandelion dancetheater, Eric Kupers, friend, Performance, sharon mussen, theater|

One of my favorite things about the creative process is synchronicity. I follow intuition above all else in my art making and find myself continually rewarded by the ways that relationships I never could have dreamed up appear all of a sudden. Until recently I was planning on making a piece called Don't Suck! Cycle II as part of a four month residency at CounterPULSE in San Francisco. The recent deaths of my close friend Sharon and my grandmother moved

Impermanence Made Visible

Entering the Temple of Tech Week

Showings, Feedback and Protecting Clarity

Art vs. Fundamentalism

Artist Interview: Kegan Marling

Artist Interview: Eric Kupers of Dandelion Dancetheater

Surprise Gifts

Our Daily Bread Video Preview

2nd Work in Progress Showing

The proof is in the pot, in the forest….

Injury as Teacher

Synchronicities

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