LIVE PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
A solo performance by Kat Gorospe Cole centered around mental health and ancestral connection. Exploring within what seedkeeper Rowen White calls the “diaspora of disconnect,” Cole looks for the threads that connect her to a maternal history back to the Ilocos region of the Philippines. What has been inherited? What has been lost? What can be refound? QUAKE weaves together sound, imagery and vibrations to physicalize ideas of grief, longing and closeness.
The project also includes free community workshops for the public to experience alternative healing practices via the arts.
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This live performance runs approximately 40 minutes.
CounterPulse is fully ADA accessible. ASL interpretation and live audio description will be provided for the performance on Friday, October 14th.
Funded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, California Arts Council, Center for Cultural Innovation, Phyllis C. Watttis Foundation, Dancers’ Group, with additional support from the Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency and ODC/Dance.
Audio Description by Rachael Dichter of Gravity Access Services supported by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation.
WORKSHOP SERIES
Join us on Saturday, October 15th for two free workshops centered around self-care through the arts.
Capacity at the workshops is limited and advance registration required. ASL provided!
2:30PM – BREATHWORK FOR CULTURAL GRIEF WITH KIM ACEBO ARTECHE
Facilitated by Kim Acebo Arteche, this breathwork offering encourages us to move more deeply into connection with our breath and embodiment.
4:30PM – ACTIVE SOUND WORKSHOP & SOUND BATH WITH PHOENIX SONG
Phoenix Song guides us in participatory sounding and singing practices, followed by a sound bath to activate each chakra.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
KAT GOROSPE COLE (Collaborating Director, Performer) invokes subtlety and spectacle through film, live performance and drag. Her works are informed by the intersections and chasms between Queerness, Asian American immigrant histories, and moving through this world with a physical deformity. She is co-founder of the performance company Detour alongside Eric Garcia. She is the recipient of a 2021 – 2022 California Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and her short film MAYBE was awarded “Best Bay Area Director” at the Coven Film Festival. katcole.works
ROBIN “BIRDD” DAVID (Costume Designer) is a Filipinx American multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Birdd’s work utilizes play, make-belief, humor, and sci-fi as vehicles to investigate human trauma/development directly related to American culture, consumerism, and colonialism. Composed of physical and digital assets, Birdd’s work often includes performance, installation, textiles, sculpture, new media, internet sourced content, and projection mapping.
Additional Costume by Cat Lauigan
Music by Josh Icban
“Escapade” Choreography by Kim Ip
Creative Consultation & Producer: Eric Garcia
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Header Image: Self portrait by Kat Gorospe Cole • Headshot of Jeffrey Yip by Robin Birdd
COUNTERPULSE IS COMMITTED TO MAKING OUR EVENTS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL!
CounterPulse is fully ADA accessible. ASL interpretation and live audio description will be provided for the performance on Friday, October 14th.