So this past Sunday it was raining in the Bay Area. Cold and wet. But that afternoon at CounterPULSE in San Francisco, an intimate crew of folks braved the rain, brought food, shared stories and ate together. The topic was, “what are the factors that support or prevent us from cooking meals on a regular […]
For the next year my blogs will be focusing on the development of my piece, “Our Daily Bread” which will premier next April at CounterPULSE…and the journey that this piece is taking me on is already soooo deep… Most recently, I cooked for folks who were taking Rashad Pridgen’s (AKA Soul Nubian) AfroHouseHop class at […]
If you didn’t make it to our recent Artists in Residence show in March, here’s a little snippet for your viewing pleasure!
Amara Tabor-Smith, Deep Waters Dance Theater with Aimee Suzara, Our Daily Bread…
video by: Loren R. Robertson
Chop wood, carry water, tape chairs and oh yes perform… 3/3 Night before the dress rehearsal. It’s 11 pm and I’m still on on the sidewalk spray-painting my beautiful Mission-style dining room chairs a metallic silver, after spending way too many hours with Katarina covering their endless slats with gaffer’s tape. Back aching, head thick […]
It is only a few days left to the opening of ANIMoid, the piece that Cathie Caraker and I have been working with for some time now. We think of it as a post-modern dance laboratory. The research we are performing in that laboratory started with the question: What might happen if two aliens came […]
So, next week my company and i will perform our new work “…our daily bread” that is this exploration of food and cultural identity. Forgive me if what I am about to throw down reads a bit like a high school essay that would begin with “what I learned……”. But what has been the deepest […]
Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved science fiction. My mom used to write novels and stories herself. She introduced me to the great sci fi writers and I’ve been hooked ever since – not so much to the hard science, but to the question, “what if…?” I’ve especially loved the women writers like […]
My company Deep Waters Dance Theater is in the process of making this piece we are calling, “…our daily bread”. We are exploring the ways that food shapes our cultural identities, how we all have food stories and folklore that ties who we are to the food we eat. We are also looking at how […]
by Katarina Eriksson (Winter Artist in Residence in collaboration with Cathie Caraker) One of the breeding grounds for this project is the subtext of two aliens who have come to earth and inhabited human bodies. I do think of it as a dance piece (as opposed to a dance theater piece), where the human body […]