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16 Jun, 2015

CP interviews Zürich arts curator, networker, and contexualizer, Marc Streit, for the (X)change micro-festival

2016-03-02T01:54:44-08:00By James Fleming|Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE|Tags: (x)change, art, art practice, curation, Queer, Zürich|

CP: Marc, in one sentence,what is your story? MS: I have a passion for contemporary dance and performance, based in Zurich, loving San Francisco and having a queer mindset! CP: What was the genesis of Zürich Moves? Where did the inspiration to create the festival come from? MS: I wanted to create a platform for boundary-crossing artistic engagement and create a network of artists, who collaborate and nurish their work even outside the given frame of zürich moves! festival. CP:

12 Feb, 2014

CODAME ART + TECH PLAYGROUND at CounterPULSE

2014-02-12T11:09:57-08:00By Shamsher|Categories: CounterPULSE, Free Events (donations welcomed)|Tags: 80 Turk, art, call for proposals, CODAME, CounterPULSE, new media, tech, technology, underground|

As part of the CounterPULSE Underground programming we're running at our new building until renovation begins, we're excited to announce that we've partnered with CODAME, who will be producing a month of new media ART + TECH events this coming May. The schedule of events is being finalized, but you can already put your name on the list: book your ticket with a donation CODAME will be turning our new building at 80 Turk Street into a vibrant playground for tech-artists to

16 Oct, 2012

Art Workouts Old-New Time Interview

2012-10-16T15:51:13-07:00By ArtWorkouts|Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: abby, art, crain, galanter, intensive, margit, workout|

Hello all, we are Art Workouts / Abby Crain + Margit Galanter. Here is our most recent interview below, that came out of our Summer Intensive workshop, edited a few weeks ago. If you would like to learn more about our workshop coming up at CounterPULSE starting NOVEMBER 9, just click HERE. As more themes emerge for our upcoming workshop, we just might post them here, and maybe months later! :) Our Blog: Art Workouts Site The Interview: ABBY MARGIT NEW-OLD

25 Jan, 2012

Winter Special Snapshot: To the Singers of Tales

2012-01-25T14:32:56-08:00By Engagement Fellow|Categories: CounterPULSE, Winter Special 2012|Tags: art, Dance, folk, Kitka Svetlana Spajic To The Singer of Tales, Oral Tradition, San Francisco Performance, Serbia Folk Music|

26 Feb, 2010

Wrapping up Luxury Items!

2010-02-26T19:22:23-08:00By Engagement Fellow|Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: art, arts, avant-garde, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, drag, Fauxnique, luxury items, monique jenkinson, Performance, san francisco, sf|

Luxury Items was a super splendorific success. Besides being a fabulous production, this was also our longest running show to date, and garnered a ton of fantastic press! Go CounterPULSE, and hats off to Monique Jenkinson and everyone involved! Much love to all who came and hope you loved it as much as all of us on staff did! A few words from our awesome audiences: "Amazing. Fauxnique is awesome and the show "showed" her brilliantly. Great production. Every moment.

10 Nov, 2009

Podcasting Diaspora!

2009-11-10T20:24:29-08:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: activism, art, arts, avant-garde, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, debate, discussion, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, grassroots, mission, panel, panelist, Performance, performing, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, sf, soma, symposium, Talks, theater|

Last Saturday, artists and community members used the CounterPULSE stage not for dancing, but for discussion: participants in the Performing Diaspora Symposium took the day to explore the rich, challenging themes that the Festival explores. In three separate sessions, panelists and audience members articulate some of the ideas that each Performing Diaspora artists stirs up onstage. Give a listen here! Appropriation: Dilemma in Dance Panelists: Deborah Vaughan, Anne Bluethenthal, & Denise Pate Facilitated by Laura Elaine Ellis The subject of

6 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

2009-11-06T20:40:17-08:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: activism, art, arts, avant-garde, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, grassroots, mission, Performance, performing, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, sf, soma, theater|

Let the Festival begin! Last night, CounterPULSE opened its doors to Performing Diaspora artists and audience members -- check out some of the audience's reactions here!

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

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!

29 Aug, 2009

Cry into the song

2009-08-29T19:36:19-07:00By Adia|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: activism, african american women, Afro-Haitian, ampey, art, arts, avant-garde, children's games, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, diaspora, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, folkloric, gender issues, ghana, grassroots, mission, non profit, Performance, performing arts, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, sf, soma, theater|

The Ewe say " ... you must cry into the song." A man in the taxi said "... you are beautiful when you cry." ... But these things are not easy. To cry into the song when you are still so sad ... To let your beauty shine thru when you feel as though there is nothing to hold you up. Today "Ampey!" took it's first breath. It's a girl and a boy. A mommy and a daddy ... very

19 Aug, 2009

The Memo

2009-08-19T10:19:12-07:00By Adia|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: activism, african american women, Afro-Haitian, ampey, art, arts, avant-garde, children's games, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, diaspora, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, folkloric, gender issues, ghana, grassroots, mission, non profit, Performance, performing arts, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, sf, soma, theater|

I didn't get the memo. You know the one that breaks down the ways in which descendants of enslaved Africans have a different (but just as post traumatic stress disordered psychosis) than the descendants of colonized Africans. To be fair, I looked completely different when I've traveled abroad before (I had long hair), AND there is no pronoun for "he"or "she" in Ghanaian language. Word. My bad. Yet and still, I was expecting some kind of Haiti-ish/Southern American Negro/Caribbean stratification

CP interviews Zürich arts curator, networker, and contexualizer, Marc Streit, for the (X)change micro-festival

CODAME ART + TECH PLAYGROUND at CounterPULSE

Art Workouts Old-New Time Interview

Winter Special Snapshot: To the Singers of Tales

Wrapping up Luxury Items!

Podcasting Diaspora!

CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

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

Performing Diaspora on the Airwaves!

Cry into the song

The Memo

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