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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

23 Oct, 2009

Dance Discourse 7: Everyone’s Included, Discussions of Educating the Audience in all Types of Dance

2009-10-23T16:05:20-07:00By Volunteer Perspectives|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: audience education, CounterPULSE, Dance Discourse Project, Dancers' Group, maureen walsh, Performing Diaspora, world arts west|

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/ All the exciting event participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of pertinent issues concerning traditional arts,

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!

16 Sep, 2009

CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group present 2nd Sundays

2009-09-16T14:00:26-07:00By jez|Categories: Events|Tags: 2nd Sundays, CounterPULSE, Dancers' Group|

Sun. Sept. 13, 2pm, Free September's salon of emerging & established choreographers features an investigation of process from Here Now Dance Collective/Michelle Fletcher, Intrepid-Shelley Davis and Dancers probing extremely personal questions of religion and prayer, and Minna Harri's exploration of what emerges out of a moment of impromptu creation. Photo by Quinn Wharton—Here Now Dance Collective

15 Sep, 2009

Untangling Webs

2009-09-15T02:30:35-07:00By Adia|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: adia whitaker, CounterPULSE, perform|

ind (circle) - the ghana blogs 2008 - (i feel you Colette!) Where clear crabs slide sideways across broken seashells and glass, there is a magnificent tossing and turning. At night they sing saltwater mountains of rage and revolt, a stampede of white stallions trample screaming angels and choke a caterwauling into the sea. Like fire shooting out of high voltage outlets into frazzled plugs, every grain of sand, salt and sea was charged and exploding. My feet sank as I sang

7 Sep, 2009

Thoughts by Gómez-Peña on Corpo/Ilicito

2009-09-07T15:56:50-07:00By La Pocha Nostra|Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: CounterPULSE, duet, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, La Pocha Nostra, Performance art, premiere, Violeta Luna|

Corpo/Ilicito premieres Sept 11th and 12th, 8:00 pm @ CounterPULSE 1310 Mission St @ 9th, San Francisco Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/73700 Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Violeta Luna's latest duet Corpo/Ilicito premieres in San Francisco next weekend and we wanted to share with you some thoughts behind the project -- as articulated by Guillermo himself: "We are now facing serious challenges as artists: The performance work we have created in the past 8 years -- which has been mostly in opposition to the Bush

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

21 Aug, 2009

Do You Have Those in Black?

2009-08-21T19:31:38-07:00By Andrew|Categories: CounterPULSE, Images|Tags: construction, CounterPULSE, Risers|

Ok so we aren't quite finished but we are nearly there. We had to use the white because in the entire Bay Area it is apparently the only color in which they make Fire Retardant paint. Patrick Simms and I slapped the first coat of black on before we left yesterday and I think they are going to look great. We are looking for a big push over the weekend to bring this puppy home, so come lend a hand

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

15 Aug, 2009

Live from Riser Rebuild

2009-08-15T16:37:06-07:00By jez|Categories: CounterPULSE, Video, Volunteers|Tags: CounterPULSE, Risers, Volunteers|

Hi friends, This is Jez here, Board Prez of CounterPULSE. Last week Lily wrote a blog post about our exciting new riser rebuild. If you're interested in helping out, contact Julie at 415.626.2060 or via email (julie [@] counterpulse.org) to find out more! I just got back into town and decided to stop by and join the volunteers to help with the rebuild. Here's some quick photos I took to share with you. But first, an introduction by CounterPULSE Board

26 Jun, 2009

Rebecca Whittington: Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical) Dance Performance

2009-06-26T18:00:59-07:00By Ryan Crowder|Categories: Events|Tags: Bharata Natyam, CounterPULSE, Dance, Indian diaspora, Performance, Rebecca Whittington|

Fri. & Sat. June 26-27, 8pm Sun. June 28, 6pm, $15 Rebecca Whittington, trained by Arul Francis, performs classical Bharata Natyam. Program: alarippu, jatiswaram, varnam, padam. Compositions of the Tanjore Quartet, as choreographed by Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai. More information: arulfrancis.com Buy Tix Now!

6 Jun, 2009

Sonya Smith & dance ceres with special guest, Sadie Weinberg present in/divisible

2009-06-06T09:13:46-07:00By Ryan Crowder|Categories: Events|Tags: Brittany Brown Ceres, CounterPULSE, dance ceres, sadie weinberg, Sonya Smith|

Thurs.-Sat., June 4-6, 8pm, $15 (Members $10) Emerging choreographers Brittany Brown Ceres and Sonya Smith present world-premiere dances in a flight of sensual entwinement through societal lore, fortifying a journey from despair to empowerment. Navigating metaphors of intra- and interpersonal entanglement, hidden limitations, and visceral emotion, Smith & Ceres shape an evening of fluid, curious and frenzied dance. Buy Tickets Now!

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

Dance Discourse 7: Everyone’s Included, Discussions of Educating the Audience in all Types of Dance

Performing Diaspora on the Airwaves!

CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group present 2nd Sundays

Untangling Webs

Thoughts by Gómez-Peña on Corpo/Ilicito

Cry into the song

Do You Have Those in Black?

The Memo

Live from Riser Rebuild

Rebecca Whittington: Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical) Dance Performance

Sonya Smith & dance ceres with special guest, Sadie Weinberg present in/divisible

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