Julia Serano & Carol Queen Post-Show Panel
100807 Jesse Hewit / Laura Arrington Strong Behavior Post Show Panel from In Studio on Vimeo.
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Aug, 2010
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Aug, 2010
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Apr, 2010
2nd Sundays April videos now online
2nd Sundays is a monthly dance salon put on by CounterPULSE and Dancers' Group. This month three companies performed works in progress for the purpose of seeking feedback. Please feel free to offer that feedback on their youtube videos directly if you feel so inspired! JypsyJays Productions Jenny McAllister/HMD Gretchen Garnett and Dancers
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Apr, 2010
Kendra Kimbrough Barnes in the SF Chronicle!
Great interview with Alexandria Rocha and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/01/NSNT1CLFOG.DTL Don't miss the performance this weekend!
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Mar, 2010
So We Think We Can Dance (or thoughts from Dance Discourse Project #8)
On March 11, 2010 Bay Area arts community members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 8: Dance in Pop Culture. Co-presented by Dancers' Group. The event attempted to sort through the effects of YouTube and So You Think You Can Dance on dance today. To learn more visit www.counterpulse.org/dance_discourse_project/ At the event participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of pertinent issues concerning how mass media strategies are changing how dance is made
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Mar, 2010
Why focusing on Water?
By José Navarrete In 2007 I went to India, and on that journey I experienced everything from horror to beauty: magnificent palaces and temples contrasting with the utmost human misery. Throughout it all, water was at the core of this gigantic human drama. On the one hand, there is a scarcity of the resource due to industrial overconsumption, and on the other, there is flooding due to the building of dams which, far from satisfying the thirst of millions of
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Feb, 2010
Wrapping up Luxury Items!
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.
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Dec, 2009
WATCH: CP on Culture Wire
We are super excited to have had the opportunity to meet the truly kind and professional folks from the San Francisco Arts Commission's Culture Wire. Watch the video below to hear from Jessica Robinson Love and 3 Performing Diaspora artists Gema Sandoval, Charlotte Moraga and Adia Tamar Whitaker talk about what Performing Diaspora meant to them.
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Dec, 2009
Dance Discourse 7: but i really love it…
scribed by Roko Kawai 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
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Nov, 2009
Podcasting Diaspora!
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
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Nov, 2009
CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!
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!
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Oct, 2009
Dance Discourse 7: “Authenticity vs. 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