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15 Oct, 2009

Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora

2009-10-15T20:00:05-07:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Free Events (donations welcomed)|Tags: Dance Discourse Project|

Presented by CounterPULSE, World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group Thurs. Oct. 15, 7:30pm, Free Join us for a lively discussion tackling some of the questions and ideas posed by Performing Diaspora. Questions include: What is tradition? What is innovation? What is preservation? How does one’s identity give access to or create limitations to use of traditional forms? What is authenticity, and how important is it? Who has the right to determine what is authentic? How

Dance Discourse Project: Writing About Dance

2009-02-20T20:36:23-08:00By Jessica|Categories: Archive, CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed), Homepage Links, Post Show Discussion|Tags: community, Dance Discourse Project, discussion, jessica robinson, talk back, writing about dance|

For me, last night’s Dance Discourse Project: Writing About Dance was a powerful and very mixed experience. Mostly I’m feeling grateful. I’m grateful that four dance writers—Rachel Howard, Rita Felciano, Ann Murphy, and Keith Hennessy— for giving us a window into their world. Rachel talked candidly about the nuts and bolts of her role at the Chronicle, Rita and Ann shared beautifully-written and (I thought) quite moving treatises on their roles as critics, and Keith problematized the act of dance

Dance Discourse Project #3: Dancers Debate the Body Politic

2008-05-08T00:22:27-07:00By Jessica|Categories: CounterPULSE, Free Events (donations welcomed)|Tags: Add new tag, Dance Discourse Project|

Hello folks, In a few hours, we'll host our third Dance Discourse Project at Project Artaud Theater in partnership with ODC Theater. To get the conversation started, I'm posting comments from Rob Bailis, director of ODC Theater, who will not be with us this evening. Please feel free to use this post as a jumping-off-point for a broader discussion about dance and politics. I hope to get my comments up here as well, but for now, I'm off to the

Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora

Dance Discourse Project: Writing About Dance

Dance Discourse Project #3: Dancers Debate the Body Politic

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