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7 Feb, 2013

The Ginzburg Geography: Welcome

2013-02-07T15:36:36-08:00By Jewlia Eisenberg|Categories: CounterPULSE, Jewlia Eisenberg, Performing Diaspora|Tags: charming, food, ginzburg, hostess, italy, Jewish American, Jewlia Eisenberg, recipe, rome|

What sustains people in severely oppressive situations? How do you hope when hope seems beyond possibility? How do you unify and inspire when organizing is punishable by death? These are the central questions explored by The Ginzburg Geography, a music performance by Jewlia Eisenberg and Charming Hostess. The Ginzburg Geography is based on the life and work of Natalia and Leone Ginzburg, Italian Jews famous for anti-fascist resistance and intellectual brilliance. Natalia was raised in an atheist and socialist environment

3 Jan, 2012

The new food pyramid of dance: a creative plate

2012-01-03T11:54:34-08:00By Erin Malley|Categories: CounterPULSE, Winter Special 2012|Tags: 1Q84, Dance, Erin Malley, food, Haruki Murakami, Hotel in a Bottle, Inspiration, multimedia, san francisco, theater|

Picture it now: there is a plate on the table in front of you, full of creative, Hotel-in-a-Bottle-icious food to eat. A quarter of that plate has been inspired by text (thank you, Haruki Murakami!) A second quarter has been inspired by video imagery and design (thanks again, HM, and cheers to Mark and Dawn at Troika Ranch who made design possible for me!) Quarter #3 of that plate has been inspired by dancers' experiences, interests, and improvisations (props to

14 Apr, 2011

Audience Reactions to Our Daily Bread

2011-04-14T22:58:06-07:00By Shamsher|Categories: Amara Tabor Smith, Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Video|Tags: africa, african, african american women, amara, Amara Tabor-Smith, cook, cooking, Dance, deep, environmentalism, food, food culture, food security, food traditions, mardi gras, tabor smith, theater, theatre, waters, women's|

10 Oct, 2010

Creation

Creation

2010-10-10T23:01:31-07:00By Sri Susilowati|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: Dance, food, Performing Diasora, sri susilowati, this weekend|

Creating work means following feelings as far as one can as well as using accumulated technique to express those feelings. There is an interaction between the feeling and technique, and each feeds the other. Unless it is a set classical piece, learned technique may not match the feeling/meaning/expression that is desired. So, one has to experiment. For me, the starting point is in the classical training I received. Because the expressive range is so rich, I feel that it is

14 Sep, 2010

Selling It

2010-09-14T10:38:57-07:00By Sri Susilowati|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: CounterPULSE, Dance, emerging arts, exotic, food, tradition|

Sometimes I'm asked what village I grew up in. The answer is a little village of (what is now) 7.4 million people. The idea that I grew up in a ghetto area in one of world's largest cities seems to shock many people. How can the art that I learned and practice be from that environment and not from one of rice fields, palm trees, and poor but happy villagers? The deep origins of my technique are not from the

16 Aug, 2010

The Chair in My Dance

The Chair in My Dance

2010-08-16T19:07:15-07:00By Sri Susilowati|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: chair, Dance, eat, food, Performing Diaspora, Sri|

A Choreographical Investigation I am currently deep in the process of creating the piece to be performed in October. As I do this, I think about what my intentions are, what I want to convey, and what I use to embody (a good word for a choreographer) those intentions. Intentions exist on the level of creating and exploring themes, such as for this piece, the relationship between dancers and food. Intentions also exist on the level of wanting to create

6 Nov, 2009

Giggle and Jiggle: Shaking my Booty

2009-11-06T20:03:06-08:00By Sri Susilowati|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Sri Susilowati|Tags: cooking, Dance, eating, food, food culture, indonesia, java, Performing Diaspora, sri susilowati|

Sri Susilowati is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See her at weekend 2 of Performing Diaspora, November 12-15. Buy tickets now! As an Indonesian choreographer who has trained in my own country and the U.S.A, I am interested in looking at a social relation from a third world perspective, and in particular a third world women's perspectives. When first I moved to the States years ago, my artistic mission/intention was to introduce Indonesian dance to Americans and to

26 Aug, 2009

developing the script… the bare bones

2009-08-26T10:01:34-07:00By CONTRA-TIEMPO|Categories: Ana Maria Alvarez, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: "Tangled Routes", CONTRA-TIEMPO, food, journey, Performing Diaspora, Salsa|

So I haven't been good with updating the blog regularly - I am the same way about my own personal blog - but when I do it is thorough! We have been traveling all summer and I have been very in my head about this work - working on skill building and movement material but not setting anything - that will begin next week - what I have been working on this summer is more the structure and 'script' of

The Ginzburg Geography: Welcome

The new food pyramid of dance: a creative plate

Audience Reactions to Our Daily Bread

Creation

Selling It

The Chair in My Dance

Giggle and Jiggle: Shaking my Booty

developing the script… the bare bones

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