Tasty Tuesdays

12 Jul, 2011

Looking back to move forward (part of FACT/SF’s Tasty Tuesdays)

2016-03-18T22:06:48-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, FACT/SF|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

You might know by now that FACT/SF is interested in many things...systems and people and movements and implications and meta-theatrical concerns and deep emotive expressions.  As we do our best to innovate and push push push forward - both relative to our own work and also the larger field of dance working/making, we always find it helpful to reflect on the greats that innovated long ago, and who continue to inspire us today.  Here's one of Beethoven's masterpieces.  It's incredible,

14 Jun, 2011

Erik Satie (part of FACT/SF’s Tasty Tuesdays)

2016-03-18T22:07:59-07:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, FACT/SF|Tags: , , , , , , |

I think with Satie's work, especially with this piece, a simple and methodical space is opened that allows the listener to submerge themselves in thought, reflection, and image-building.  The work has an emotional quality...but I think it's generated by the listener, and doesn't necessary lie within the score itself.  There's something about this that reminds me of one of FACT/SF's goals with Pretonically Oriented...to try to methodically create, organize, and re-configure so that the viewer can watch what unfolds, while

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