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  • August 5, 2013

    Performing Diaspora 2013 Trailer

    3:58 PM ByShamsher
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  • November 18, 2010

    Performing Diaspora: Adia Whitaker Ampey!

    12:00 AM ByErica Dixon
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    Nov 11-21, Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm Tickets: Purchased online before 9/30 – $14 (Members $9) Purchased online after 9/30 – $19 (Members $14) Purchased at Door – $24 (Members $19) “Ampey!” is a multidisciplinary theater, music and dance piece that explores the spiritual, emotional and physical disconnect between African-Americans and Continental Africans. Choreographed […]

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  • October 28, 2010

    Performing Diaspora: Devendra Sharma

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Nautanki, a traditional folk musical theater from rural north India, is marked by lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing.

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  • October 23, 2010

    Bike Tour: Transit

    12:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Sat., October 23, 2010 noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands. It’s a social, historical […]

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  • October 22, 2010

    Portal: the circlemakers

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Fri-Sun., October 22- 24, 2010 8pm, $20 (Members $15) Travelers from another dimension arrive with their mysterious message encoded in circles, mandalas, sacred geometry.  Their tools are familiar (hoops, balls, staves) yet arcane.  What is the key to their ritual?  What does it unlock?  Perhaps it is the universe inside you. 415.845.4046 Photo Credits: “Khan […]

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  • October 14, 2010

    Performing Diaspora: Sri Susilowati with Prumsodun Ok

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    What happens when the Indonesian fertility goddess visits a cafeteria in the deep south? The goddess makes sure rice crops grow and is appeased through dance. Dewi Sri at the Picadilly is a one-woman dialogue with dance and spoken word to address the meaning of food and body image for dancers.

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  • September 14, 2010

    Selling It

    10:38 AM BySri Susilowati
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    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 […]

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  • December 16, 2009

    Thanksgiving and Performing Diaspora …by Charlotte Moraga

    2:49 AM ByCharlotte
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    November.  Thanksgiving.  Well, Performing Diaspora was a thanksgiving feast of a sort, for sure.  Dishes of quiet contemplative explosions and moments of mirth filled the platter,  like when Sri did her nonplussed “boob dance” and her sexy “butt dance.”  With her back to the audience, she cocked her head as if to say, “I see […]

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  • December 7, 2009

    Dance Discourse 7: but i really love it…

    9:20 PM ByVolunteer Perspectives
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    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 […]

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  • October 26, 2009

    Dance Discourse 7: “Authenticity vs. Tradition”

    4:58 AM ByVolunteer Perspectives
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    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 […]

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