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31 Mar, 2009

Mantis Dance Collective April 10th at CounterPulse

2009-03-31T23:14:06-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Most of the concepts for this show have been cultivated over the last year of my life. After moving to San Francisco from my grandparents house in San Diego I became overwhelmingly aware that I had been living a life in which I was mostly looking and trying to create happiness but very rarely experiencing it. There was a unauthentic feeling about the way I related to others and the way that I conducted myself. I was comfortable and content

29 Apr, 2009

Video Previews of May Day Artists

2009-04-29T22:14:29-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Video Previews of May Day Artists for your viewing pleasure! More about CounterPULSE's 4th Annual May Day Festival here: Buy Tickets Now W. Kamau Bell (Fri.) Flyaway Productions (Fri.) Jess Curtis/ Gravity (Sat.) KUNST-STOFF (Sat.) Katya Smirnoff-Skyy (Sat.) Fauxnique (Sun.) Scott Wells (Sun.) Sara Shelton Mann (Sun.) More about CounterPULSE's 4th Annual May Day Festival here: Buy Tickets Now

9 May, 2009

u n d i r e c t e d – AHDANCO and group A

2009-05-09T21:28:41-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

AHDANCO and group A are getting ready for our shows at CounterPULSE on may 15th, 16th, and 17th. we hope to see you there. here's some information to fill you on what is in store for you at u n d i r e c t e d... chaos, revisited, presented by AHDANCO, is a forty plus minute work of solos and duets looking at how we as individuals interpret, react to, and internalize chaos that arises in

16 May, 2009

The Myalist – Opal Palmer Adisa

2009-05-16T19:00:54-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , |

While most know of Obeah in Jamaica, few know its counterpoint, Myal. An Entry in Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred years of the English Language in Jamaica by Frederic G. Cassidy ( MacMillian Caribbean, 1961), we get one notation: "Obeah, the Jamaican form of sorcery or `black magic', [sic] was once counterbalanced by myal, or `white magic' a healing cult.  Obeah employed its power against people; myal claimed to counter those powers."  P. 241 Another entry in the same above text,

20 May, 2009

Neang Sovann Atmani – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

2009-05-20T14:53:07-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Prumsodun Ok|Tags: , , |

A Cambodian classical dancer, when practicing her moving meditation developed over a thousand years ago as a ritual prayer, displays a serpentine grace that is hypnotic and sublime. Her form is supple, her gestures fluid, and she floats in curvilinear paths across the stage. This is no coincidence as the serpent – moving like the waters that bring fertility and sustenance to the land, bridge between heaven and earth, the being in which the first “Cambodian” sovereign took form (in one creation story anyways) – was worshiped prevalently throughout what is now Cambodia before the introduction of major religions. And today, after many generations of refinement, the serpent can still be seen in this highly stylized art form: its scales transformed into a costume’s detail and its function assumed by a human dancer.

20 May, 2009

Watch an excerpt of Deep Waters Dance Theater, CounterPULSE Artists in Residence March 09

2009-05-20T15:51:52-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

If you didn't make it to our recent Artists in Residence show in March, here's a little snippet for your viewing pleasure! Amara Tabor-Smith, Deep Waters Dance Theater with Aimee Suzara, Our Daily Bread... video by: Loren R. Robertson

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