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6 Nov, 2009

Devendra Sharma for Performing Diaspora: Helpful Feedback from a Sympathetic Audience – An Artist’s Wish Come True!

2009-11-06T19:29:53-08:00By Devendra|Categories: CounterPULSE, Devendra Sharma, Performing Diaspora|Tags: Devendra Sharma, Indian folk theater and music, Nautanki, Performance for Social Change, Swami-Khera School of Nautanki Swang and Raasleela|

Devendra Sharma is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See him at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! After coming back from India in late August, I have been working hard with my group on the rehearsals of “Mission Suhani.” As soon as I landed in America, I had to prepare for the Work-in-Progress (WIP) showing at Counter Pulse, so even though I was totally jetlagged, I got my group together and started

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

6 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

2009-11-06T20:40:17-08:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: activism, art, arts, avant-garde, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, grassroots, mission, Performance, performing, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, sf, soma, theater|

Let the Festival begin! Last night, CounterPULSE opened its doors to Performing Diaspora artists and audience members -- check out some of the audience's reactions here!

7 Nov, 2009

Performing Diaspora Symposium

2009-11-07T00:58:49-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora|

Presented by CounterPULSE & the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Sat. Nov 7, 10am-5:30pm, Free Some of the Bay Area's most exciting minds in traditional performance tackle hot topics including criticism and aesthetics, representation and appropriation, and social justice during a day-long gathering. The event is presented by CounterPULSE and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in association with the African and African American Performing Arts Coalition, Dance Mission Theater, and the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley. Non-stop

10 Nov, 2009

Podcasting Diaspora!

2009-11-10T20:24:29-08:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: activism, art, arts, avant-garde, community, counter pulse, CounterPULSE, Dance, debate, discussion, education, emerging artists, emerging arts, grassroots, mission, panel, panelist, Performance, performing, Performing Diaspora, san francisco, sf, soma, symposium, Talks, theater|

Last Saturday, artists and community members used the CounterPULSE stage not for dancing, but for discussion: participants in the Performing Diaspora Symposium took the day to explore the rich, challenging themes that the Festival explores. In three separate sessions, panelists and audience members articulate some of the ideas that each Performing Diaspora artists stirs up onstage. Give a listen here! Appropriation: Dilemma in Dance Panelists: Deborah Vaughan, Anne Bluethenthal, & Denise Pate Facilitated by Laura Elaine Ellis The subject of

11 Nov, 2009

Dear Callie – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

2009-11-11T07:16:03-08:00By Prumsodun|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Prumsodun Ok|Tags: Cambodian Classical Dance, Prumsodun Ok|

Prumsodun Ok is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See him at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! Dear Callie, I am walking with a bag in my hand. It is small and brown, the head of a teddy bear just barely creeping out at the top. I’ve thought much of my new niece these days: praying to the kru to care for her (even before she was born), asking them to show her the

13 Nov, 2009

Contra-Tiempo, Colette Eloi, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Sri Susilowati premiere their work! A new line-up of artists re-define Diaspora

2009-11-13T20:28:18-08:00By Sarah Jessee|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

It wasn't easy to say goodbye to last weekend's Performing Diaspora artists, but yesterday, CounterPULSE eagerly opened its doors to all of the incredible performers who are taking the stage for the second weekend of the Performing Diaspora Festival -- some coming to us from all the way down in L.A. We caught up with a couple of audience members last night to get their take on opening night's performance.

23 Nov, 2009

Colette Eloi – Blog #3

2009-11-23T22:22:56-08:00By Colette|Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

Now that I am on the other side of Performing Diaspora where I presented the piece “The Politics of Poverty” – Sankofa Wisdom, I would just like to say whew. I really enjoyed all the different cultural groups and learning more about their artistry. Looking into the subject of Poverty was painful on my heart. The statistics that I found relating the people of the African Diaspora and poverty were shocking and depressing. The subject is quite mammoth and I

25 Nov, 2009

Rembetika Performaces

2009-11-25T01:49:44-08:00By Leonidas Kassapides|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

The actual performance of Rembetika was a very powerful experience because it felt dangerous in way that reminds me when we had to do experiments in chemistry class and didn't know the outcome. The performers were all very brave precise and fluid and seemed to understand the heavy soul of a Greek spirit that is resurected when three art forms meet in the black box theater on 9th and Mission. The Singing of Katerina connected my heart with my ancestors's

25 Nov, 2009

To be a Rembetis one has to find Stavros

2009-11-25T02:41:08-08:00By Leonidas Kassapides|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

The 1923 exchange of population was a forcefull way for the Greek refugees to preserve their memory of their experiences and art forms because deep inside they knew that they were never going to return back to their beloved Asia Minor. My grand parents Leonidas and Despina spoke mostly in Turkish at home and they always were nostalgic about their Greek community in their town of Koula in the middle of Turkey. Amongst the golden coin liras that they managed

28 Nov, 2009

Koreni, reflections and afterthoughts…is it really over?

2009-11-28T01:16:51-08:00By Danica|Categories: CounterPULSE, Danica Sena Gakovich, Performing Diaspora|Tags: Danica Sena Gakovich, flamenco, Performing Diaspora|

Sitting in front of my computer on this rather chilly autumn afternoon I cannot believe that we PD artists have seemingly come to the end of this portion of our "journey". Over the course of practically one year we have created, critiqued, blogged, organized, rehearsed, coordinated, risked, stumbled, fumbled, doubted, questioned and actively participated in the development of intimate artistic visions as well as have acted as key players in the birth of this unique and ambitious Counterpulse Festival. I

9 Dec, 2009

WATCH: CP on Culture Wire

2009-12-09T19:45:17-08:00By Ryan Crowder|Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Gema Sandoval, Homepage Links, Performing Diaspora, Video|Tags: adia tamar whitaker, charlotte moraga, CounterPULSE, Culture Wire, Gema Sandoval, Jessica Robinson Love, san Francisco arts Commission|

We are super excited to have had the opportunity to meet the truly kind and professional folks from the San Francisco Arts Commission's Culture Wire. Watch the video below to hear from Jessica Robinson Love and 3 Performing Diaspora artists Gema Sandoval, Charlotte Moraga and Adia Tamar Whitaker talk about what Performing Diaspora meant to them.

Giggle and Jiggle: Shaking my Booty

CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

Performing Diaspora Symposium

Podcasting Diaspora!

Dear Callie – Prumsodun Ok for Performing Diaspora

Contra-Tiempo, Colette Eloi, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Sri Susilowati premiere their work! A new line-up of artists re-define Diaspora

Colette Eloi – Blog #3

Rembetika Performaces

To be a Rembetis one has to find Stavros

Koreni, reflections and afterthoughts…is it really over?

WATCH: CP on Culture Wire

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