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11 Aug, 2016

TOOL BOX: resources for artists engaged in community building.

2016-08-11T20:29:13-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

As an independent artist, I do a lot of research to support my own work. Here are some resources I have found, that support the independent, self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role within the San Francisco Bay Area communities. None of these require a fiscal agent or 501c3 status. Go out and make some art. -Rick Darnell, CounterPulse Community Engagement Fellow Have anything to share or comments? engagefellow@counterpulse.org   Calling Artists for

23 Aug, 2016

JuMP 2016 Choreographer Katerina Wong, on her work with FACT/SF

2016-08-23T21:24:01-07:00By |Categories: FACT/SF, Uncategorized|

  (Photo by Devlin Shand) Staring straight into the face of our show week for JuMP 2016, I’m happy to take a moment to organize my thoughts, ground myself, and reflect on the unique experience of being the 2016 JuMP Choreographer. FACT/SF’s JuMP Program has opened up so many doors for me. It has allowed me to better hone my artistic voice and my choreographic skills, and welcomed me into a new community of dancers and creators who similarly held

24 Aug, 2016

First Person Experience – GirlFly

2016-08-24T22:21:40-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

First Person Experience - GIRLFLY 7/22/16 Even though I have a years’ long history of seeing shows, and performing in a variety of public venues, I can be a bit a bit of a wall flower, at times (Confession: I have been sidelined due to an injury, and GirlFly is the first live show I have seen in five years- truth) Thankfully vacuuming the carpet before opening the house always grounds me, and gets me off the wall. Vacuuming in

29 Aug, 2016

From the Personal to the Universal: a Journey

2016-08-29T20:23:56-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Shawty what? How they do it where you from? How they do it where you from? That's how they do it where we from That how they do it where they from Shawty what? How they do it where you from? How they do it where you from? That's how they do it where we from That how they do it where they from -Missy Elliot Where you’re from matters. It shapes you and sets you on a life path.

7 Sep, 2016

A Letter to Myself From Home

2016-09-07T20:27:34-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

I regularly see Zoë at CounterPulse. I was going to gush about Zoë's wide range of skill sets, how insanely capable she is, but that's true of everyone at CounterPulse. But having never seen Zoë perform before, never having seen what kind of work she makes, I was pretty curious. Like Stephanie, Zoë is a consummate storyteller. Drawing from circus arts and other movement sources, Zoë along with four acrobatically inclined performers, encapsulated Zoë’s life in about 30 minutes. I

7 Sep, 2016

Re-Assembly Instructions Not Included

2016-09-07T20:27:52-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Stephanie Bastos is my new hero. Like me, she has a physical disability, and I found myself drawn into her piece. Moreover, I felt as though Stephanie was talking to me. Her story is compelling, and she is as engaging onstage as she is in everyday life. If pressed for an answer, most people would find it hard to define the culture of disability. Defining the disabled community, I think, would be much easier. The physically disabled community was a

7 Sep, 2016

Toolbox: Resources for Artists Engaged in Community Building

2016-09-07T20:30:22-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

  As a practicing artist, I do a lot of research to support my projects. Here are some resources I have found, that support the independent, self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role within the San Francisco Bay Area communities. None of these require a fiscal agent or 501c3 status. Go out and make some art. Rick Darnell, CounterPulse Community Engagement Fellow Have anything to share or comments? engagefellow@counterpulse.org In this TOOLBOX post:

27 Oct, 2016

San Francisco, CounterPulse, and Proposition S

2016-11-16T23:49:25-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Me and my family at CounterPulse's Magenta Party earlier this year A note from Executive Director Tomás Riley on Prop S   Dear CounterPulse Family,   We are in the thick of the struggle for simultaneously preserving San Francisco as the creative capital and safe haven for families it represents for thousands of artists and long-time residents that have made this city home for decades. Those of you close to me know that my family and I had

28 Oct, 2016

Eulogy for Lola Cion

2016-11-16T23:09:44-08:00By |Categories: Performing Diaspora, Uncategorized|

I will never forget the moment I met you. Really met you. It was just 2 ½ years ago. I was 22 years old and although I had visited you when I was three and again when I was sixteen… I really never met you until I was 22. I had just returned from Mindanao… we weren’t sure if I’d make it – time was tight and the weather was uncertain. But it was important to me and Aunty Sis

31 Jan, 2017

CounterPulse Spring 2017 Season Announcement

2017-08-01T02:02:35-07:00By |Categories: edge residency, Jesse Hewit, meg stuart, season announcement, spring 2017, Uncategorized|

CounterPulse Spring 2017 brings forth a milieu of performance makers for a season of works that will be respite from and resistance to the powers that be. We make space this spring season for risk, pleasure, solidarity, conflict, and futurity. CounterPulse is your home for radical ridiculousness, dissident discomposure, and all adjacent anarchic alliterations ; ) We take stock to look forward with our collaborative presentation of Lost and Found: Bay Area Edition, with SFMOMA’s Open Space and Danspace, investigating

14 Feb, 2017

weather // body :: 01

2017-02-14T22:27:34-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

Adam and I are thinking about change over time - how one experiences change as one ages, how one’s relationship to time changes. We’re thinking about how the environment around us changes - how the tectonic plates shift and the earth quakes, how the tides rise and fall, how some nights the stars appear in different parts of the sky. We’ve been thinking and writing about memory and perception. Rebecca, our dramaturg, introduced us to the work of French philosopher

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