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CounterPULSE
Staff
Jessica Robinson, Executive Director
Jessica Robinson has served CounterPULSE for seven years, initially
as Managing Director, and now as Executive Director. She has ushered
CounterPULSE through a merger and relocation, tripling the organization’s
budget during her tenure as director. She designed and implemented CounterPULSE’s
successful Artist in Residence program, and has curated dozens of performances
and workshops. She has also served as guest curator for organizations
such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco International
Arts Festival. She is a writer, performer and political activist and
her dance writing has been published in In Dance and on CriticalDance.com.
She has worked in administration, production, and publicity for artists
and arts organizations including Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy / Circo
Zero, Dance Through Time, and the Erika Shuch Performance (ESP) Project.
More recently, she served as Assistant Director of “Orbit”
by the ESP Project at Intersection for the Arts. Jessica is an adjunct
faculty member at the New College of California where she has designed
and implemented courses including “Activist Arts Synthesis”,
“Arts Administration and Cultural Organizing” and “20th
Century US History through the Arts.” During her tenure on the
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee she has been responsible for curating
and co-producing the annual Bay Area Dance Awards. She serves on the
Arts Advisory Board of the Oakland Noodle Factory, the steering committee
for San Francisco Arts Forum, and the Executive Committee of the Board
of Directors of Alternate ROOTS, a service and granting organization
for community-based artists in the Southeastern United States. She has
been the recipient of awards and scholarships from Dance/USA and the
Bill T. Shannon Leadership Institute.
Loren Robertson, Program Manager
Loren R. Robertson is a performer, artist, videographer/editor and arts administrator with a B.A. in dance and film studies from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She currently serves CounterPULSE as Program Manager and is documenting the work of various talented performing artists throughout the Bay Area. Her video work has been presented at Root Division in S.F., the Moving Images Dance + Film Festival and the A.P.E. Movement Series in MA, and the Taos Mountain Film Festival. She has danced in works by artists Trisha Brown, Ming-Lung Yang, Augusto Soledade, May O'Donnell and Jim Coleman, and is currently dancing with the visionary paige starling sorvillo/blindsight and with the lovely Catherine Galasso. Loren is thrilled to be a part of the fabulous CounterPULSE staff and an organization that so importantly supports emerging/queer/hybrid art and performance.
Abby Neitlich Rappoport, Outreach & Development Coordinator
After spending a year circling the globe, Abby Neitlich Rappoport is
pleased to call San Francisco her home. She began her involvement with
CounterPULSE as a volunteer usher for various performances, proceeded
to intern with Jess Curtis/Gravity for the Winter 2007 season, and is
thrilled to currently be CounterPULSE's Outreach and Development Coordinator.
Abby's love for performance can be traced back to her roots as a backyard
choreographer in the fourth grade, and is currently the Co-Artistic
Director for the Subject to Change Dance Project. Her work has most
recently been shown at the ODC Theatre in San Francisco, as well as
in MAP (Media Assisted Performance) right here at CounterPULSE. In addition,
Abby is a certified Gyrotonic and Pilates trainer.
Jesse Hewit, Front of House Coordinator
Jesse is a Brooklyn-based artist, who tumbled into San Francisco in 2005. He holds a BFA in Contemporary Performance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francsico State University. Previous to working in San Francisco, Jesse choreographed and performed original work on sexual violence with SUDS in Sydney, Australia, with companies such as Gestalt and Succulence Productions in New York City and Brooklyn, and worked extensively with the Experimental Theater Wing in New York City. He recently spent a year in Orlando, Florida, founding Swingset Productions and mounting their first work, which brought queer issues to the mainstream theater scene in central Florida. Since coming to San Francisco, Jesse has worked as Assistant to the Editor of the National Sexuality Resource Center's online academic journal, Sexual Research and Social Policy, and also was a co-instructor at SFSU, teaching an undergraduate-level course on intersectionality, called Sex, Power, and Politics. His masters thesis, NOISE: a (micro)biopolitics of masculinity, which dealt theoretically and choreographically with masculinity and issues of space, power, and presence, recently enjoyed a sold-out performance here at CounterPULSE, and he recently danced with Christine Germain and Dancers in Not in the Picture, also here at CounterPULSE. He is currently cultivating a piece about negotiations of alliance and appropriation, for people on the outside of oppressed communities. Jesse is really very grateful to be working with CounterPULSE and learning the ropes of non-profiteering.
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