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17 Mar, 2012

Dance Anywhere Interview with Lisa Townsend Co.

2016-03-18T21:42:13-07:00By |Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Images, Lisa Townsend|

  DA: You mention that indifference is based on Albert Camus' The Stranger. How did you decide to use this novel as inspiration for your performance?  LTCo: As a reflection on the absurdity of free will, indifference questions the troubling impenitence experienced by Camus' protagonist, Meursault. What if free will, which we hold so dear as a marker of individual freedom, actually engenders a lack of empathy for those around us? Does our experience of the world then simply become a series of self-affirming reactions to

21 Sep, 2012

Audience Reactions to Seth Eisen and Xandra Ibarra

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29 Sep, 2012

Homo File is loved by audiences. Last chance to catch a glimpse of “the Zelig of 20th Century homosexuality”.

2016-04-07T01:15:43-07:00By |Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed), Homepage Links, Images, Seth Eisen|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Well the run has been amazing thus far with sell out houses and very enthusiastic audiences for both Homo File and FML. We got wonderful press coverage and  appeared in several blogs. Here are a few. A fabulous article by Kimberly Chun in the SF Chronicle 96 hours Really interesting article by Richard Dodds in the Bay Area Reporter Stance on Dance is a really interesting interview blog by Dancer/Writer Emmaly Wiederholt A lovely review by Rob Avila about Homo

30 Oct, 2012

And the Pot Thickens…

2016-03-18T22:34:20-07:00By |Categories: Amara Tabor Smith, Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Free Events (donations welcomed), Images|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

If I had the time it would be better to keep me on track if I would blog every day during this process... but these days are full and there is much to say about what has taken place over the last month so forgive me if this blog is more like a sampler plate, with only a small taste of many ideas... Since the last blog there have been several food parties that have gone down. We had a

23 Mar, 2015

CounterPulse Combustible collaborating artists and technologists show work-in-progress

2015-03-23T16:56:24-07:00By |Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Free Events (donations welcomed), Images|Tags: , , , , , , , |

As part of the pilot CounterPulse Performance and Technology Combustible — a residency model for artists collaborating with creative technologists— we hosted two work-in-progress labs last week for participating artists: Capacitor with collaborator Zach Howard, and Dohee Lee with collaborator Donald Swearingen. Dohee Lee and Donald Swearingen were first to show their work. Dohee is a dancer, vocalist, and musician who draws on the artistic forms and shamanistic rituals of her native Korea to inform her contemporary performance practice. Donald

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