Unsettled/Soiled Group is a group of East, Southeast, and South Asian diasporic movers, makers, and settlers on Ramaytush and Chochenyo Ohlone land. Unsettled/Soiled Group is led by June Yuen Ting, one of CounterPulse’s 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Dwelling for Unsettling alongside VERA!’s Try, Hye!, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022
VERA! (they/them) is a queer Armenian American drag king, dancer, and community activist. They are one of CounterPulse’s 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Try, Hye! alongside Unsettled/Soiled Group’s Dwelling for Unsettling, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022
Inspired by ancestral, community-centered, and spiritual relationships to land and plants, [and then we must be] by Audrey Johnson is a research and ritual project honoring Black American practices with land and plants through the modes of food, farming, rootwork, and magic. The work honors the practices that get passed down through recipe, spell, and story, as well as the memories active and activated in the body, plants, the land (soil, clay, mycelium, strata), and in spirit.
“Traditionally, in Igbo cultures, we have had death as part of the conversation. We understand that life doesn’t end when you die. Ancestors are part of our life connection and day-to-day practice.”
Hey everyone, This time I wanted to talk about my views on collaboration and how it applies to our residency with Freya at CounterPulse. So let’s start by dumping some ideas. Collaboration to me… is about communicating is about the work/project not individuals is also the individuals enjoying is the process of getting multiple people involved […]
A colleague of mine, Katharine Hawthorne, came to our recent work-in-progress showing and asked me a few questions about the work. Below is our interview that discusses why I am making a musical and how working during CounterPulse’s construction has influenced the piece: Interview: Liz Tenuto/Dance and a Half This Year is Different: A Self-Help […]
Photo of Ben Juodvalkis and Rebecca Siegel at a music rehearsal in Rebecca’s garden. Video of creating choreography in the studio: choreo.video
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 […]
Here is a moving article about Homo File by BDSM educator, coach, scholar and advocate Cleo Dubois. What an honor to have had her come see the show two times and to have participated on our panel discussion on June 6th. http://www.leatherati.com/2014/07/pride-and-polaroids/
What a wonderful run !!! It’s been a week since we closed Homo File and the excitement continues. We sold out 8 of 9 shows in our run and we are starting to make plans to take the show to other cities. […]