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20 Feb, 2009

Dance Discourse Project: Writing About Dance

2009-02-20T20:36:23-08:00By |Categories: Archive, CounterPULSE, Events, Free Events (donations welcomed), Homepage Links, Post Show Discussion|Tags: , , , , , |

For me, last night’s Dance Discourse Project: Writing About Dance was a powerful and very mixed experience. Mostly I’m feeling grateful. I’m grateful that four dance writers—Rachel Howard, Rita Felciano, Ann Murphy, and Keith Hennessy— for giving us a window into their world. Rachel talked candidly about the nuts and bolts of her role at the Chronicle, Rita and Ann shared beautifully-written and (I thought) quite moving treatises on their roles as critics, and Keith problematized the act of dance

19 Aug, 2009

The Memo

2009-08-19T10:19:12-07:00By |Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I didn't get the memo. You know the one that breaks down the ways in which descendants of enslaved Africans have a different (but just as post traumatic stress disordered psychosis) than the descendants of colonized Africans. To be fair, I looked completely different when I've traveled abroad before (I had long hair), AND there is no pronoun for "he"or "she" in Ghanaian language. Word. My bad. Yet and still, I was expecting some kind of Haiti-ish/Southern American Negro/Caribbean stratification

29 Aug, 2009

Cry into the song

2009-08-29T19:36:19-07:00By |Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Ewe say " ... you must cry into the song." A man in the taxi said "... you are beautiful when you cry." ... But these things are not easy. To cry into the song when you are still so sad ... To let your beauty shine thru when you feel as though there is nothing to hold you up. Today "Ampey!" took it's first breath. It's a girl and a boy. A mommy and a daddy ... very

22 Oct, 2009

Performing Diaspora on the Airwaves!

2009-10-22T17:30:44-07:00By |Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Danica Sena Gakovich, Homepage Links, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

With Performing Diaspora fast-approaching, some of the artists took a break from the stage and headed over to KPFA's radio studios in Berkeley for a musical sneak-preview of their work on Stephen Kent's show, "Music of the World." In between tracks, our Executive Director Jessica Robinson Love joined them in the conversation about their performances November 5-8. If you missed the program live, give it a listen here!

23 Oct, 2009

Dance Discourse 7: How do we keep our dances from becoming museum pieces? Defining Tradition, Innovation, and Preservation in the Artistic Process

2009-10-23T17:47:02-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers' Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about Performing Diaspora at www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora/ At the exciting event participants were broken up into small groups where they discussed a variety of pertinent issues concerning traditional

6 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

2009-11-06T20:40:17-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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!

10 Nov, 2009

Podcasting Diaspora!

2009-11-10T20:24:29-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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

26 Feb, 2010

Wrapping up Luxury Items!

2010-02-26T19:22:23-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Luxury Items was a super splendorific success. Besides being a fabulous production, this was also our longest running show to date, and garnered a ton of fantastic press!  Go CounterPULSE, and hats off to Monique Jenkinson and everyone involved! Much love to all who came and hope you loved it as much as all of us on staff did! A few words from our awesome audiences: "Amazing.  Fauxnique is awesome and the show "showed" her brilliantly.  Great production.  Every moment. 

1 Nov, 2013

Year Of The Snake : November 15-17, 2013

2013-11-01T14:33:33-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , |

NEW EDGE presents Year Of The Snake a work for dance, music, and text WHAT "However long it takes to reach each other's shores." -Karl Jensen, All This We're Each Forced Into; Private Painful Insight YEAR OF THE SNAKE is a work conceived by three bay area artists: composer Jason Hoopes, choreographer Peiling Kao, and writer/visual artist Karl Jensen. The three elements that make up Year Of The Snake include the choreography, a physical record of the music (available November 15th),

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