I feel restless, maybe even a bit complacent. Believe me, I have plenty of tasks to accomplish and ...
Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival
California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over ...
Going Strong for 50 Years: Westwind International Folk Ensemble
For five decades, Westwind International Folk Ensemble has pursued its original dedication to the ...
SPEAK By Jessica Robinson Love
I more or less quit dancing five years ago. Like many of us, I came into arts administration as a ...
Dispersing the Diaspora: Excerpts from the CounterPULSE Blog
Edited by Maureen Walsh Traversing personal and cultural borders are two topics that the ...
ODC’s Kaleidoscope of Outreach
When I sat down to talk about outreach with ODC artistic director KT Nelson, school director Kimi ...
Here’s the number one reason I love AXIS Dance Company: it celebrates the individual. Yes me, you, ...
A Virtual Concept: Taking a New Look at Technology and Networking in Artist Residencies
CounterPULSE wanted to try something new with Performing Diaspora to better support work from ...
MAY 2009 - In A Dance Studio In America During a recent rehearsal I rediscovered a recording of my ...
Secondary Scores in Improvisations: Opening up the Space with Improvisation as Performance
The Unspoken Scores in Improvisation as Performance In a dance form that requires a heightened ...