10 in 10 with Jessica Recinos

You are reading excerpts from Andréa Spearman’s recorded conversation with Jessica Recinos. 10 in 10 theme music: Bright, upbeat pop music that you may hear in a teen-centered drama series. […]

In Conversation with Latanya Tigner and Colette Eloi

You are listening to Part 1 & 2 from Andréa Spearman’s recorded conversation with Latanya Tigner and Colette Eloi. To read the transcript of Part 1 of the conversation, click […]

10 in 10 with Javier Stell-Fresquez

You are reading excerpts from Andréa Spearman’s recorded conversation with Javier Stell-Frésquez 10 in 10 theme music: Bright, upbeat pop music that you may hear in a teen-centered drama series. […]

SPEAK: RECKONING: A decade of FRESH Festival and 20 years of ALTERNATIVA

Reckoning with time. There is something thrilling about a new year, a fresh start, the beginning of another cycle around the sun. There is also the reckoning it invites, to […]

Welcome, Apr 2014

Encountering a creative voice that grasps me, makes for vibrancy. Words, sounds, images, and assuredly, movement crafted in the right manner, seduce me by their singular vision– voice. Their emphatic […]

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: Jo Kreiter Brings Attention to Older Homeless Women

Isadora Duncan Award-winning choreographer Jo Kreiter draws from a variety of disciplines and lenses: gymnastics, Chinese pole acrobatics, social justice and urban revitalization, to name a few. Along with her apparatus-based aerial dance […]

Moving Histories

The devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the destructive fury of Hurricane Gustav in 2008 and most recently, the massive earthquake in Haiti have shocked the world […]

SPEAK By Jenny McAllister

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve had an insatiable hunger for stories. You might even classify it as an addiction. I will ravenously consume any kind of narrative, […]

Inside, From a Distance

Margy—one of Margaret Jenkins’ many monikers—always considered her dancers collaborators, and I had the good fortune to work with her from 1979 to 1990. Through the years, she gave us […]

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 artists, document the process of production and to interact with audiences. We created a virtual artist […]