Combustible Residency 2021 Installation

Where does your identity begin <> end? Combustible is CounterPulse’s highly-acclaimed dance/technology residency that carves a place to experiment on the edge of what is known. Join us this April for two immersive, internationally-devised and intermedia dance/installation works that alter perceptions through a dystopian machinescape and mediated interactivity.

Combustible Residency 2021 Installation

Where does your identity begin <> end? Combustible is CounterPulse’s highly-acclaimed dance/technology residency that carves a place to experiment on the edge of what is known. Join us this April for two immersive, internationally-devised and intermedia dance/installation works that alter perceptions through a dystopian machinescape and mediated interactivity.

Art in Isolation Instagram series

Art in Isolation is a new Instagram artist takeover series, where CounterPulse artists show you their art practices, routines, and tips for how to engage in art in isolation. We’re currently fully scheduled on artist takeovers, but may schedule more in early April.

Combustible Residency 2021 Installation

Where does your identity begin <> end? Combustible is CounterPulse’s highly-acclaimed dance/technology residency that carves a place to experiment on the edge of what is known. Join us this April for two immersive, internationally-devised and intermedia dance/installation works that alter perceptions through a dystopian machinescape and mediated interactivity.

WestWave Dance Festival Artists Speak

In addition to our interview with Joanna Haigood, we asked the 45 artists participating in this year’s DanceWaves and Film Night to offer up a first person perspective—or in grant-speak, an artist statement—that will provide our audience and readers insight into their work. As you peruse these, you will discover a variety of dance styles […]

10 in 10 with Lydia Clinton

  You are reading excerpts from Andréa Spearman’s conversation with Lydia Clinton. 10 in 10 theme music: Bright, upbeat pop music that you may hear in a teen-centered drama series. [Theme music plays, then fades out slightly to play in the background of the introduction] [An animation shows a bright green background and a prominent […]

What’s a Live Film Festival?: And other fun questions like: Milkbar, a new organic drink or a collective of artists?

This September 12 through 14 MilkBar will be taking over the new Oakland Noodle Factory Arts Center for the 2008 MilkBar International Live Film Festival. The MilkBar Film Festival is a weekend marathon of new experimental short film/videos from around the world as well as new short works created for the festival that explore the […]

We All Live in Humansville

Review: Joe Goode Performance Group, “Humansville,” May 31, 2007, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Jo Kreiter: Artistic Activist/Activist Artist

If you are like me, you want artists who have an individual voice and the expertise to articulate it cogently. Some develop gradually; in others a special spark asks for attention from the minute you encounter it. Jo Kreiter is one of them. Maybe you first noticed her as a member of Zaccho Dance Theatre […]

In Practice: Reconstructing Reconstruction with Chris Evans

What does it mean to grieve in the context of perpetual marginalization and terrorization? What are the contours of grief in the afterlife of ancestral, epigenetic, and intergenerational trauma? And what if what is grieving is the earth itself? What if there’s no way to move on? Chris Evans’ collaborative, multidisciplinary, multimedia event Reconstructions Performance […]