Thursday-Sunday
April 1 - 4, 2010 - 8pm Post show discussions after Friday and Saturday nights
CounterPULSE Winter 2010 Artists in Residence: Kendra Kimbrough Barnes
José Navarrete & Violeta Luna
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$15-20 (CP Members $10-15)
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Location:CounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street (@9th), San Francisco, CA 94103
CounterPULSE's Winter 2010 artists in residence present their new work examining water privatization and the effects of incarceration on families.
One night, two performances.
Kendra Kimbrough Barnes Home is That Way?
Kendra Kimbrough Barnes creates an impassioned dance piece about a family dealing with incarceration. When a son/ a brother loses an idea of where home is (literally and figuratively) after being in the prison system, this leads to retracing steps. Told in four chapters, “Home is That Way?” is a dance drama that that recalls the innocence, genius, tragedy, and rebirth of an imaginative boy. Cast includes Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, Clairemonica Figueroa, and Travis Rowland. Line drawings by Clairemonica Figueroa. Original sound score by the Sounds of Boon and Delina Brooks. Set design by Shelley Davis.
José Navarrete and Violeta Luna New Rituals for a Desperate Era
New Rituals for a Desperate Era reinterprets ancient Mexican mythology and iconography to address pressing ecological issues around water rights and shortages. Drawing from the poetry and didactic power of pre-Hispanic myths, it constructs a compelling discourse on the depletion of our natural resources, in a production that combines contemporary dance, performance art, new music composition, visual art installation, and video. New Rituals for a Desperate Era is the product of the artistic encounter between two Mexican artists living in the U.S., Jose Navarrete and Violeta Luna, and their collaboration with video/film artist, Ricardo Rivera, music composer, Javier Torres Maldonado, and visual artist Lauren Elder. Luna and Navarrete are interested in the socio-political impact of their work, as much as they are in forging new aesthetic values.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
1:00 – 2:30 pm,
12:30 registration*
YBCA, Dimensions Dance Theater, and BCF Master Class Series host a
MASTER CLASS with Reggie Wilson/
Fist & Heel Performance Group & Andréya Ouamba/
Cie 1er Temps
CLASS FEE: $ 10.00
Intermediate to Advance Level Class
*Space is limited. Pre-registration strongly recommended.
866.898.2722 for pre-registration and information
Reggie Wilson teaches Modern, full-bodied, grounded and rhythm-based movement and Postmodern structures that utilizes source materials, elements and movement languages from cultures of the Southern U.S., the Caribbean and Southern, Western and Central Africa.
Andreya Ouamba explores how the abstract form takes up a lot of space in the work. Research and improvisation can work for every person – every dancer has to find and be located in the environment during the process of creation.
Photo credit: Antoine Tempé
BCF Master Class Series sponsored by AAAPAC and K*Star*Productions
A Monthly Salon with CounterPULSE and Dancers' Group
Sunday April 12, 2009
2pm - Free
at CounterPULSE
1310 Mission St. @ 9th
San Francisco, California
This monthly salon offers emerging & established choreographers an opportunity to show their work & receive feedback from other artists, community members, and presenters. Please join us for an afternoon of stimulating performance and discussion!
This month’s salon features the work of
· Bare Bones Butoh · Boathouse & Co. Performance · Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble · Jennifer Gwirtz
KKDE will perform another excerpt of "SHUT YO MOUTH" which takes a comical journey into the world of the unspoken. Dancers use movement, gestures, and text to reflect on the naughty, stereotypical, judgmental, thoughts that one may have when coming into contact with others. The twist begins with the realization that those they are imposing judgement on are people with stories and lives and loved ones. The issue on the table is "Who really deserves to be scrutinized for being based on our pre-conceived notions and societal definitions of perfection?". The particular segment of “SHUT YO MOUTH” focuses on an actual event that the dancers of KKDE encountered during a photo shoot and the mishaps that led to feeling racially violated as a group of African American dancers.
Saturday, April 3, 2010