Music - theater performance \"We Are Still Here\" - a contemporary take on the Perceval legend. Only two days of performance in San Francisco, CA!

The piece weaves new music for percussionists and singers, polyphonic song, dance, documentary video, Zen koan work, and a relaxed, precise acting style, in a rhythmic, humorous, and hopeful narrative on the possibility of awareness and change in the contemporary world.

Co-directors Lukasz Korczak (Poland, collaborator of Krystian Lupa) and Asa Horvitz (USA) lead the Koans and Performance Project ensemble, comprised of Nini Julia Bang (Denmark, long-time member of Teatr ZAR in Poland), Trevor Wilson (NYC-based composer and singer), Gedney Barclay (director and performer, No Face Performance Group, Philadelphia), Jes Sledge (San Diego-based designer), Robert Hope (actor, Classic Stage Compay, NYC), and Kyle Farrell (Brooklyn-based multi-percussionist).

We Are Still Here was born from the observation that, like Perceval, each of us has missed something crucial in our lives, an opportunity to ask a question or to reach a genuine understanding of ourselves and of the world. It might be a missed career opportunity, a lost lover, something we could have said to a friend who died young, or the simple feeling that something is lacking. Like Perceval, once we become aware of what we have lost, we have the possibility of asking the question we have failed to ask.

Performances on Friday & Saturday, July 5th and 6th, 2013 at 8.00 pm at CounterPulse, 1310 Mission Street @ 9th, San Francisco, CA.

The Koans and Performance Project (artistic director, Asa Horvitz) is dedicated to discovering a new theater vocabulary that combines contemporary and traditional music, documentary video and design, and Eastern-European style acting. Work is created in a European-style laboratory setting that includes Zen Koan work as developed by John Tarrant (Pacific Zen Institute) and other elements of California culture.

CounterPulse provides space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture. CounterPulse acts as a catalyst for art and action; creating a forum for the open exchange of art and ideas, catalyzing transformation in our communities and our society. We work towards a world that celebrates diversity of race, class, cultural heritage, artistic expression, ability, gender identity & sexual orientation. We strive to create an environment that is physically and economically accessible to everyone.

About Summer Special:

Summer Special is an experiment in offering radically affordable and accessible performance opportunities to a diverse array of emerging performance-makers.  Nine lead artists present eight weeks of contemporary dance, theater games, and multimedia performance exploring bravado, displaced identity, fetishes and fantasies, mystical predictions and more.  Ranging from raw experiments to polished premieres, this summer is full of new performance at CounterPulse. Featuring: Liz Tenuto, Justin Morrison, Victoria Mata, Here Now Dance Collective, The Thick Rich Ones, the Koan and Performance Project, Rasike Kumar, Samantha Giron, and Kevin Seaman.

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