Two evenings of radical, intersectional, body-based online performances and films. Featuring eight emerging Bay Area artists, asking us to find our center of Gravity through survival, hope, lineage, resistance, or grief. How can we lean forward, even when in free fall? Suggested donation of $5-$50 during the event. All proceeds go to the artists. With […]
Two evenings of radical, intersectional, body-based online performances and films. Featuring eight emerging Bay Area artists, asking us to find our center of Gravity through survival, hope, lineage, resistance, or grief. How can we lean forward, even when in free fall? Suggested donation of $5-$50 during the event. All proceeds go to the artists. With […]
Radius is an improvisational performance that uses dance and music to reveal the dichotomies of intimacy and power. Experience the site-specific performance at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. Free registration is encouraged for this outdoor event, co-produced with CounterPulse. Radius is performed by a group of over thirty experimental dancers and electronic musicians that aims to create […]
Join “SkyBridge on Stevenson” and CounterPulse for its opening Thursday night weekly series at the Skybridge on Stevenson brought to you by Zendesk, Creative Grounds Production Group, MMCBD, SFMTA, OEWD, and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Come early and enjoy an array of local dance performances by Andreina Maldonado, Rick Darnell, and Kiandanda Dance Theater, all […]
WHAT: h0tclub presents Freeicecream.network - an experimental multimedia livestream that explores how our desire for connection and delicious treats entangles us with networks of information technologies. Free ice cream not included. Presented as part of the Improvising the Net(Work) and Combustible Residencies with CounterPulse and ThoughtWorksArts. h0t club is a psychedelic consumer-driven company of artist […]
Were you voted most artistic in high school? Best smile? Biggest flirt? Most likely to succeed? Star students and new kids alike are invited to CounterPulse’s annual art party and auction Innerspace : Homecoming. This event will feature interactive art installations, music, dancing, cocktails, local cuties, auction items, and the special crowning of our Homecoming […]
Simonse, Cave, and Funsch are presented through CounterPulse’s curated Co-Production Program. Nol Simonse and Jim Cave will be sharing a devised theater piece that uses dreams, mythology, seances, paganism, kink, and ghost stories as inspiration, and circles around questions dealing with our death and mortality. Christy Funsch’s latest quintet, kid subjunctive, embodies collective futurism. Framed as […]
Simonse, Cave, and Funsch are presented through CounterPulse’s curated Co-Production Program. Nol Simonse and Jim Cave will be sharing a devised theater piece that uses dreams, mythology, seances, paganism, kink, and ghost stories as inspiration, and circles around questions dealing with our death and mortality. Christy Funsch’s latest quintet, kid subjunctive, embodies collective futurism. Framed as […]
Simonse, Cave, and Funsch are presented through CounterPulse’s curated Co-Production Program. Nol Simonse and Jim Cave will be sharing a devised theater piece that uses dreams, mythology, seances, paganism, kink, and ghost stories as inspiration, and circles around questions dealing with our death and mortality. Christy Funsch’s latest quintet, kid subjunctive, embodies collective futurism. Framed as […]
The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA! explores their complicated lineage by learning from their queer SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic dance teachers. Dance, drag, theater, performance, comedy, and art as healing. Part immersive theater and part community gathering, Dwelling for […]
The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA! explores their complicated lineage by learning from their queer SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic dance teachers. Dance, drag, theater, performance, comedy, and art as healing. Part immersive theater and part community gathering, Dwelling for […]
The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA! explores their complicated lineage by learning from their queer SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic dance teachers. Dance, drag, theater, performance, comedy, and art as healing. Part immersive theater and part community gathering, Dwelling for […]
The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA! explores their complicated lineage by learning from their queer SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic dance teachers. Dance, drag, theater, performance, comedy, and art as healing. Part immersive theater and part community gathering, Dwelling for […]
The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA! explores their complicated lineage by learning from their queer SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic dance teachers. Dance, drag, theater, performance, comedy, and art as healing. Part immersive theater and part community gathering, Dwelling for […]
The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA! explores their complicated lineage by learning from their queer SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic dance teachers. Dance, drag, theater, performance, comedy, and art as healing. Part immersive theater and part community gathering, Dwelling for […]
CounterPulse’s 2023 ARC Combustible program presents lip-sync//dance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr and Digital Milk: Metaphase 0 by Driven Arts Collective. lip-sync//dance is a performance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr that explores the transmission of knowledge and mutability of form between humans and their virtual avatars taking place on stage and simultaneously within virtual reality […]
CounterPulse’s 2023 ARC Combustible program presents lip-sync//dance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr and Digital Milk: Metaphase 0 by Driven Arts Collective. lip-sync//dance is a performance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr that explores the transmission of knowledge and mutability of form between humans and their virtual avatars taking place on stage and simultaneously within virtual reality […]
CounterPulse’s 2023 ARC Combustible program presents lip-sync//dance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr and Digital Milk: Metaphase 0 by Driven Arts Collective. lip-sync//dance is a performance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr that explores the transmission of knowledge and mutability of form between humans and their virtual avatars taking place on stage and simultaneously within virtual reality […]
CounterPulse’s 2023 ARC Combustible program presents lip-sync//dance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr and Digital Milk: Metaphase 0 by Driven Arts Collective. lip-sync//dance is a performance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr that explores the transmission of knowledge and mutability of form between humans and their virtual avatars taking place on stage and simultaneously within virtual reality […]
CounterPulse’s 2023 ARC Combustible program presents lip-sync//dance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr and Digital Milk: Metaphase 0 by Driven Arts Collective. lip-sync//dance is a performance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr that explores the transmission of knowledge and mutability of form between humans and their virtual avatars taking place on stage and simultaneously within virtual reality […]
CounterPulse’s 2023 ARC Combustible program presents lip-sync//dance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr and Digital Milk: Metaphase 0 by Driven Arts Collective. lip-sync//dance is a performance by Ambrose Trataris aka DestroyHerr that explores the transmission of knowledge and mutability of form between humans and their virtual avatars taking place on stage and simultaneously within virtual reality […]
VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! and CounterPulse’s upcoming production "The Show" is a large-scale outdoor one-day-only multi-venue Drag performance event that celebrates the living oral, entertainment, and embodied traditions of the queer community.
OYSTERKNIFE and CounterPulse’s upcoming premiere mouf//full is a large-scale, site specific, three-day performance event that honors Black faith across diaspora, secular and institutional, indigenous and inherited. mouf//full will be presented in partnership with Grace Cathedral as part of their 2024 annual Spacious Grace Festival happening this February. mouf//full re-wilds the Church into our own image, […]
OYSTERKNIFE and CounterPulse’s upcoming premiere mouf//full is a large-scale, site specific, three-day performance event that honors Black faith across diaspora, secular and institutional, indigenous and inherited. mouf//full will be presented in partnership with Grace Cathedral as part of their 2024 annual Spacious Grace Festival happening this February. mouf//full re-wilds the Church into our own image, […]
OYSTERKNIFE and CounterPulse’s upcoming premiere mouf//full is a large-scale, site specific, three-day performance event that honors Black faith across diaspora, secular and institutional, indigenous and inherited. mouf//full will be presented in partnership with Grace Cathedral as part of their 2024 annual Spacious Grace Festival happening this February. mouf//full re-wilds the Church into our own image, […]
