
April 2020
POSTPONED – Edge Residency 2020
At this time, CounterPulse has postponed their upcoming performance. Read more here. SOFTEN THE BODY AND UNLEASH THE FEMALE VOICE Join CounterPulse for a double bill evening featuring works by their Edge 2020 residency artists. Edge is an incubation residency and commissioning program for contemporary choreographers whose work is deeply curious about the intersection of art practice and social change. WITH by Rachael Dichter & Dia Dear blends physical practices and nightlife for a multi-generational queer phenomenon. WITH invites the audience to engage…
Find out more »POSTPONED – blackstar
At this time, CounterPulse has postoned this upcoming performance. blackstar explores durational, emancipatory dreamscapes as a strategy toward decolonization and liberation. Situated as we are, amidst the afterlives of slavery and afro-futurist potentiality, we can wonder together how time and unfettered futurity might unfold in our moving, othered thoughtbodies.
Find out more »April 2021
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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »May 2021
The CounterPulse Birthday Gala
WE’RE TURNING 30, AND A PARTY AWAITS YOU! Zoom into the CounterPulse Birthday Gala for a rich cake of multimedia performing arts sprinkled with the sweet confetti of silent auction treats. We’ll sugar the night with live DJ sets and the freedom to explore the CounterPulse building ~virtually~ for new and delicious experiences. ~Bring your CounterPulse gossip and wigs for the party~ Make a toast, give us a birthday gift, hang out with your friends, and see CounterPulse turn 30 in…
Find out more »June 2021
Performing Diaspora 2021
Join CounterPulse as we take a voyage through lasting divides and ancestral wisdom. This June we investigate histories of rebellions and victories, queerness, and the violence of forced migration through two groundbreaking new dance works by pateldanceworks and Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater. to leave the land, a project of divisions the empire has sown by pateldanceworks is a call to understand past and present colonization through movement and storytelling, informed by the Partition of South Asia in 1947 and…
Find out more »Performing Diaspora 2021
Join CounterPulse as we take a voyage through lasting divides and ancestral wisdom. This June we investigate histories of rebellions and victories, queerness, and the violence of forced migration through two groundbreaking new dance works by pateldanceworks and Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater. to leave the land, a project of divisions the empire has sown by pateldanceworks is a call to understand past and present colonization through movement and storytelling, informed by the Partition of South Asia in 1947 and…
Find out more »Performing Diaspora 2021
Join CounterPulse as we take a voyage through lasting divides and ancestral wisdom. This June we investigate histories of rebellions and victories, queerness, and the violence of forced migration through two groundbreaking new dance works by pateldanceworks and Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater. to leave the land, a project of divisions the empire has sown by pateldanceworks is a call to understand past and present colonization through movement and storytelling, informed by the Partition of South Asia in 1947 and…
Find out more »Performing Diaspora 2021
Join CounterPulse as we take a voyage through lasting divides and ancestral wisdom. This June we investigate histories of rebellions and victories, queerness, and the violence of forced migration through two groundbreaking new dance works by pateldanceworks and Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater. to leave the land, a project of divisions the empire has sown by pateldanceworks is a call to understand past and present colonization through movement and storytelling, informed by the Partition of South Asia in 1947 and…
Find out more »Performing Diaspora 2021
Join CounterPulse as we take a voyage through lasting divides and ancestral wisdom. This June we investigate histories of rebellions and victories, queerness, and the violence of forced migration through two groundbreaking new dance works by pateldanceworks and Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater. to leave the land, a project of divisions the empire has sown by pateldanceworks is a call to understand past and present colonization through movement and storytelling, informed by the Partition of South Asia in 1947 and…
Find out more »Performing Diaspora 2021
Join CounterPulse as we take a voyage through lasting divides and ancestral wisdom. This June we investigate histories of rebellions and victories, queerness, and the violence of forced migration through two groundbreaking new dance works by pateldanceworks and Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater. to leave the land, a project of divisions the empire has sown by pateldanceworks is a call to understand past and present colonization through movement and storytelling, informed by the Partition of South Asia in 1947 and…
Find out more »September 2021
Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »October 2021
Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
Second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration, Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora. This free event features choreography by Jo Kreiter with research and text by 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rahsaan Thomas, who lives behind bars at San Quentin State Prison. Meet Us Quickly will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse as well as the Dahlia Hotel…
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »Split
Split is a 1-1 contemporary dance, performed for one audience member by one dancer at a time. The work examines the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation, and is informed by the performers’ personal histories, interviews with queer community members, Kushner’s Angels in America, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The performance takes place across four built environments and runs approximately 30 minutes. Though the performance is intimate in nature, there are no direct audience/performer interactions.
Find out more »December 2021
GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »GERALDCASELDANCE: Not About Race Dance
Not About Race Dance is a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. It features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander, Gerald Casel, Audrey Johnson, Karla Quintero, and Cauveri Suresh, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). Tickets: $15-35 (Thursdays are pay-what-you-can; Fridays include a post-show discussion) counterpulse.org/event/notaboutrace
Find out more »May 2022
Innerspace : Homecoming
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 Queen. CounterPulse is almost at their fundraising target to buy their building in the Tenderloin this year and we’re going to party all night until…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Talking Circle
In Risa Jaroslow's new work, Talking Circle, six people ages 25 to 78 gather to make a decision that will impact each of their lives. What do they hope for as individuals at different stages of life and as a community? What risks will they take to achieve the freedoms they dream of? The cast includes dancers Anna Greenberg, Cauveri Suresh, Chelsea Reichert, Erin Yen and guests Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Sharon Dalke of the Elders Project at Destiny Arts…
Find out more »June 2022
David Brandstätter & Michelle Jacques: FRE!HEIT
FRE!HEIT is a solo presentation; a treatise on different manifestations of freedom (democratic and otherwise) and various methodologies for exercising these concepts. David Brandstätter’s work is rooted in cross disciplinary performance (circus, dance, physical theatre and music). The piece is engaging as a virtuosic and carefully contrived work of art. It is also highly instructive as an exercise in taking pragmatic activist actions and blending them with abstract motions to make multiple socio-political points. Bay Area singer and composer, Michelle…
Find out more »David Brandstätter & Michelle Jacques: FRE!HEIT
FRE!HEIT is a solo presentation; a treatise on different manifestations of freedom (democratic and otherwise) and various methodologies for exercising these concepts. David Brandstätter’s work is rooted in cross disciplinary performance (circus, dance, physical theatre and music). The piece is engaging as a virtuosic and carefully contrived work of art. It is also highly instructive as an exercise in taking pragmatic activist actions and blending them with abstract motions to make multiple socio-political points. Bay Area singer and composer, Michelle…
Find out more »David Brandstätter & Michelle Jacques: FRE!HEIT
FRE!HEIT is a solo presentation; a treatise on different manifestations of freedom (democratic and otherwise) and various methodologies for exercising these concepts. David Brandstätter’s work is rooted in cross disciplinary performance (circus, dance, physical theatre and music). The piece is engaging as a virtuosic and carefully contrived work of art. It is also highly instructive as an exercise in taking pragmatic activist actions and blending them with abstract motions to make multiple socio-political points. Bay Area singer and composer, Michelle…
Find out more »August 2022
Silk Worm: The Jaws of All Are Red with Gore
Attention! Looney Tunes lovers, theater kids, and silly wabbits seeking revenge—this show is for you. San Francisco-based artist and drag queen Silk Worm presents a world premiere. The jaws of all are red with gore takes the classic cartoon series Looney Tunes as its source material. Loosely representing Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, three performers (Silk Worm, Frank Leasing, and Hiroko Tamano of Harupin-Ha Dance Theater) activate the stage with lip-sync, stage combat, butoh, clowning, projections, and live singing. The…
Find out more »Silk Worm: The Jaws of All Are Red with Gore
Attention! Looney Tunes lovers, theater kids, and silly wabbits seeking revenge—this show is for you. San Francisco-based artist and drag queen Silk Worm presents a world premiere. The jaws of all are red with gore takes the classic cartoon series Looney Tunes as its source material. Loosely representing Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, three performers (Silk Worm, Frank Leasing, and Hiroko Tamano of Harupin-Ha Dance Theater) activate the stage with lip-sync, stage combat, butoh, clowning, projections, and live singing. The…
Find out more »Silk Worm: The Jaws of All Are Red with Gore
Attention! Looney Tunes lovers, theater kids, and silly wabbits seeking revenge—this show is for you. San Francisco-based artist and drag queen Silk Worm presents a world premiere. The jaws of all are red with gore takes the classic cartoon series Looney Tunes as its source material. Loosely representing Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, three performers (Silk Worm, Frank Leasing, and Hiroko Tamano of Harupin-Ha Dance Theater) activate the stage with lip-sync, stage combat, butoh, clowning, projections, and live singing. The…
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