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 […]

thomas f. defrantz/SLIPPAGE presents Lonely 1 …a black ramble … a multi-year project to grapple with the terms of loneliness, an epidemic of the 21st century. does sex make you less lonely? do you really want BBC? where are you least lonely? when does connection happen? which track on RENAISSANCE feeds you the most? when […]

thomas f. defrantz/SLIPPAGE presents Lonely 1 …a black ramble … a multi-year project to grapple with the terms of loneliness, an epidemic of the 21st century. does sex make you less lonely? do you really want BBC? where are you least lonely? when does connection happen? which track on RENAISSANCE feeds you the most? when […]

The Performance Primers are proud to co-produce RIPE (Raw + Intimate Performance Experiments) at the KH FRESH Festival. We've co-curated an exciting lineup of live drag, dance, and multi-media performance by four incredible emerging artists from around the Bay and the world. Please join us in Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone territory (San Francisco, CA). Tue, Mar 7: Bárbara Valencia/Rizoma Laboratorio Escenico (Querétaro, Mexico) and […]

Weekend 1 features two international artists who are new to the Festival this year: Kira Kirsch and Jose Ramón Corral. Kira Kirsch alongside Jorge De Hoyos, The Urgency of Now both based in Berlin Germany. Now keeps moving on, and Here keeps shifting around. Two collaborators jump into the rodeo trying to catch a moment; […]

Weekend 1 features two international artists who are new to the Festival this year: Kira Kirsch and Jose Ramón Corral. Kira Kirsch alongside Jorge De Hoyos, The Urgency of Now both based in Berlin Germany. Now keeps moving on, and Here keeps shifting around. Two collaborators jump into the rodeo trying to catch a moment; […]

The Performance Primers are proud to co-produce RIPE (Raw + Intimate Performance Experiments) at the KH FRESH Festival. We've co-curated an exciting lineup of live drag, dance, and multi-media performance by four incredible emerging artists from around the Bay and the world. Please join us in Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone territory (San Francisco, CA). Tue, Mar 7: Bárbara Valencia/Rizoma Laboratorio Escenico (Querétaro, Mexico) and […]

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 […]

Gravity and CounterPulse present dark/lessons/rupture, an evening of performance featuring excerpts from three new works by Jess Curtis, and Beyond Gravity artists Silk Worm and RUPTURE. Into The Dark, is a new ensemble work instigated by Curtis in collaboration with a diverse ensemble of Blind, Low Vision and Sighted performers, addressing the physical, subconscious, and literal […]

Gravity and CounterPulse present dark/lessons/rupture, an evening of performance featuring excerpts from three new works by Jess Curtis, and Beyond Gravity artists Silk Worm and RUPTURE. Into The Dark, is a new ensemble work instigated by Curtis in collaboration with a diverse ensemble of Blind, Low Vision and Sighted performers, addressing the physical, subconscious, and literal […]

Gravity and CounterPulse present dark/lessons/rupture, an evening of performance featuring excerpts from three new works by Jess Curtis, and Beyond Gravity artists Silk Worm and RUPTURE. Into The Dark, is a new ensemble work instigated by Curtis in collaboration with a diverse ensemble of Blind, Low Vision and Sighted performers, addressing the physical, subconscious, and literal […]

Kat Gorospe Cole and Jeffrey Yip create a multimedia experimental performance centered around mental health and ancestral connection. Exploring within what seedkeeper Rowen White calls the "diaspora of disconnect," Cole looks for the threads that connect her to a maternal history back to the Ilocos region of the Philippines. What has been inherited? What has […]

Kat Gorospe Cole and Jeffrey Yip create a multimedia experimental performance centered around mental health and ancestral connection. Exploring within what seedkeeper Rowen White calls the "diaspora of disconnect," Cole looks for the threads that connect her to a maternal history back to the Ilocos region of the Philippines. What has been inherited? What has […]

German performance artist, David Brandstätter collaborates with mezzo-soprano, Michelle Jacques for the US Premiere of FRE!HEIT (freedom in English). A treatise on the multiple meanings of, and negotiations around, the concept of freedom.

German performance artist, David Brandstätter collaborates with mezzo-soprano, Michelle Jacques for the US Premiere of FRE!HEIT (freedom in English). A treatise on the multiple meanings of, and negotiations around, the concept of freedom.

German performance artist, David Brandstätter collaborates with mezzo-soprano, Michelle Jacques for the US Premiere of FRE!HEIT (freedom in English). A treatise on the multiple meanings of, and negotiations around, the concept of freedom.

The hour-long multidisciplinary dance theater work is a collaboration among sound designer/composer Tim Russell, dramaturg Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, and Bay Area natives choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg. With a diverse cast of 11 dancers, live music, spoken text, and projections that augment the full experience, the collaborators investigate "truth" as it relates […]

The hour-long multidisciplinary dance theater work is a collaboration among sound designer/composer Tim Russell, dramaturg Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, and Bay Area natives choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg. With a diverse cast of 11 dancers, live music, spoken text, and projections that augment the full experience, the collaborators investigate "truth" as it relates […]

The hour-long multidisciplinary dance theater work is a collaboration among sound designer/composer Tim Russell, dramaturg Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, and Bay Area natives choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg. With a diverse cast of 11 dancers, live music, spoken text, and projections that augment the full experience, the collaborators investigate "truth" as it relates […]