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Located in SOMA in San Francisco, CounterPULSE is a non-profit theater, performance space, community center, and gallery with roots deep in the Bay Area’s provocative performance and dance scenes. CounterPULSE produces its own shows, helps support local artists and activists with its programs and can be rented for productions and rehearsals.
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Shaping SF Public Talk
Occupy Everything! Open Discussion
A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
JAN 25, WED at 7:30PM
FREE
An open discussion about the Occupy movement that started in September in the U.S. and has spread across the country, with dramatic events in Oakland, San Francisco, and other locales. Let's examine the bigger issues, the deeper implications, the broad possibilities of radical reform to revolution, as embodied in this movement.
To The Singers of Tales
Kitka & Svetlana Spajic
Presented as part of CounterPULSE's Winter Special
JAN 27-29, FRI-SUN at 8 PM
In her Bay Area debut, Serbian singer/performance artist Svetlana Spajic (featured in Robert Wilson's "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic") joins vocal ensemble Kitka in a new vocal-theater work exploring the power of ancient Balkan oral traditions as a means of reconnecting with our most elemental instincts and emotions.
Precious Drop
Mohamed Lamine Bangoura with Jaara Dance Project and Bu Falle African Drum and Dance
Presented as part of CounterPULSE's Winter Special
FEB 3-4, FRI-SAT 8PM
Precious Drop, a fusion performance of African music and dance that examines cultural values of water in Africa and the United States. Precious Drop explores different personal and cultural relations to water, and how this powerful element binds us across borders.
Shaping SF Public Talk
Art & Politics: Brian Barneclo
A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
FEB 8, WED at 7:30PM
FREE
San Francisco artist and muralist Brian Barneclo is all about making connections. In his Systems and Foodchain murals, bold images in motion - almost like stills from a film - link natural and creative processes to show complex processes of interconnectivity.
Hotel in a Bottle
Erin Malley
Presented as part of CounterPULSE's Winter Special
FEB 10-11, FRI-SAT at 8PM
Talking cats, men trapped in television sets & sheep professors search wordlessly through dance to discover their lost halves. We invite you into the immersive atmosphere of Hotel in a Bottle: a multi-media dance production drawing inspiration from the imagery, music and text of Haruki Murakami's writing.