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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.
Out of Work: Artists Respond to the Economy
Employing Heart Project
Sat. July 31, 8pm
$10-20 sliding scale
The Employing Heart Project disarms the state of unemploy ment with a whirlwind of performance art, theatre, video, and good ideas. In an alternately thought-provoking and quirky spin on the woes of the U.S. economic crisis, "Out of Work" captures the joys, fears, and possibilities that emerge in a moment when 12.5% of Californians are out of work. Photo by Lindsay Clipner.
Words First
A Monthly Solo Performance Showcase
Weds. August 4
$15-20 (Members 10-15)
Words First is the premier solo performance event in San Francisco. The first Wednesday of every month, WORDS FIRST invites the finest solo artist, comics, and storytellers to the CounterPULSE stage. Solo performance is a unique brand of theater: one person, one stage. All pieces are written and performed by the solo artists themselves!
With performances by:
Bruce Pachtman ~ "Solo Show #2: A Comedy" Hollywood's top talent agency wants me. I move from NYC to LA. They reconsider. What now?
Debra Netkin ~ "Childhood Mammaries" Why do people wear bras? And where do bras come from, anyway? Do all daddies caress bras at Macy's?
Kim Page ~ "Oh, Father" Every daughter wants to love her father and every father wants to be a good daddy. Love stories like this can have a different kind of happy ending.
Nicole Maxali ~ "I Heart Lola." Nicole's grandmother isn't just being forgetful. After a doctor's appointment, everything changes... for Nicole and her grandmother.
New Blog Post
CounterPULSE Artists in Residence Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit / Strong Behavior
Thurs.-Sun. August 5-8, Thurs-Sat 8pm, Sunday 3pm $15-20 (Members $10-15) CounterPULSE presents new work from Summer Artists in Residence Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit / Strong Behavior. These two emerging dance theater artists contemplate feminity in a double bill of performance. Laura Arrington’s “Hot Wings,” a dance that’s probably feminist, follows a cast of four [...]
