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.
2nd Sundays
A Monthly Salon with CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group
Sunday February 8, 2pm Free
at CounterPULSE
1310 Mission St. @ 9th
San Francisco
This monthly salon offers emerging & established choreographers an opportunity to show their work & receive feedback from other artists, community members, and presenters. Please join us for an afternoon of stimulating performance and discussion!
This month’s salon [...]
My company Deep Waters Dance Theater is in the process of making this piece we are calling, “…our daily bread”. We are exploring the ways that food shapes our cultural identities, how we all have food stories and folklore that ties who we are to the food we eat. We are also looking at [...]
The infamous Punany Poets came through CounterPULSE last weekend. They owned the stage and had a delightfully erotic affair.
Comment about the show below.
by Katarina Eriksson
(Winter Artist in Residence in collaboration with Cathie Caraker)
One of the breeding grounds for this project is the subtext of two aliens who have come to earth and inhabited human bodies. I do think of it as a dance piece (as opposed to a dance theater piece), where the human body with all [...]
Wed. Jan. 21, 7:30pm, Free
Years in the making! Shaping San Francisco has finally completed its arduous migration to a wiki-format. Check it out BEFORE Wednesday at foundsf.org! Explore the new living archive of the city’s history with Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott. Get a demonstration of how to use it, and suggestions and guidelines on [...]
