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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.

Archive for March, 2009

Mantis Dance Collective April 10th at CounterPulse

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Most of the concepts for this show have been cultivated over the last year of my life. After moving to San Francisco from my grandparents house in San Diego I became overwhelmingly aware that I had been living a life in which I was mostly looking and trying to create happiness but very rarely experiencing [...]

Wide Time

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

We are very excited to perform our first evening of work in San Francisco since relocating here from NYC in 2007.  We will be showing the new quartet “Wide Time”, a collaboration with musician Jason Hoopes and video artist Loren Robertson, “Dark Matters” (premiered NYC 2007), “Veiling” (premiered SF 2008 with a sound installation performed [...]

Shimenawa and Pilgrimage

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Shimenawa is a beautifully crafted dance theater piece that showcased last fall at Counterpulse. This refined version has the classic feel of Kabuki and Noh theater with a modern overlay of sensibility and substance. It’s ritual theater expressed in poetry, music and dance with a tight ensemble, Melody Takata has performed with over the years, including local treasure, Sensei Nakajima, the foremost sax player composer, [...]

Save SF Japantown

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

 ”Save SF Japantown” was on a sign held by a community member on the steps of SF City Hall in 2006 as we faced the devastating news that Kintentsu was selling 6 key properties.  We simultaneously celebrated the Centenial of SF Japantown, one of the last three Japantowns in the United States.  Japanese Americans have [...]

Symmetry Reviews Arriving

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Hey Gang, Here comes some of the Dance Discourse. Rachel Howard http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/21/DD3S16K77V.DTL&type=performance Allan Ulrich http://www.voiceofdance.com/v1/features.cfm/1708/Spellbinder-Jess-Curtis-Gravity708.html Allan somehow totally misses the fact that the piece is a co-creation by Maria and myself.  Hard to trust his reading of the piece (even when it’s super positive) if he can’t read the program. We’re having a great time [...]

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