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.
Howdy CounterPULSERS, I’m Tessa Fleming, the summer outreach intern. I’ve been doing interviews of our Summer Special artists and here is the first one- by Erika Tsimbrovsky of Avy K Productions. Her show, Rustling Silk, runs AUG 26th and 27th at 8 pm both nights. Below is the interview. She has some pretty cool insight, [...]
On a rainy Tuesday morning, FACT/SF‘s Artistic Director Charles Slender tries to figure out what, really, this project is. We’re getting closer.
Often artists, including myself, find themselves pitching a project before they’ve really gotten dirty with it, before they really know what the project really IS. Nearly a month into rehearsals now, we’re learning so many new things. The Work in Progress Showing last week featured some healthy discourse that elicited new ideas and fantastic feedback. Here’s [...]
Front Line Theatre’s newest work, Rare Earth, will be premiering at CounterPULSE on July 8-10 as part of the Summer Special series. But first, everyone should come and check out a Work-in-Progress preview at FURY Factory 2011! We’ll be showing 25-30 minutes of the work and having a short talk-back after. Splitting the bill with [...]
Hey y’all, FACT/SF is back this week with another Tasty Tuesdays posting. We share who we’re inspired by…artists and thinkers who we think have made, or are making, significant contributions. This week it’s the choreographer, dancer, and, by some accounts, true founder of modern dance – which of course laid the foundation for contemporary dance [...]
