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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.

Tech Specs

Space: The facility houses 1350 sq. ft studio-theater with fully sprung hardwood floor and 16.5’ ceiling. The facility is ADA accessible. There are two bathrooms, a full kitchen, and a shower/dressing room.

Stage: 25 ft. (20 ft. if shins are used) x 30 ft. Additional 6 ft of depth at downstage edge to accommodate floor lights and wheelchair ADA pathway. 16.5 ft ceiling; 15.5 ft to lighting grid; 14.5 ft to I-beam. Stage right: black velvet drape. Upstage and stage left: white concrete walls with black commando cloth drape on moveable tracks. Option of hanging red velvet drape at upstage wall. 9 full width lighting pipes. Pipes at extreme side stage right and stage left, the full depth of the stage (with gaps for I-beams). Three vertical pipes (trees) hung from grid on each side.

Seating: Two levels of permanent risers, plus three levels of portable riser seating to accommodate wheelchair seating and a legal total of 90 audience members. (70 House left seats, 20 House Right seats.) Pillows available for floor seating option.

Lighting Control: ETC Express 24/48. 2 Lightronics RE-121D dimmer packs (single phase, 50 amps) with Edison connectors.  The dimmer packs use DMX-512 control protocol. Dimmers are connected to company switch: 2 phase 50 amp.

Lights (house plot pdf for download):

Lighting Equipment includes:

  • 24 ETC Source 4 bodies, 575W
  • 21 ETC Source 4 50 degree barrels
  • 6 ETC Source 4 36 degree barrels
  • 4 ETC Source 4 Juniors, 36 degrees, 575W
  • 8 6” Fresnels, 500W
  • 12 parcans 120W
  • 23 6” Fresnel Gel Frames
  • 27 Source 4 Gel Frames
  • 25 Gobo holders  (23 large, 2 small)
  • 4 taildown pipes and hardware
  • Houselights on separate house AC

Sound: Full range system with two EV main speakers

  • 16 channel Soundcraft Sprint FX16 board
  • Onkyo TA-RW344 dual cassette tape deck
  • Numark MX2 dual CD player with integrated DJ mixer
  • 3 wired microphones: Sennheiser 58, Shure 57, Shure 58
  • 1 Shure wireless hand held mic (uses 9V batteries) and VHF receiver
  • Rane AC22 Crossover, DOD SR231 stereo, 1/3 octave equalizer, DBX 163x
  • compressor.(best for short on/off talking sets)

Projection: Optima EP 770 DLP 3000 ANSI lumens projector

  • VCR and DVD player, and access to a MacBook
  • 1 ceiling hung projection screen, dimensions: 7’7” w x 8’ h

For all more tech info please contact: andrew@counterpulse.org

Patch List (Word Doc)

CounterPULSE Dance Floor