Residency Programs

Incubate artists, change the world.

Switch is CounterPulse’s cultural exchange program that catalyzes collaborations between artists, initiatives, and communities outside of the Bay Area. We pose exchange as an integral part of the creative process. We strategize generative diversity across cultural lines and creative practices as a tactic to exponentially shift the field of discourse. Switch is creating a platform for sophisticating collaboration across differences.

CounterPulse offers a rotation of supported artist residencies each year spanning different ways of making. Each residency concludes with a fully produced work on stage at CounterPulse.

Interested in participating in one of our residencies? Check out current Open Calls >>

Cover Photo: Eisa Jocson’s Host, Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Artists

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    Simone Aughterlony is an independent artist based and supported in Zurich and Berlin, working predominantly in dance and performance contexts.

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    Antonija Livingstone (1971) EE/CA  is  based  in Berlin. Self- taught, her practice evolves via queer methods and operates at the

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    Drawing from his background in a wide field of genres including rock, classical, film, theater, improvised, and electronic music –

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    Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels.

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    Ishimwa Muhimanyi is a London-based Rwandan artist. His work is his journey as he asks: how can I live freely

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    Afrique Sogue Percussion and Dance is a traditional West African performing arts company based in the Bay Area, California. Afrique Sogue, meaning, The

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    keyon gaskin prefers not to contextualize their art with their credentials.   About this Project this is an artwork this

  • Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and advocate who has lived in New York for over twenty

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    Stina Nyberg is a choreographer and dancer from Sweden who for many years have been trying to blur the divides

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    Tove Sahlin has worked professionally as as Performer, Director, Choreographer, Project manager, Workshop leader since 2001 and have initiated, co-created and led

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    Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin is a choreographer from Co. Cork, Ireland. He lives and works on a small island; Oileán Chléire, an

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    Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. Originally trained as a visual artist, she won her