• August 25, 2025

    Artists in Exile: 25-year Anniversary Screening

    By Published On: August 25th, 2025

    September 27th, 2025 at 1pm Roxie 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 The Roxie and CounterPulse join forces to present this 25th anniversary screening of Artists In Exile: A Story of Dance in San Francisco chronicles over forty years of dancemaking in the San Francisco/Bay Area. The film begins with the revolutionary Anna Halprin

  • August 25, 2025

    Trashflower

    By Published On: August 25th, 2025

    hi plastic, rose and zoe here, at Counterpulse in the upstairs studio, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?     “ if plastic were a guest at your party, who would they be?”  𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 / 𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 / 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 / 𝚜𝚘𝚏𝚝 / 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝-𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎 / 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚋𝚊𝚐 𝚜𝚎𝚊 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜

  • August 11, 2025

    CounterPulse Festival 2025

    By Published On: August 11th, 2025

    CounterPulse Presents Festival 2025 September 4 - 27, 2025   80 Turk St, SF // counterpulse.org/events S AN FRANCISCO, CA -- Welcome to the fifth installment of the CounterPulse Festival! Held every other year, the CounterPulse Festival is a month-long celebration of art and community, rooted in the queer experimental dance and art scenes

  • July 1, 2025

    Left: Provided by Melissa Wong Alt text: located on the beach of the Albany Bulb, one figure is laying down horizontal on the sand in the foreground of the image. Their head is supported by their elbow, legs stretched out long. They are a lighter skinned mixed race asian american. They are wearing a bright green bikini with a silver mylar balloon over their head, which is fully inflated because of the wind. The second figure is standing further back, also mixed race asian american, with skin more in shadow, arms bent with hands resting on hips, located on the far left side of the image, in a pink one piece, also with an inflated mylar balloon over her head. Right: Provided by Robbie Sweeny Alt text: A blurry photograph taken in red light. A figure reaches her hand toward the camera, with a long feather boa covering her arm. Her eyes, painted with thick black eyeshadow, are closed in concentration.

    CounterPulse Presents ARC Edge 2025

    By Published On: July 1st, 2025

    ‘‘Trashflower’ by Rose and Zoe Huey & ‘On the Floor’ by Maria Silk September 4, 2025 @ 8PM PT - September 5, 2025 @ 8PM PT September 12, 2025 @ 8PM PT - September 13, 2025 @ 2PM PT 80 Turk St. SF Learn more and get tickets here SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- From living

  • May 13, 2025

    “is this the millennial bottom?: a meditation”

    By Published On: May 13th, 2025

    ARC Seed 2025 presents Kim Ip --------------  ------  -----          ------------      -- Cordelia’s TikTok famous song “i think i like this little life” hit where my achilles tendon gets strained…maybe stringy.     In all the strain of my torn ankle ligament is a soft spot for an acoustic lilt

  • May 6, 2025

    Gericault De La Rose, Tethered, 2024. Installation view from A Soft Place to Land at SOMArts. Courtesy of the artist and SOMArts. An installation photo of a weaving by artist Gericault De La Rose. The weaving shows 19 different hands from people of different races and walks of life encircling a glowing gold heart with small cherub wings. The heart levitates inside a glowing, clear bubble. The weaving is centered on a lilac wall and lit by a spotlight from above, creating an oval halo around the vertically oriented rectangular weaving. To the left is a navy blue velvet curtain, and to the right is a light pink wall. The floor is a rough concrete.

    Show Me Devotion

    By Published On: May 6th, 2025

      Off Hours, CounterPulse’s spring 2025 curators in residence, are excited to announce Show Me Devotion, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Gericault De La Rose and Adrian Clutario.   About Show Me Devotion  A freer, queerer world is not only possible; it already exists. It is slippery and elusive, but you can find

  • March 18, 2025

    Princess Nautanki

    By Published On: March 18th, 2025

    Devendra Sharma and Sharvari Deshpande performing in a Nautanki. Photographer Shayoni Mitra                   Nautanki is the princess of the kingdom of Multan. She is so beautiful and intelligent that many suitors, mostly princes, come to get her hand in marriage, but all fail. Oblivious of

  • March 17, 2025

    Ethereal

    Ethereal

    By Published On: March 17th, 2025

    Ethereal: Market Street Studios Meet Tenderloin Stage  San Francisco, CA — ArtSpan and CounterPulse are proud to present "Ethereal," a transformative group exhibition featuring works by thirteen artists from ArtSpan’s Journal Building Residency. The exhibition runs from January 9 through April 28, 2025, at CounterPulse's historic Tenderloin venue supporting experimental arts.  "Ethereal" spans three floors,

  • February 4, 2025

    INNERSPACE : We-Topia

    By Published On: February 4th, 2025

    Thursday March 6th • 5PM - 10PM Step into a world where imagination shapes reality at CounterPulse’s annual gala! This year, INNERSPACE: We-Topia is powered by a completely renewable resource–community joy! No matter the conditions in other worlds, INNERSPACE: We-Topia grows from an alchemical soil that converts resistance to resilience.Together, we’ll hone utopia as

  • January 21, 2025

    ARC SEED 2024 featuring De Alma

    By Published On: January 21st, 2025

    Ātl Verde: "Ātl," the Nahuatl word for water, symbolizing the river flowing through my evolution—connecting past, present, and future. This piece reflects my journey as a migrant trans mujer, immersing the audience in a lush, sonic, and visual landscape, like a spiritual rain that nurtures growth. De Alma is a celebrated trans pioneer in the

  • January 6, 2025

    Primera Generación Dance Collective Returns to San Francisco with Invitation from Bridge Live Arts

    By Published On: January 6th, 2025

      Primera Generación Dance Collective is ready to be back in San Francisco! We are so excited to perform and be in community with our friends and familia in the Bay. Our last time performing in SF was back in 2019 for the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Over the years our members, Alfonso

  • September 16, 2024

    In this bright psychedelic scene set in a magenta and black space scape filled with stars that is framed by large yellow, red, pink, magenta and purple flowers, a dancing woman with blue bird wings smiles at a descending magenta and gold fish which is followed by a school of smaller golden fish. Opposite of the woman is a dancer with the head of a deer and yellow butterfly wings. In the bottom center between the two dancers is a giant periwinkle flower in full bloom.

    Embodying Utopia

    By Published On: September 16th, 2024

      Embodying Utopia is a project created to give queer people the space to imagine what an ideal world would look like for them.    Crystal Vielula selected four incredible queer Bay Area dancer/choreographers to imagine queer utopias that were safe and joyful.  In response to their answers, she created collages of each of their