• 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

  • September 11, 2024

    Kim Requesto is positioned in the middle in front of a background of San Francisco. She is wearing nude colored garments with gold and pearl accessories.Two people stand on stage, with their backs to the audience, looking at a projection on the back wall of a text exchange.

    CounterPulse Presents ARC Performing Diaspora 2024

    By Published On: September 11th, 2024

    ‘Border / Line خط التماس’ by Jess Semaan and Halim Madi & ‘Sa Ating Ninuno (To Our Ancestors)’ by Kim Requesto December 5-6 & 12-13, 2024 @ 8PM PT // December 7 & 14, 2024 @ 2PM PT 80 Turk St, SF * Learn more and get tickets here SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- From the

  • July 25, 2024

    Body as a Crossroads Process Lab. Photo by Bobby Gordon

    Welcome to Fall 2024 at CounterPulse!

    By Published On: July 25th, 2024

    Come discover an array of delights this Fall Season at CounterPulse. Join us to welcome and witness reunion and transformation with a wide variety of butoh, poetic schemes, art films and more!  August 22 - 24 OTHER/self by BODYSONNET A vibrant live performance experience exploring intimacy and virtuosity. >> Sliding Scale $20

  • May 28, 2024

    A drag performer sings through the windows of CounterPulse, with it's neon lights illuminating the building

    CA Assemblymember Matt Haney Secures State Support for CounterPulse’s Permanent Home in Downtown San Francisco

    By Published On: May 28th, 2024

    In a landmark declaration of support for the arts in San Francisco, State Assemblymember Matt Haney has pushed CounterPulse to the finish line of their capital campaign to purchase their building and established a permanent home for arts in the Tenderloin. Recognizing CounterPulse’s significant cultural contributions over the last 30+ years, Assemblymember Haney secured a

  • May 20, 2024

    ARC Edge Resident gizeh muñiz vengel “contains us to daydream together”.

    By Published On: May 20th, 2024

    CounterPulse ARC Edge Resident gizeh muñiz vengel's "auiga" opens June 6-7 & 13-14, 2024 Get your tickets here! View the show program photo by Robbie Sweeny gizeh muñiz vengel Movement, Teaching and Performing artist. Mexicana, currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. They are dedicated to the study of being a body, through movement and stillness.

  • May 20, 2024

    ARC Edge Resident Diana Lara invites you to “Learn about the creation process, and props used in the piece”

    By Published On: May 20th, 2024

    CounterPulse ARC Edge Resident Diana Lara's "Savia~Sap flow: Embodied Connection with Ancestry and Nature" opens June 6-7 & 13-14, 2024 Get your tickets here View the show program! Diana Lara a choreographer, performer, and somatic movement educator born and raised in Honduras. Her choreographic work is influenced by contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering

  • April 24, 2024

    A promotional image for TurkxTaylor exhibition “Transition Times Part II Reconfiguring Structures of Power at Turk and Taylor” at CounterPulse May 1 to August 25, 2024. “Within an artfully rendered deconstructed building, nature grows on dilapidated walls and abandoned floors as sunlight shines through a gaping hole in the ceiling, exposing a cloudy sunset”

    Transition Times Part II: Re-configuring Structures of Power at Turk and Taylor

    By Published On: April 24th, 2024

    Transition Times Part II: Re-configuring Structures of Power is a continuation of the TurkxTaylor Initiative’s effort to collectively imagine ways to dismantle and reconfigure structures of power. The work presented reconfigures the building at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets, which was the landmark site of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a queer grassroots uprising against

  • April 18, 2024

    The show that took 17 years to make

    By Published On: April 18th, 2024

      by Genie Cartier, director of Dark Side of the Circus Although we only had a few months to rehearse it, this show took 17 years to make. My dad introduced me to Dark Side of the Moon when I was 16, a Haight Ashbury native already a decade into my circus training. The idea

  • April 10, 2024

    Call For Art: The Glitter Show

    By Published On: April 10th, 2024

    CounterPulse TenderArts Program announces The Glitter Show, paying homage to the role glitter has played as an important visual element in the history of gay liberation and creating a culturally defining, gay aesthetic.  Furthermore The Glitter Show has an educational message through introducing environmentally friendly glitter and the importance of environmentally friendly glitter to safety

  • February 8, 2024

    CounterPulse Presents ARC Edge 2024

    By Published On: February 8th, 2024

    I Savia~Sap flow: Embodied Connection with Ancestry and Nature by Diana Lara & auiga by gizeh muñiz vengel in collaboration with Grisel Torres and Ernesto Peart Falcón June 6-8 & 13-15, 2024 // 80 Turk St, SF Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tour on Saturday June 15th by Gabriele Christian of Gravity Access

  • March 13, 2024

    Remembering Jess Curtis

    By Published On: March 13th, 2024

    Dearest Community Members, We’re looking forward to coming together in an evening of community connection tomorrow at INNERSPACE. The value of this opportunity to take time to be together became all the more important as we heard news of the untimely and deeply sad passing of Jess Curtis on Monday, March 11th.  Jess Curtis is

  • January 13, 2024

    Artists Against Genocide

    By Published On: January 13th, 2024

    Artists Against Genocide 1/14/24 at 11 am to 2 am on 11/15/24 A gathering of the Bay Area’s performing artists and our communities, hosted at CounterPulse on Jan. 14th, from 11pm-2am. This event is a 14 hour marathon of programming designed for the purpose of education, mobilization, and radical acts of togetherness (Final schedule is