• May 4, 2018

    I LOVE THIS (or….very personal reflections that aren’t completely about the inaugural CounterPulse Festival)

    By Published On: May 4th, 2018

    I don’t actually remember the first time that I met Julie, but I do have a picture in my head of sitting at my desk at the old CounterPulse, at 1310 Mission, and looking to my left and seeing her working at a desk that we rented out to Jess Curtis at the time for

  • April 26, 2018

    Body Group

    By Published On: April 26th, 2018

    An excerpt from Jesse Hewit's piece on Upstanding Others as part of the 2018 CounterPulse Festival. Originally published on SFMOMA's Open Space. Read the full piece here. The premise: Upstanding Others was an experiment that happened within the inaugural CounterPulse Festival, and it happened from March 12 through March 17, 2018. There were eight to ten

  • April 2, 2018

    Community Service Program: Volunteer at CounterPulse!

    By Published On: April 2nd, 2018

    Great news! CounterPulse is a participant in SFMTA's Community Service Program, which allows eligible people to pay off their San Francisco parking tickets through community service. The Community Service Program is for people who cannot afford to pay their parking tickets or traffic violations. People are assigned community service hours in lieu of paying.  Project 20 serves

  • March 24, 2018

    Exchange between Jill Holman Randall and Lauren Simpson

    By Published On: March 24th, 2018

    Excerpted from the original post “Musings on Unison” on online blog, Life as a Modern Dancer: http://blog.lifeasamoderndancer.com/2018/03/musings-on-unison.html Jill Holman Randall-Inside a work, what strategies do you use to perform in unison? Lauren Simpson- We make and perform unison a lot. We never perform in unison to metered music because it flattens and “regularizes” the idiosyncratic rhythms

  • March 16, 2018

    In response to this is an artwork…

    By Published On: March 16th, 2018

    What is a body But a thing That we have made life into Flesh and bone and fascia Blood and gut and sinew Just things Lumped together In folds and flops Joints and juts Sewn up in a sack Of fat and skin and hair And we all agree It's a body What is a

  • March 1, 2018

    Recipe for a Still Life Dance

    By Published On: March 1st, 2018

    Rehearsal Footage from Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations' Still Life No. 8 as part of CounterPulse's Edge Residency 2018

  • February 28, 2018

    Fifteen Minutes with Five Feet Dance: Beyond the Process

    By Published On: February 28th, 2018

    Transcription by: Jazlynn G. Eugenio Pastor (Five Feet Dance Collaborator) Joyce: I don’t know if it’s really questions, but this whole process has really forced me to relook at both my pride and shame of being Chinese; really having to- It’s made me go back. I feel like I’ve kind of worked through

  • February 28, 2018

    Fifteen Minutes with Five Feet Dance: Creating Space

    By Published On: February 28th, 2018

      Transcription by: Jazlynn G. Eugenio Pastor (Five Feet Dance Collaborator) Clarissa: Hi everybody! This is Five Feet Dance. We’re a dance company focused on making dance, sharing stories, and creating community. We’re currently an edge artist in residence at Counterpulse, making a project exploring the Asian American identity and experience with group

  • January 3, 2018

    CounterPulse Spring 2018 Season Announcement

    By Published On: January 3rd, 2018

    CounterPulse is launching into a mind-bending spring season with a series of performances that activate cultural pluralism through human-scale movements and bodily resistance. In spring 2018 we navigate through interplanetary time as lovers and cultural vanguards. Kicking things off in February, the legendary Kei Takei returns to San Francisco for a rare three nights of

  • December 21, 2017

    An Offering to Past and Future Ancestors

    By Published On: December 21st, 2017

    The Performing Diaspora residency at CounterPulse returned this year with two works mapping the connection between ancestry, queer identity, and tradition asking, ‘How do we collaborate with the force of the unseen? How we can transcend the toxins flowing in our bodies and societies?’ The residency creates a platform for artists of color to tell

  • December 1, 2017

    wild child in residence at CounterPulse

    By Published On: December 1st, 2017

    Combining pompous burlesque acts with intimate confessions, ,wild child" blurs the line between natural and artificial, authenticity and masquerade, reality and fantasy. The performer morphs from one character to the next and reenacts past encounters to discover what sexual desire is. They play with femininity and other gender roles to unveil the joy, fear, shame, violence,

  • November 26, 2017

    Who are your Lxs Desaparecidxs?

    By Published On: November 26th, 2017

    Questions to Consider (proposed by Randy):   Who are your Lxs Desaparecidxs? In what ways has being in this process shifted your own creative practice, if at all? Where do you see the piece going next and how do you see the work evolving? What questions have persisted since the process began and what new