• November 1, 2017

    The House Managers of CounterPulse

    By Published On: November 1st, 2017

    The House Managers of CounterPulse are the busy bees ensuring our Front of House is running smoothly. These dedicated individuals are seamlessly relaying information among artists and technicians, overseeing our box office ushers, and making sure all our patrons are accounted for. So who are the Managers of The House? Take a moment to read

  • October 25, 2017

    Mother the Verb : Beginnings

    By Published On: October 25th, 2017

    A spark in the (Mid)Night - Entre suor e esplendor Our project, like so many sensuous,  creative acts, first took seed on a humid San Francisco summer’s night. In June 2016 Ivy Monteiro, Javier Stell-Fresquez, and Davia Spain found themselves dancing on the same upper balcony of Public Works Nightclub. JAVIER: why did u notice

  • October 7, 2017

    On change and collaboration…presenting the new CounterPulse org chart

    By Published On: October 7th, 2017

    At CounterPulse, we invite change as our constant, from moving into our new facility to our ever rotating cast of artists and accomplices. We persistently strive to work better together, excited by the way that true collaboration necessitates an aptitude for change. We've updated our org chart to reflect new changes and new ways of

  • October 5, 2017

    Keepin’ it Real…down in the TL

    By Published On: October 5th, 2017

    by Krista DeNio, Skywatchers Artist Facilitator **NOTE: The names of individuals in this post have been changed for confidentiality. It all started with having one another’s backs. That’s right. I got your back. Whose got your back? I GOT YOUR BACK. We said, we sung, we danced and we meant it. This past year, Skywatchers focused

  • September 18, 2017

    Judith Butler on Performativity and Performance

    By Published On: September 18th, 2017

    Julie Phelps Interviewing Judith Butler Original Interview conducted on July 18, 2013 On Friday, November 3, 2017, renowned gender theorist Judith Butler will be conversing with Monique Jenkinson, the artist behind the cis-female drag persona Fauxnique in an evening entitled “Ordinary Practices of the Radical Body” at CounterPulse. Let’s take a look back to 2013

  • September 17, 2017

    Combustible: an early retrospect

    By Published On: September 17th, 2017

    So here we are, just before the last performance. It has been 5 exciting performances so far. With all of them going 'perfect'... And of course nothing is never the perfect but those imperfections and the performers response to them make each night unique and different. This is the nature of things. Now let's look

  • September 11, 2017

    Membership Musings from the Development Director

    By Published On: September 11th, 2017

    Development Director Jeanne Pfeffer Big changes happening to the membership program at CounterPulse, people. Big changes. I thought, what is a membership program for Counterpulse? For eight years I’ve been pondering the question, actually. What is membership for a community based, performing arts center? It is in the words community and arts. Members

  • August 28, 2017

    Block Fest Activator: How to Make a Coloring Book (Like Us)

    By Published On: August 28th, 2017

    This is how my co-artists and I started and completed our first coloring book. To begin, we asked the larger questions then focused on the technicalities and details. Large questions are, for example, what is your message or general theme for the book? What do you want to say or share with your audience? We wanted

  • August 25, 2017

    Groundwater and Grassroots: The Curious Tale of Justin Ebrahemi

    By Published On: August 25th, 2017

    My Path: My career trajectory seems foreign to my family. “You’ve been studying water for 2 years and now you’re at a dance organization?” Well, not quite. You see, I got my Masters in a social science research program entitled Environment & Community, where I interrogated the disparate cultural themes surrounding water management in search

  • August 12, 2017

    Collaboration in the age of multimedia art

    By Published On: August 12th, 2017

    Hey everyone, This time I wanted to talk about my views on collaboration and how it applies to our residency with Freya at CounterPulse. So let's start by dumping some ideas. Collaboration to me... is about communicating is about the work/project not individuals is also the individuals enjoying is the process of getting multiple people involved

  • August 11, 2017

    Digital friends

    By Published On: August 11th, 2017

    https://instagram.com/p/BWRZ6aoFRW7/ [Photo by: Josh Dookhie, Performers: Freya Olafson, James Phillips, and Lise McMillan]

  • August 1, 2017

    CounterPulse Fall 2017 Season Announcement

    By Published On: August 1st, 2017

    CounterPulse is launching into an electrifying fall season with a series of performances that seek virtual bodies, radical bodies, quantified bodies and missing bodies through movement. We face extinction and environmental toxicity while finding resilience in community, pleasure, and corporeality. We'll kick things off with new works from Combustible, CounterPulse's newest residency program that synthesizes