• February 14, 2017

    weather // body :: 01

    By Published On: February 14th, 2017

    Adam and I are thinking about change over time - how one experiences change as one ages, how one’s relationship to time changes. We’re thinking about how the environment around us changes - how the tectonic plates shift and the earth quakes, how the tides rise and fall, how some nights the stars appear in

  • January 31, 2017

    CounterPulse Spring 2017 Season Announcement

    By Published On: January 31st, 2017

    CounterPulse Spring 2017 brings forth a milieu of performance makers for a season of works that will be respite from and resistance to the powers that be. We make space this spring season for risk, pleasure, solidarity, conflict, and futurity. CounterPulse is your home for radical ridiculousness, dissident discomposure, and all adjacent anarchic alliterations ;

  • November 17, 2016

    Art & activism with dana e. fitchet & Sammay

    By Published On: November 17th, 2016

    By Erica Dixon   I met with our 2016 Performing Diaspora artists to chat about their process two weeks ago, the week before our recent election. After last week's reaffirmation of our country's divisiveness and bigotry, the exploration of the artist's role in activist work feels more important now than ever. A question that I have

  • October 28, 2016

    Eulogy for Lola Cion

    By Published On: October 28th, 2016

    I will never forget the moment I met you. Really met you. It was just 2 ½ years ago. I was 22 years old and although I had visited you when I was three and again when I was sixteen… I really never met you until I was 22. I had just returned from Mindanao…

  • October 27, 2016

    San Francisco, CounterPulse, and Proposition S

    By Published On: October 27th, 2016

    Me and my family at CounterPulse's Magenta Party earlier this year A note from Executive Director Tomás Riley on Prop S   Dear CounterPulse Family,   We are in the thick of the struggle for simultaneously preserving San Francisco as the creative capital and safe haven for families it represents for thousands of

  • October 21, 2016

    It’s amazing how much better a meal tastes when there’s a seat at the table for everyone.

    By Published On: October 21st, 2016

    The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 set the bar for equitable physical access to facilities and public accommodations.  Bathrooms are handicap accessible, buildings have elevators, stairs have handrails, Braille signage is posted, doorways are wide enough for wheelchairs, toilets have grab bars and so on What the ADA requirement doesn’t mandate is a mindset

  • October 19, 2016

    emotional labor

    By Published On: October 19th, 2016

    Emotional labor is not unlike physical labor. I build muscles through repetition        to lift               to hold                         to erase I build muscles          to grieve            

  • October 13, 2016

    in this age of dissociated reality

    By Published On: October 13th, 2016

    "In this age of dissociated reality we must remember the machine is an embodiment of us and we are responsible for its boundaries." -Jennifer Eddy, STAND GROUND. Come engage in the dialogue. STAND GROUND opens Thursday and runs Oct 13-15 & 20-22.

  • October 7, 2016

    The Night We Summoned a Goddess

    By Published On: October 7th, 2016

      https://www.flickr.com/photos/counterpulse/29058367604/in/photostream/ Dohee Lee's ARA Ritual I: Waterways, Photos by Robbie Sweeny    Have, you ever noticed, when you attend a CounterPulse show, that you, as a member of the the audience, stand a good chance of having a performer ask for your help with summoning something?  Energy, clapping your hands, stomping your feet,

  • October 6, 2016

    traces of STAND GROUND

    By Published On: October 6th, 2016

    Standing sexy at 3 feet tall, 4 feet wide and stretched 6 feet long, this is where I sleep. Sure I can't move around aimlessly, spread my legs sit up or roll over more than once.  In the berthing racks are stacked three high. Well, you have to fit 60+ girls in here.  The best

  • October 4, 2016

    my mechanical appendage

    By Published On: October 4th, 2016

    I no longer carry the weapon I once thought of as a dear friend, an extension of myself that was intended for killing, yet kept me safe. I know this is not what many want to hear, but you must understand the context, you must understand war, not as a spectator in the audience, but

  • October 3, 2016

    self-portrait

    By Published On: October 3rd, 2016

    the days are much longer here. we wake up early. we sleep early and into the night. we dream wild dreams that feel too real but ought not to be. or else. or at least that is the summary of what occurs therein. it's good to hear mom's boisterous laugh. it breaks to hear her cry for her mother. my grandmother. in my dreams