• January 17, 2023

    WELCOME TO SPRING 2023 AT COUNTERPULSE

    By Published On: January 17th, 2023

    Year after year, CounterPulse brings you a little taste of everything that the Bay Area art scene has to offer and this Spring Season is no different! From contemporary dance to nightlife experiences to board game nights, there’s something for everyone coming up at 80 Turk! Want to bring a plus one to the show?

  • December 30, 2022

    2022 in Reflection

    By Published On: December 30th, 2022

    2022 marked a historic shift for CounterPulse – we raised the funds we need to buy our building in downtown San Francisco!  As we work to make our dream a reality, we’re counting on our supporters who have seen us from the beginning of this campaign to support our work year-round. I want to offer

  • December 20, 2022

    ARC Alumni Artist Spotlight: Pseuda

    By Published On: December 20th, 2022

    Written By: Alyssa Miller As queer performance art becomes more mainstream nationally and in San Francisco, it is important to recognize and support those queer artists who are eccentric even within their own communities. Drag performance artist Pseuda embodies the essence of unconventionality. They incorporate dark imagery and themes that are not common within the

  • December 6, 2022

    San Francisco is constantly changing, yet CounterPulse endures!

    By Published On: December 6th, 2022

    CounterPulse was founded over 30 years ago in an oversized living room by a collective of artists who started producing shows and inviting their friends. They were fortunate enough to have that space to gather, so their community began to grow. We have always maintained the alchemy of those grassroots beginnings: part emergent and iterative,

  • November 15, 2022

    The Settler Body and Its Undoing

    By Published On: November 15th, 2022

    Unsettled/Soiled Group is a group of East, Southeast, and South Asian diasporic movers, makers, and settlers on Ramaytush and Chochenyo Ohlone land. Unsettled/Soiled Group is led by June Yuen Ting, one of CounterPulse's 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Dwelling for Unsettling alongside VERA!'s Try, Hye!, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022

  • November 9, 2022

    Introducing CounterPulse’s New Outreach Fellow

    By Published On: November 9th, 2022

    We are so excited to introduce Alyssa Miller who is joining us as our Outreach Fellow at CounterPulse this winter. Alyssa comes to us from SFSU where they are studying professional writing and rhetoric with a focus on social media and graphic design. We asked Alyssa a few questions about themself and why they wanted

  • October 21, 2022

    CounterPulse Presents ARC Performing Diaspora 2022

    By Published On: October 21st, 2022

    Try, Hye! by Vera Hannush/VERA! & Dwelling for Unsettling by Unsettled/Soiled Group December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022 // 8PM PT // 80 Turk St, SF // counterpulse.org/performingdiaspora2022 SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The 2022 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora program presents Try, Hye!by Vera Hannush/VERA! and Dwelling for Unsettlingby Unsettled/Soiled Group. In Try, Hye!, Armenian drag king VERA!

  • October 18, 2022

    VERA! Poses, looking naked in a tan dance onesie, holding a blue child’s tambourine

    O Hye I Didn’t See You There

    By Published On: October 18th, 2022

    VERA! (they/them) is a queer Armenian American drag king, dancer, and community activist. They are one of CounterPulse's 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Try, Hye! alongside Unsettled/Soiled Group's Dwelling for Unsettling, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022

  • September 27, 2022

    Community Workshops for Self Care

    By Published On: September 27th, 2022

    QUAKE is an upcoming solo performance at CounterPulse by Kat Gorospe Cole centered around mental health and ancestral connection. Exploring within what seedkeeper Rowen White calls the “diaspora of disconnect,” Cole looks for the threads that connect her to a maternal history back to the Ilocos region of the Philippines. What has been inherited? What

  • September 21, 2022

    Be A Part of the Tenderloin Arts Festival

    By Published On: September 21st, 2022

    Download More Information Contact us at tlartsfest@gmail.com to get involved! The Tenderloin has and continues to have a history as a unique hub in San Francisco for artistic expression to grow. Organizations such as Cutting Ball Theater, the Tenderloin Museum, Counterpulse, Piano Fight, the Trans Cultural District and many storefront galleries have found home and

  • September 20, 2022

    Meet the Facilitators for Li Chiao-Ping Dance’s HERE LIES THE TRUTH Talkbacks at CounterPulse

    By Published On: September 20th, 2022

    GET TICKETS NOW! Li Chiao Ping Dance is excited for the upcoming San Francisco premiere of Here Lies the Truth at CounterPulse Thursday, September 29th – Saturday, October 2nd. Much of LCPD’s work and research in recent years has centered on identity, race, otherness, and colonization. By bringing Here Lies the Truth to new audiences we hope

  • September 13, 2022

    Rescheduled FRE!HEIT brings together German Choreographer David Brandstätter and American Singer, Michelle Jacques for long-awaited US Premiere.

    By Published On: September 13th, 2022

    GET TICKETS San Francisco - Following a United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) imposed delay of four months, San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) is finally pleased to present the US debut of German choreographer, David Brandstätter in collaboration with American mezzo-soprano, Michelle Jacques for the US Premiere of FRE!HEIT (freedom in English).The project, originally scheduled to