What’s New at CounterPulse

Hey y'all, FACT/SF is back this week with another Tasty Tuesdays posting.  We share who we're inspired by...artists and thinkers who we think have made, or are making, significant contributions.  This week it's  the choreographer, dancer, and, by some accounts, true founder of modern dance - which of course laid the foundation for contemporary dance

I think with Satie's work, especially with this piece, a simple and methodical space is opened that allows the listener to submerge themselves in thought, reflection, and image-building.  The work has an emotional quality...but I think it's generated by the listener, and doesn't necessary lie within the score itself.  There's something about this that reminds

Here are the first four free-writes, on the shared formative theme of 'first bedroom', from FACT/SF's performers.  They each chose eight words or phrases that were resonant to them for whatever reason.  These texts, and others like them, form the basic source material for the entire POv Project! swirling upwards, strange, swaying, winds, round, antique, telephone, windowsill brass hook, misty ghost, mom, crazy, next first room, stupid

As we're just getting to know each other, dear CounterPULSE community, I'll do my best to share with you what I'm thinking about, how I work, and what I'm creating throughout FACT/SF's residency.  It occurs to me that sometimes sharing inspirations is the most effective way of communicating interests...so we've launched "Tasty Tuesdays" on our

Hello! I could not be more thrilled to begin developing Pretonically Oriented v.3 at CounterPULSE via the Artist Residency Commissioning Program.  The last few rounds of ARC have produced some truly remarkable works – Kegan Marling and Dandelion Dancetheater most recently, and Jesse Hewit and Laura Arrington last August.  So great.  Challenging, beautiful, nuance-filled works