What’s New at CounterPulse

Three upcoming events tell a rich story about San Francisco’s past, present, and future SAN FRANCISCO - CounterPulse first opened the doors to its venue in the Tenderloin back in 2016. Ever since, it has been a central hub for avant-garde performing arts and dance in San Francisco as well as a shining light for

For Immediate Release: March 9, 2022  San Francisco Bay Area / Performing Arts / Real Estate Establishing a permanent home for arts in San Francisco’s overheated real estate market SAN FRANCISCO, CA —  At a time when arts spaces are struggling to maintain their foothold in San Francisco due to the high cost of real

by Rick Darnell, Associate Director CounterPulse Neighborhood Arts Hello neighbors near and far. After over a year and a half, CounterPulse’s Block Fest is back and better than ever! Every second Friday of the month we will feature a local artist including:  Janet Williams who will lead an embroidery workshop on Friday, March 11thRamekon O’Arwisters

Download CounterPulse's Spring 2022 Program Book We've learned so much in the last few years about what is essential about the work of CounterPulse. We know how to adapt, when to let go, when to hang on, and when we might need to try some third or fourth or even fifth option. Thank you for continuing

In this blog we'll keep you updated with photos, video, and sound snippets that accompany the development of our piece CATENA that's going to be premiered online on January 13th -- livestreamed from CounterPulse's theater in San Francisco. Learn More about CATENA and Dilate Ensemble here RSVP for the Livestream A NOTE FROM DILATE ENSEMBLE

Adapted from a blog posted 10/08/20 on Life As A Modern Dancer In 2018, Jo put out a call for a Black change-maker interested in engaging with a Jewish artist about racial justice and prison abolition. Rahsaan responded. In the more than 3 years we’ve been in collaboration, we’ve written 45 letters, sat down together

The SEED residency was a blessing of space and time to create. My artistic partner Jakob and I spent as much time as we could at CounterPulse, long hours in the space, not just for creation and play, but to live and be in the space, to be part of the environment that is CounterPulse

Amara Tabor-Smith (she/her/we) is a choreographer/performance maker and the artistic director of Deep Waters Dance Theater.  On Tuesday September 14th as part of the CounterPulse Festival 2021, we will be hosting Embodied Divination, a movement-based workshop where participants are invited to “contemplate their body as oracle, as compass, and a site for social repair”. Limited

At the CounterPulse Festival this September, The Performance Primers will be hosting a virtual panel discussion and mixer titled "Queeratorial Collectives Do It Themselves". This conversation will explore how working on a grassroots level outside conventional venues and capitalist values opens up new possibilities and invites deeper engagement among audiences and artists. Ahead of this

With the CounterPulse Festival 2021 just one week away, we are so excited to be opening our doors to the public once again!CounterPulse exists, above all, to make space for people to gather and to be united in collective experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us to change and shift the ways we bring people together,

While at CounterPulse I first felt out the space and listened to mentor Joanna Haigood and used the first moments to get into my body and meditate on how I wanted to utilize it as a tool to begin telling these stories which I am still learning but that also live within me. I did