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Nkeiruka Oruche is a cultural organizer, producer and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in Pan Afro-Urban culture and its intersections with personal identity, public wealth and sociopolitical action. Currently, she is focused on expanding and sustaining grassroots change-making and community health through work as co-founder of BoomShake, and Afro Urban Society, and as Artistic Director of Gbedu Town Radio.   About this Project ‘Mixtape of the Dead & Gone #1’-  Egwu Onwu Ahamefula Every track must come to an end, but you

Rachael Dichter is a San Francisco based dancer, performer, choreographer and curator. She works often with others and sometimes alone. She makes work about closeness. About the shortest distance and shortening the distance between things - between people. Having studied dance and art history at Mills College she was a 2015 Danceweb Scholar, a 2017 Artist in Residence at Caldera, a 2019 Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Residency. Her

Ishan ایشان is a performance collective founded by Armineh Astanbous and Rachael Sharkland. Their work seeks to undo the rule of certainty and category in the name of curiosity, difference, experience, and adaptation. Together they explore the construction of self at the intersection of perspectives, practices, rituals, and orders of (un)thinking. Ishan is a conversation, a relationship, and a technique of perception.   Armineh Astanbous was born in Tehran, a city where dance is forbidden. Despite the regime’s prohibition, she

Audrey Johnson (she/her) is a queer Black mixed-race movement artist with roots from Detroit and Plymouth Michigan, currently rooting in Oakland, CA. Audrey’s work lives, arrives, and changes in the realms of embodiment, movement, food, relationship, magic, ritual, plants, and land. Audrey's project at CounterPulse will explore Black freedom practices in food, farming, and rootwork through dance, ritual, interview, and performance. www.audreyjohnson.space   About this Project [and then we must be] is a performance and ritual, storytelling and research process,

Stephanie Hewett is a choreographer, movement researcher, performer, and teacher from the Bronx, New York (Lenape territory). She is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts and has studied at the Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. She holds an MFA in Dance from Mills College and was recently on faculty at the College of San Mateo. Her movement-based performance work aims to highlight fluid identity and reimagines the

Kim Ip/Krimm is a choreographer and performer who uses her choreography to undermine the stereotypes and expectations of the performing womxns' body as it relates to American Pop Culture. Her work critiques the mediated gaze of womxns’ bodies in media through physically exhausting dance and club culture aesthetic. She desires to create alternate experiences on stage that unhinge the viewer from what is comfortable by co-opting familiar imagery and utilizing subtle distortion. Kim Ip/Krimm has received residencies from Shawl-Anderson Dance

Arletta Anderson and Adam Smith are a dance artist and a theater artist, respectively. Locally, Arletta has danced with GERALDCASELDANCE, Christy Funsch, Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations. Adam is most known for his work with the San Francisco Neo-Futurists and his critically acclaimed docu-theatre experiment, Theatre Show. Together they create multidisciplinary performance that brings together movement, theater and music. Their work exists in real time: there are no characters, no fake sets, no suspension of disbelief. Anderson and Smith have shared their work

Todd Thomas Brown’s (founder, artistic director, performer, composer) ​career spans disciplines of dance, music performance, a visual arts practice, and projects rooted in social practice. He is the founder of the Red Poppy Art House, The Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP), and recently initiated the Mission Stoop Fest. His performance work includes, “Teobi’s Dreaming”, “This. Now.,” and music ensemble ​Nefasha Ayer (with Meklit Hadero). His work has been supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission, the San Francisco Foundation,

Artistic Director/Choreographer Clarissa K. Ko is the founder and Artistic Director of Five Feet Dance, a dance company in San Francisco. Most recently presenting works at SAFEhouse Arts, Little Boxes Theatre, and LEVYsalon. She is an arts educator and choreographer. Ko is a MSEd Learning Design and Technology candidate at Purdue University and received her BA in Performing Arts and Social Justice (Dance) from the University of San Francisco. She is on faculty with ODC’s Youth and Teen Program, Performing