Artists

15 Mar, 2023

Tove Sahlin

2024-02-15T13:03:42-08:00By |

Tove Sahlin has worked professionally as as Performer, Director, Choreographer, Project manager, Workshop leader since 2001 and have initiated, co-created and led many projects, produktions and artistic collaborations. Sahlin was one of the co-founder and long term project manager of W.I.S.P. – Women in Swedish Performing arts – an established feminist network and for 10 years she was one of the members of the creative collective Bastardproduktion. Tove Sahlin now divides her time between her own work and commission work for some

15 Mar, 2023

Hahn Rowe

2024-02-15T12:42:24-08:00By |

Drawing from his background in a wide field of genres including rock, classical, film, theater, improvised, and electronic music – composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe has developed a uniquely personal sonic language which fuses disparate musical elements into atmospheric, sensual, and polymorphic soundscapes. Equally at home performing on violin, guitar, turntables, and digital/electronic studio instruments, Hahn Rowe has retained his unique sensibilities while crossing musical borders. He has worked with Hugo Largo, David Byrne, Antony and the Johnsons, Hassan Hakmoun,

15 Mar, 2023

Mugwumpin

2023-03-24T11:26:59-07:00By |

Mugwumpin creates live art that ignites radical collaboration, empathy, and curiosity. Situated at the intersection of dance, theater, multimedia and visual art installation, Mugwumpin’s original performances push against formal boundaries and create sensory rich, physically rigorous, and theatrically innovative experiences for audiences.   Mugwumpin was formed in San Francisco in 2004 with the aim of reinvigorating live performance as a communal event. Since then, the ensemble has created 14 full productions and many durational and smaller scale works. Outside of

15 Mar, 2023

Claire Staples

2023-03-24T11:26:47-07:00By |

Claire Staples launched the first Block Fest of 2019 with UNEARTHED Stories. Throughout the month of January, UNEARTHED artists collaborated with Tenderloin community members to tell their own stories through video interviews, stop motion animations, and personal footage. The stories were presented alongside UNEARTHED video installations during Block Fest in the CounterPulse gallery with a free communal meal to Tenderloin neighbors.

15 Mar, 2023

Miguel Gutierrez

2024-02-15T13:02:08-08:00By |

Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and advocate who has lived in New York for over twenty years. He is fascinated by the time-based nature of performance and how it creates an ideal frame for phenomenological questions around presence, meaning-making and the complexity of interiority. His work proposes an immersive state, where attention itself becomes a material that can be manipulated, stretched, strained, or dived into. His current work looks at how he negotiates his queer Latinx

15 Mar, 2023

Afrique Sogue

2024-02-15T12:58:57-08:00By |

Afrique Sogue Percussion and Dance is a traditional West African performing arts company based in the Bay Area, California. Afrique Sogue, meaning, The Sun of Africa, celebrates the dance and musical culture of the Manding and the Mandinka people, those descendants of the great pre-colonial empire of what is now considered Guinea, Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso. Afrique Sogue proclaims the diversity and unity of these regions, through performance art and arts education. AfriqueSogue engages audiences and participants in cross-cultural dialogue, collaboration, and innovation through live entertainment, education,

15 Mar, 2023

Ishimwa Muhimanyi

2024-02-15T12:57:19-08:00By |

Ishimwa Muhimanyi is a London-based Rwandan artist. His work is his journey as he asks: how can I live freely in this black body scared or perhaps gifted with memories of loss, abuse and neglect?

15 Mar, 2023

Meg Stuart

2024-02-15T12:55:26-08:00By |

Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. The daughter of theatre directors, she began dancing and acting at an early age in California and regularly performed in her parents’ productions and those made by family friends. She made her first dance studies as a teenager focusing on simple movement actions. Stuart decided to move to New York in 1983 and studied dance at New York University. She

15 Mar, 2023

Stina Nyberg

2023-03-24T11:27:03-07:00By |

Stina Nyberg is a choreographer and dancer from Sweden who for many years have been trying to blur the divides between science, art and belief. She has, amongst other things, choreographed the Shaking the Habitual tour with The Knife, created works for the Cullberg ballet as well as a string of independent works in Europe. She is currently spending time in New York to continue her investigations through dance.   About this Project In Thunderstruck, Stina Nyberg returns to a

15 Mar, 2023

Philip Gerson

2023-03-24T11:27:01-07:00By |

For Block Fest on the Mic, CounterPulse teamed up with Curry Senior Center's Phillip Gerson in the creation of a massive, ever-growing collective poem. Participants added lines to the poem as the piece continues to expand in dimension, perspective, and imagination.

15 Mar, 2023

Mabel Valdiviezo with Travis Bennett

2023-03-24T11:26:58-07:00By |

Mabel Valdiviezo Artistic Director and dancer   Mabel is a 21st-century techno-shaman who employs the arts as a means of expression to achieve social justice for cultural, community and gender healing. Utilizing a multidisciplinary lens, she creates intimate and immersive works through film, mixed media, video, and performance, exploring relevant themes such as transnational migration, diaspora, and belonging. Grounded by research and an experiential approach, her projects combine ancestral indigenous knowledge with accessible interactive technology.   Mabel has exhibited her

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