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21 Jan, 2025

ARC SEED 2024 featuring De Alma

2025-01-21T15:49:10-08:00By |Categories: Artists in Residence, Krista Denio|

Ātl Verde: "Ātl," the Nahuatl word for water, symbolizing the river flowing through my evolution—connecting past, present, and future. This piece reflects my journey as a migrant trans mujer, immersing the audience in a lush, sonic, and visual landscape, like a spiritual rain that nurtures growth. De Alma is a celebrated trans pioneer in the Bay Area, DE ALMA  is a trailblazer of advocacy activism and excellence, leaving endless inspiration and an incredible mark on worlds filled with courage, resilience

6 Jan, 2025

Primera Generación Dance Collective Returns to San Francisco with Invitation from Bridge Live Arts

2025-01-21T11:15:11-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

  Primera Generación Dance Collective is ready to be back in San Francisco! We are so excited to perform and be in community with our friends and familia in the Bay. Our last time performing in SF was back in 2019 for the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Over the years our members, Alfonso Cervera, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, and Patricia “Patty” Huerta, have had the pleasure of returning in different capacities, but we are filled with joy

16 Sep, 2024

Embodying Utopia

2024-11-19T16:52:46-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

  Embodying Utopia is a project created to give queer people the space to imagine what an ideal world would look like for them.    Crystal Vielula selected four incredible queer Bay Area dancer/choreographers to imagine queer utopias that were safe and joyful.  In response to their answers, she created collages of each of their imagined landscapes. Those collages were projected onto them as they danced so that they could embody their personal utopia.  From the collages, Vielula created 3-D

11 Sep, 2024

CounterPulse Presents ARC Performing Diaspora 2024

2024-11-14T10:41:01-08:00By |Categories: Performing Diaspora|

‘Border / Line خط التماس’ by Jess Semaan and Halim Madi & ‘Sa Ating Ninuno (To Our Ancestors)’ by Kim Requesto December 5-6 & 12-13, 2024 @ 8PM PT // December 7 & 14, 2024 @ 2PM PT 80 Turk St, SF * Learn more and get tickets here SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- From the ancestral breezes and passageways of the Philippines to the oral traditions of the mountains of Lebanon, the 2024 CounterPulse ARC Performing Diaspora program presents Sa

25 Jul, 2024

Welcome to Fall 2024 at CounterPulse!

2024-11-19T16:49:37-08:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

Come discover an array of delights this Fall Season at CounterPulse. Join us to welcome and witness reunion and transformation with a wide variety of butoh, poetic schemes, art films and more!  August 22 - 24 OTHER/self by BODYSONNET A vibrant live performance experience exploring intimacy and virtuosity. >> Sliding Scale $20 – $30 << Saturday, August 24 TurkXTaylor Closing Gallery Reception A call to action to liberate the historical landmark site of the 1966

28 May, 2024

CA Assemblymember Matt Haney Secures State Support for CounterPulse’s Permanent Home in Downtown San Francisco

2024-05-24T16:17:26-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

In a landmark declaration of support for the arts in San Francisco, State Assemblymember Matt Haney has pushed CounterPulse to the finish line of their capital campaign to purchase their building and established a permanent home for arts in the Tenderloin. Recognizing CounterPulse’s significant cultural contributions over the last 30+ years, Assemblymember Haney secured a $500,000 appropriation in the California State budget to pay down the loan CounterPulse needed to close on their home at 80 Turk Street. This funding,

20 May, 2024

ARC Edge Resident gizeh muñiz vengel “contains us to daydream together”.

2024-06-06T14:47:50-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

CounterPulse ARC Edge Resident gizeh muñiz vengel's "auiga" opens June 6-7 & 13-14, 2024 Get your tickets here! View the show program photo by Robbie Sweeny gizeh muñiz vengel Movement, Teaching and Performing artist. Mexicana, currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. They are dedicated to the study of being a body, through movement and stillness. Her choreographic work responds to processes of grief and joy, with an arduous commitment to transformation and presence They recreate body stories through touch, relationship

20 May, 2024

ARC Edge Resident Diana Lara invites you to “Learn about the creation process, and props used in the piece”

2024-07-18T11:47:11-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

CounterPulse ARC Edge Resident Diana Lara's "Savia~Sap flow: Embodied Connection with Ancestry and Nature" opens June 6-7 & 13-14, 2024 Get your tickets here View the show program! Diana Lara a choreographer, performer, and somatic movement educator born and raised in Honduras. Her choreographic work is influenced by contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering training, and Latinx culture. She creates choreographies that explore the effects of coloniality, religion, and gender on the body, and that generate rituals to peel

24 Apr, 2024

Transition Times Part II: Re-configuring Structures of Power at Turk and Taylor

2024-08-16T14:47:47-07:00By |Categories: CIR|

Transition Times Part II: Re-configuring Structures of Power is a continuation of the TurkxTaylor Initiative’s effort to collectively imagine ways to dismantle and reconfigure structures of power. The work presented reconfigures the building at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets, which was the landmark site of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a queer grassroots uprising against police violence in August 1966. The exhibition highlights the building’s current use as a “halfway house” operated by private prison company GEO Group and serves

18 Apr, 2024

The show that took 17 years to make

2024-04-18T14:07:23-07:00By |Categories: Uncategorized|

  by Genie Cartier, director of Dark Side of the Circus Although we only had a few months to rehearse it, this show took 17 years to make. My dad introduced me to Dark Side of the Moon when I was 16, a Haight Ashbury native already a decade into my circus training. The idea which immediately sparked-- to choreograph a circus show to this album-- sat on a shelf for the next ten years. I thought about it frequently,

10 Apr, 2024

Call For Art: The Glitter Show

2024-04-24T12:38:31-07:00By |Categories: Tenderloin|

CounterPulse TenderArts Program announces The Glitter Show, paying homage to the role glitter has played as an important visual element in the history of gay liberation and creating a culturally defining, gay aesthetic.  Furthermore The Glitter Show has an educational message through introducing environmentally friendly glitter and the importance of environmentally friendly glitter to safety for both artist and environment. Traditional glitter is many times sourced from micro plastic, which is extremely long lasting and harmful to the environment, animals

8 Feb, 2024

CounterPulse Presents ARC Edge 2024

2024-06-06T14:42:27-07:00By |Categories: edge residency|

I Savia~Sap flow: Embodied Connection with Ancestry and Nature by Diana Lara & auiga by gizeh muñiz vengel in collaboration with Grisel Torres and Ernesto Peart Falcón June 6-8 & 13-15, 2024 // 80 Turk St, SF Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tour on Saturday June 15th by Gabriele Christian of Gravity Access Services for visually impaired audience members. Haptic Access Tour begins at 1PM Please call 415-626-2060 to pre-register and reserve a headset. SAN FRANCISCO, CA --

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