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  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,

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,

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

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