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Jun, 2021
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Mar, 2021
How to Write a Piece Description with Mica Sigourney
Leaked Email Thread:Justin Ebrahemi <justin@counterpulse.org>Mon, Mar 15, 3:07 PMto Mica Sigourney, Silk Worm Hi Mica and Silk, I loved the Insta takeover on Sat! I just wanted to follow up in hopes you could provide more info on Colossus and I will draft a work description and press release. Can’t believe we’re a month away! CounterPulse will go quietly public about the work being at ██████ ████ ████(on ticketing pages and the PR). This is so we don’t draw too
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Mar, 2020
Behind the Lens with Robbie Sweeny
I’ve always been a fan of Robbie Sweeny. For years I’ve admired his photographer choreography, his hurried movement and cadence during performances. It takes considerable method and skill to shoot the perfect angle, and to capture the compelling photos that highlight CountrePulse’s Instagram feed. My colleagues and I admire his stylistic editing; together we scroll Flickr as a pastime. It’proves difficult to select a photo for a project—they’re all so striking. Although Robbie works behind the scenes, the dance community
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Sep, 2019
The House Managers of CounterPulse
You've seen them buzzing around the box office ensuring the show is running smoothly. They're the folks making sure you get your ticket and La Croix before taking a seat, introducing the show, and handling the behind-the-scenes House Manager business. CounterPulse shows would not be the same without our amazing House Managers: Hannah, Greta, and Kirill! Take a moment to learn about the team's backgrounds and projects, what brought them to CounterPulse, and the awkward House Manager situations they get
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Aug, 2019
Which CounterPulse Queen Are You?
An Unbiased list by Jesse Hewit and Justin Ebrahemi (QUEENS) Become a CounterPulse Member = Rack Up the Benefits! The Bargains! The Vitality! NEIGHBORHOOD DI$COUNT$, YOU BARGAIN QUEEN! As a CounterPulse member at the $20 level, you get discounts to: The STUD bar! Pentacle Coffee! Equator Coffee! Waystone Wine and Beer Cafe! BLICK Art Materials! and Moe Greens Dispensary! . CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE BARGAIN QUEEN You can pay-what-you-can to become a CounterPulse member! Truly! OUT-N-ABOUT BARGAIN QUEEN As a CounterPulse member at ANY
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Jul, 2019
Fall 2019 at CounterPulse
Mark your calendars, CounterPulse is moving full throttle in a relentlessly risk-taking performance line-up this Fall. See our Fall 2019 performance schedule and get tickets below! Combustible Residency 2019 Mugwumpin: The Looking Glass Self Mabel Valdiviezo with Travis Bennett: Metamorphosis: Phase 1 Sept 12-14 & 19-21, Thu-Sat, 7:30pm & 8:15pm Pay-what-you-can Thursdays CounterPulse is back with year three of Combustible, our highly-acclaimed dance/technology residency that carves a place to experiment on the edge of what is known. This year
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Jun, 2019
Inheriting Earth: What it means to be queer in a violent future
#NotABugSplat A little girl’s face stares towards the clouds in a meadow, a place where drones fly as often as the birds. Her face covers a massive portrait printed by a group of artist-activists as part of an installation titled #NotABugSplat. Since 2004, drone strikes in Pakistan have killed over 3,000 people, including a large number of civilians, 160 of which were children. Drone operators describe deadly casualties as bug splats. Viewing the body through a grainy video projection, the
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Jun, 2019
Tenderloin Arts Lending Library
The Tenderloin Art Lending Library (TALL) is a queer-artist-run project that lends artwork to Tenderloin community members free-of-charge. TALL is a trust-based program where artists—the majority of whom are homeless, formerly homeless, and live or work in the Tenderloin—donate artwork that is available for loan to any member of the Tenderloin community free-of-charge. TALL is predicated on the belief that Tenderloin residents deserve to appreciate all forms of visual arts expression. In CounterPulse's spirit of accessibility, TALL provides this opportunity.
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Apr, 2019
Why You Should go to the Annual CounterPulse Gala: A Biased List by Justin Ebrahemi and Jesse Hewit
Because San Francisco industries are hemorrhaging artists, and CounterPulse safeguards resources for YOUR artistic community. Because you know that things can just be so much better than what they are. Because all your most brilliant friends will be there. Because we’re going ALL OUT with the Innerspace theme and transforming our building into a queer starship. (You like toasting and dancing under beautiful intergalactic starry skies, right?) Because silvery, futurist, industrial-ish, fantasy FASHION LOOKS. Because CounterPulse has one of the
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Apr, 2019
Archetypes of Space: Re-imagining urban design with Jeremy Edwards
What is the body's relationship to furniture, to structure, to the design we inhabit but rarely have an opportunity to adapt? How can design be appropriated to be more collaborative in creation and destruction, shaped by our social norms and urban conditions? Can design be improvisational, performative even? What happens when humans are no longer the subject and objects embody new life? How can our bodies respond to architectural cues and prototype new designs? Jeremy Edwards came to CounterPulse with
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Dec, 2018
Spring 2019 at CounterPulse
In Spring 2019, CounterPulse threads through time in the twilight between performance and uprising. Our only question is, will you join us? Spring 2019 Performance Calendar tiny little get down tinypistol + little seismic dance company Jan 25, Fri, 7:30pm-9pm Need to let off a little steam? tinypistol's Maurya Kerr and little seismic dance company's Katie Faulkner invite you to the first tiny little get down of the new year. Founded in 2017, the tiny little get down is
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Aug, 2018
Of Process & Resilience: A Conversation with Twin Walls Mural Co.
The Tenderloin just got more colorful, thanks to the magic of Marina Perez-Wong and Elaine Chu or Twin Walls Mural Co.. Not actually bio-family, Marina & Elaine are artists in sync repping their San Francisco community through large scale murals. Representing women in the arts by taking their practice to the streets and disrupting assumptions that women aren’t street artists, Twin Walls has made a name for themselves as powerful muralists with West Coast flavor. Most recently Marina & Elaine