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  Pictured: Liz Tenuto. Photo Source: liztenuto.wordpress.com CounterPulse is excited to welcome Liz Tenuto and Affinity Project as our latest participants in our Artist Residence Commissioning (ARC) Program. Liz Tenuto is a San Francisco-based dance artist who brings full-bodied, genuine expression to her absurd commentaries on everyday life. Director Emily Hoffman and performers Atosa Babaoff, Beatrice Basso, and Nora El Samahy join us as Affinity Project, an experimental theater ensemble dedicated to the exploration of raw, live work. Both Liz

  CounterPulse is pleased to announce the hiring of a new Executive Director - completing the assembly of the new Executive-Artistic dual-leadership team. New hire, Tomás Riley, will serve as Executive Director in partnership with recently appointed Artistic Director, Julie Phelps. Tomás and Julie will lead the next phases of the organization's commitment to catalyze social action through serving and supporting risk-taking, assumption-shattering art. Tomás brings us nearly twenty years of leadership in creative community engagement and education throughout California

a blog posting for vîv. by sam stone The topic ­what it feels like to have your self-­produced show opening in two weeks. And of course, we aren't the only ones who have ever ventured to do such a thing. We all know the intensity that pursues when you add up all that is a show. It's everything that goes on stage plus everything that goes on behind the stage, not to mention taking care of our dear audiences, and

I am consumed, consuming, predator and prey, object and subject, caught in the performance of self in a biological and cultural context that is full of contradictions. There are so many things to really be afraid of in the world and so many beings living with tragic, immediate threats. I live in relative privilege and safety and I’m still afraid. This piece is about the habit of anxiety that is there both because of and despite circumstances. It is about