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Dear CounterPulse community—artists, partners, and friends, For 35 years, CounterPulse has been a home for experimentation, care, and bold creative work. That legacy exists because of you—because of the artists who have trusted us with their work, the partners who have collaborated with us, and the supporters who have believed in this space and its mission. As we look toward what comes next, we wanted to share a candid update about where things stand and how we’re preparing for the

The Interim Managing Director (IMD) will provide steady executive leadership during a critical transition following the 2025 departure of the long-time Artistic & Executive Director. Partnering closely with the Director of Finance & Administration, the IMD will conduct a rigorous health check of internal operations and revenue streams, providing the Board with the fiscal and operational clarity needed to stabilize the organization and prepare for successor leadership. See full description here.    

September 27th, 2025 at 1pm Roxie 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 The Roxie and CounterPulse join forces to present this 25th anniversary screening of Artists In Exile: A Story of Dance in San Francisco chronicles over forty years of dancemaking in the San Francisco/Bay Area. The film begins with the revolutionary Anna Halprin and highlights Bay Area choreographers who reflect a boundary-pushing spirit: Mangrove, Tumbleweed, ODC/San Francisco, Margaret Jenkins, Dance Brigade, Joe Goode, and Contraband. The film also

CounterPulse Presents Festival 2025 September 4 - 27, 2025   80 Turk St, SF // counterpulse.org/events S AN FRANCISCO, CA -- Welcome to the fifth installment of the CounterPulse Festival! Held every other year, the CounterPulse Festival is a month-long celebration of art and community, rooted in the queer experimental dance and art scenes that CounterPulse is home to. Amidst federal and local funding cuts, CounterPulse once again commits to the artists in our community despite limited resources, foregrounding

‘‘Trashflower’ by Rose and Zoe Huey & ‘On the Floor’ by Maria Silk September 4, 2025 @ 8PM PT - September 5, 2025 @ 8PM PT September 12, 2025 @ 8PM PT - September 13, 2025 @ 2PM PT 80 Turk St. SF Learn more and get tickets here SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- From living with microplastics and honoring dancefloor histories, the 2025 CounterPulse ARC Edge program presents Trashflower by Rose and Zoe Huey and On The Floor by Maria

  Off Hours, CounterPulse’s spring 2025 curators in residence, are excited to announce Show Me Devotion, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Gericault De La Rose and Adrian Clutario.   About Show Me Devotion  A freer, queerer world is not only possible; it already exists. It is slippery and elusive, but you can find it if you know the right places to look. For many, these moments of authenticity can only exist in dark and inconspicuous margins, spaces filled

Ethereal: Market Street Studios Meet Tenderloin Stage  San Francisco, CA — ArtSpan and CounterPulse are proud to present "Ethereal," a transformative group exhibition featuring works by thirteen artists from ArtSpan’s Journal Building Residency. The exhibition runs from January 9 through April 28, 2025, at CounterPulse's historic Tenderloin venue supporting experimental arts.  "Ethereal" spans three floors, inviting viewers into wondrous, introspective dreamscapes through an array of sculptures, paintings, and multimedia installations. The exhibition showcases works that blur the boundaries between reality

Thursday March 6th • 5PM - 10PM Step into a world where imagination shapes reality at CounterPulse’s annual gala! This year, INNERSPACE: We-Topia is powered by a completely renewable resource–community joy! No matter the conditions in other worlds, INNERSPACE: We-Topia grows from an alchemical soil that converts resistance to resilience.Together, we’ll hone utopia as a practice rather than a distant destination. As always, costumes are encouraged! Think visionary dreamers, radiant futurists, or a world only you can imagine. Let

  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

  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

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

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,