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  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,

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

  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,

Dearest Community Members, We’re looking forward to coming together in an evening of community connection tomorrow at INNERSPACE. The value of this opportunity to take time to be together became all the more important as we heard news of the untimely and deeply sad passing of Jess Curtis on Monday, March 11th.  Jess Curtis is a beloved community member to many of us. As a founding member of 848 Community Space, out of which CounterPulse was born, Jess is an

Artists Against Genocide 1/14/24 at 11 am to 2 am on 11/15/24 A gathering of the Bay Area’s performing artists and our communities, hosted at CounterPulse on Jan. 14th, from 11pm-2am. This event is a 14 hour marathon of programming designed for the purpose of education, mobilization, and radical acts of togetherness (Final schedule is linked here). Attendants will have freedom to move through this choose-your-own-adventure style event with opportunities to both listen to and expand the edges of one’s

From drag chickens to Black faith rituals, CounterPulse’s Spring Season has something for everyone. Brace yourselves for a kaleidoscope of art experiences that will meld your mind and leave you forever transformed! February 2-4 at Grace Cathedral CounterPulse and OYSTERKNIFE present mouf//full A site specific performance of ritual, dance, and song that honors Black faith across diaspora. >> $25 - $40 Sliding Scale << Starting Tuesday, February 6 Coffee Break Every Tuesday this February

Leading up to the premier of mouf//full this Feburary, OYSTERKNIFE presents… BlaQ Benedictions Join OYSTERKNIFE’s mentors & friends in a series of free workshops for the community. Each workshop will explore themes such as spell-casting, prophecy, movement, personal storytelling, and revolutionary performance through the lens of each artist’s personal practice. Each workshop is free and open to the public but will be capped at 15-20 attendees. Material in this workshop may appear in the final show, with permission of participants.

Thursday March 14th • 5PM - 10PM Keep your hands inside the boat and your hearts on your sleeve, please, as you enter Innerspace: Tunnel of Love, CounterPulse's annual Benefit Banquet and Art Party. Bring a date or come find one on the dance floor! As always, costumes are encouraged for CounterPulse’s favorite event of the year. For Tunnel of Love, think 60’s high school sweethearts on a date to the moon, drive-thru Vegas weddings in a rocket ship,

February 2-4, 2024 mouf//full is an exploration of faith’s limits through a Black queer interdisciplinary lens. Co-directed by Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch, collectively known as OYSTERKNIFE, this piece interrogates the role of the Church in personal lineage and its influences across Afro-Diasporic cultures. How has the Church been both balm and barrier? Where can we find a similar divinity in secular spaces: in the club, inside our bodies, through song, by gathering, and within our quotidian lives? This immersive,