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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,

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,