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Adapted from a blog posted 10/08/20 on Life As A Modern Dancer In 2018, Jo put out a call for a Black change-maker interested in engaging with a Jewish artist about racial justice and prison abolition. Rahsaan responded. In the more than 3 years we’ve been in collaboration, we’ve written 45 letters, sat down together over vending machine meals  in San Quentin’s visiting room twice, and shared over 100 phone calls. We are different from each other. Black and White,

In this blog we'll keep you updated with photos, video, and sound snippets that accompany the development of our piece CATENA that's going to be premiered online on January 13th -- livestreamed from CounterPulse's theater in San Francisco. Learn More about CATENA and Dilate Ensemble here RSVP for the Livestream A NOTE FROM DILATE ENSEMBLE & COUNTERPULSE: We are kindly asking you to consider making a donation to the artists and CounterPulse in place of purchasing a ticket. Due to

Download CounterPulse's Spring 2022 Program Book We've learned so much in the last few years about what is essential about the work of CounterPulse. We know how to adapt, when to let go, when to hang on, and when we might need to try some third or fourth or even fifth option. Thank you for continuing on this journey with us. We've been operating at full force to keep our communities vibrant and 2022 will be no different. We are committed to continuing to

by Rick Darnell, Associate Director CounterPulse Neighborhood Arts Hello neighbors near and far. After over a year and a half, CounterPulse’s Block Fest is back and better than ever! Every second Friday of the month we will feature a local artist including:  Janet Williams who will lead an embroidery workshop on Friday, March 11thRamekon O’Arwisters who will lead a crochet jam on Friday, April 8thRachel Lozada who will lead a weaving workshop on Friday, May 13thAnd don’t miss our valentines

For Immediate Release: March 9, 2022  San Francisco Bay Area / Performing Arts / Real Estate Establishing a permanent home for arts in San Francisco’s overheated real estate market SAN FRANCISCO, CA —  At a time when arts spaces are struggling to maintain their foothold in San Francisco due to the high cost of real estate, one extraordinary performing arts nonprofit is poised to purchase its building. In 2016, CounterPulse opened the doors of a freshly renovated theater in the

Three upcoming events tell a rich story about San Francisco’s past, present, and future SAN FRANCISCO - CounterPulse first opened the doors to its venue in the Tenderloin back in 2016. Ever since, it has been a central hub for avant-garde performing arts and dance in San Francisco as well as a shining light for local communities. This spring, CounterPulse is hosting three events that aim to tell the story about the vibrant neighborhood that it calls home and about

Change has been a constant for CounterPulse for a long time. From moving into our new building in the Tenderloin in 2014, to pivoting our shows and performances to site-specific and digital formats throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, to our ever rotating cast of artists and accomplices, we have gotten really good at adapting on the fly and making things work as we go.However, now as we are working to Secure Our Stage here at 80 Turk St, it is important that we are also investing

SAN FRANCISCO, CA --   Tickets are now available for CounterPulse’s annual art party and auction Innerspace : Homecoming on Saturday May 7th, 2022. This one-night-a-year spectacular of art and performance will happen throughout CounterPulse’s building at 80 Turk Street in the Tenderloin. Don’t miss a diverse program of artists spanning many disciplines including the world premiere of Freeicecream.network by ARC Combustible Resident Artists h0tclub; the unveiling of a new light sculpture on CounterPulse’s façade by the award-winning art and design

SAN FRANCISCO, CA --  CounterPulse is proud to be unveiling the new light sculpture titled “Elektra” on the façade of our building at 80 Turk St by the award-winning art and design studio FUTUREFORMS. The installation of this world-class public art installation marks the summit of CounterPulse’s current capital campaign to purchase their building in downtown San Francisco later this year. “CounterPulse has been a guiding light for experimental arts in San Francisco, and with the new addition of this

Paying homage to Black American spirituality and African Diasporic rites of community, the 2022 CounterPulse Edge program presents [and then we must be] by Audrey Johnson and, in partnership with Afro Urban Society, Mixtape of the Dead & Gone #1- Egwu Onwu Ahamefula by Nkeiruka Oruche + Gbedu Town Radio. This year’s Edge performances invite the audience into conversation with the land, spirits, the afterlife, and the legacies that inform the rituals and practices around them.

The Artist Talks About His Upcoming Performance of FRE!HEIT with Michelle Jacques GET TICKETS “I felt I was lacking freedom, but I couldn’t find out what made me feel so unfree,” performance artist and co-founder of Shifts– Art in Movement David Brandstätter tells me about the inspiration behind FRE!HEIT, his evening length work that will have its US premiere as part of the Festival’s Summer Series in June.  It’s 5 p.m. Berlin time, and I speak via transcontinental and Atlantic zoom waves

The ABJD Series • Directed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto • Presented by CounterPulse Saturday, June 11, 2022 • 4:00 PM PT • The Roxie Theater • counterpulse.org/the-abjd-series Tickets available here at a range of $14-$24. The ABJD Series is a four-part film series and finale of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s six year multi-media project, Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth. These films narrate the otherworldly journeys of Faluda Islam - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s alter-ego. Faluda was a fighter in a great future