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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,

CounterPulse stands with the people of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Philippines, Hawaii, Armenia, and all people who are currently facing violent displacement around the globe. We all have a part in the movement. CounterPulse starts from where we are – deeply embedded in the practices, the shortcomings, and the capacities of the dance field. We believe that dance, embodiment, and improvisation can serve as forms of crisis management and harm reduction, and nurture critical discourse amidst growing polarization and destructive

CounterPulse will be hosting dance-maker Marina Magalhães, newly appointed Assistant Professor of Dance at UC Santa Cruz, and a select group of collaborators on Oct 27-28 to engage in the generative body practices of her Creative Capital Award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads. This process laboratory will allow the dancers to share creative space without the pressures of “productivity”, and serve as a curated & care-full way for Magalhães to begin integrating with the larger Bay Area community. Featuring: Marina

The Hands that Feed You is at CounterPulse October 6, 8, 13, & 15 >> Get Tickets Here << Oh Emm GEEEE! I cannot believe we are four days out from the premiere of this show! As we speak my tiny apartment is full to the brim with giant hands, enormous lips, a thousand sticky notes, a white board the size of my small studio room, and so. many. ideas. When I work, it is often sort of…gestational. Real plan

VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! and CounterPulse’s upcoming production “The Show” is a large-scale outdoor one-day-only multi-venue Drag performance event that celebrates the living oral, entertainment, and embodied traditions of the queer community. “The Show'' will be presented as part of the biennial CounterPulse Festival taking place this October. > Check Out The Full Program for the Event < “The queer community is finding itself at an important moment of growth in light of both the pandemic and recent governmental, political, and

The 2023 biennial CounterPulse Festival is a month-long celebration of the kind of mind-bending performance you can only find in San Francisco. Join us this October for experimental dance, late night raves, surreal game shows, a multi-venue drag extravaganza, workshops, panels, and so much more! CALENDAR OF EVENTS Monday October 2 1-2PM Drumming Circle with Dana Fontana @ The Healing Well SF Thursday October 5 5-8PM Opening Reception Featuring DJ Rickmantis, Grand Reunion, and Florescence

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There was no beginning, the cosmic serpents have been dancing together for all of eternity. There was no before them, and there will be no after. You are invited to watch their mirrored dance. Their rhythm. Their pulse. The eye contact. The doorway that opens between their eyes. It's not the only thing happening, but it's always happening. You can't see it this clearly all the time, but everywhere you are, they are there with you. in you. of

Are you looking to start your career in the arts or know someone who would be a good fit at CounterPulse? Then you’ve come to the right place! Joining the CounterPulse team means joining a group of incredibly diverse and dedicated folks who are driving a growing and changing organization. Our culture is artist-focused and highly collaborative. We value the flexibility and perks of working at a small organization, and we think you will too. We’re hiring two part-time associate level

GET TICKETS NOW! Li Chiao Ping Dance is excited for the upcoming San Francisco premiere of Here Lies the Truth at CounterPulse Thursday, September 29th – Saturday, October 2nd. Much of LCPD’s work and research in recent years has centered on identity, race, otherness, and colonization. By bringing Here Lies the Truth to new audiences we hope to meet more individuals eager to discuss and share their thoughts around the subjects we explore. We aim to continue the conversation outside of our

GET TICKETS San Francisco - Following a United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) imposed delay of four months, San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) is finally pleased to present the US debut of German choreographer, David Brandstätter in collaboration with American mezzo-soprano, Michelle Jacques for the US Premiere of FRE!HEIT (freedom in English).The project, originally scheduled to be part of the SFIAF 2022 Summer Series in June, had to be postponed because Brandstätter's international credentials were questioned by an adjudicating officer at