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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

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

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

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

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

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,

The SEED residency was a blessing of space and time to create. My artistic partner Jakob and I spent as much time as we could at CounterPulse, long hours in the space, not just for creation and play, but to live and be in the space, to be part of the environment that is CounterPulse and the Tenderloin and allow it to inform and interweave into our process. It was an exercise in persistence, focus, and play, stretching me and

Amara Tabor-Smith (she/her/we) is a choreographer/performance maker and the artistic director of Deep Waters Dance Theater.  On Tuesday September 14th as part of the CounterPulse Festival 2021, we will be hosting Embodied Divination, a movement-based workshop where participants are invited to “contemplate their body as oracle, as compass, and a site for social repair”. Limited tickets are now available! CounterPulse’s Communications and Engagement Manager, Grey Tartaglione (they/them), sat down with Amara to talk more about the workshop and the intersection

At the CounterPulse Festival this September, The Performance Primers will be hosting a virtual panel discussion and mixer titled "Queeratorial Collectives Do It Themselves". This conversation will explore how working on a grassroots level outside conventional venues and capitalist values opens up new possibilities and invites deeper engagement among audiences and artists. Ahead of this discussion, Hannah Ayasse, CounterPulse's Program Manager and co-founder of the Performance Primers, reflected on the role of permission in creating artistic works. RSVP Here for

While at CounterPulse I first felt out the space and listened to mentor Joanna Haigood and used the first moments to get into my body and meditate on how I wanted to utilize it as a tool to begin telling these stories which I am still learning but that also live within me. I did some preliminary choreography, shot some b-roll footage for the short film that would be used in the piece and somewhat sussed out the music that