Incubate artists, change the world.
Edge is an incubation residency and commissioning program for contemporary choreographers whose work is deeply curious about the intersection of art practice and social change. Through work-in-progressing showings, discourse events, and culminating live performances, this program is a platform for investigating relevancy and creating new knowledge. By eliminating boundaries between disciplines, between artists and audience, and between communities, Edge produces innovative performance works with transformational potential.
CounterPulse offers a rotation of supported artist residencies each year spanning different ways of making. Each residency concludes with a fully produced work on stage at CounterPulse.
Interested in participating in one of our residencies? Check out current Open Calls >>
Cover Photo: Liz Tenuto/Dance and a Half’s This Year Will be Different: A Self-Help Musical, Photo by Robbie Sweeny
CounterPulse’s ARC Edge residency program is made possible with support from the Ken Hempel Fund for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Artists
gizeh muñiz vengel Movement, Teaching and Performing artist. Mexicana, currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. They are dedicated to the
Diana Lara (she/her) is a choreographer, performer, and somatic movement educator born and raised in Honduras. Her choreographic work
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Nkeiruka Oruche is a cultural organizer, producer and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in Pan Afro-Urban culture and its intersections with personal
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Rachael Dichter is a San Francisco based dancer, performer, choreographer and curator. She works often with others and sometimes alone.
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Ishan ایشان is a performance collective founded by Armineh Astanbous and Rachael Sharkland. Their work seeks to undo the rule
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Audrey Johnson (she/her) is a queer Black mixed-race movement artist with roots from Detroit and Plymouth Michigan, currently rooting in
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Stephanie Hewett is a choreographer, movement researcher, performer, and teacher from the Bronx, New York (Lenape territory). She is a
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Kim Ip/Krimm is a choreographer and performer who uses her choreography to undermine the stereotypes and expectations of the performing
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Arletta Anderson and Adam Smith are a dance artist and a theater artist, respectively. Locally, Arletta has danced with GERALDCASELDANCE,
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Todd Thomas Brown’s (founder, artistic director, performer, composer) career spans disciplines of dance, music performance, a visual arts practice, and
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About this project Our Future Ends is a sad yet hopeful satire that connects threats of extinction to wildlife
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Artistic Director/Choreographer Clarissa K. Ko is the founder and Artistic Director of Five Feet Dance, a dance company in San
