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KH FRESH FESTIVAL '23
Saturday, March 4th - Sunday, March 19th, 2023
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FRESH Festival 2023 is a diverse feast of embodied art, action and interaction showcasing two weeks of risk-taking mainstage Performances at CounterPulse, 3 weeks of immersive studio Practices, and social, inclusive and interactive community Exchanges, 1 KK birthday bash  SO F*CKING FRESH fundraising party hosted Jan 27th at CounterPulse, and 75+ cutting-edge artists from the Bay Area and beyond. KH FRESH 2023 takes place at two historic locations in San Francisco, which are also community partners of the Festival: CounterPulse and Joe Goode Annex.

FRESH is open to all curious, adventurous and serious bodies. Composed of Performances, Practices and Exchanges, FRESH Festival offers multiple ways of experiencing cutting-edge live art and radical, risk-taking dance, music and performance.

PART 2 • MARCH 4-19, 2023

FRESH Festival Performances!


RIPE Exchanges

Co-Produced by Performance Primers and KHFRESH

8pm @ Counterpulse

Tuesday March 7th

Barbara Valencia + Rizoma Laboratorio Escenico & Jyoti Arvey

 Tuesday March 14th

Brianna Torres & Emily Jones + Hannah Krafcik

Sliding Scale $0 – $15


FRESH Performances – Weekend 1

Friday March 10th & Saturday March 11th

7:30pm @ Counterpulse

José Ramón Corral + Kira Kirsch as performing, AND made by Jorge De Hoyos and Kira Kirsch

Sliding Scale $20 – $35


FRESH Performances – Weekend 2

Friday March 17th & Saturday March 18th

7:30pm @ Counterpulse

Thomas F. DeFrantz + Ishmael Houston-Jones x Keith Hennessy

Sliding Scale $20 – $35


KH FRESH Festival is fiscally sponsored by Dancers Group


ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

FRESH was founded in 2009 by Kathleen Hermesdorf (1967-2020) in collaboration with Albert Mathias. In the wake of Kathleen’s recent and unexpected passing, a team of longtime FRESH fans and collaborators have stepped up to honor the festival’s legacy and lead it into the future.

The 2023 KH FRESH Festival collaborative production team is: Abby Crane, Ainsley Tharp, Chibueze Crouch, Clarissa Dyas, Gizeh Muñiz Vengel, Jessi Barber and Albert Mathias, with current and past support from Delaney McDonough, Sarah Pritchard, and Hannah Wasielewski.

KH FRESH Festival is co-produced by Performance Primers, Circo Zero, Jess Curtis Gravity, and CounterPulse.

FRESH Festival was created to ensure that San Francisco continues to grow as a provocative center for contemporary dance, music and performance. FRESH is artist-oriented and artist-run,manifesting as an arena for research; an incubator for new work; a generator for sharing resources, and a platform for cross-pollinating communities. Rooted in the body, the Festival embodies Bay Area legacies of creative freedom, community collaboration, ground-breaking practice and performance tactics, multi-disciplinary sensibilities, and accessible, alternative education.

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Photos of Kathleen Hermesdorf by Robbie Sweeny. Flier by Ainsley Tharp.


COUNTERPULSE IS COMMITTED TO MAKING OUR EVENTS ACCESSIBLE!

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CHECK OUT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR COVID-19 PROTOCOLS AT IN-PERSON EVENTS

PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] WITH ANY ACCESS NEEDS. THANK YOU!

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Start:
March 4
End:
March 20