Welcome to Fall 2024 at CounterPulse!
  • By: Peekaboo

Posted on July 25, 2024

Come discover an array of delights this Fall Season at CounterPulse. Join us to welcome and witness reunion and transformation with a wide variety of butoh, poetic schemes, art films and more! 

Images of the cast of OTHER/self caught in moments of movement are overlapped at the bottom of the graphic. The images are varying shades of pink, blue, and purple. The show’s title OTHER/self, and the logo of BODYSONNET surround the images of the dancers.

August 22 – 24

OTHER/self by BODYSONNET

A vibrant live performance experience exploring intimacy and virtuosity.

>> Sliding Scale $20 – $30 <<

A promotional image for TurkxTaylor exhibition “Transition Times Part II Reconfiguring Structures of Power at Turk and Taylor” at CounterPulse May 1 to August 25, 2024. “Within an artfully rendered deconstructed building, nature grows on dilapidated walls and abandoned floors as sunlight shines through a gaping hole in the ceiling, exposing a cloudy sunset”

Saturday, August 24

TurkXTaylor Closing Gallery Reception

A call to action to liberate the historical landmark site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a queer grassroots uprising against police violence, that is now operated by private prison company.

>> FREE RSVP <<

September 20 – 22

Old Dogs New Tricks: The SF Neo-Futurists’ 10-Year Reunion Show

30 original plays in 60 minutes. For people who often find themselves pulling the last piece out of a jenga tower.

>> Sliding Scale $25 – $50 • NOTAFLOF <<

September 21 & October 5

LIGHT IT UP!

CounterPulse Technical Director, GG Torres offers a hands-on workshop for BIPOC artists and aspiring technicians!

>> $15 • NOTAFLOF at the door <<

A dancer in a filmy light green costume lies flat, face down, on stage with a projection of a night forest over her.

September 28 & 29

Land of KAMUY by Ranko Ogura

Butoh performance that explores how we can integrate our daily spiritualities with sustained ecological practice and consciousness.

>> Sliding Scale $20 – $50 <<

In this bright psychedelic scene set in a magenta and black space scape filled with stars that is framed by large yellow, red, pink, magenta and purple flowers, a dancing woman with blue bird wings smiles at a descending magenta and gold fish which is followed by a school of smaller golden fish. Opposite of the woman is a dancer with the head of a deer and yellow butterfly wings. In the bottom center between the two dancers is a giant periwinkle flower in full bloom.

Thursday, October 3

Embodying Utopia Gallery Opening

Four queer Bay Area dancers and choreographers imagining queer utopias through visual art, dance, and video.

>> FREE RSVP <<

October 30

OPEN STAGE!

>> FREE RSVP <<

November 8 – 10

Urban Jazz Dance Company Home Season

>> Sliding Scale $15-$35 <<

November 14 – 16

Neanderthal Land Acknowledgement by Snowflake Calvert

Groundbreaking contemporary dance that explores Indigenous perspectives, challenges historical narratives, and celebrates queer and trans love stories.

>> Sliding Scale $15-$35 <<

Beyond Gravity

November 21-24

Beyond Gravity by Jess Curtis//Gravity

>> Sliding Scale $20-$35 • NOTAFLOF <<

Kim Requesto is positioned in the middle in front of a background of San Francisco. She is wearing nude colored garments with gold and pearl accessories.Two people stand on stage, with their backs to the audience, looking at a projection on the back wall of a text exchange.

December 5-7 & 12-14

ARC Performing Diaspora 2024

Our latest residency program features a double bill of Sa Ating Ninuno (To Our Ancestors) by Kim Requesto and Border / Line خط التماس by Halim Madi and Jess Semaan.

>> Sliding Scale $20-$35 • NOTAFLOF <<

Get tickets now and check out our full calendar at counterpulse.org/events

Header image of Marina Magalhães’s Body as a Crossroads Process Lab from the 2023 CounterPulse Festival. Photo by Bobby Gordon.

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