Incubate artists, change the world.
Counterpulse’s Artist Residency & Commissioning (ARC) Performing Diaspora program is an incubation residency and commissioning program that supports artists whose work is rooted in a traditional art form, yet is also completely contemporary. Performing Diaspora artists draw on tradition as a radical way to carry the stories of previous lives in today’s time and space.
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: From Performing Diaspora 2014, Nava Dance/Nadhi Thekkek, Photo courtesy of artist.
The 2022 Performing Diaspora residency is made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Artists
Kim Requesto(she/they) is a Philippine born, Mission District raised Cultural Worker and Interdisciplinary Artist based in Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone
Halim Madi(he/they) grew up in Lebanon, moved to France and Toronto for his studies and to London and Sao
Performing Diaspora
bByb Bibene is a dance educator, choreographer and performer working in theater, ethnic, Afro urban, and contemporary dance forms. His
Performing Diaspora
Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist and educator who is shaped by her somatic experiences as a refugee.
Performing Diaspora
Image Description: A photograph of the top part of a building through a worm’s-eye view. The multi-family apartment building
Performing Diaspora
Image Description: VERA! Stands in profile, wearing a red bellydance top with jingle belt, and deep red eyeshadow, gold
Performing Diaspora
Cherie Hill (choreographer) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and scholar, whose art explores human expression and how it is conveyed
Performing Diaspora
Gabriel Christian is an artist bred in New York City and baking in Oakland. Their work metabolizes the vernaculars within
Performing Diaspora
Cynthia Ling Lee (concept and choreography) instigates postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of experimental performance. Trained in
Performing Diaspora
Melissa Lewis (顾眉) is a ChineseAmerican artist working with mixed identities and mediums. Her work has been presented here and
Performing Diaspora
SAMMAY is a choreographer/producer and interdisciplinary performance artist of Kapampangan, Ilokano, and Bikol descent. She defines her body as a
Performing Diaspora
Photo by George Emilio Sanchez Randy Reyes is queer Latinx choreographer-dance artist-curanderx with roots connecting the geographies of Guatemala,
