Residency Programs

Incubate artists, change the world.

Switch is CounterPulse’s cultural exchange program that catalyzes collaborations between artists, initiatives, and communities outside of the Bay Area. We pose exchange as an integral part of the creative process. We strategize generative diversity across cultural lines and creative practices as a tactic to exponentially shift the field of discourse. Switch is creating a platform for sophisticating collaboration across differences.

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: Eisa Jocson’s Host, Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Artists

  • Wojciech Grudziński

    Wojciech Grudziński is a Polish artist, choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam. What he explores in his work are the

  • Afrique Sogue

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    Afrique Sogue Percussion and Dance is a traditional West African performing arts company based in the Bay Area, California. Afrique Sogue, meaning, The

  • Miguel Gutierrez

    Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and advocate who has lived in New York for over twenty

  • Tove Sahlin

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    Tove Sahlin has worked professionally as as Performer, Director, Choreographer, Project manager, Workshop leader since 2001 and have initiated, co-created and led

  • Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin

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    Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin is a choreographer from Co. Cork, Ireland. He lives and works on a small island; Oileán Chléire, an

  • Eisa Jocson

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    Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. Originally trained as a visual artist, she won her

  • Dana Michel

    Dana Michel is a choreographer and performer based in Montreal, Canada.  Before entering the BFA in Contemporary Dance program at

  • Simone Aughterlony

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    Simone Aughterlony is an independent artist based and supported in Zurich and Berlin, working predominantly in dance and performance contexts.

  • Antonija Livingstone

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    Antonija Livingstone (1971) EE/CA  is  based  in Berlin. Self- taught, her practice evolves via queer methods and operates at the

  • Hahn Rowe

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    Drawing from his background in a wide field of genres including rock, classical, film, theater, improvised, and electronic music –

  • Meg Stuart

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    Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels.

  • Ishimwa Muhimanyi

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    Ishimwa Muhimanyi is a London-based Rwandan artist. His work is his journey as he asks: how can I live freely