Switch
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
Archived Events
Under New Ownership Performance, Theorem, no.1
Maya Stovall
Fri, May 3, 1:00pm-9:00pm
Thunderstruck
Stina Nyberg
Thu-Fri, Apr 25-26, 8pm
aon mhac tíre, nó roinnt mic tíre
Ruairí Ó'Donnabháin and Mica Sigourney
Sat, Mar 17 at 2-3:30pm & 8-9:30pm; Sun, Mar 18 at 7:00-8:30pm
this is an artwork…
keyon gaskin
Thu, Mar 15 at 7-8:30pm, & Fri-Mar 16 at 8:00-9:30pm at The Lab
Work in Progress of Niyizi
Ishimwa Muhimanyi
Wed, Nov 15, 6pm-7pm
An evening of solo works
Meg Stuart
January 20-21, 2017, Friday & Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Supernatural
Simone Aughterlony, Antonija Livingstone, Hahn Rowe
JUN 10-11, FRI-SAT 8PM
Yellow Towel
Dana Michel
FRI 13-14, SAT 8PM, SUN 7PM
‘Death of a Pole Dancer,’ ‘Macho Dancer,’ and North American premiere of ‘Host’
Eisa Jocson
DEC 18-20 2015, FRI-SAT 8PM, SUN 7PM
Zombies; why death is dying or are you working hard enough?
Ruairí Donovan with Cathy Walsh, Jassem Hindi, Louise Trueheart, Rachael Dichter & Mica Sigourney
OCT 31, 2015 SAT at 11:59PM - DAWN
(X)change Premiere of Swiss Works
(X)change
JUN 20-21, 2015
Age & Beauty Part 1
Miguel Gutierrez
MAR 6-8, 2015 FRI-SAT at 8PM, SUN at 2PM
My Own Bodies – a solo for many
Tove Sahlin
FEB 28-MAR 1, 2014, FRI-SAT at 8PM
Forest Fringe SF
Forest Fringe
OCT 24-27, 2013
Recovering Home
Afrique Sogue & Jaara Dance Project
OCT 18-20, 2013, FRI-SUN at 8PM
/Time: Study I
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
OCT 8-9, 2013, TUE-WED at 8PM
Bare (8 Shades of Red), Tales of the Tombola, and La Bouche
Susie Timney, Box Tracy and Darren Purnell
JUL 1, 2013, MON at 8PM