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Oh hello there ~*~*~*~*~*~* ​​⋆｡°✩ ⋆⁺｡˚⋆˙‧₊✩₊‧˙⋆˚｡⁺⋆ ✩°｡⋆ .・゜゜・　　・゜゜・． ｡･ﾟﾟ･　　 ･ﾟﾟ･｡ ___________╱|、 __________(˚ˎ 。7 __________|、˜〵 __________じしˍ,)ノ __/_/ _/ • - • / づ 🌸づ *Gives flower* I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, reflecting, and A LOT of integrating. My mind works best in short bursts at strange hours in the middle of the night. This has led me to the internet many evenings, not sleepless just restless, since I was 10 years old. I like to think of myself

The 2023 biennial CounterPulse Festival is a month-long celebration of the kind of mind-bending performance you can only find in San Francisco. Join us this October for experimental dance, late night raves, surreal game shows, a multi-venue drag extravaganza, workshops, panels, and so much more! CALENDAR OF EVENTS Monday October 2 1-2PM Drumming Circle with Dana Fontana @ The Healing Well SF Thursday October 5 5-8PM Opening Reception Featuring DJ Rickmantis, Grand Reunion, and Florescence

VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! and CounterPulse’s upcoming production “The Show” is a large-scale outdoor one-day-only multi-venue Drag performance event that celebrates the living oral, entertainment, and embodied traditions of the queer community. “The Show'' will be presented as part of the biennial CounterPulse Festival taking place this October. > Check Out The Full Program for the Event < “The queer community is finding itself at an important moment of growth in light of both the pandemic and recent governmental, political, and

The Hands that Feed You is at CounterPulse October 6, 8, 13, & 15 >> Get Tickets Here << Oh Emm GEEEE! I cannot believe we are four days out from the premiere of this show! As we speak my tiny apartment is full to the brim with giant hands, enormous lips, a thousand sticky notes, a white board the size of my small studio room, and so. many. ideas. When I work, it is often sort of…gestational. Real plan

CounterPulse will be hosting dance-maker Marina Magalhães, newly appointed Assistant Professor of Dance at UC Santa Cruz, and a select group of collaborators on Oct 27-28 to engage in the generative body practices of her Creative Capital Award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads. This process laboratory will allow the dancers to share creative space without the pressures of “productivity”, and serve as a curated & care-full way for Magalhães to begin integrating with the larger Bay Area community. Featuring: Marina

CounterPulse stands with the people of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Philippines, Hawaii, Armenia, and all people who are currently facing violent displacement around the globe. We all have a part in the movement. CounterPulse starts from where we are – deeply embedded in the practices, the shortcomings, and the capacities of the dance field. We believe that dance, embodiment, and improvisation can serve as forms of crisis management and harm reduction, and nurture critical discourse amidst growing polarization and destructive

February 2-4, 2024 mouf//full is an exploration of faith’s limits through a Black queer interdisciplinary lens. Co-directed by Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch, collectively known as OYSTERKNIFE, this piece interrogates the role of the Church in personal lineage and its influences across Afro-Diasporic cultures. How has the Church been both balm and barrier? Where can we find a similar divinity in secular spaces: in the club, inside our bodies, through song, by gathering, and within our quotidian lives? This immersive,

Thursday March 14th • 5PM - 10PM Keep your hands inside the boat and your hearts on your sleeve, please, as you enter Innerspace: Tunnel of Love, CounterPulse's annual Benefit Banquet and Art Party. Bring a date or come find one on the dance floor! As always, costumes are encouraged for CounterPulse’s favorite event of the year. For Tunnel of Love, think 60’s high school sweethearts on a date to the moon, drive-thru Vegas weddings in a rocket ship,

Leading up to the premier of mouf//full this Feburary, OYSTERKNIFE presents… BlaQ Benedictions Join OYSTERKNIFE’s mentors & friends in a series of free workshops for the community. Each workshop will explore themes such as spell-casting, prophecy, movement, personal storytelling, and revolutionary performance through the lens of each artist’s personal practice. Each workshop is free and open to the public but will be capped at 15-20 attendees. Material in this workshop may appear in the final show, with permission of participants.

From drag chickens to Black faith rituals, CounterPulse’s Spring Season has something for everyone. Brace yourselves for a kaleidoscope of art experiences that will meld your mind and leave you forever transformed! February 2-4 at Grace Cathedral CounterPulse and OYSTERKNIFE present mouf//full A site specific performance of ritual, dance, and song that honors Black faith across diaspora. >> $25 - $40 Sliding Scale << Starting Tuesday, February 6 Coffee Break Every Tuesday this February

Artists Against Genocide 1/14/24 at 11 am to 2 am on 11/15/24 A gathering of the Bay Area’s performing artists and our communities, hosted at CounterPulse on Jan. 14th, from 11pm-2am. This event is a 14 hour marathon of programming designed for the purpose of education, mobilization, and radical acts of togetherness (Final schedule is linked here). Attendants will have freedom to move through this choose-your-own-adventure style event with opportunities to both listen to and expand the edges of one’s

Dearest Community Members, We’re looking forward to coming together in an evening of community connection tomorrow at INNERSPACE. The value of this opportunity to take time to be together became all the more important as we heard news of the untimely and deeply sad passing of Jess Curtis on Monday, March 11th.  Jess Curtis is a beloved community member to many of us. As a founding member of 848 Community Space, out of which CounterPulse was born, Jess is an