CPR – Center for Performance Research Reveals Upcoming Season Lineup

CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, has announced its 2023 Fall Season of public programs and residencies. The season features performances, workshops, films, and installations with CPR Artists-in-Residence and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators. 

“This fall at CPR, the divine and the deviant co-mingle, as artists working in tap, film, fermentation, sound, sculpture, archive, dance, and poetry move to interrupt, suspend, preserve, and refuse time” says Anna Muselmann, CPR Programs Manager. “Engaging practices such as deep listening, disobedience, unmetered temporality, and architectural explorations of love, these experimental artists invite us to reconsider personal, political, cultural, and spiritual archives in order to reimagine and reframe our visions of an uncertain future.”

This season, CPR is introducing new titles for its series of public programs, all beginning with the word “OPEN” – capturing the ethos of CPR as a space that is expansive, accessible, and porous, with public programs designed to be responsive to the needs of artists in real time. OPEN AiR is a platform for CPR resident artists to share their current practice; OPEN STUDIOS provides artists with an informal setting for experimentation and critical feedback, organized by guest curators; OPEN LAB brings the theoretical and the practical into focus, uniting CPR’s Performance Philosophy Reading Group and workshop platforms; OPEN STAGE captures CPR’s annual Fall Movement and Spring Movement which present new fully-produced work in a shared program; and OPEN DOOR encapsulates co-presentations and programs in collaboration with organizations, collectives, and artists in the CPR community.

With CPR Artists-in-Residence (AiRs) forming a central part of CPR’s public programs, the 2023 Fall Season will feature work by 2023 AiRs, including work as part of OPEN AiR across performance, installation, and film by Benae Beamon, Raymond Pinto, and Oskar Sinclair; practice-based inquiry and creative exchange as part of OPEN LAB, including listening and rhythm-based improvisation with Orlando Hernández, digging through digital archives at the intersection of public health, politics, and stigma with Eleanor Kipping, and embodying sensuality, play, rage, and release in a series of workshops organized by Oskar Sinclair; an OPEN STUDIOS curated by tap artist and scholar Benae Beamon; and an evening of film, music, and celebration as part of OPEN DOOR with Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and 2023 AiR Alex Romania).
 

Additional programs include OPEN STUDIOS organized by guest curators Kyle Dacuyan (The Poetry Project), Big Dance Theater, and Kenneth Tam; an OPEN LAB with artist and fermentation revivalist Ampersand Paris exploring preservation, writing, and micro- and macro-ecologies; and OPEN DOOR programs including CPR’s fifth co-presentation with ISSUE Project Room resident artists, with an iterative work by their 2023 AiR BINT, and with The Bushwick Starr, co-presenting the Starr Reading Series for its third season at CPR, which supports new writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. On Saturday, October 21, CPR will swing open its doors for an OPEN HOUSE, welcoming artists, neighbors, and friends for an afternoon of fermentation workshops for the whole family and a rollicking game of musical chairs.

CPR is also thrilled to announce the lineup for Fall Movement after a competitive open call, receiving an unprecedented 150 applications. The two-night OPEN STAGE program will feature work by Juli Brandano, ALEXA GRÆ and Stephanie Acosta, Dominica Greene, Nazareth Hassan, and Cherrie Yu, and was curated by a selection panel comprised of artists Lauren Bakst, Doménica García, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd.
 

Alongside the 2023 Fall Season, CPR is excited to welcome Leslie Cuyjet as the Fall 2023 Technical Resident. The week-long residency will support final stages of production design and rehearsal for Cuyjet’s new evening-length work, With Marion, towards its premiere at The Kitchen in November 2023.

All of CPR’s 2023 Fall Season programs are free or ‘pay what you can’ with a free option, and take place at CPR’s fully-accessible venue at 361 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, aside from one virtual OPEN LAB with Eleanor Kipping. A full calendar of programs at CPR is available at www.cprnyc.org/event-calendar, and all 2023 Fall Season tickets are available on Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com/cc/cprs-2023-fall-season-2578959.

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