Center For Performance Research Announces 2025 Artists-in-Residence

Center for Performance Research has announced the ten artists selected for its 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program. Now in its 14th year, CPR's year-long residency supports New York City-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms, and values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic.

The CPR 2025 Artists-in-Residence are Latif Askia Ba, CRACKHEAD BARNEY, chameckilerner, DANIRO, Diovanna Frazier, Tushrik Fredericks, Kyle b. co., Yiwei Lu, Funto Omojola, and Kat Sotelo. Invoking riotous histories, personal archives, and community resilience, these ten artists' work explores arrhythmia and harmony, the anthropology of sex work, illness and rituals of healing, survival through community, the intersection of migration, identity, and belonging, rhetorical questions, the reality of disability, artificial vs. “real” humanity, collective degeneracy, and the body as a territory marked by time.

“The 2025 Artists-in-Residence are an imaginative and deeply curious group of experimental artists whose embodied practices and radical visions span multiple disciplines, genres, forms, and lineages. We are excited to nurture their work and research at CPR and to welcome them to their new artistic home in 2025,” says Alexandra Rosenberg, CPR's Executive Director.

CPR invites applications for its Artist-in-Residence Program through an OPEN CALL, with applications reviewed in a two-part process by an independent panel of artists, curators, and arts leaders. Applications are first reviewed and scored by nine Review Panelists, with emergent top applications reviewed by three Selection Panelists who collectively discuss and select the final cohort. CPR received nearly 400 applications for the 2025 program, twice the number of applications since 2022, underscoring the significant impact, growth, and visibility of CPR's residency program and the organization's expansive community of experimental artists.

This year's panelists brought a broad range of experiences, aesthetics, and perspectives to the selection process, and CPR is grateful for their care and thoughtfulness in selecting the 2025 cohort. This year's three Selection Panelists were Leslie Cuyjet, Ayana Evans, and Ethan Philbrick, and the nine Review Panelists were Reid Bartelme, mayfield brooks, Justin Cabrillos, Johann Diedrick, Alessandra Gómez, Anne Gridley, Paul Hamilton, Sasha Okshteyn, and Anna Adams Stark.

ABOUT CPR'S ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

CPR's Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program supports artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms. The residency encourages experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and creates an open environment for experimentation, exploration, embodiment, and exchange.  AiRs receive curatorial support and critical feedback from CPR staff and fellow artists throughout the residency, and their projects and propositions form a central part of CPR's curated public programs, with flexible platforms for presentation and dialogue that respond to artists' needs at various stages of research and artistic creation. In addition, AiRs have advance access to CPR's rehearsal booking calendar, and may book up to 150 subsidized rehearsal hours in either of CPR's studios during their residency year. AiRs receive a $1,500 stipend, and their participation in CPR public programs comes with additional artist fees and resources, including access to technical equipment and production support. CPR is proud to have increased the AiR stipend from $1,000 to $1,500 starting with the 2024 cohort.

CPR's AiR Program has supported over 85 artists since it was established in 2012, with notable alumni including Beth Gill, Symara Johnson, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Christopher “Unpezverde” Nuñez, Sidra Bell, Kimberly Bartosik, Moriah Evans, mayfield brooks, Mariana Valencia, John Jasperse, Leslie Cuyjet, Kyle Marshall, Ogemdi Ude, and many more. For a complete list of CPR Artists-in-Residence since 2012, visit www.cprnyc.org/artist-in-residence.