Center For Performance Research Announces Spring 2019 Season

Center for Performance Research (CPR) announces its 2019 Spring season and tenth year of supporting and presenting artists in the New York City area dance and performance community. Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, CPR supports the development of new works in contemporary dance, performance and related forms. Its mission is to promote awareness of and appreciation for contemporary performing arts, with a particular interest in supporting artistic processes that integrate visual design, installation, and technology.

This Spring, CPR will host Technical Artist-in-Residence, Jonathan Gonzålez. CPR's programs - including Performance Studio Open House, New Voices in Live Performance, Spring Movement, and Performance Philosophy Reading Group, Sunday Salon with CPR Artists-in-Residence - will showcase innovative and cutting-edge performance works and feature a range of diverse artists working across dance and performance, broadly defined. This season, CPR's monthly works-in-progress series, Performance Studio Open House, will feature a distinct curator every month, culled from CPR's diverse staff and community. CPR's annual benefit on April 10 will celebrate the organization's ten year anniversary and include not-to-be missed performances.

Technical Artist-in-Residence: Jonathan González, April 29 - May 5, 2019

CPR's Technical Residency program addresses the lack of advanced technical support available to New York artists. This program provides New York City based artists with the unique opportunity for one week of unrestricted access to its theater, technical director, and technical resources during the development of new work. CPR is thrilled to welcome Jonathan González, a Bessie-nominated performer and director, amateur farmer, and educator in black critical theory from Queens, NY whose work investigates notions of blackness, economies of creative production, and the geopolitical. They are a 2018-19 Workspace Resident at LMCC and NARS International Resident with anticipated premieres of their work Lucifer Landing at MoMA PS1 and Abrons Arts Center. Jonathan Gonzalez will be CPR's sixth Technical Resident.

Performance Studio Open House | Monthly on Tuesdays at 8pm

This series, curated by a distinct CPR staff or community member each month, provides opportunities for artists to share works-in-progress with an audience and engage the public in the process of developing new dance and movement-based works, inspiring discussion around both the work and the process of creation. These open rehearsals are free to the public, and include works representing a broad constituency of artists who use CPR.

• Tuesday, February 26, 2019: curated by CPR's Director, Charlotte Farrell
• Tuesday, March 26, 2019: curated by CPR's Studio Associate, Rebecca Gual
• Tuesday, April 16, 2019: Movement Research AiRs
• Tuesday, May 21, 2019: curated by CPR's Event Manager, Leigh Lotocki

New Voices in Live Performance: May 31 - June 2 & June 7-9, 2019

New Voices in Live Performance invites curators to shape a weekend of performances and events at CPR that highlight creative practices in dance, theater, and performance art. This season will consist of two distinct weekends of work. On May 31 - June 2, Aya Lane and Jessica Jupiter will co-curate Walking With Water. Walking With Water will center around environmental racism and justice, land sovereignty, and healing the Earth through ancestral spiritual practices. These themes will be explored through live performance, workshops, and multimedia installations. On June 7-9, Lauren DiGiulio will curate the second weekend series, (Re)Patterning Performance. This curated weekend of events will address the ways that language is inhabited, remixed, broken down, and retooled by the performing body in order to create new ways of thinking about who can speak and how.

Spring Movement, April 4-6, 2019 at 7:30pm

A biannual festival of dance and performance, Spring Movement provides an opportunity for audiences to experience a range of work engaged in contemporary performance practice. Participants are selected from an open call by a panel of artists. Each selected artist receives two hours of technical rehearsal, rehearsal space, and one fully produced evening of performance. CPR thanks its Spring Movement 2019 panelists: Spring Movement 2019 selected artists will be announced March 2019.

Performance Philosophy Reading Group | Monthly on Wednesday at 6:30pm

In conjunction with the international research network, Performance Philosophy, CPR co-hosts monthly reading group with select artists from the community. We read exhilarating and thought-provoking texts by key performance studies scholars as a springboard into generative discussion and thought-experimentation. Performance Philosophy (PP) is a relatively new field of exploration that seeks to rethink what precisely thinking is. In this series of reading groups, we will engage with texts in whatever way seems most productive. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

• Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 6:30pm
• Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 6:30pm
• Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 6:30pm
• Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:30pm
• Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 6:30pm

CPR - Center for Performance Research was co-founded in 2007 by choreographers Jonah Bokaer and John Jasperse. In 2009, John Jasperse Projects/Thin Man Dance, Inc. and Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc. co-purchased a commercial condominium community facility in the first LEED Gold Certified Green building of its kind in Brooklyn, New York. For the past ten years, this 4,000 square-foot arts facility has been the home of CPR.

CPR is dedicated to supporting the development of new works in contemporary dance and performance. Curated programs focus on rehearsal and residency support, generating time and space for research and dialogue, and providing public presentation opportunities. Over the last decade, CPR has supported more than 1700 artists in the development of dance and performance projects, while exposing local audiences to contemporary artistic process through performances and work-in-progress showings, salon style discussions, and symposia.

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