Center for Performance Research Announces Its 2018 Fall Season

CPR - Center for Performance Research is thrilled to announce its 2018 Fall season. 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. 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.

This Fall concludes CPR's 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Artists-in-Residence program for the year, which will culminate in Sunday Salon on October 14. This edition of Sunday Salon will feature work and research ephemera of select CPR AiRs, past and present, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Sidra Bell, and Median Movement (Xan Burley and Alex Springer). On September 19, CPR and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance co-present Performing Fragility: Performance After Hurricane Maria to mark one year since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. This roundtable event will feature a panel of Puerto Rican artists as they reflect on the impact of the hurricane on their lives and creative practice. CPR will host its Fall Technical Resident and Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Production Recipient, Parijat Desai in November, whose week-long residency will culminate in three nights of performance on November 30, December 1 & 2. Other CPR programs including Performance Studio Open House (PSOH), Fall Movement, and the Performance Philosophy Reading Group will feature in our Fall season, presenting an exciting selection of artists working across dance and performance, broadly defined.

FEATURED CPR PROGRAMS AND EVENTS, FALL 2018

Performing Fragility: Performance After Hurricane Maria - September 19, 2018 | 7:30pm

September 2018 marks the one year anniversary since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. This roundtable discussion, co-presented by CPR-Center for Performance Research and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, will feature a panel of Puerto Rican performing artists as they reflect on the impact of the hurricane on their lives and creative practice. The event will be hosted at CPR and is free to attend.

Featuring: Antonio Ramos, Awilda Rodrigez Lora, Noemí Segarra Ramírez, and Urayoán Noel.

Moderated by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Hemispheric Institute, NYU.

Performance Philosophy Reading Group Series - Monthly on Wednesdays | 6:30pm

CPR's newest initiative, Performance Philosophy Reading Group, is a monthly reading group series co-hosted by select CPR Artists-in-Residence and presented in conjunction with the international research network, Performance Philosophy (PP). Each month, we read exhilarating and thought-provoking texts by key Performance Philosophy scholars as a springboard into generative discussion and thought-experimentation. Performance Philosophy 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 to attend.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018: co-hosted by 2018 Technical Resident and Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Recipient, Parijat Desai

Wednesday, October 17, 2018: co-hosted by 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence, Katie Workum

Wednesday, November 28, 2018: co-hosted by 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence, Alexis Zaccarello

Wednesday, December 11, 2018: co-host TBD

Sunday Salon - October 14, 2018 | 2pm

Sunday Salon functions as an extension of CPR's Artist-in-Residence program. Broadening the scope of our AiR program, the Sunday Salon series provides a platform for CPR's AiRs to share their current practice with the larger CPR and NYC dance community. A series of gatherings, free and open to the public, Sunday Salon features artists' work, research materials, and ephemera. Taking place several times throughout the year, each salon will include an afternoon of conversation and mingling punctuated by performances and artist interventions.

Featuring: Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Sidra Bell, and Median Movement (Xan Burley and Alex Springer).

Performance Studio Open House Series - Monthly on Tuesdays | 8pm

This series provides opportunities for artists to share works-in-progress with an audience, engaging the public in the process of developing new dance and movement-based practices. Performance showings are followed by discussion facilitated by CPR's General Manager, Dr. Charlotte Farrell, around both the works themselves and the process of their creation. These open rehearsals are free to the public, and represents the work of a broad constituency of artists who use CPR.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018: J. Bouey, Moriah Evans, and Nicole Von Arx

Tuesday, November 13, 2018: Aya Clarke, Beth Graczyk, and Bonnie O'Rourke

Tuesday, December 11, 2018: Michelle Fletcher, Aleixa Freire + Molly Kennedy, and Special Guest TBA

Tuesday, January 29, 2019: Magda Kaczmarska, Thomas Tyger Moore, and Tatyana Tenenbaum

Fall Movement - November 8-10, 2018 | 7:30pm

A biannual festival of dance and performance, Fall Movement provides an opportunity for audiences to experience a range of work engaged in contemporary choreographic practice. Participants are selected from an open call by a panel of artists and CPR staff. Each selected artist receives two hours of technical rehearsal, rehearsal space, and one fully produced evening of performance. CPR thanks its Fall Movement 2018 panelists: Holly Sass, J. Bouey, and Kyle Marshall. Fall Movement 2018 selected artists will be announced by September 30, 2018.

Technical Artist-in-Residence: Parijat Desai - November 26, 2018 - December 2, 2018

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. This fall, CPR welcomes Parijat Desai as its Technical Resident. As a dancemaker, Desai creates hybrids of contemporary and Indian classical dance, martial art, and other forms to develop entirely new languages. Globally, she builds across aesthetic and conceptual boundaries to challenge ideas of cultural purity and fundamentalism and break down the false dichotomy between tradition and modernity. She will utilize her time at CPR to develop O.O.F. (studies in the opposite of fear), which will culminate in performances open to the public on November 30 - December 1 at 8pm and December 2 at 4pm.

About CPR

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 nine 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.

CPR is grateful for the support of prominent funders including the Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, as well as generous individual donors.

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