Center For Performance Research Announces Sunday Salon

CPR - Center for Performance Research, an artist-driven organization co-founded by Jonah Bokaer Choreography and John Jasperse & Thin Man Dance, Inc. to support the development of new works in contemporary dance, will present the winter season's Sunday Salon, featuring work by CPR Artists-in-Residence Antonio Ramos and The Gang Bangers, Melinda Ring and Renée Archibald, Kim Brandt, and Katie Workum. CPR's Artists-in-Residence program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serves as a platform for both emerging choreographers and established companies, providing an open environment for research and development of new dance work.

The Sunday Salon series fortifies CPR's Artist-in-Residence program by creating opportunities for AIRs to share their current practice with the larger CPR and NYC dance community and dialogue directly about work in process. The Sunday Salon series, free and open to the public, features artists' work, research materials, and ephemera. Taking place twice a year, each salon will include an afternoon of conversation and mingling punctuated by performances and artist interventions.

Katie Workum continues her work with ritual and improvisation, currently asking how to reclaim concepts of 'form' from existing for primarily for an outside gaze, to enhancing form to create open channels for living and creating. Antonio Ramos and The Gang Bangers show research about social media and social demands as a working artist. A kinesthetic experiment that questions how movement emerges from tension, performers in Kim Brandt's Untitled explore a depersonalisation of presence without losing themselves. Melinda Ring and Renée Archibald preview a section from their collaborative work Renée vs The Rectangle + Shiny Angles in Angular Time. Performed by Archibald, this dance without musical accompaniment still attends exquisitely to musicality as it attempts to describe the elusive "angular time".

More information: www.cprnyc.org

Photo: Katie Workum, Here Are The Mountains.
Photo Credit: Paula Lobo