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.
New Dance Alliance is pleased to announce the lineup for the 32nd annual Performance Mix Festival. “The most elaborate festival of the unpredictable” (The New York Times), the 2018 edition brings together more than 30 artists with diverse approaches to performance, inviting audiences to engage with the unexpected and to experience some of the newest voices in experimental dance. This year's festival also includes Performance Mix's annual community breakfast, a free movement workshop, and other special events. The festival runs June 7?10, 2018, at The Performance Project at University Settlement. Performance Mix is curated by New Dance Alliance Founder and Director Karen Bernard.
La MaMa's Squirts gathers some of the most exciting voices from New York City's queer performance world, across the generations. Over three nights, three curators sculpt the fabric of queer community to pose questions, honor legacies and ignite the present. Eva Yaa Asantewaa begins the series with Q(here)majiQUE, an evening of improvised dance. The next night, the legendary House of LaBeija returns to La MaMa for Linda LaBeija's exploration of the House's lineage and impact, The LaBeija Showcase. The series ends with Queer Abstract curator Shannon Matesky's Four Questions, with spoken word and dance artists reflecting on common themes, inspired by Nina Simone.
Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, the nation's preeminent arts summer day camp, today announced its new Choreographic Institute, an innovative new program launching in Summer 2018. Students in the inaugural Choreographic Institute will be taught by some of the most visionary choreographers today including Brian Brooks, Beth Gill, and Angie Pittman. Open via application and geared towards those with a passion for choreography and dance making, the seven-week program will act as an incubator for young dancemakers who want to expand and develop their choreographic voices.
Performance Space New York kicks off its East Village Series, contemplating the past, present, and future of the organization and its neighborhood, with Welcome to Lenapehoking (February 17, 4pm, Free), a partnership with the The Lenape Center, and Avant-Garde-Arama, the extravaganza of experimentation that's also the organization's longest-running program (February 18, 6pm, Free). Performance Space New York's Executive Artistic Director Jenny Schlenzka steps into her new curatorial role with these events honoring the neighborhood's original caretakers and the organization's own trailblazing roots, as springboards into an exhilarating new chapter.
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 Ren e 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.
A friendly reminder that GROWING UP GONZALES, a touching family drama written and directed by Felix Rojas and performed by Andres' Chulisi' Rodriguez, opens Off-Broadway on June 24th at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street New York NY 10036.
A friendly reminder that GROWING UP GONZALES, a touching family drama written and directed by Felix Rojas and performed by Andres" Chulisi" Rodriguez, opens Off-Broadway on June 24th at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street New York NY 10036.
'Growing Up Gonzales,' written and directed by Felix Rojas, performed by Andres" Chulisi" Rodriguez, opens Off-Broadway June 24th at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street New York NY 10036.
Drawing from all-too-familiar experience dreaded by many, choreographer and visual artist Laura Peterson examines the eponymous FAILURE in the context of both personal and national experience of America, circa 2017.
Drawing from all-too-familiar experience dreaded by many, choreographer and visual artist Laura Peterson examines the eponymous FAILURE in the context of both personal and national experience of America, circa 2017. The new installation/performance, showing June 29-July 1 at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South, Manhattan), takes Peterson's signature formal rigor and visual wizardry to the previously unexamined territory. Tickets are available on “pay what you can” basis and can be obtained online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/failure-by-laura-peterson-choreography-tickets-32996413160 or at the door.
Yackez, the art pop/multimedia collaboration of Larissa and Jon Velez-Jackson, aka Twitta and Papi Jon, will work the crowd again in their latest dance spectacle, Give It To You Stage, a large-scale dance musical in two acts. The performance of all original music written and performed by the duo also features their Queer pro-wrestling dance ensemble and a special appearance by older adult members of Larissa's citywide dance-fitness classes, creating a multi-generational interdisciplinary spectacle. Commissioned by New York Live Arts and presented through its Live Feed creative residency program, the performances will take place March 29-April 1, 2017, at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, NYC. For tickets and information, call 212 924 0077 or visit newyorklivearts.
Museum of the Moving Image will present Nuyorican Cinema: Framing Identities, a forum for exploring the cinema of the Puerto Rican diaspora, as part of the ongoing series Changing the Picture, sponsored by Time Warner Inc. The event, on Friday, March 4, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., will feature a panel discussion with filmmakers, content creators, and curators including Vagabond Alexander Beaumont, Sonia González-Martinez, Cynthia López (former commissioner of NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment), Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Luis Antonio Ramos, and moderated by Edwin Pagán, who organized the program.
Clinton Hill cultural hub and OBIE award-winner JACK launches its winter/spring 2016 season with an a cappella opera set in Zimbabwe by composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, a weekend of curated works by Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, the premiere of the dirty and bracing play Tom & Eliza, by Celine Song, the English-language premiere of Argentinian playwright Rafael Spregelburd's SPAM, The Geneva Project by Jennifer Harrison Newman, Antonio Ramos' Thirsty Mind, love and starvation sitting in a lonely tree and an exploration in minimalist/pop art performance by the No Face Performance Group. JACK also engineers the return of Walter Dundervill's ARENA (which had two sold-out runs at JACK in 2014 and 2015).
The international Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI) is the leading convening of dance improvisers in the country, and a leading international festival.
Center for Performance Research (CPR) announced today the schedule for the 2015 New Voices in Live Performance weekend, June 11th, 12th, & 13th, 2015.This year CPR's own Artists-in-Residence, Antonio Ramos, Elisabeth Motley, Alexis Zaccarello and Sidra Bell have organized four split bills, an ongoing audio and visualinstallation, and three free workshops.
