Free; advance registration required at least 24 hours in advance.
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Critical Race Therapy thinks through methodologies of race treatment(s) or how one might address race as an embodied sense or an anxiety disorder. Treatment 1 (CRT T1) / The Rhythm Treatment will focus on sound and feeling in relationship to race – come make “race songs” with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Kyle b. co.

Private 1-on-1 sessions are available at 11:30AM, 1PM, 2:30PM, and 4PM on the following Sundays:

Sun, March 23
Sun, March 30
Sun, April 6
Sun, April 13
Sun, May 11
Sun, May 18

Private sessions run about 1 hour. Participants may remain anonymous and will receive a recording of their songs. 

With limited 1-on-1 sessions available, we kindly ask that you honor your reserved time. If you are not able to make it to a session, please cancel your reservation through Eventbrite or let us know ASAP at info@cprnyc.org so that we can reopen the slot to another participant.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kyle b. co. is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer, educator, and baker based in Brooklyn, NY. They are a 2024-25 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, a 2023 Smack Mellon Hot Pick, and were short-listed for the 2025 Creative Capital award in visual arts. They have received a RISCA Merit Fellowship in 3-D Arts and a Providence Arts, Culture, and Tourism Public Art Fellowship. Their work has found kinship at Hera Gallery, RISD Museum, Buoy Gallery, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Westbeth Gallery, Lucas, Lucas, and Grace Exhibition Space, among other spaces. Their practice engages with the task of mapping the present as a method of document and engagement with form. They work with materials of culture and personal history to make monuments of possibility. The matrices that hold an image may not be visible ‘til named. Their practice is one of futurity as they seek what can be sensed, not what is known. In various ways, they try to grasp at the transmission/translation of a feeling. Feeling(s) as a concept is unclear in its relationship to time. When did the feeling begin? Has the feeling ever stopped? Will you have this feeling again in the future? Their work spans both objects/installation and performance, the distinction between mediums not being that important. Their work is about feeling (&) connection(s).

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Tunnel Vision Splintering is a practice of straddling our virtual and real selves. In this movement workshop facilitated by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Alex Rodabaugh, participants will use handheld devices to pilot virtual versions of themselves while collectively engaging their physical bodies together in improvisational movement scores. It is a precarious practice of splintering into two places at the same time, engaging in both selves as equally as we can manage.

Your virtual self may take any form that is most comfortable or interesting to you, including but not limited to: a video game character on a hand-held gaming device, a live social media stream interacting with chat, posting and commenting on social media, video chatting with a friend, playing a smartphone game that requires constant attention, or anything else that you’d like to personally explore. Augmented Reality headsets are okay as long as you can see the people and space around you.

The movement scores will consist of basic movement instructions that are open to interpretation while constantly in motion: moving from standing height to floor height while turning in a circle, pretending you are under water, pretending you are moving through jello, staying connected with a partner by touching elbows, and more that will be devised together at the start of the practice.

The workshop is open to movers of most abilities. The practice involves moving one's body while also moving one's virtual body, which can be difficult cognitively and physically, but anyone up for the challenge is welcome.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alex Rodabaugh is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Lima, OH (Shawnee territory), based in NYC (Lenapehoking). Alex's work has been shown at Movement Research at the Judson Church, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, American Realness, and Dance and Process at The Kitchen. Alex most recently performed in Rebecca Patek’s Tough Titties. Alex has performed in works by artists such as Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Tess Dworman, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Doug LeCours, Derek Smith, and Bailey Williams, among others, including two Bessie Award-winning performances. Alex is also a Treasurer/Co-Founder of Dance Artists’ National Collective and was a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research. www.alexrodabaugh.work.

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*The previously-scheduled 1PM Orientation has been consolidated into this single 3PM program.


Critical Race Therapy thinks through methodologies of race treatment(s) or how one might address race as an embodied sense or an anxiety disorder. Learn more at Orientation with 2025 Artist-in-Residence Kyle b. co., which will include a performance presentation, process demonstration, and group medi(t)ation. Cookies will be served. Featuring Isaac Silber.

Those who attend Orientation will have priority access to a limited number of 1-on-1 sessions of Treatment 1 (CRT T1) / The Rhythm Treatment before the calendar opens to the general public. Treatment 1 will focus on sound and feeling in relationship to race – come make “race songs” with Kyle b. co.

Private sessions run about 1 hour. Participants may remain anonymous and will receive a recording of their songs. Previous participants are welcome to return. At Orientation, you will have the opportunity to sign up for these individual sessions with times available between 11:30 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. on the following Sundays:

Sun, March 23
Sun, March 30
Sun, April 6
Sun, April 13
Sun, May 11
Sun, May 18

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SUPPORT

This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2024-25, supported by Jerome Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kyle b. co. is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer, educator, and baker based in Brooklyn, NY. They are a 2024-25 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, a 2023 Smack Mellon Hot Pick, and were short-listed for the 2025 Creative Capital award in visual arts. They have received a RISCA Merit Fellowship in 3-D Arts and a Providence Arts, Culture, and Tourism Public Art Fellowship. Their work has found kinship at Hera Gallery, RISD Museum, Buoy Gallery, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Westbeth Gallery, Lucas, Lucas, and Grace Exhibition Space, among other spaces. Their practice engages with the task of mapping the present as a method of document and engagement with form. They work with materials of culture and personal history to make monuments of possibility. The matrices that hold an image may not be visible ‘til named. Their practice is one of futurity as they seek what can be sensed, not what is known. In various ways, they try to grasp at the transmission/translation of a feeling. Feeling(s) as a concept is unclear in its relationship to time. When did the feeling begin? Has the feeling ever stopped? Will you have this feeling again in the future? Their work spans both objects/installation and performance, the distinction between mediums not being that important. Their work is about feeling (&) connection(s).

General Admission: $25
Presenter Tickets: $15
Purchase Tickets

*In the event that a performance is sold out, an in-person waitlist will open 30 minutes before showtime.


Saturday, January 11 at 6:30PM
Sunday, January 12 at 1PM & 5PM


For All Your Life is a performance event and social experiment that investigates the value of black life and black death. Centered around an ambitious serio-comical short film, For All Your Life is staged as a seminar, guided by an insurance sales woman, played by choreographer and artist Leslie Cuyjet.

Part screening, part sales pitch, this solo performance offers a primer on the life insurance industry and its direct connection to slavery; unpacking the ways in which human beings grapple with the inevitable prospect of death and, more importantly, the ways in which lives — especially those of people of color — are monetized. 

The short film, shot in 2023 with award-winning Brooklyn director Daniele Sarti, serves as a primer on life insurance. The “pitch” offers a unique investment opportunity — exclusive to audiences — while commenting on professional standards required to achieve legibility for black women within the setting of corporate theater. For All Your Life, the presentation and performance, delivers insight, humor, and drives its mission directly to audiences to choose life. 

More information at forallyourlife.com. 

For All Your Life is co-presented with Live Artery | New York Live Arts. Explore the full 2025 Live Artery Festival here.


CREDITS

Created and performed by Leslie Cuyjet
Co-director and Dramaturgy: Sean Donovan
Stage Management: Randi Rivera
Stage Design: Neal Wilkinson
Lighting design: Amanda K. Ringger
Video and sound design: Max Ludlow
Co-producers: Jennifer Castro Song and Sweat Variant

Film Credits
Director: Daniele Sarti
Assistant Camera: Max Nemhauser and Joe Kickbush
Audio: Will Scott
Assistant Set Design: Joseph Wolfslau
Make up: Jane Serenska
Production Management: Tess Dworman
Editing: Daniele Sarti, Leslie Cuyjet, and Tim Donovan
Sound Mix: dayae choi
Additional Performers: Tess Dworman, Jacque Betesh, Katrina Reed, and Jason Watt


SUPPORT

The premiere of For All Your Life was commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, April 10-13, 2024. For All Your Life was made possible by a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; created, in part, during a 2023-2024 Research Residency at Danspace Project; supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation Late Stage Production Stipend; and developed, in part, during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts, New York, NY.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Leslie Cuyjet is a performer, artist and “a potent choreographic voice,” says the New York Times. For two decades, she has danced for and collaborated with a range of artists like David Gordon, Juliana F. May, Will Rawls, Cynthia Oliver, Jane Comfort, Tere O’Connor, Niall Jones, Yanira Castro and many others. Cuyjet’s own work interrogates these experiences as a performer through the lens of the black body, and includes movement, film, text, and theater. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, The Chocolate Factory, CPR – Center for Performance Research, SculptureCenter, Gibney, and The Shed; where her piece, Blur, garnered her second “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator in 2022. Recent honors include Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists, Princeton Hodder Fellow, Movement Research Resident Artist, and MacDowell Fellow. Cuyjet has been supported by residencies at Movement Research, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Yaddo, Marble House Project, and New Dance Alliance. She is a published writer and the former co-editor of Critical Correspondence. Cuyjet graduated from the first cohort of Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business program and holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois.

Sean Donovan is an actor, director, choreographer, dancer, and writer. His recent works include, Cabin at The Bushwick Starr, The Reception at HERE Arts, and 18 1/2 Minutes at JACK (in collaboration with Sebastián Calderón Bentin). He’s also been presented in The Under the Radar Festival, CUNY’s Prelude Festival, Incubator Arts Project, FAE Festival in Panama, Stanford University, NYU, and others. Sean won a 2022 Lortel Award for his performance in Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova. He was nominated for 2014 and 2017 BESSIE awards for Outstanding Performer. He’s worked with Taylor Mac, Lee Sunday Evans, Heather Christian, Faye Driscoll, Miguel Gutierrez, Jane Comfort, The Builders Association, and many others. Recent credits include Bark of Millions at Sydney Opera House and BAM, The Trees at Playwrights Horizons, Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova, Thank You for Coming at BAM, Danspace Project and an international tour, Age & Beauty Part 2 at NYLA, and House/Divided at BAM. He co-wrote the web series Morning Chardonnay with Hannah Heller. Other Film/TV credits include Law and Order: Organized Crime, Feast of the Epiphany, and Laurence. He holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU. He teaches Movement and Choreography at NYU.

Max Ludlow is a British-American audio engineer, sound designer, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He can often be found building sound systems, troubleshooting projectors, and hanging large objects from the ceiling at venues such as The Kitchen, Harlem Stage, and The Chocolate Factory, among others. A graduate of Purchase College, SUNY, with a BA in Anthropology and Media Studies, Max produces the Artists and Hackers podcast and coordinates the Audio Storytelling program at the Tribeca Festival. In his free time, he performs electronic music under the alias Windy 500 and conducts research on avant-garde, punk, and electronic art.

Amanda K. Ringger has been designing locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years with artists such as Faye Driscoll, Cynthia Oliver, Doug Elkins, Leslie Cuyjet, Molly Poerstel, Ivy Baldwin, Laura Peterson, Darrah Carr, Antonio Ramos, Alexandra Beller, Sean Donovan, and cakeface, among many others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is the recipient of a Bessie award for her collaboration on Faye Driscoll’s 837 Venice Boulevard at HERE Arts Center.

Randi Rivera is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. She has been a freelance Stage Manager and Lighting Director since 2009, working both in NYC and on the road. A few favorite colleagues include Tina Satter & Half Straddle, Keigwin & Company, Dance Heginbotham, Harlem Stage, Faye Driscoll, Doug Elkins Choreography Etc, Sidra Bell Dance NY, The Chocolate Factory, Andrew Schneider, Ivy Baldwin, Cathy Weis, Gallim Dance, Sean Donovan, Phantom Limb Company, and Ballez. Rivera served as Associate Director for the Broadway run of Half Straddle’s Is This A Room in 2021. All of her work is for her family.

Neal Wilkinson is a set designer, production manager, and visual artist. His most recent set design was Hang Time by Zora Howard, which was premiered at the Flea last year. As a member of the Builders Association from 2003 to 2019, he designed works including House/Divided, Elements of OZ, and Strange Window, which have been presented by theater festivals internationally. Neal’s company Corps Liminis provides production management for theatrical productions, museums, and installations. Most recent projects include Here We Are, Sonic Sphere, and Tomas Saraceno’s Particular Matter(s) at the SHED, the 2022 Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Joan Jonas retrospective at MoMA. As a multimedia artist, his new work Fight For America!, in which the events of January 6th, 2021 are re-played by audience members as a tabletop wargame, will be produced by The American Vicarious and premiere in 2025: [www.fightforamerica.games]


ABOUT LIVE ARTERY | NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

New York Live Arts, guided by the leadership of visionary artist Bill T. Jones, collaborates with boundary pushing artists, advocates for their vision, and fortifies a creative future. The annual Live Artery Festival provides a space for artists to network and share their work with the general public and presenters from around the world alike, which leads to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships.

General Admission: $25
Presenter Tickets: $15
Purchase Tickets

*In the event that a performance is sold out, an in-person waitlist will open 30 minutes before showtime.


Saturday, January 11 at 6:30PM
Sunday, January 12 at 1PM & 5PM


For All Your Life is a performance event and social experiment that investigates the value of black life and black death. Centered around an ambitious serio-comical short film, For All Your Life is staged as a seminar, guided by an insurance sales woman, played by choreographer and artist Leslie Cuyjet.

Part screening, part sales pitch, this solo performance offers a primer on the life insurance industry and its direct connection to slavery; unpacking the ways in which human beings grapple with the inevitable prospect of death and, more importantly, the ways in which lives — especially those of people of color — are monetized. 

The short film, shot in 2023 with award-winning Brooklyn director Daniele Sarti, serves as a primer on life insurance. The “pitch” offers a unique investment opportunity — exclusive to audiences — while commenting on professional standards required to achieve legibility for black women within the setting of corporate theater. For All Your Life, the presentation and performance, delivers insight, humor, and drives its mission directly to audiences to choose life. 

More information at forallyourlife.com. 

For All Your Life is co-presented with Live Artery | New York Live Arts. Explore the full 2025 Live Artery Festival here.


CREDITS

Created and performed by Leslie Cuyjet
Co-director and Dramaturgy: Sean Donovan
Stage Management: Randi Rivera
Stage Design: Neal Wilkinson
Lighting design: Amanda K. Ringger
Video and sound design: Max Ludlow
Co-producers: Jennifer Castro Song and Sweat Variant

Film Credits
Director: Daniele Sarti
Assistant Camera: Max Nemhauser and Joe Kickbush
Audio: Will Scott
Assistant Set Design: Joseph Wolfslau
Make up: Jane Serenska
Production Management: Tess Dworman
Editing: Daniele Sarti, Leslie Cuyjet, and Tim Donovan
Sound Mix: dayae choi
Additional Performers: Tess Dworman, Jacque Betesh, Katrina Reed, and Jason Watt


SUPPORT

The premiere of For All Your Life was commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, April 10-13, 2024. For All Your Life was made possible by a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; created, in part, during a 2023-2024 Research Residency at Danspace Project; supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation Late Stage Production Stipend; and developed, in part, during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts, New York, NY.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Leslie Cuyjet is a performer, artist and “a potent choreographic voice,” says the New York Times. For two decades, she has danced for and collaborated with a range of artists like David Gordon, Juliana F. May, Will Rawls, Cynthia Oliver, Jane Comfort, Tere O’Connor, Niall Jones, Yanira Castro and many others. Cuyjet’s own work interrogates these experiences as a performer through the lens of the black body, and includes movement, film, text, and theater. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, The Chocolate Factory, CPR – Center for Performance Research, SculptureCenter, Gibney, and The Shed; where her piece, Blur, garnered her second “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator in 2022. Recent honors include Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists, Princeton Hodder Fellow, Movement Research Resident Artist, and MacDowell Fellow. Cuyjet has been supported by residencies at Movement Research, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Yaddo, Marble House Project, and New Dance Alliance. She is a published writer and the former co-editor of Critical Correspondence. Cuyjet graduated from the first cohort of Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business program and holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois.

Sean Donovan is an actor, director, choreographer, dancer, and writer. His recent works include, Cabin at The Bushwick Starr, The Reception at HERE Arts, and 18 1/2 Minutes at JACK (in collaboration with Sebastián Calderón Bentin). He’s also been presented in The Under the Radar Festival, CUNY’s Prelude Festival, Incubator Arts Project, FAE Festival in Panama, Stanford University, NYU, and others. Sean won a 2022 Lortel Award for his performance in Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova. He was nominated for 2014 and 2017 BESSIE awards for Outstanding Performer. He’s worked with Taylor Mac, Lee Sunday Evans, Heather Christian, Faye Driscoll, Miguel Gutierrez, Jane Comfort, The Builders Association, and many others. Recent credits include Bark of Millions at Sydney Opera House and BAM, The Trees at Playwrights Horizons, Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova, Thank You for Coming at BAM, Danspace Project and an international tour, Age & Beauty Part 2 at NYLA, and House/Divided at BAM. He co-wrote the web series Morning Chardonnay with Hannah Heller. Other Film/TV credits include Law and Order: Organized Crime, Feast of the Epiphany, and Laurence. He holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU. He teaches Movement and Choreography at NYU.

Max Ludlow is a British-American audio engineer, sound designer, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He can often be found building sound systems, troubleshooting projectors, and hanging large objects from the ceiling at venues such as The Kitchen, Harlem Stage, and The Chocolate Factory, among others. A graduate of Purchase College, SUNY, with a BA in Anthropology and Media Studies, Max produces the Artists and Hackers podcast and coordinates the Audio Storytelling program at the Tribeca Festival. In his free time, he performs electronic music under the alias Windy 500 and conducts research on avant-garde, punk, and electronic art.

Amanda K. Ringger has been designing locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years with artists such as Faye Driscoll, Cynthia Oliver, Doug Elkins, Leslie Cuyjet, Molly Poerstel, Ivy Baldwin, Laura Peterson, Darrah Carr, Antonio Ramos, Alexandra Beller, Sean Donovan, and cakeface, among many others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is the recipient of a Bessie award for her collaboration on Faye Driscoll’s 837 Venice Boulevard at HERE Arts Center.

Randi Rivera is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. She has been a freelance Stage Manager and Lighting Director since 2009, working both in NYC and on the road. A few favorite colleagues include Tina Satter & Half Straddle, Keigwin & Company, Dance Heginbotham, Harlem Stage, Faye Driscoll, Doug Elkins Choreography Etc, Sidra Bell Dance NY, The Chocolate Factory, Andrew Schneider, Ivy Baldwin, Cathy Weis, Gallim Dance, Sean Donovan, Phantom Limb Company, and Ballez. Rivera served as Associate Director for the Broadway run of Half Straddle’s Is This A Room in 2021. All of her work is for her family.

Neal Wilkinson is a set designer, production manager, and visual artist. His most recent set design was Hang Time by Zora Howard, which was premiered at the Flea last year. As a member of the Builders Association from 2003 to 2019, he designed works including House/Divided, Elements of OZ, and Strange Window, which have been presented by theater festivals internationally. Neal’s company Corps Liminis provides production management for theatrical productions, museums, and installations. Most recent projects include Here We Are, Sonic Sphere, and Tomas Saraceno’s Particular Matter(s) at the SHED, the 2022 Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Joan Jonas retrospective at MoMA. As a multimedia artist, his new work Fight For America!, in which the events of January 6th, 2021 are re-played by audience members as a tabletop wargame, will be produced by The American Vicarious and premiere in 2025: [www.fightforamerica.games]


ABOUT LIVE ARTERY | NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

New York Live Arts, guided by the leadership of visionary artist Bill T. Jones, collaborates with boundary pushing artists, advocates for their vision, and fortifies a creative future. The annual Live Artery Festival provides a space for artists to network and share their work with the general public and presenters from around the world alike, which leads to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships.

General Admission: $25
Presenter Tickets: $15
Purchase Tickets

*In the event that a performance is sold out, an in-person waitlist will open 30 minutes before showtime.


Saturday, January 11 at 6:30PM
Sunday, January 12 at 1PM & 5PM


For All Your Life is a performance event and social experiment that investigates the value of black life and black death. Centered around an ambitious serio-comical short film, For All Your Life is staged as a seminar, guided by an insurance sales woman, played by choreographer and artist Leslie Cuyjet.

Part screening, part sales pitch, this solo performance offers a primer on the life insurance industry and its direct connection to slavery; unpacking the ways in which human beings grapple with the inevitable prospect of death and, more importantly, the ways in which lives — especially those of people of color — are monetized. 

The short film, shot in 2023 with award-winning Brooklyn director Daniele Sarti, serves as a primer on life insurance. The “pitch” offers a unique investment opportunity — exclusive to audiences — while commenting on professional standards required to achieve legibility for black women within the setting of corporate theater. For All Your Life, the presentation and performance, delivers insight, humor, and drives its mission directly to audiences to choose life. 

More information at forallyourlife.com. 

For All Your Life is co-presented with Live Artery | New York Live Arts. Explore the full 2025 Live Artery Festival here.


CREDITS

Created and performed by Leslie Cuyjet
Co-director and Dramaturgy: Sean Donovan
Stage Management: Randi Rivera
Stage Design: Neal Wilkinson
Lighting design: Amanda K. Ringger
Video and sound design: Max Ludlow
Co-producers: Jennifer Castro Song and Sweat Variant

Film Credits
Director: Daniele Sarti
Assistant Camera: Max Nemhauser and Joe Kickbush
Audio: Will Scott
Assistant Set Design: Joseph Wolfslau
Make up: Jane Serenska
Production Management: Tess Dworman
Editing: Daniele Sarti, Leslie Cuyjet, and Tim Donovan
Sound Mix: dayae choi
Additional Performers: Tess Dworman, Jacque Betesh, Katrina Reed, and Jason Watt


SUPPORT

The premiere of For All Your Life was commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, April 10-13, 2024. For All Your Life was made possible by a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; created, in part, during a 2023-2024 Research Residency at Danspace Project; supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation Late Stage Production Stipend; and developed, in part, during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts, New York, NY.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Leslie Cuyjet is a performer, artist and “a potent choreographic voice,” says the New York Times. For two decades, she has danced for and collaborated with a range of artists like David Gordon, Juliana F. May, Will Rawls, Cynthia Oliver, Jane Comfort, Tere O’Connor, Niall Jones, Yanira Castro and many others. Cuyjet’s own work interrogates these experiences as a performer through the lens of the black body, and includes movement, film, text, and theater. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, The Chocolate Factory, CPR – Center for Performance Research, SculptureCenter, Gibney, and The Shed; where her piece, Blur, garnered her second “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator in 2022. Recent honors include Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists, Princeton Hodder Fellow, Movement Research Resident Artist, and MacDowell Fellow. Cuyjet has been supported by residencies at Movement Research, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Yaddo, Marble House Project, and New Dance Alliance. She is a published writer and the former co-editor of Critical Correspondence. Cuyjet graduated from the first cohort of Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business program and holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois.

Sean Donovan is an actor, director, choreographer, dancer, and writer. His recent works include, Cabin at The Bushwick Starr, The Reception at HERE Arts, and 18 1/2 Minutes at JACK (in collaboration with Sebastián Calderón Bentin). He’s also been presented in The Under the Radar Festival, CUNY’s Prelude Festival, Incubator Arts Project, FAE Festival in Panama, Stanford University, NYU, and others. Sean won a 2022 Lortel Award for his performance in Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova. He was nominated for 2014 and 2017 BESSIE awards for Outstanding Performer. He’s worked with Taylor Mac, Lee Sunday Evans, Heather Christian, Faye Driscoll, Miguel Gutierrez, Jane Comfort, The Builders Association, and many others. Recent credits include Bark of Millions at Sydney Opera House and BAM, The Trees at Playwrights Horizons, Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova, Thank You for Coming at BAM, Danspace Project and an international tour, Age & Beauty Part 2 at NYLA, and House/Divided at BAM. He co-wrote the web series Morning Chardonnay with Hannah Heller. Other Film/TV credits include Law and Order: Organized Crime, Feast of the Epiphany, and Laurence. He holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU. He teaches Movement and Choreography at NYU.

Max Ludlow is a British-American audio engineer, sound designer, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He can often be found building sound systems, troubleshooting projectors, and hanging large objects from the ceiling at venues such as The Kitchen, Harlem Stage, and The Chocolate Factory, among others. A graduate of Purchase College, SUNY, with a BA in Anthropology and Media Studies, Max produces the Artists and Hackers podcast and coordinates the Audio Storytelling program at the Tribeca Festival. In his free time, he performs electronic music under the alias Windy 500 and conducts research on avant-garde, punk, and electronic art.

Amanda K. Ringger has been designing locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years with artists such as Faye Driscoll, Cynthia Oliver, Doug Elkins, Leslie Cuyjet, Molly Poerstel, Ivy Baldwin, Laura Peterson, Darrah Carr, Antonio Ramos, Alexandra Beller, Sean Donovan, and cakeface, among many others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is the recipient of a Bessie award for her collaboration on Faye Driscoll’s 837 Venice Boulevard at HERE Arts Center.

Randi Rivera is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. She has been a freelance Stage Manager and Lighting Director since 2009, working both in NYC and on the road. A few favorite colleagues include Tina Satter & Half Straddle, Keigwin & Company, Dance Heginbotham, Harlem Stage, Faye Driscoll, Doug Elkins Choreography Etc, Sidra Bell Dance NY, The Chocolate Factory, Andrew Schneider, Ivy Baldwin, Cathy Weis, Gallim Dance, Sean Donovan, Phantom Limb Company, and Ballez. Rivera served as Associate Director for the Broadway run of Half Straddle’s Is This A Room in 2021. All of her work is for her family.

Neal Wilkinson is a set designer, production manager, and visual artist. His most recent set design was Hang Time by Zora Howard, which was premiered at the Flea last year. As a member of the Builders Association from 2003 to 2019, he designed works including House/Divided, Elements of OZ, and Strange Window, which have been presented by theater festivals internationally. Neal’s company Corps Liminis provides production management for theatrical productions, museums, and installations. Most recent projects include Here We Are, Sonic Sphere, and Tomas Saraceno’s Particular Matter(s) at the SHED, the 2022 Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Joan Jonas retrospective at MoMA. As a multimedia artist, his new work Fight For America!, in which the events of January 6th, 2021 are re-played by audience members as a tabletop wargame, will be produced by The American Vicarious and premiere in 2025: [www.fightforamerica.games]


ABOUT LIVE ARTERY | NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

New York Live Arts, guided by the leadership of visionary artist Bill T. Jones, collaborates with boundary pushing artists, advocates for their vision, and fortifies a creative future. The annual Live Artery Festival provides a space for artists to network and share their work with the general public and presenters from around the world alike, which leads to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships.

Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can
Purchase Tickets

** Advance tickets for this program are sold out. An in-person wait list will open at 6:30PM.


MEETINGS RESEARCH (HUMAN IN THE LOOP) is a performance-experiment by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Sarah Rothberg which uses improvisation, conversation, and AI language models to (literally) reflect the present moment.

MEETINGS RESEARCH (HUMAN IN THE LOOP) is an extension of Rothberg’s larger body of work MEETINGS which centers conversation as a creative act and plays with the emerging communication technologies that affect it.

Creative Technologist: Tommy Martinez

Systems Engineer: Yotam Mann

Production Assistant: Han Zhang

Performers: Payton Adamski, Zephyr Koczara, Olive Lafuente, Georgie McKeon, Eliane Mitchell, Arden Thomas, and Bryce Walsh

Additional Support from: CPR – Center for Performance Research, Onassis ONX, the Jerome Hill Foundation

Special thanks to Johann Diedrick, Rosalie Yu, Peter Burr, Kelsa Trom, Bhavik Singh, Kate Brennan, Claire Hetschker,  Han Zhang, Roberto Kerry, and CPR (Nico Cabalquinto, Anna Muselmann, Alex Rosenberg).

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sarah Rothberg creates playful, poetic, usually-a-bit-weird experiences that invite you to reconsider your relationships to the world around you. These take many forms ranging from installation to immersive experiences, performance, websites, video, writing, workshops, and experiments with technology. Rothberg’s work appears in a variety of contexts: at art exhibitions, in public google docs, on the screens in the NYC Subway system, or whispered into the void. Support for Rothberg’s work has come from organizations including: MoMA, CPR – Center for Performance Research, rhizome.org, bitforms gallery, MTA Arts&Design, CultureHub, and Gray Area. Rotherberg is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU (Interactive Telecommunications Program), a member of Onassis ONX Studio, and a mentor/former-member at NEW INC, and is part of collaboratives: MORE&MORE UNLIMITED, which offers experiences for imagining changed worlds, and IS THIS THING ON? a post-web2 experiment in artist-driven livestreaming. Rothberg is a 2023-2024 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.

Tommy Martinez is an artist and programmer working primarily through research, sound, and code. He creates software and musical systems for the internet, embedded devices, and for live multichannel performance. Martinez has performed at MoMA PS1, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Fridman Gallery, and Pioneer Works. He has lectured on sound and electronic art at School for Poetic Computation, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Yotam Mann is a musician and instrument maker. His career has been dedicated to discovering how new technologies can progress music. Since studying music and computer science at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Yotam has worked with grammy award-winning artists, authored foundational software libraries for music production, and created instruments and interactive music projects enjoyed by millions. Yotam was part of the inaugural class at NEW INC, adjunct professor at ITP NYU Tisch, and 2016 Creative Capital Grantee in Emerging Fields, and part of Betaworks’ 2020 AudioCamp. yotammann.info

Han Zhang is a visual designer, artist, and storyteller with a rich interdisciplinary background. Recently earned a master’s degree from NYU, she honed her expertise in creative technology and installation art. Han’s work spans cross-cultural collaborations with world-renowned museums and galleries, as well as freelance projects, including designing posters for films celebrated at international film festivals. She currently work as a sales and artist liaison intern at Gagosian.

Payton Adamski is a performer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in music, comedy and theater, and is best known for getting two noise complaints during a karaoke rendition of Scream from the High School Musical 3 Soundtrack. 

Zephyr Koczara is a Brooklyn based performer best known for his role in "A Real Practical Joke" and "Fictional Story". He spends the majority of his free time playing Dungeons & Dragons and restoring vintage furniture. 

Olivia Lafuente is an occasional improver, new hobby every month enthusiast, often a producer or extra in friend’s random art projects, and community organizer. 

Georgie McKeon is a poet living in New York.

Eliane Mitchell (El-ee-awn-knee) is a writer, improv enthusiast, and "knowledge worker" in tech. She’s pumped to return to the stage—her last scripted role, nearly a decade ago, was a minor part in her high school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors.

Arden Thomas is a transmasc actor, comedian, and dancer who’s never met a bit he wouldn’t commit to—sometimes at great personal risk. When he’s not writing sketches or doing improv, you can catch him belting show tunes and perfecting his jazz hands.

Bryce Walsh is a comedian, researcher, and writer. You can find him wherever books are sold. 

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The digital gallery will remain on view through November 30, 2024.


As an extension of their work and research as a CPR 2023 Artist-in-Residence and their trilogy this is not a cult, x aka Saint Sir Coach presents an archive of mementos, materials, and media from their fictional cult Sky Dancers, Meta Angels, and Meme Fiends – internally known as THE FAMILY – in a digital gallery hosted on CPR’s website. Focused on the charming and relatable cult leader, Saint Sir Coach, this is not a cult I: THE COACH takes its digital audience on a journey of falling in love with Coach’s witty banter, pop culture references, energy readings, and motivational speeches. Coach is the hype person of your dreams and the primary cat parent of THE FAMILY’s golden child and mascot, the gray domestic shorthair called Avignon the Grey.

At the virtual opening on November 12, Coach will lead us on a tour of the gallery which will remain on view through November 30 with a sprawling archive of delicate cat whiskers, guided meditations, spiritually polytheistic words of affirmation, and more digital goodies that have led many professional and TikTok dancers alike to dedicate their lives to the Gospel of this satirical cult that’s not a cult.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

x aka Saint Sir Coach is a trans, conceptual artist and medium that uses sound healing as Social Practice. Dismantling and simultaneously utilizing our 11 years of education in theater, 25+ years in dance, and ambiguous training in visual art, a unique practice has been born. x has shared short films, installations, and dance works in Budapest, Detroit, Ithaca, and NYC. Selected accomplishments include: Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program, New Yorkers for Culture and Arts Advocate in Residence, CPR – Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence, AXIS Choreo-Lab Fellow, GALLIM Moving Artist Residency, Bronx Council on the Arts Bronx Cultural Visions Fund, and New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival 36 and LiftOff Residency. Our first solo show high functioning x.0. premiered in August 2022 in HERE Arts Center’s Sublet: CoOp Series.

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A new work by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Hans, Night Creatures is a love letter to all the men I have coiled my body around, to a love-hate relationship with New York, and to a constant wrestling match with a flamenco practice. A vespertine rumination of sexuality – from moonrise to sunrise – and the hunger, yearning, and fear that comes with being in love and lust of other male bodies. The work is also a technical exploration, having spent the residency year learning how to compose music using electronic, MIDI, and digital audio workspaces – composed while commuting through the vascular undergrounds of the NYC subway. The work is cradled by flamenco, using musical modes, movements, rhythms, melodies, and ideas, but deconstructs them to reflect a lived experience as a queer, fat-femme boy from the lush tropical fever-dream of Miami, living in NYC’s sticky, grimy, urban, angsty landscape. What does it feel like to dance House por Bulerias, move to the Fandangos of the L Train, and sing Tangos de Bushwick?

The performance will be followed by a conversation with Hans facilitated by leaders in the flamenco community on the nature of experimentation, orthodoxy, and framework of flamenco, and how it changes when it reflects non-Spanish folklore and experiences.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hans is a dancer and tattoo artist from Miami, FL with a practice focused on dance as visual art. They have shared work with audiences in Florida and held artistic residencies in NYC. Hans has also participated in projects by Katy Pyle’s Ballez, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Peter Born. Hans describes himself and his work as the “gay lovechild of Frida Kahlo and Sailor Neptune’s lesbian love affair.”

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Jeonmonori is an extension of a musical practice that 2024 Artist-in-Residence Leo Chang has been immersed in for the past six years, drawing on Korean folk musical practices and instruments as the basis for building new electronic instruments. The jeonmonori is an electronic adaptation of the sangmo, a hat with a long, spinning whip made of ribbon attached to its crown, which is worn and played during the sangmonori, a Korean folk tradition where the instrumentalist/performer plays and dances simultaneously with their percussion instrument. During his CPR residency, Chang created the jeonmonori by modifying a sangmo hat, replacing the spinning ribbon with a lightweight, mini microphone. While wearing the hat, he moves in the middle of four hanging gongs that are amplified with transducers. The act of the mic moving within the amplified gongs creates feedback between the transducers and the mic-ed hat-whip, resonating the gongs, while Chang’s position and the speed at which the whip is spinning, among other factors, determines musical variables of feedback such as pitch, rhythm, and dynamics.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Leo Chang is a Korean improviser, composer, and performer of experimental music. Born in Seoul, Leo lived as an expat in Singapore, Taipei, and Shanghai, until moving to the United States in 2011. His art is an act of homemaking inspired by various musical and ideological movements that have sought to question power dynamics and imagine egalitarian possibilities. His primary methods are free improvisation, written text, graphical notation, and electronic processing. Leo's projects have been presented and supported by the Vision Festival, Roulette Intermedium, Korea Foundation, Ostrava Days New Music Festival, New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Brooklyn Arts Council, and EMPAC at Rensselaer, among others. He holds a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. www.listentoleo.com

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Tues, October 22 at 7 P.M.
Weds, October 23 at 7 P.M.


Endless Holes is a shared evening of new work in development by 2024 Artists-in-Residence Rebecca Patek, Alex Rodabaugh, and Anh Vo. Each work is a continuation of the artist’s research in multi-part or iterative performance projects: Rebecca Patek revisits Tough Titties, exploring depolarization, binary fatigue, and mystic shorelines; Alex Rodabaugh seeks to close their Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity project with a deep dive into nostalgia, cyberspace avatar puppetry, paranoia, and denial; and Anh Vo builds on their ongoing research into northern Vietnamese possession ritual, exploring the pussy as an energetic channel that can tune into the existential pain of others.


PROGRAM

Rebecca Patek: Tough Titties 2: View from the Other End
An offering towards the effort around depolarization. We are for and against each other, for or against objects, ideas, realities. The binary fatigue of thinking and feeling can lead us to venture further than we might otherwise travel. We seek a mystic shoreline that is spoken of, that is rumored, but can we find it? What do we have to lose? What do we have to do to get there? Can I get there? Can you? Can we? I have many questions clearly but basically I am trying and that's the best I can do.

Alex Rodabaugh: n-1
Looking for a path forward to close the Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity project and embrace the community that embraces me. The nth edition delves into the nostalgia that is colonizing our future, cyberspace avatar puppetry colliding with physical presence, and the paranoia or denial that arises from the perpetual threat of and participation in violence.

Anh Vo: pussy talks
pussy talks builds on Anh Vo's ongoing research into northern Vietnamese possession ritual, exploring the pussy as an energetic channel that can tune into the existential pain of others. 


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rebecca Patek has created over twenty original performances. Her work is an amalgamation of comedy, theater, and dance. She is a 2024 CPR Artist-in-Residence, and was an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts. Her work has been presented at MoMa PS1, The Kitchen, Impulstanz Vienna (Prix Jardin D’Europe Fan Award 2014), Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at Judson Church, BAX, Triple Canopy, Prelude Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and Dixon Place, among many others. As a performer, she was most recently thrilled to appear in work by Ryan Mcnamara, and can currently be caught honing her skills at open mics around NYC.

Alex Rodabaugh is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Lima, OH (Shawnee territory), based in NYC (Lenapehoking). Alex's work has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church, Draftworks at Danspace, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, American Realness, and Dance and Process at The Kitchen. Alex most recently performed in Rebecca Patek’s Tough Titties. Alex has performed in works by artists such as Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Tess Dworman, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Doug LeCours, Derek Smith, and Bailey Williams, among others, including two Bessie Award-winning performances. Alex is also a Treasurer/Co-Founder of Dance Artists’ National Collective and a current Artist-in-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research. www.alexrodabaugh.work.

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working primarily in NYC, with a second base in Hanoi. Their practice fleshes out the body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental dance, queer and feminist performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA).

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Tues, October 22 at 7 P.M.
Weds, October 23 at 7 P.M.


Endless Holes is a shared evening of new work in development by 2024 Artists-in-Residence Rebecca Patek, Alex Rodabaugh, and Anh Vo. Each work is a continuation of the artist’s research in multi-part or iterative performance projects: Rebecca Patek revisits Tough Titties, exploring depolarization, binary fatigue, and mystic shorelines; Alex Rodabaugh seeks to close their Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity project with a deep dive into nostalgia, cyberspace avatar puppetry, paranoia, and denial; and Anh Vo builds on their ongoing research into northern Vietnamese possession ritual, exploring the pussy as an energetic channel that can tune into the existential pain of others.


PROGRAM

Rebecca Patek: Tough Titties 2: View from the Other End
An offering towards the effort around depolarization. We are for and against each other, for or against objects, ideas, realities. The binary fatigue of thinking and feeling can lead us to venture further than we might otherwise travel. We seek a mystic shoreline that is spoken of, that is rumored, but can we find it? What do we have to lose? What do we have to do to get there? Can I get there? Can you? Can we? I have many questions clearly but basically I am trying and that's the best I can do.

Alex Rodabaugh: 🕳n-1🕳
Looking for a path forward to close the Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity project and embrace the community that embraces me. The nth edition delves into the nostalgia that is colonizing our future, cyberspace avatar puppetry colliding with physical presence, and the paranoia or denial that arises from the perpetual threat of and participation in violence.

Anh Vo: pussy talks
pussy talks builds on Anh Vo's ongoing research into northern Vietnamese possession ritual, exploring the pussy as an energetic channel that can tune into the existential pain of others. 


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rebecca Patek has created over twenty original performances. Her work is an amalgamation of comedy, theater, and dance. She is a 2024 CPR Artist-in-Residence, and was an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts. Her work has been presented at MoMa PS1, The Kitchen, Impulstanz Vienna (Prix Jardin D’Europe Fan Award 2014), Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at Judson Church, BAX, Triple Canopy, Prelude Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and Dixon Place, among many others. As a performer, she was most recently thrilled to appear in work by Ryan Mcnamara, and can currently be caught honing her skills at open mics around NYC.

Alex Rodabaugh is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Lima, OH (Shawnee territory), based in NYC (Lenapehoking). Alex's work has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church, Draftworks at Danspace, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, American Realness, and Dance and Process at The Kitchen. Alex most recently performed in Rebecca Patek’s Tough Titties. Alex has performed in works by artists such as Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Tess Dworman, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Doug LeCours, Derek Smith, and Bailey Williams, among others, including two Bessie Award-winning performances. Alex is also a Treasurer/Co-Founder of Dance Artists’ National Collective and a current Artist-in-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research. www.alexrodabaugh.work.

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working primarily in NYC, with a second base in Hanoi. Their practice fleshes out the body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental dance, queer and feminist performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA).

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cocoon is a new work in development by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Ariana Speight which journeys through metamorphosis defined as a transformative transition, and is a continual introduction to the inner workings of self through the shifting of form. With a multidimensional and interactive framework incorporating storytelling, [love] notes, questions/queries, movement, and stagnation, cocoon uncovers what hinders and what supports during the process of emergence.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn, she has worked with a number of artists including Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young. Her freelance journey has led her to perform at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Chelsea Factory, Coffey Street, Dancewave, Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza, New York Live Arts, PAGEANT, Roulette Intermedium, The Shed, The Space at Irondale, The Tank, Webster Hall, among other venues in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She is a BFA graduate from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor where she continues to nurture her teaching practice.


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As an extension of 2024 Artist-in-Residence Ariana Speight’s research for their new work cocoon which will be presented in development as part of OPEN AiR on October 20, DIGITAL ARCHIVE will be a gathering of sharing and processing data, memory, and content that has shaped us. During this generative workshop, participants will build a written archive through dialogue and note-taking, documenting noteworthy movies, television, and music. Together we embrace the rough edges, the crispy bits that make us unique. What brought you here? How did you get here? Where is home for you? Are you home? 

Storytelling. Processing through dialogue. Loss of history. Nostalgia. Connection. Coming together to share stories. Kiki if you will. Memory. Sentimentality. Focusing on content. Keeping track. Making memories. Reminiscing. Restoration. [tldr]

Participants are encouraged to bring any comforts you may need. Take breaks. Zoom in, zone out. Camera on, camera off. Come as you are. Tangents are welcome with resources and support available.

References include: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Claudia Pinkola Estés, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Spongebob Squarepants, and many more.


OPEN LAB invites artists and scholars to facilitate theoretical discussions and embodied workshops, providing a platform for practice-based inquiry and creative exchange.

This program will take place virtually via Zoom. Auto-generated captions will be available.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn, she has worked with a number of artists including Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young. Her freelance journey has led her to perform at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Chelsea Factory, Coffey Street, Dancewave, Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza, New York Live Arts, PAGEANT, Roulette Intermedium, The Shed, The Space at Irondale, The Tank, Webster Hall, among other venues in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She is a BFA graduate from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor where she continues to nurture her teaching practice.

CPR - Center for Performance Research invites applications for the 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program. Click here to apply.

Application deadline: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 5:00 P.M. EST.

Email applications@cprnyc.org with questions.

ABOUT CPR'S ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

CPR – Center for Performance Research’s year-long Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program seeks to support NYC-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms. CPR values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and encourages risk-taking and the unexpected.

The residency creates an open environment for experimentation, exploration, embodiment, and exchange, providing ten artists each year with research and presentation opportunities, subsidized rehearsal space, curatorial and project support, and peer dialogue. The program is intended to nurture the individualized creative process, and prioritizes artists for whom the opportunity will make an impact on the growth and evolution of their work and career.

Applications are solicited through an OPEN CALL, and resident artists are selected by an independent panel of artists, curators, and arts leaders. With this approach, CPR aspires to create a more accessible and equitable selection process, and to increase visibility, opportunities, and resources for a more diverse range of artists in the field.

CPR is committed to supporting artists from every background and maintains an expansive approach to performance. We strongly encourage BIPOC artists, LGBTQ+ artists, immigrant artists, artists with disabilities, and artists across generations to apply.

RESIDENCY DETAILS

Ten NYC-based artists are selected for a year-long residency from January to December 2025. AiRs will have opportunities for presentation, community engagement, and creative exchange through CPR’s curated Public Programs, and will receive curatorial support and feedback from CPR staff and fellow artists throughout the year. In addition, AiRs receive advance access to CPR’s rehearsal booking calendar, and may book up to 150 subsidized rehearsal hours in either of CPR’s studios during the residency year. Each AiR receives a $1,500 stipend, and participation in CPR Public Programs comes with additional artist fees and resources, including access to technical equipment and production support.

ELIGIBILITY

• Eligible applicants have previously had their work publicly presented, and have not been selected as a CPR Artist-in-Residence within the last 5 years.

• Individual artists, companies, collaborative projects or collectives may apply, but each applicant/application will be considered as a single residency.

• The residency is exclusively for New York City-based artists. CPR cannot provide US visas, travel, accommodations, or other living expenses in connection with the residency.

• Current undergraduate students are not eligible to apply.

THE SPACE

CPR occupies a 4,000 sq. ft. ground floor facility in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and has two flexible studio spaces. The Large Studio is an 1,875 sq. ft., flexible rehearsal and performance space, outfitted with an LED theatrical lighting system, full-range sound, projection capabilities, and a sprung wood dance floor with white marley, and can seat up to 68 people. The Small Studio functions as a rehearsal studio, gallery, and meeting space, and features floor-to-ceiling storefront windows looking out onto the street, track lighting, and a sprung wood dance floor. CPR is a fully ADA-compliant and accessible venue with two all gender restrooms, one being wheelchair-accessible. A floor plan, images, and technical specifications can be found here.

SUPPORT

CPR's AiR Program is directly supported by Dance/NYC’s NYC Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

APPLICATION TIMELINE

Applications will be accepted until Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 5:00pm EST. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notifications will be made in November 2024.

The panelists look forward to reviewing your application!

Email us at applications@cprnyc.org with any questions.

This program has been postponed until Fall 2024. Please stay tuned for CPR’s 2024 Fall Season announcement in September.


Saturday, June 22 from 5–8 P.M. | Opening and Offering
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Sunday, June 23 from 1–5 P.M. | Gallery Hours
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2024 Artist-in-Residence Dorchel Haqq builds a domestic installation with live performance activations and audience invitations. In this offering, Haqq is exploring the home body.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dorchel Haqq, raised in Harlem, began to embody history at Dance Theater of Harlem. With experience from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts then later at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College SUNY, Haqq initiated her discovery of the body as a political statement. While studying at Purchase College, Haqq’s education expanded at Korea National School of the Arts. While exploring the world, Haqq found collaborations with Johannes Wieland, Stefanie Batten Bland, Maxine Doyle, Loni Landon, Sidra Bell, and Kayla Farrish. These relationships aided the  development of Haqq’s movement practices inducing an imaginative world with a focus on the care of the nervous. Haqq explores fantasy and abstracts the echo of transgenerational trauma in her body of culture through film, sound exploration and object investigation. Haqq is a Springboard-curated recipient of the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency and a City Artist Corps Grant recipient. Along with being an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, Haqq has performed with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai. Haqq is expanding her sensory research in 2024 as an artist in residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research and Baryshnikov Arts Center.

This program has been postponed until Fall 2024. Please stay tuned for CPR’s 2024 Fall Season announcement in September.


Saturday, June 22 from 5–8 P.M. | Opening and Offering
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Sunday, June 23 from 1–5 P.M. | Gallery Hours
Free and open to the public


2024 Artist-in-Residence Dorchel Haqq builds a domestic installation with live performance activations and audience invitations. In this offering, Haqq is exploring the home body.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dorchel Haqq, raised in Harlem, began to embody history at Dance Theater of Harlem. With experience from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts then later at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College SUNY, Haqq initiated her discovery of the body as a political statement. While studying at Purchase College, Haqq’s education expanded at Korea National School of the Arts. While exploring the world, Haqq found collaborations with Johannes Wieland, Stefanie Batten Bland, Maxine Doyle, Loni Landon, Sidra Bell, and Kayla Farrish. These relationships aided the  development of Haqq’s movement practices inducing an imaginative world with a focus on the care of the nervous. Haqq explores fantasy and abstracts the echo of transgenerational trauma in her body of culture through film, sound exploration and object investigation. Haqq is a Springboard-curated recipient of the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency and a City Artist Corps Grant recipient. Along with being an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, Haqq has performed with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai. Haqq is expanding her sensory research in 2024 as an artist in residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research and Baryshnikov Arts Center.

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an improvisational duet on Blackness, abstraction, love, and grief.

Performed by 2024 AiR Malcolm-x Betts and Ella Dawn W-S.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Malcolm-x Betts is a New York-based visual and dance artist, and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence, who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone.

Ella Dawn W-S is a dancer, choreographer, and gymnastics teacher living in Brooklyn. She presents work under the name Dancews. Her dances consider the relationship between internal and external body conditions, investigating the interplay of structure and aspiration. As a performer, she's had the honor of working with Josie Bettman, Lu Yim, Vita Taurke, Lavinia Eloise Bruce, SECT, inc., Erik Thurmond, Phoebe Berglund, and Kiera Bono. 


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You will be guided into a space of receptivity. We will be together but apart. The experience will be time and space specific yet also will shirk those boundaries. It may cause you to say something like "I saw a show, and it was a show that was for me." That is the goal and the aim.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rebecca Patek has created over twenty original performances. She is a 2024 CPR Artist-in-Residence, and was an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and New York Live Arts / Fresh Tracks. Their work has been presented at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Impulstanz Vienna (Prix Jardin D’Europe Fan Award 2014), Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at Judson Church, BAX, Triple Canopy, Prelude Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and Dixon Place.


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From the source that brought you Heaven’s Gate, crystals, and Beyoncé, comes a new Oracle who will lead us into a blissed out future. In the Temple of Sir Coach, secular devotees learn about care work, harm reduction, mutual aid, and (Black) Anarchism as the way out and forward. Best known for hys collective energy readings and unsolicited advice, Sir Coach inspires, ignites, and encourages us all to be our best, truest, most authentic selves, and cultivates a safe container for cathartic transformations, spiritual awakenings, naps, and crafts! In this is not a cult, we gather for Lessons in Liberation to learn that once we are compassionate to ourselves we then have greater capacity to share that compassion to all living beings, with Metta loving-kindness, Gworlboss Energy, and intuitive empathy.


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ASL and Audio Description will be provided.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Crip Punk and neuro-spicy, as a small fat, second generation Chinese-Jamaican, AuDHDer, Indigo Child, and trauma survivor, x aka Sir Coach has faer community and Hyp-ACCESS to thank for being alive today. When Coach isn’t sporadically falling to the ground or fainting after a bath, they are struggling with a million other comorbidities that they can’t afford to take care of fully. Hir extreme level of lifelong adversity that ze has been forced to “overcome” has challenged hymn to share knowledge and resources with as many people as he can; finding purpose when it feels like everything else is pointless. Coach is a Black Anarchist and Abolitionist who heavily supports mutual aid and grassroots activism of direct peer support. Coach is not a feminist and does not vote in political elections— feel free to ask themme why (not)! Coach creates a web across their art, identity, and lived experiences. We gravitate towards performance as it is natural and naturally occurring to be performative. We create multimedia installations for immersive experiences. Hope lies in the transcendent, visceral, and cathartic. Sir Coach’s known for faer very elegant, iconic, adorable, and cuddly emotional support animal that he is very allergic to named, Avignon :) (smile)

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Inspired by the letter written and published by 2024 Artist-in-Residence GOODW.Y.N., also a United States veteran, titled Dear Soldier(s): An Open Letter to the Israeli Armed Forces in December 2023, and their ongoing letter-writing practice, this workshop invites participants to write their own letters as performance, response, and fuel for protest. 


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N. (she/her/they) is the winner of the 2023 LMCC Creative Engagement Grant, a 2022-23 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, and a BAX EmergeNYC 2017-2018 artist. GOODW.Y.N. was also a semifinalist for the Headlands 2023 Chamberlain Award and a finalist for both the CUE Foundation’s 2022 Public Programs Fellowship and the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship, and they advanced to the 2nd Round of the 2018 Creative Capital Awards. They published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in The New York Times’ parent blog, Motherlode, and their work Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems was long-listed for The Black Spring Press Group’s The Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize in 2020.

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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

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For OPEN STUDIOS, 2024 Artist-in-Residence Leo Chang curates Noise x Movement, bringing together artists who embrace the performative within their noise/sound-making practice, including Qiujiang Levi Lu, Lucie Vitková in a duet with Chang, and Kwami Winfield. Movements can observably influence sound; simultaneously, within this relationship, there is an emotional resonance between the body and vibration. In Noise x Movement, artists experiment with different forms of dependence and relationships with objects and instruments, and perform expressions of bodily and sonic liberation and resistance.

Qiujiang Levi Lu: Metanoia, for One Augmented Body
Metanoia, for One Augmented Body is a solo performance that explores the artist’s journey with body dysmorphia. In this work, Qiujiang Levi Lu is amplifying their internal body; muscle stretches, joint cracks, bone-conducted vibrations, and body movement become audible and palpable in the performance space. A microphone is inserted into Lu’s body thru their anus, and sounds are amplified by subwoofers in the room with processing. They also place a custom-built speaker in their mouth to create feedback with the headset microphone, so that they are able to use their voice to control the feedback.

Lucie Vítková with Leo Chang: Earth Eater x VOCALNORI
Leo Chang performs with his VOCALNORI instrument, where gongs are amplified through electronic instruments and voice. Lucie Vítková brings Earth Eater, a performative being who communicates through sound and light in space. The duo comes together to interact from within these two established bodies.

Kwami Winfield: Dissances
A new work for brass and electronics applying feedback in various scales of space within distinct cavities: trumpets, studios, amplifiers, sinuses.

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OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Leo Chang (curator) is a Korean improviser, composer, and performer of experimental music. Born in Seoul, Leo lived as an expat in Singapore, Taipei, and Shanghai, until moving to the United States in 2011. His art is an act of homemaking inspired by various musical and ideological movements that have sought to question power dynamics and imagine egalitarian possibilities. His primary methods are free improvisation, written text, graphical notation, and electronic processing. Leo's projects have been presented and supported by the Vision Festival, Roulette Intermedium, Korea Foundation, Ostrava Days New Music Festival, New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Brooklyn Arts Council, and EMPAC at Rensselaer, among others. His various performances and collaborations have been with William Parker, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Che Chen, gamin, DoYeon Kim, eddy kwon, Miriam Parker, Lucie Vítková, Chris Williams, Lester St. Louis, Jason Nazary, S.E.M. ensemble, the Rhythm Method, and the JACK quartet. Leo holds a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. www.listentoleo.com

Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (they/them) is a Beijing-born, New Jersey-based experimental improviser, composer, and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. As an improvising performer, Lu utilizes custom-built feedback-driven electronic instruments, voice, and amplified muscle movements to deliver visceral, raw, and intimate performance. In addition to performing, Lu also writes for acoustic and electronic musicians and improvisers. Lu’s works have been performed at major festivals, conferences, and venues such as DiMenna Center, HighZero Festival, Spencer Museum of Art, Jazz Showcase, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, NIME conference, Elastic Arts, Oberlin MMG, Rhizome DC, and NowNet Arts conference.

Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser, and performer (accordion, hichiriki, drums, synthesizer, harmonica, voice, and dance) from the Czech Republic, living in New York. Their compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while in their improvisation practice, Lucie works with the characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In Lucie’s recent work, they are interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing trash to build sonic costumes and instruments. www.vitkovalucie.com

Kwami Winfield is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, composer, and improviser born in Jersey City and based in Brooklyn. Winfield works with trumpet, electronics, percussion, trash, rocks, and other objects and collaborators, and is led by a fascination with the sticky, noisy, and often grotesque circuitry of everyday accumulation, consumption, and waste. Involved with a growing number bands including Turnip King, Next Bus Pls, Mimé, Many Many Girls, Camp Rock, Mom + Anon, Piss, Under the Hands of Eachother, and several unnamed collaborative projects with artists and people such as Nana XOXO, Lucy York, C. Spencer Yeh, Leo Chang, and Rémy Bélanger de Beaufort. Big love. Winfield has developed her interdisciplinary collaborations as a Pioneer Works Music Resident (2023), an Artist in Residence at Chaos Computer (2023), and in ongoing compositional contributions to the works of choreographers Arien Wilkerson and Kyle Marshall. Alongside Cal Fish, Winfield co-runs and has released music on Call Waitn, a DIY label and toll free hotline featuring underground sounds at 917-426-4260.

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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

Free, RSVP required (limited audience)
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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.


introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.

Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.