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📦MONDAY MAY 18📦 2026 AiR Erica Enriquez presents a movement and language based participatory workshop that invites audience participants to play with cardboard. What structures can be built, destroyed, flattened, filled, emptied or imagined by group motion? How can language be a generative mechanism for arriving at a movement beyond its initial meaning or purpose? How might material and language work in tandem with one another, guided by the subconscious connections drawn by audience participants? Using the song The First Snow In Kokomo by Aretha Franklin as a portal, the workshop will be accompanied by the band Ube Boys, performing a set of improvisational music inspired by the lyrics “Applegate discovered a coronet, almost right away.” Participants will be supplied with a room full of cardboard boxes, packing tape and dollies, while collectively considering the expansive potential of the words “Almost” “Right” and “Away” … This OPEN LAB serves as a deeper investigation into a performance by Enriquez entitled MOVING COMPANY. 💚💚💚 OPEN LAB ...Almost Right Away: Moving Company with Erica Enriquez Monday May 18 from 7-8:30 P.M. 🎟Free with RSVP, 🔗 in bio 📍CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg @reeeqi @ubeboys 📸 Peels - Photographed by Tif Ng

📢DEADLINE LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY📢 Don’t forget to submit your proposals for live performance works for CPR’s Fall Movement 2026 and Spring Movement 2027. 🪄 Fall Movement and Spring Movement provide an opportunity for artists to present new work in dance, performance, and time-based art in a shared program, curated by an independent panel of artists through an OPEN CALL. CPR encourages applicants to submit work with experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and work that values risk-taking and the unexpected. CPR is soliciting applications for two distinct programs spanning two seasons, with each program presenting five short works. Fall Movement will be presented on Fri, December 4 and Sat, December 5, 2026, and Spring Movement will be presented on Fri, March 5 and Sat, March 6, 2027. Applicants must be available to share their proposed work in either the Fall Movement 2026 or Spring Movement 2027 program. CPR is committed to supporting artists from every background, at various stages of their artistic careers, and across generations, and maintains an expansive approach to performance. Applications are due Mon, May 18 at 5PM EST. Visit the link in bio to view full program details and to apply! 💚 📸: 1. Margot Mae: Sound Girls Gone Wild 2. Demetris Charalambous: GLIESER 3. Morgan Gregory: yo yo rappin is a lifestyle you know what the fuck im sayin 4. Umber Majeed: Atomi Daamaki Wali Mohabbat (The Atomically Explosive Love) 5. Rosalie Yu: Fascination is the Force which Enters the Eyes and Penetrates the Heart All photos of Spring Movement 2026 by Jose Miranda @pelenguino .

🏎️YOU’RE INVITED!🏎️ Please join us at CPR on Tues, June 16 for our 2026 Spring Benefit, which gathers artists and friends for an evening JOYRIDE with delightful detours, scenic highways, and high-octane action to celebrate CPR.🎢🛼⛵️✈️ 💚 Tickets at 🔗 in bio 💚 7PM | Fuel, Hydration, Start Your Engines 8PM | Performances, Pitstops, Cruise Control 9PM | Drive-Thru Desserts, Deacceleration, Disembarking Hosted by Designated Driver 🏎️Tiresias Art Direction by 🏎️Kat Sotelo Roadside Attractions by 🏎️ Catherine Brookman 🏎️ Das Besties 🏎️ JoyBoy 🏎️ Yiseul LeMieux 🏎️ Diovanna Obafunmilayo 🏎️ Kevin Peter He 🏎️ Sleth 🏎️ Kate Williams & more hidden gems off the beaten path…! Light Bites and Libations Drinks by Vine Wine, Zev Rovine Selections Raffle Prizes 🏎️Art by Jeanette Levy. 🏎️Tickets to BAM, New York City Ballet, and The New York Aquarium. 🏎️Merch by Unemployed Philosophers Guild. BENEFIT COMMITTEE (in formation): Samuel Akinloye Babajide *, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Sidra Bell *, Yanira Castro, Amy Cassello, Noah Chesnin *, Alison Cuzzolino, Jonathan Gardenhire, Nick Hockens *, John Jasperse *, Margaret Knowles, Tommy Kriegsmann & Shanta Thake, Molly Kurzius, Natasha Logan, Tamara McCaw *, Kathleen O’Connell *, Alexandra Rosenberg, Amber Sasse *, Martha Sherman *, Megan Sprenger*, Janet Wong. [*CPR Board of Directors] 💚💚💚 CPR 2026 Spring Benefit: JOYRIDE Tues, June 16 at 7 PM 📍CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg 🎟️Tickets $150-$1000, 🔗 in bio @whoistiresias @katsoteloh @catherinebrookman @heytravistravis @cal.purrrnia @das_besties @joyboycreation @yiswork @ladiovanna @kevinpeterhe @sleth.gov_ @temp.girl.1.2.3 @jeanette.levy.lic @bam_brooklyn @nyaquarium @philosophersguild @nycballet @zevrovineselections @vinewinenyc

💡THANK YOU TO THE ARTISTS OF OPEN STUDIOS CURATED BY ANN MARIE DORR 💡We were honored to witness your celestial light costumes, guided virtual reality odysseys, and vocoder explorations. Thank you for sharing your practice with us! 📸 1. Jacqueline Scaletta: Sublimation 2. Daphne Silbiger: Brain in a Box 3. Kate McGee: Girl Mode 4. Ann Marie Dorr and the OPEN STUDIOS artists. All photos by Elyse Mertz. @e.mertz.photography @annmariedorr @mcgeesmagic @jacqueline.scaletta @rat.doula

📝NEXT THURSDAY📝 Ty Defoe curates OPEN STUDIOS, bringing together Dawn Avery, Jolie Cloutier, and Jessica Ranville, Indigenous women/non-binary artists across three generations in a shared space for making, remembering, and becoming. In honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) week, the work centers presence over erasure—asking how Indigenous fem bodies carry knowledge, resist patriarchy, and practice survival through art. The evening presents a living conversation across time, where lineage is not inherited alone, but enacted in relation. 💚💚💚 PROGRAM 🎻Dawn Avery: “Where is she?” honors the lives and families of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and is dedicated to those working to end this epidemic that has continued on Turtle Island for decades. Featuring video design by Kate Freer. 🍅Jolie Cloutier: “Tomato Season” is the story of a young Native American woman navigating the complexities and possibilities of pregnancy in the contemporary United States, and the powerful possibility of bringing a life into today’s world. 🛸Jessica Ranville: “Martha in Space” is a work-in-progress excerpt of a one-act play with music, featuring puppetry, projections and choreography. It follows the story of Martha, a journalist unmoored by grief, on assignment in outer space. More about the artists and their work at 🔗in bio. 💚💚💚 OPEN STUDIOS Lineage Is a Verb: Dawn Avery, Jolie Cloutier, and Jessica Ranville, curated by Ty Defoe Thursday, May 7, at 7:30PM 🎟 Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can, 🔗 in bio 📍 CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg @tydefoe @dawnaveryartist @joliecloutier @jessicaranville 💚💚💚 📸: 1. Courtesy of Ty Defoe. 2. Courtesy of Dawn Avery. 3. Photo by Jessica Osber. 4. Photo by Jessica Osber.

🌷MAY AT CPR 🌷This May at CPR, artists conduct their research through stillness, silence, ancestral memory, the materiality of cardboard, and the liminal space before a breakup, with performances that investigate how we construct, challenge, and refuse our own narratives. 💚OPEN LAB The Water Inside Our Bodies: Dancing Stillness and Silence with Yuki Kawahisa Monday, May 4 at 7PM Free with RSVP* 💚OPEN STUDIOS Lineage Is a Verb: Dawn Avery, Jolie Cloutier, and Jessica Ranville, curated by Ty Defoe Thursday, May 7 at 7:30PM Tickets $0-$25, pay what you can 💚OPEN LAB ...Almost Right Away: Moving Company with Erica Enriquez Monday, May 18 at 7PM Free with RSVP 💚OPEN DOOR Cameron Barnett: Ending Explained Saturday, May 30 at 7:30PM Sunday, May 31 at 2:00PM Tickets $0-$25, pay what you can 📍 CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg 🎟️Visit 🔗’s in bio or for tickets * Sold Out - waitlist starts 30 minutes before at the door @yuki_kawahisa @tydefoe @dawnaveryartist @joliecloutier @jessicaranville @reeqi @cam11235 @fionaschlegel 💚💚💚 📸: 1. Courtesy of Yuki Kawahisa. 2. Courtesy of Ty Defoe. 3. Peels - Photographed by Tif Ng. 4. Photo by Effy Grey.

🤫NEXT MONDAY🤫2026 AiR Yuki Kawahisa presents a movement workshop that examines the beauty and narrative potential of stillness and silence. Incorporating elements of Noh Theater, Butoh, Noguchi Taiso, Tai Chi, movement improvisation and clowning, Kawahisa will engage participants in inclusive communication around movement and disability, challenging perceived limitations around “normal” movement in performance. Advance tickets are sold out, an in-person wait list will open at 6:30 PM. We encourage you to come by, as we’re usually able to accommodate everyone on the waitlist. 💚💚💚 OPEN LAB The Water Inside Our Bodies: Dancing Stillness and Silence with Yuki Kawahisa Monday May 4 from 7-8:30 P.M. 🎟Free with RSVP, 🔗 in bio 📍CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg @yuki_kawahisa 📸 Courtesy of Yuki Kawahisa.

Brooklyn-based dance makers! Book your next rehearsal at CPR – Center for Performance Research @cprnyc for a rate of as low as $6/hour! Visit CPR’s website to reserve space. The NYC Dance RSS Program helps make low-cost studio rentals available to dance workers across NYC. Created to address financial barriers to accessing artistic development space in the city, the program offers more affordable ways to rehearse, create, and move your work forward. Made possible with support from the Mellon Foundation. Photo courtesy CPR – Center for Performance Research. Image: Blue overlay. An image of two folks moving in a dance studio. Blue text reads ‘$12/hr Rehearsal Space at CPR – Center for Performance Research. Learn more at bit.ly/NYCDRSS’. The Dance/NYC logo is in the bottom right.

On Sunday, April 26, we welcome you to our second collaboration of the season with The Stage Protects Us. Inspired by Words to Melt ICE, an online anthology of creative works of dissent against ICE, join us for an afternoon of select pieces from the anthology and a community open mic. Bring your words, your pens, your rage to what will be an event of healing and collective resistance. Co-hosted by playwrights Amalia Oliva Rojas and Christin Eve Cato. Proceeds will support deportation relief efforts. 💚OPEN DOOR The Stage Protects Us: WORDS TO MELT ICE Sunday, January 26 from 12-2PM Tickets $0-$25, pay what you can 📍 CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg 🎟️Visit 🔗’s in bio or for tickets @amaliaoliva_ #christinevecato 💚💚💚 📸: Courtesy Solidarity Organizing Initiative.

🔊OPEN AiR | DANIRO: “I TOOK THE NIGHT”🔊 Thank you DANIRO for sharing your nocturnal transmissions and towering speaker system with us during your OPEN AiR program last month. We were honored to witness your iconic costume changes and plentiful whip-cracking. Thank you for sharing your practice with us! 📸All photos by Elyse Mertz. @e.mertz.photography @ahighlysensitiveblackwoman

🪲NEXT THURSDAY🪲artists Tesora Garcia and Zacarías González come together to build an evening that questions our physical and spiritual nourishment inside of extractive, colonial systems. As artists who hold embodied and nuanced relationships to health and wellness through the experiences of transness and/or living with HIV, Garcia and Gonzáles will prompt us to examine our collective power and potential. Tesora Garcia will lead a ceremony in which we will absorb “energy food” from an insect guide for purposes of healing and self-transformation. After the performance ceremony concludes, we will share a communal food moment led by Zacarías González that reflects on food sovereignty and its denial to communities deemed as other. Together, the artists will provide a meditative and intentional space for collective healing and exploration. This event is organized by Center for Performance Research and Blake Paskal, Programs Director of Visual AIDS, an organization that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV-positive artists, and preserving legacies during the ongoing AIDS epidemic. 💚💚💚 OPEN DOOR Tesora Garcia and Zacarías González, curated by Blake Paskal, Visual AIDS Thursday April 23 at 7 P.M. 🎟 Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can, 🔗 in bio 📍CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg @tesoragarcia @zacariasggonzalez @the_gayze @visual_aids 📸 Performance documentation from Pocahontas Revised by Tesora Garcia. Courtesy the artist.

💚CPR IN THE BROOKLYN RAIL 💚Thank you to Kyle Turner and Billy McEntee for including us in this thoughtful piece about arts organizations that prioritize process over product. Link in bio for the full article. Our Artist in Residence program is at the heart of what we do! Application will open in July. @thebrooklynrail @tylekurner @billymcentee