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05/27/2026

🏁START YOUR ENGINES … CPR’s Spring Benefit is only 3 WEEKS AWAY! ⏰

Join us at CPR on Tues, June 16 for a celebratory evening JOYRIDE – hosted by Designated Driver Tiresias 🚀, with art direction by Kat Sotelo 🎡, and roadside attractions by Catherine Brookman ✈️, Das Besties 🚲, JoyBoy 🚃, Yiseul LeMieux 🐄, Diovanna Obafunmilayo 🦋, Kevin Peter He 🕹️, Sleth 🎠, and Kate Williams 🚗.

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Come get your motor running with CPR’s community of artists, friends, supporters, and thrillseekers – all to support and celebrate CPR! Your ticket includes all food, drink, performances, and pitstops – including nourishing fuel and hydration from our friends and neighbors at , , , , and .bakery. 🍪👅🍹

A limited number of $150 “EASY RIDER” tickets remain for artists and art workers, and anyone (even non-ticket-holders!) can buy raffle tickets ($25 a piece) to win artwork and prizes donated by our friends Jeanette Levy, BAM, New York City Ballet, The New York Aquarium, and Unemployed Philosophers Guild. 🎨🏆

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CPR 2026 Spring Benefit: JOYRIDE
Tues, June 16 at 7 PM
📍 CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg
🎟️Benefit Tickets $150-$1000
🎟️Raffle Tickets $25
🎟️Adopt a Chair for $100
Tickets via Zeffy 🔗 in bio

https://www.cprnyc.org/events/2026springbenefit-joyride

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📸:
1. / 📸Laura Du Vé
2. / 📸Elyse Mertz
3. / 📸Tonje Thilesen
4. / 📸John Huszagh
5. / 📸 Whitney Browne
6. / 📸Jose Miranda
7. / 📸Nikolasi Saafi
8. .gov_ / 📸Luis Suarez
9. .girl.1.2.3 / 📸Elyse Mertz

🎬 NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 🎬join CPR’s very own Production Manager Cameron Barnett and collaborator Fiona Schlegel for E...
05/22/2026

🎬 NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 🎬join CPR’s very own Production Manager Cameron Barnett and collaborator Fiona Schlegel for Ending Explained, a work of dance theater that lingers in the wasteland, the in-between, the waiting room, the hollow, the purgatory, the to-do list, the denial, and the longest hallway in the world.

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OPEN DOOR
Cameron Barnett: Ending Explained
Saturday May 30 at 7:30 P.M.
Sunday May 31 at 2 P.M.
🎟 Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can, 🔗 in bio
📍CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg



📸 Photo by Effy Grey.

We are thrilled to announce two new staff members at CPR: Anna Muselmann joins as Programs Manager, and Dylan Phillips j...
09/26/2022

We are thrilled to announce two new staff members at CPR: Anna Muselmann joins as Programs Manager, and Dylan Phillips joins as Production and Facilities Manager. 🍾

Welcome, Anna and Dylan! We are so excited for your collaboration, creativity, and insight to support our artists and programs in dynamic ways.

You can reach out to Anna at [email protected] and Dylan at [email protected].

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Anna Muselmann (she/they) is a visual and performing arts administrator, curator, producer, art director, stylist, and interdisciplinary artist from Tulsa, OK. Muselmann has worked for/with visual and performance-based artists including Cecile B. Evans, Richard Fishman, Janet Delaney, Sarah Cameron Sunde, and Sarah Kinlaw; and at arts institutions including SIGNAL Gallery, Regina Rex, the WYE (Berlin), Otion Front Studio, Performance Space New York, and Danspace Project. Her own performance work investigates body language and habitual gestures as means of communicating our personal identities, relationships, desires, and histories, and she has performed and shown work at galleries, museums, and venues in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Tulsa, and New York. In 2021, she organized and co-curated Clouds Gathering, a 5-day performance residency-retreat for 85 multidisciplinary artists in New Lebanon, NY, and is currently planning Clouds 2023. Muselmann has a BA in Visual Arts and Modern Culture + Media from Brown University.

Dylan Phillips (he/him) is a designer and tinkerer primarily working with light. He has collaborated in multiple contexts, including performance, architecture, galleries, and public art. He has an MFA in Lighting Design from California Institute of the Arts.

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📸 Anna Muselmann. Photo by Lauryn Siegel.
📸 Dylan Phillips. Image courtesy Dylan Phillips.

Image descriptions in alt text.

We are excited to kick off CPR's fall season next week with a live performance installation featuring the collaborative ...
08/29/2022

We are excited to kick off CPR's fall season next week with a live performance installation featuring the collaborative work of over 15 multidisciplinary artists with "to love the rise/pt.2 [REMNANTS]" 🔨

The opening and live performance on Thurs, Sept 8 from 6-9pm brings together movement, vocalizations, and carpentry, where a new Utopia is composted, built, and traversed – collaging moving and grooving, sensing and sounding, constructing and deconstructing, order and chaos, to arrive together into a transformed ecosystem and alternative order.

Premiering as a process in two parts, the opening of [REMNANTS] at CPR will have live performances, detritus, and video throughout the evening, and will be followed by an evening-length performance in October at Roulette Intermedium.

You can also stop by on Saturday, Sept 10 between 12-6pm for Gallery Hours to view [REMNANTS] in CPR's Storefront Gallery.

to love the rise/pt.2 [REMNANTS]: Ogemdi Ude, Kimiko Tanabe, s. lumbert, anna thompson, taylor knight, Symara Johnson, Tara Sheena, Malcolm-x Betts, Athena Kokoronis, Myssi Robinson, lily gold, Stephanie Acosta, Iris McCloughan, jess pretty, Theo Armstrong, and marion spencer.

Opening and Live Performance
Thurs, Sept 8 | 6–9 P.M.
Tickets $0-$25 | 🔗 in bio

Gallery Hours
Sat, Sept 10 | 12–6 P.M.

Free and open to the public

361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
*vax & booster required for entry 😷

Photo by Whitney Browne.

















ID: Kimiko gazes to the left and supports a wooden structure composed of studs with her two hands above her head. On the left, another individual stands next to her facing the back while arching their neck backward and reaching their arms upward. Both are wearing neutral colored tops and yellow construction gloves.

07/18/2022

Applications for CPR's 2023 Artist-in-Residence Program are now open! 🏠💚

Established in 2012, this year-long residency seeks to support a wide range of artists, from emerging to established, 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 AiR Program provides ten artists each year with rehearsal space, presentation and performance opportunities, curatorial and project support, professional development, and peer dialogue, all of which are designed to support the individualized creative process and an open environment for research, experimentation, embodiment, exchange, and creation.

Applications will be accepted until Tuesday, Sept 6, 2022 at 5pm EST.

Visit www.cprnyc.org/events/OpenCall-2023AiR or link in bio to read more about the program and to apply, and email [email protected] with any questions!

07/11/2022

And just like that, CPR's 2022 Spring Season comes to a close, and we thought we'd look back at some of the amazing moments!

This spring, we were grateful to continue in-person programming, providing artists with space to process and share their work publicly, many of whom were returning to the stage for the first time since the pandemic. We welcomed so many new faces and were extremely moved to witness our community grow not only in numbers, but also in love, care and deep support.

BRAVO to all the artists, curators, CPR staff, technicians, event managers, audiences, and supporters! Our hearts are filled with gratitude for each and everyone of you who made all this possible.

We can't wait to see you back in the fall for another amazing season! 💚💚💚💚💚💚

Images (last 2 in alt text)
1. Stuart B. Meyers as Yenta. Sunday Salon: THE YENTA SHOW! LIVE from BROOKLYN!, Mar 13, 2022. Photo by Asya Gorovits.
2. Doménica García and Damariz Damken. Sunday Salon: Trenzadas, Apr 9, 2022. Photo by Meicen Meng.
3. Myssi Robinson. Open Studios: Curated by Regine Pieters, Jun 23, 2022. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
4. Angela Schöpke Gonzalez. Spring Movement: Curated by Pioneers Go East Collective, Apr 30, 2022. Photo by Meicen Meng.
5. Maxi Hawkeye Canion. Open Studios: Curated by ryen heart, May 27, 2022. Photo by Meicen Meng.
6. morgaine de leonardis. Open Studios: Curated by Regine Pieters, Jun 23, 2022. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
7. Dishman + Co. Choreography. Open Studios: Curated by Regine Pieters, Jun 23, 2022. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
8. 2022 Spring Benefit: Process Process Process. Jun 23, 2022. Video still from Zoom.
9. Star Mitchell and Jelani Best. Sunday Salon: Reclaiming the Home, Feb 13, 2022. Photo by Asya Gorovits.
10. ryen heart and Amanda Monti. Performance Philosophy Reading Group, Feb 22, 2022. Video still from Zoom.
11. Jenny Pommiss. Spring Movement: Curated by Pioneers Go East Collective, Apr 30, 2022. Photo by Meicen Meng.
12. ryen heart, Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Kate Williams, Edythe Wooley, Jack Meriwether. Open Studios: Curated by ryen heart, May 27, 2022. Photo by Meicen Meng.

CPR opened its doors in 2009 with the vision of creating a sustainable, affordable, process-driven space for NYC's dance...
06/30/2022

CPR opened its doors in 2009 with the vision of creating a sustainable, affordable, process-driven space for NYC's dance and performance community.

As CPR enters its 15th fiscal year (!!) tomorrow on July 1, we remain passionately committed to these founding principles, while celebrating how we've built upon this mission to establish CPR as an important incubator for new work, supporting an ever-expanding community of exciting and experimental artists. ⚡️

Will you help us celebrate CPR's 15th year of process-driven artistic experimentation with a gift before midnight tonight?

A contribution of any amount – $25, $75, $150, or more! – will be so meaningful as we close out an exciting and monumental year.

Donate via the link in bio or at cprnyc.org/donate!

📸 Kate Williams and Jack Meriwether, as part of Open Studios curated by ryen heart presented at CPR on May 27, 2022. Photo by Meicen Meng.
Image Description: Kate Williams sits in a small, pink, electric toy car meant for a child, wearing an over-sized t-shirt with a fake bikini, a blond wig, and mirrored sunglasses, with her face painted white. She has one hand on the steering wheel, and the other hand holds the edge of her sunglasses, peering over them at the audience.

CPR’s 2022 Spring Benefit is less than 2 weeks away! 🍾We’ll be celebrating PROCESS (virtually) on Mon, June 13 at 7:30pm...
05/31/2022

CPR’s 2022 Spring Benefit is less than 2 weeks away! 🍾

We’ll be celebrating PROCESS (virtually) on Mon, June 13 at 7:30pm, with special performances and presentations from:
ryen heart
DJ Stubaby
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
Bob Bellerue
Mariana Valencia
The Whale Fall Oracle

Londs Reuter
Ampersand Paris
and
Kinlaw , whose sold out performances of The Tipping Scale (Extended) presented as part of the Performance Seriea in February 2022 blew us all away.

CPR’s 2022 Spring Benefit
Process Process Process
Monday, June 13 at 7:30PM
celebrated virtually
Tix $150-$600
Artists & Arts Workers $10-$75, sliding scale
Link in bio for tickets! 💚

📸 Walter Wlodarczyk . Image courtesy Kinlaw. Description in alt text.

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