

Performance Philosophy Reading Group
at Center for Performance Research
CPR
This monthly reading group series, in conjunction with the international research network, Performance Philosophy (PP), will be co-hosted by select CPR Artists-In-Residence and staff members. We will read exhilarating and thought-provoking texts from PP’s publications as a springboard into generative discussion and thought-experimentation. In this series of reading groups, we will engage with texts in whatever way seems most productive.
Performance Philosophy (PP) is a relatively new field of exploration that seeks to rethink what precisely thinking is. To do this, the members of PP draw from methodologies in philosophy, performance studies, theatre studies, dance, music, the visual arts, practice-as-research, and other cognate disciplines to play around with, deconstruct, and rearrange the centuries-old hierarchy of academic thought. Learn more about Performance Philosophy.
Registration required in advance. Email programs@cprnyc.org for more information.

Performance Philosophy Reading Group, co-hosted by Antonio Ramos, 2017 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation AiR
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Upcoming Reading Groups:
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Performance Philosophy Reading Group February 2019. Photo by Asya Gorovits
Past Meetings and Readings:
Wednesday, November 1 | 6:30PM co-hosted by CPR 2020 AiR
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
ASL interpretation available upon request.
Email Programs@cprnyc.org to RSVP/ Zoom link.
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Wednesday, October 21 | 6:30PM co-hosted by CPR 2020 AiR Londs Reuter
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
ASL interpretation available upon request.
Email Programs@cprnyc.org to RSVP/ Zoom link.
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Reading:
Chapter 2, “Private Inventory is a Dance-Logic System” from the Book Private Inventory by Londs Reuter
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A note from Londs: Private Inventory is a movement practice for individuals to be accountable to their bodily material — its nuance, its mundanity, its wild capacity. Londs Reuter has developed a logic system to distill and examine a moment of action and question it further, asking, why this dance? What allowed for this movement? And how might this dance end? Private Inventory offers the reader a chance to examine their own matter and acknowledge this resource. The hope is: if we know what we have, the better chance we’ll use our resources well.
Wednesday, September 23 | 6:30PM co-hosted by CPR 2020 AiR, J. Bouey
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
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A note from J. Bouey “we are all grieving. witness and be witnessed”.
Wednesday, August 26 | 6:30PM co-hosted by CPR 2020 AiR,
A note from Christopher: “Thank you for wanting to be part of this virtual discussion where we will talk about the historical, social, and symbolic meanings that have been given to the disabled body. We will work together from a bio-political perspective on the notions of domesticity in times of quarantine and how this intersects with the home-based practices for disabled artists”.
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
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Commissioned by the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC)
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‘Waiting to Fall by David Marriot CR: The New Centennial Review, Michigan State University Press, Volume 13, Number 3, Winter 2013, pp. 163-240 ( pp. 210-217)
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Manifesto for Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones’s 1983 Untitled Duet at Contact at 10th and 2nd
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Listening: Abbey Lincoln’s song Down Here Below (inspired by Frank Wilderson’s film Reparations Now)
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A note from mayfield: “My hope is that this assortment of readings/listenings/viewings will spark discussion about Black feminist frameworks for falling down, breaking down, undoing or down falling, and residing in spaces below in Black contemporary dance, discourse and theory. Lately, I’ve been thinking about falling into earth as an act of endless movement into an “understory or forest compost” and how it relates to death but also to unearthing something else. I’m not so sure what this something else is, but since I’ve been working with decomposing dance in my own work and it seems to reside “down below” as Abbey Lincoln sings about, I thought it would be interesting to use Ishmael and Fred’s dance as a jumping off point to discuss falling & undoing in the context of Hartman & Marriot.”
Wednesday, June 24 | 6:30pm co-hosted by CPR 2020 AiR,
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
Wednesday, May 27 | 6:30pm co-hosted by CPR 2020 Technical Resident, Dean Moss
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
Wednesday, April 29 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2020 CPR AiR,
*gathering virtually through Zoom*
Wednesday, March 18 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2017 CPR AiR, Antonio Ramos
****In an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, PPRG March has been postponed. CPR – Center for Performance Research will continue to actively and closely monitor this evolving situation. Updates will be shared on this page or can be found on our website: www.cprnyc.org****
Wednesday, February 19 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2020 CPR AiR,
Reading: Soneji, Davesh (2011). ‘Producing Dance in Colonial Tanjore’ Unfinished Gestures : Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India, (University of Chicago Press) pp 27-69.
Wednesday, January 22 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2020 CPR AiR, Lu Yim
Wednesday, December 11 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2019 CPR AiR, Mee Jung
Wednesday, November 20 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2019 CPR AiR,
Reading: José Esteban Muñoz (1999). ‘Performing Disidentity: Disidentification as a Practice of Freedom’ Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. (University of Minnesota: Minneapolis and London), pp. 161-180.
Wednesday October 23 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2019 CPR AiR, Ivy Baldwin
Wednesday June 26, 2019 | 6:30pm
Reading: Teoma Naccarato and John MacCallum (2019). ‘Collaboration as Differentiation: Rethinking interaction intra-actively‘ Performance Philosophy Vol 4. (2) 410-433.
Wednesday May 29, 2019 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2019 CPR AiR,
Leslie Cuyjet
Wednesday April 24, 2019 | 6:30pm
Wednesday March 20, 2019 | 6:30pm
Wednesday February 20, 2019 | 6:30pm
Wednesday January 23, 2019| 6:30pm
Wednesday November 28, 2018 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2018 CPR AiR Alexis Zaccarello
Reading: Jeanne Tiehen (2018). ‘Climate Change and the Inescapable Present.’ Performance Philosophy Vol. 4 (1) 123-138.
Wednesday October 17, 2018 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2018 CPR AiR Katie Workum
Reading: Petrovi? -Lotina, Goran (2017). ‘The Political Dimension of Dance: Mouffe’s Theory of Agonism and Choreography’, Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy, Eds. Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki (Palgrave Macmillan: London), pp. 251-272.
Wednesday September 26, 2018 | 6:30pm co-hosted by 2018 CPR Technical Resident Parijat Desai
Monday August 20, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2018 CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence
Monday July 23, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2017 CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence
Monday June 18, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Abigail LevineReading: Breemen, Alice (2017). ‘Performance Philosophy: audience participation and responsibility,’ Performance Philosophy. Vol 2. (2) 299-309.
Monday April 16, 2018 | 7:30pm
Co-hosted by 2017 Technical Residency Artist-in-Residence Tatyana Tenenbaum
Reading: Cull, Laura (2014). ‘Performance Philosophy: Staging a New Field’, Encounters in Performance Philosophy Eds. Laura Cull and Alice Lagaay, Palgrave Macmillan: New York & London, pp. 15-38
Lagaay, Alice and Alice Koubova (2014). ‘Performing the Impossible in Philosophy’, Encounters in Performance Philosophy, Eds. Laura Cull and Alice Lagaay, Palgrave Macmillan: New York & London, pp. 39-62.