PUBLIC EVENTS
Performance Studio Open House
Featuring Urban Research Theater and Emily Wexler
Sunday, December 6, 3pm
FREE
Performance Studio Open House will welcome the general public into the performance practices of artists currently developing work at CPR. Rather than engaging a curatorial directed vision, CPR will represent the diversity of artists and artistic practices that are currently occurring at its facility, inviting the public to experience the broad range of artistic processes and aesthetics involved in making contemporary dance work.
Each Saturday afternoon program of the monthly series will feature 2-4 artists. These artists will have the opportunity show anything from short excerpts of a nearly completed work to improvisational structures drawn from their working process.
Urban Research Theater
Presents the first work-in-progress showing of a new untitled performance project. Currently in the early stages of development, the piece is evolving out of original text, songs, and physical actions within an open-ended narrative frame. In this project, Urban Research Theater attempts to integrate techniques from several lines of long-term performance research into a theatrical work.
Urban Research Theater is a small collective dedicated to performance research at the intersection of song, movement, text and action. We develop original theatrical works in parallel with an ongoing program of research into performance technique. Since its founding in 2004, Urban Research Theater has led over forty public events in Europe and the United States including workshops, performances, and urban expeditions. The core members of Urban Research Theater are Ben Spatz, Massimiliano Balduzzi, and Michele Farbman.
Emily Wexler
Subject Matter
Featuring Hejin Jang, Niall Jones, Antonietta Vicario, and Emily Wexler
Sound Arranged by Emily Wexler
A showing of material accumulated for an evolving work-in-progress.
Emily Wexler is an independent dance maker, performer, and writer. She has been honored for her choreography through various awards and support from academic, public, and private funding. She is very grateful. Her works have been seen internationally in Paris and Vienna, and in other places such as the American Dance Festival, MR at the Judson Church, Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church, Joyce SoHo, The Flea, Chez Bushwick, Dixon Place, Galapagos, AUNTS, and The Paul Robeson House among others. As a performer she has worked with Asubtout, Kim Brandt, Lyndsey Karr, Sam Kim, Jen McGinn, Katy Pyle, and Ann Liv Young. She is also a member of the Get Up and Go Collective with artists Lizzy Sise and Aimee Burg. She learned to dance in the backyard with her twin sister a long time ago. She holds a BA and MFA in Dance from Hollins University.
