Jolie PADILLA by Daniel Madrid.
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CPR’s long-running Fall Movement program is an opportunity for artists to present new, fully-produced work in dance, performance, and time-based art in a shared program, curated by an independent panel of artists through an open call. Artists are encouraged to submit work with experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and which embrace risk-taking and the unexpected. Five artists working across and between live art disciplines were selected to present their work for Fall Movement 2026: Starla Edwards, Angel Glasby & Thalia Sablon, Sierra Hendrix, jolie PADILLA, and Lu Yim.
This year, CPR solicited applications for two distinct programs spanning two seasons, Fall Movement 2026 and Spring Movement 2027, with each program presenting five short works. The Fall Movement 2026/Spring Movement 2027 programs were curated by a selection panel composed of artists Malcolm-x Betts, Demetris Charalambous, Amanda Hameline, and Mette Loulou von Kohl.
PROGRAM
Starla Edwards: THICK SALT
THICK SALT is a choreographic work that investigates dismantling inherited religious frameworks that have become sedimented in the body. Rooted in memory and spirituality, it asks what it means to disrupt prescribed belief systems and reconfigure the relationship between spirit and body. From there, the work considers how memory and ritual take place outside of these structures. In performance, audiences encounter a shifting physical landscape moving through repetition, accumulation, and rupture. Built through sustained states and moments of physical interruption and release. A live and recorded soundscape, fragmented vocals, and salt material create an intimate environment of reflection. The body continuously breaks apart and reforms, tracing the process of shedding, reconditioning, and reformation.
Angel Glasby & Thalia Sablon: Dirty
This will be an excerpt from the play Dirty, which centers on Tati, a young Black woman grieving multiple losses. The loss of her non-maternal grandmother, the disconnect from her body that leads to her having month-long menstrual bleeding, and the friendship break-up that occurs while she is deep in her grief.
The piece follows her as she digs, buries, and uncovers moments from her life and relationships. Dirt is not just a backdrop—it is the core dramaturgical material. It holds sound, memory, weight, and resistance. It swallows and reveals. The script begins with Tati digging, and Act 1 ends with her being buried and unburied—staged in a terrain of rich, breathing soil.
Sierra Hendrix: Rate
Rate is a performance that transforms a concussion‑rehabilitation tool into a live choreographic system. In physical therapy, Heart Rate Variability (HRV) tracking is used to guide athletes’ safe return to activity after traumatic brain injury by progressively increasing exertion and scaling it back when symptoms arise. In Rate, HRV tracking determines cycles of exertion and recovery as performers’ real‑time heart rate data is projected behind them. Movement qualities shift when heart rates surpass predetermined thresholds, producing a chance‑based score shaped by the body’s limits.
jolie PADILLA: Terms&Conditions
Terms&Conditions is an offering and performance. It zooms in through layers of live movement, projected video, sound, and spoken text. Movement builds to a point of saturation, seduction collapses into strain, control slips into vulnerability. Dance becomes a test on how to absorb and resist systems of value.
Terms&Conditions considers the body as both witness and commodity. It sits at the intersection of a life lived and a life documented asking, does self-expression become self production?
I learned to recognize myself through images —
The algorithm is a mirror, not a window —
Attention is a form of labor —
The work explores the tension between intimacy and commodification, investigating how value is extracted, owned, and displayed through signaling and consumption.
Lu Yim: SOS
SOS emerges in response to being sick in America. Looking at SpaceX as an engorged theater of destruction, it connects to the two subjects of the 2017 launch towards Mars, Musk’s personal Tesla “Roadster”, and “Starman”, a mannequin astronaut. SOS works with these two figures as two mirrors that tell the tale of how current violent structures disable us. A branch of Yim’s work Bottom Edge Air, SOS will feature two overlapping duets starting at different ends of a timeline. One begins in 2017, simulating pressure and speed from lift-off. These two performers negotiate lifting and dragging each other’s full-bodied deadweight through the theater. The other duet begins in our present, their bodies connected and barely moving, consumed by metal sickness and space weather. Both duets perform under the sound of the fan, and an original soundscape composed by Yim.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Starla Edwards (she/her) is a choreographer and performer based in New York City. Her work begins with the body as a site of memory, tracing what lingers, repeats, and shifts over time. Her current project, THICK SALT, began during her Spring 2025 residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and continues to explore sedimentation, spiritual inquiry, and accumulation. Edwards previously toured nationally with Camille A. Brown & Dancers and was part of the creation and premiere of I AM at Jacob’s Pillow. She is a dancer/collaborator with Misfits Dance Collective, a 2026 Artist in Residence at Peridance Center, and Rehearsal Lead, Artist and Repertory with McKoy Dance Project.
Angel Glasby is an Afro-Caribbean artist, beaming with southern charm. Their work has been presented by Triskelion Arts, Chez Bushwick, and The New School. They are proud to announce they have been selected as the 2027 Van Lier Fellow. A two-time FreshTracks Finalist, advisor and dramaturg for groundbreaking artists Julian Pairre, Dorchel Haqq, Thalia Sablon, and Maxi Hawkeye Canion.
“Born in Haiti, raised in Queens. I have my mother’s tongue and a New York accent.” Thalia Sablon is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, and artistic administrator with a love for collaborative and unconventional storytelling. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from Rutgers University in 2022. Her work explores themes of identity, anti-capitalism, Afro-surrealism, and intergenerational memory. Her work has been presented at The Tank, Conch Shell Productions, Third Culture Theatre, New Georges, and Rutgers University.
Sierra Hendrix is a movement and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts Advanced Degree Program in 2017. She is a former apprentice for GALLIM. After suffering from multiple brain injuries, her dance career has shifted to producing and choreographing her own work. Over the past 5 years, she has produced two evening-length performances in NYC. Her other choreography has been shown at Adams Theater, BASE: Experimental Arts + Space, Coffey Street Studios, Turnpark Art Space and more. Her films have been presented at Disco Riot’s Queer Mvmnt Festival, Men in Dance Festival, TUFF festival and more.
jolie PADILLA is an artist, thinker, and maker exploring how contemporary systems of attention shape intimacy, desire, and identity. Through movement, improvisation, and everyday materials, they create installations and participatory works that disrupt curated surfaces and invite reflection. Jolie has studied at ICI-CCN Montpellier with Thomas DeFrantz, Douglas Becker, Jennifer Nugent, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, holds a BFA in Dance from Bennington College, and has performed in works by Arien Wilkerson, Netta Yerushalmy and Sidra Bell.
Lu Yim is a trans-disciplinary choreographer and somatic movement facilitator. Yim is known for their work with experimental movement and sound, and their research processes exploring embodied disability. They use collaborative methods of making to articulate collective unknowns, specifically within queer, trans, and diasporic realms. Their work has been supported by The Chocolate Factory, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Velocity Dance Center, Movement Research, Pageant Space, A.I.R. Gallery, and Queer Art Inc. amongst others.
ABOUT THE FALL MOVEMENT 2026/SPRING MOVEMENT 2027 PANELISTS
Malcolm-x Betts is a New York-based visual artist and dancer who believes art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His work investigates embodiment, liberation, Black imagination, and engages with the challenges imposed on the body. He is the resident curator at Judson Memorial Church and the founder of the curatorial platform ‘Black Aesthetics’, which is dedicated to enabling artistic freedom and making art accessible to all. As a dancer, he has performed in works by Snoogybox (Andy Kobilka), Nile Harris, Moriah Evans, and Alex Romania. His choreographic work has been presented and supported by venues including New York Live Arts; Movement Research; La MaMa Umbria; and Judson Common; amongst others.
Demetris Charalambous is an experimental choreographer, performer, and visual artist born and raised in Cyprus. Emerging from an invented cosmology, their work reinterprets the world around them through surreal, mythical, and absurd prisms, opening portals to new kaleidoscopic worlds. Demetris’s movement practice explores the spectrum of a body that oscillates between the primordial and the metaphysical. In doing so, it seeks access to ancient technologies within the body that disrupt contemporary forms of embodiment and resist assimilation.
Demetris’s work and collaborations have been presented at Judson Memorial Church, Mabou Mines, Center for Performance Research, Performance Space New York, Friedrichs Pontone Gallery and Sundays on Broadway, as well internationally at the Cyprus Choreography Platform and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, among others. Demetris is a Fellowship Recipient at NYU Production Lab and Movement Research Artist in Residence 2026-2027.
Amanda Hameline is a choreographer, writer, projection designer, and producer. Her performances are existential musings on time and mortality. Rather than declare what you should do with the time you are given, she turns to archives, ephemera, and music to find evidence of how people previously contended with being alive. Her eyes are always drawn to footnotes or citations that might be deemed “wastes of time.” The supposedly trivial, frivolous, superfluous, and therefore decidedly feminine and domestic, become the focus of her research. She has presented evening-length work and split-bills in venues across New York City including Kestrels, Coffey Street Studio, 3AM Theater, CPR-Center for Performance Research, National Sawdust, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and Martha Graham Studio Theater; in Berlin at Lake Studios and Cordillera; and in Miami at RAW Pop Up and The Moore Building. Her one-woman show Party Dish will be a part of the January 2027 Exponential Festival at Target Margin. She is also the co-founder of the multidisciplinary production company Amanda + James, which presents dance, theater, opera, music and everything in between and provides new work development programs for a broad range of artists. A+J's newest endeavor is a rehearsal studio for technology in performance in Astoria called The Relay Room. Hameline is also an independent fundraising and producing consultant with a focus on small to mid-sized nonprofits and individual artists. Current clients include Molière in the Park, Music from the Sole, Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Rachna Nivas / Kathak Legacy Project, Anna Sperber, Leslie Cuyjet, and Abigail Levine.(www.amandahameline.com / www.amandaplusjames.com)
Born from the orange at the center before the new world came, Mette Loulou von Kohl is a performer, organizer, and cultural worker. They are a queer femme of Palestinian, Lebanese and Danish descent, raised across and in-between borders. Mette Loulou uses their art to challenge the settler-colonization of Palestine and in service of Palestinian self-determination and liberation. They locate the power to disrupt violent systems in multiplicity and therefore take an intentional multimedia approach to art-making. They found their first community as a socially-engaged artist through the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics’ EmergeNYC and have received support as a Jerome Foundation AIRspace Resident, MacDowell Colony Fellow, Zoukak Theater Resident Artist, and as a grant recipient from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. They have shared work across North America and Europe. They exist in two places at once.