Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its Spring 2026 Season of public programs featuring performances, installations, workshops, and special events with CPR resident artists and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators, as well as a Spring 2026 Technical Residency with artist Yiseul LeMieux.

“This spring at CPR, artists are building networks of care that protect, regenerate, instruct, and fortify our community, offering means of resistance, refusal, sanctuary, and solace against predominant structures of power,” says Kerosene Jones, CPR Programs Manager. “Through spontaneous moving companies, irreverent demonstrations of grief, ecosomatic activation, dance scores for the visually impaired, ecstatic whirling, dissections of state propaganda, and more, artists this season explore fate, chance, nationalism, indigeneity, shame, nourishment, trance, cosmology, resilience, and the strength of collective resources.”

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research is thrilled to announce the eight artists selected for its 2026 Artist-in-Residence Program. Now in its 15th year, CPR’s year-long residency supports New York City-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms, and values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic.

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its Fall 2025 Season of public programs featuring performances, installations, workshops, symposia, and special events with CPR resident artists and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators, as well as a Fall 2025 Technical Residency with choreographer Ogemdi Ude.

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its 2025 Spring Season of public programs featuring performances, installations, workshops, symposia, and special events with CPR resident artists and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators, as well as two Spring 2025 Technical Residencies.

“This spring at CPR, artists are creating intimate containers to research, strategize, spiral, process, record, and embrace our present ruination,” says Anna Muselmann, CPR Programs Manager. “Through private recording sessions, peep shows, fitness parodies, unruly puppetry, wormholes, and more, artists this season explore vulnerability and risk, collapse and contradiction, intimacy and humility, healing and mourning, and the agony and the ecstasy of being an intuitive, erotic, embodied human being.”

By Gia Kourlas

Highlights so far of the 2025 contemporary dance festival, spread across New York City, are Symara Sarai and Leslie Cuyjet’s outstanding dances. […]

Another amazing sight was Cuyjet in “For All Your Life,” in which she examines Black life and death as they relate to the life insurance industry. There is a personal connection: Cuyjet’s great-grandfather was the president of a Black-owned life insurance company. The solo, first seen at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens and now at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, continues Cuyjet’s impressive body of work exploring aspects of her lineage.

Throughout, Cuyjet melds her finely wrought delicacy with a simmering fury. In a film and onstage, she plays an insurance saleswoman. With every raise of her eyebrow, every confiding smile, she is corporate America at its worst: frighteningly good.

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research is thrilled to announce the ten artists selected for its 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program. Now in its 14th year, CPR’s year-long residency supports New York City-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms, and values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic.

The CPR 2025 Artists-in-Residence are Latif Askia Ba, CRACKHEAD BARNEY, chameckilerner, DANIRO, Diovanna Frazier, Tushrik Fredericks, Kyle b. co., Yiwei Lu, Funto Omojola, and Kat Sotelo. Invoking riotous histories, personal archives, and community resilience, these ten artists’ work explores arrhythmia and harmony, the anthropology of sex work, illness and rituals of healing, survival through community, the intersection of migration, identity, and belonging, rhetorical questions, the reality of disability, artificial vs. “real” humanity, collective degeneracy, and the body as a territory marked by time.

“The 2025 Artists-in-Residence are an imaginative and deeply curious group of experimental artists whose embodied practices and radical visions span multiple disciplines, genres, forms, and lineages. We are excited to nurture their work and research at CPR and to welcome them to their new artistic home in 2025,” says Alexandra Rosenberg, CPR’s Executive Director.

BROOKLYN, NY – The Board of Directors of CPR – Center for Performance Research—which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art—today announced that Jaclyn Biskup has been named Executive Director. In her new role, Biskup will lead all aspects of the organization and manage and oversee CPR's operations and programs. She will assume her role immediately.

“Center for Performance Research is delighted to welcome Jaclyn as our next Executive Director,” said Nick Hockens, President of the Board of Directors. “Jaclyn’s energy and experience, including her own artistic practice, will help drive CPR’s exciting growth and launch our next chapter. The Board looks forward to working with her to continue to support artists in their creative research and exploration.”

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its 2024 Fall Season of public programs featuring performances, installations, workshops, and special events with CPR Artists-in-Residence and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators. The season includes the highly anticipated lineup for CPR’s annual Fall Movement after receiving an unprecedented 260 proposals through an OPEN CALL. Alongside the 2024 Fall Season, CPR is also pleased to announce a Winter 2025 Technical Residencywith Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony.

“This season at CPR, artists are responding to our urgent present with resilience and regeneration, exploring the possibilities of listening, collaboration, and resistance to process ecological collapse, waves of grief, and an uncertain future,” says Anna Muselmann, CPR Programs Manager. “Through analog and digital practices – including trance-inducing rhythms, pleasure ceremonies, possession rituals, satirical cults, storytelling, archiving, clowning, flamenco, feedback, and AI avatars – and amidst angsty landscapes, grime, paranoia, binary fatigue, decay, and climate disaster, artists this fall are sharing new work, ideas, and processes that facilitate communal healing, imagination, adaptation, and liberation.”

By Xuezhu Jenny Wang

In Brooklyn, at the Center for Performance Research, Giving You the Best That We Got: The Ayana & Tsedaye Variety Show, held over two evenings, brightened a drizzly summer weekend in June. The program blurred the boundary between reality, satire, and comedy, inviting viewers into a world of uncontrollable jiggles, introspective conversations, and reluctant make-believe.

The performance space was uniquely compact: the stage waa divided into a living room-like space for interviews, and a performance area where the “action” happens. In the back is a big screen for video projections, and downstage left a dresser with lights, makeup products, and a mirror. The DJ booth, the stage manager’s booth, cameras, and monitors were all around the performance space. There was an interactive and engaging quality to this close-packed setup—the fourth wall is rendered nonexistent, and the audience occasionally glances at the side monitors to see if the camera is panning over their faces.

By Catherine Tharin

In silence Malcolm-x Betts and Ella Dawn W-S lightly touch as they struggle to balance. Their bodies are close, and the shapes of their bodies, often with one leg in back attitude while slowly revolving, respond in like-shapes to the other. Except for the spot lit couple, the lighting at CPR – Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, is dim. He, bare-chested, wears a bright orange Speedo, knee pads, long white socks, and sneakers (later to don a blue and white striped bathing suit), while she is dressed in black underwear, light-colored sports bra, a pad on her right knee, and sneakers. Thus begins Malcolm-x Betts’ multi-scene 60m work, what happens when things become undone? an improvisational duet on Blackness, abstraction, love and grief.

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its 2024 Spring Season of public programs and residencies. The season features performances, installations, workshops, and special events with CPR Artists-in-Residence and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators.

“This spring at CPR, the spiritual and the sensuous converge, as artists working with ghosts, sonic vibration, bodily vessels, and olfactory atmospherics gather to co-envision more pleasurable, resonant, and sustainable futures,” says Anna Muselmann, CPR Programs Manager. “Through rituals of grief and possession, liberatory writing practices, dark humor, and visceral group experiences, these radical artists challenge us to return to our playful and empathetic selves, and to protest disembodiment, loosen our individual will, and acknowledge our profound interdependence.”

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, is thrilled to announce the ten artists selected for the 2024 Artist-in-Residence Program. Now in its 13th year, this year-long residency supports New York City-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms.

The CPR 2024 Artists-in-Residence are: Malcolm-x Betts, Leo Chang, GOODW.Y.N., Hans, Dorchel Haqq, Rebecca Patek, Alex Rodabaugh, Sarah Rothberg, Ariana Speight, and Anh Vo.

“The 2024 Artists-in-Residence are a dynamic group of artists whose work explores radical perspectives, aesthetics, and imaginations through movement, sound, humor, discomfort, ritual, and fantasy,” says CPR Executive Director, Alexandra Rosenberg.

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its 2023 Fall Season of public programs and residencies. The season features performances, workshops, films, and installations with CPR Artists-in-Residence and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators.

“This fall at CPR, the divine and the deviant co-mingle, as artists working in tap, film, fermentation, sound, sculpture, archive, dance, and poetry move to interrupt, suspend, preserve, and refuse time” says Anna Muselmann, CPR Programs Manager. “Engaging practices such as deep listening, disobedience, unmetered temporality, and architectural explorations of love, these experimental artists invite us to reconsider personal, political, cultural, and spiritual archives in order to re-imagine and re-frame our visions of an uncertain future.”

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its 2023 Spring Season. The season features performances, workshops, discussion, installations, and exhibitions with CPR Artists-in-Residence and an expansive network of artists, collectives, organizations, and guest curators.

“This spring at CPR, multimedia and multisensory artists are experimenting with relationships between sound, the body, and language/text/writing, acknowledging their inevitable subjection to translation, and surrendering to the grief and loss that accompany transformation,” says Anna Muselmann, CPR Programs Manager. “This season’s constellation of programs explores queer intimacies, sonic meditations, healing rituals, and group sculptural events, capturing an emergent longing for intimate community and collective resilience.”

Brooklyn, NY— CPR – Center for Performance Research is thrilled to announce the ten artists selected for its 2023 Artist-in-Residence Program. Now in its 12th year, this year-long residency supports artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms.

The CPR 2023 Artists-in-Residence are: Benae Beamon, Krystal Collins, Beth Gill, Orlando Hernández, Eleanor Kipping, LILLETH, Raymond Pinto, Alex Romania, Oskar Sinclair, and x.

CPR invites applications for its Artists-in-Residence Program through an open call, which are reviewed by an independent selection panel composed of artists, curators, and community stakeholders, who bring a broad range of perspectives, aesthetics, and approaches to the process. CPR is grateful to this year’s selection panel – luciana achugar, J. Bouey, Paul Singh, and Sacha Yanow – for their commitment, care, and thoughtfulness in selecting the 2023 cohort. This year, the panel reviewed nearly 300 applications, an unprecedented 50% increase from the 200 applications that were received for the 2022 residency.

CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance, performance, and time-based art, is pleased to announce its 2022 Fall Season of public programs and residencies. The season features new and in-process work by CPR Artists-in-Residence, and a wide range of artists, collectives, curators, and organizers.

“This fall at CPR, artists are slowing down to find greater intimacy with their practice,” says Alexandra Rosenberg, CPR’s Executive Director, “offering public investigations that prioritize stillness and exchange, and environments intended to be occupied for longer durations of time. Programs this season are conceived in response to calls for interrogation, investigation, imagination, and questioning, where CPR can collaborate with artists to create organic and open-ended formats to share their artistic process in an ever-evolving world.”

CPR – Center for Performance Research, which supports the development and incubation of new work in dance and performance, and time-based forms, is thrilled to announce its 2022 Spring Season of public programs and residencies. 

The 2022 Spring Season will have both in-person and virtual events, and features new work by current CPR Artists-in-Residence, including live performance installations by Star Mitchell and Doménica Garcia with Damariz Damken, and a virtual lecture-demonstration and workshop with Johnnie Cruise Mercer; the continuation of Spring Movement, part of CPR’s bi-annual festival of new work, guest curated by Pioneers Go East Collective; works-in-progress as part of Open Studios curated by ryen heart and CPR Programs Manager Regine Pieters; experiments and investigations in Performance Philosophy Reading Group, hosted by artists Jessie Young and ryen heart and Amanda Monti; the premiere of “THE YENTA SHOW! LIVE from BROOKLYN!”, a live talk show created by 2020-21 CPR Artist-in-Residence Stuart B Meyers; and co-presentations with ISSUE Project Room and its 2022 Artist-in-Residence Sydney Spann, and The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series

Read an interview with Alexandra Rosenberg about her work in the arts and her career advice for arts professionals.