Fall Movement

CPR – Center for Performance Research is dedicated to supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance and performance. CPR focuses its activities in three key areas: creative and professional development support; providing affordable space for artists; and public programming. Curated and open-call programs focus on providing artists with rehearsal, residency, and performance support, which generates time and space for research and dialogue, and creates opportunities to share work in a variety of contexts. CPR’s subsidized space rental program helps to ensure that artists can access CPR’s flexible studios and performance space at affordable rates to create and share their work. By presenting work to the public through performances, work-in-progress showings, salon-style discussions, exhibitions, and festivals, CPR exposes local audiences and its community to contemporary artistic practice and process.

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A festival of performance works by Karen Bernard, Barnett Cohen, Cayleen Del Rosario, Muyassar Kurdi, Estrellx Supernova, and Blake Worthey

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PROGRAM UPDATE: Unfortunately, Barnett Cohen’s noposition nolocation will no longer be performed as part of the Fall Movement program.Fall Movement is part of CPR’s bi-annual festival of new work, with Spring Movement, that presents new work in dance, performance, and time-based art in a shared program. The program is curated by an independent review panel of artists and community stakeholders after an open call for proposals. Six artists working across and between live art disciplines have been selected to present their work: Karen Bernard, Barnett Cohen, Cayleen Del Rosario, Muyassar Kurdi, Estrellx Supernova, and Blake Worthey.The 2022 Fall Movement artists were selected by Julie Mayo, benedict nguyễn, and jess pretty.Before and after the performances, an exhibition featuring artworks and performance ephemera from Fall Movement artists will be on view in CPR&#x27;s Storefront Gallery. Advance tickets for Fall Movement are SOLD OUT. An in-person waitlist will open at 7:00pm each night at the Box Office, and tickets will be released on a first come, first served basis.Karen Bernard - Device Not DetectedDevice Not Detected is a two-part performance work combining visual art and minimalist movement to explore the feminine mystique and aging. A commentary on the ways we perceive aging and its limitations, the piece incorporates humor, costume, music, and projection to explore darker themes of aging, uncertainty, and death–all with a touch so light it caresses. In Part One, Karen Bernard, at age 73, is both performer and choreographer, using self-manipulated lighting and projection elements to create a space where gestures of collapse and struggle are juxtaposed with fluid and playful movement. Part Two, created under the direction of choreographer and performer Lisa Parra, echoes Part One and uses spare, stark lighting to create a cinematic moving sculpture.[CANCELLED] Barnett Cohen - noposition nolocationnoposition nolocation is a text-based movement piece including four performers who articulate queer surrealism through kaleidoscopic combinations of sound, body, and language. Through visual tableaus that integrate written absurdist non-sequiturs with symbolic performative gestures, Barnett Cohen, a queer artist who shapeshifts between poet, performance maker, painter, and activist, creates experiential constellations of voice and movement that highlight the persistence of anxious forces, neurotic tendencies, and unremitting violence within dominant ideologies.Cayleen Del Rosario - AnnihilationSecond in a series of triangulation studies, Annihilation is a collaborative group performance that explores a duet turned trio. Two dance in an oceanic union, mother and child/ kin to kin/ self with double, and when a third entity appears, a new symbolic order is established as the dyad breaks. Drawing from Lacan’s idea of gaps in meaning when faced with that which is unable to be symbolized, the movement, form, and meaning shift subtly and drastically as the performers and audience navigate the unstable field of dynamics, rhythms, memory, thought, textures, feelings.Muyassar Kurdi - From the River to the SeaFrom the River to the Sea is a cinematic and embodied interdisciplinary sound performance ruminating on: migration, memory, and home through the lens of a Palestinian refugee. The work explores the cinematic elements and aims to connect the modalities of sound, movement, and image while addressing issues surrounding displacement and colonialism. An interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, analog photography and film, Muyassar Kurdi continues her research on healing through movement and deepens her understanding of its relationship to memory and intergenerational trauma. As a first generation Palestinian refugee, Kurdi remains interested in themes such as migration and the idea of “home” and, through the lens of an indigeneity, expresses vulnerability, connection, and community healing.Estrellx Supernova - Real Talk #2: confessions of a stone whore / VERSEReal Talk #2: confessions of a stone whore / VERSE seeks to unpack Estrellx Supernova’s intimacy archives in service of engendering alternative subjectivities of eroticism that introduce new channels for accessing pleasure and that decentralize penetrative sex. Real Talk #2 is activated through physicality that implements club dancing, improvisational scores, repetitive gestures, and sad-bro grief songs that aim to unify their pelvic floor with their heart and throat. This work is an embodied testimonial that moves between a healing circle, performance ritual, and collective celebration.Blake Worthey - please don&#x27;t be here when I get backplease don&#x27;t be here when I get back is a piece of scripted dance-theater that explores the cosmology of a just God in a world where much ambient and abject violence is present. The work is developed using Blake Worthey’s newly developed theater language – Non-Quotidian Theater – and questions the entirety of European theater aesthetic. Set in a HR department in Hell, the work uses the form of a monologue of tragicomedy to bring these violences into sharp relief and to demonstrate an escape from stories that allow socialized violence to precipitate.<h3>Important note about visiting CPR: CPR requires all visitors, artists, and staff to provide documentation of full vaccination against Covid-19 as well as a vaccine booster (if eligible), along with a photo ID, to enter CPR. For more information about booster eligibility, please visit the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CDC&#x27;s website</a>. Masks must also be worn at all times inside CPR.</h3>

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