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361 Manhattan Av, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Saturday, January 8th: reception + performances

Reception begins at 6:30pm
Performances begin at 7:30pm – free 

Summer Session 2010, New York Women photographer by Peggy Jarrell Kaplan

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan will exhibit at CPR eleven portraits of New York-based women choreographers, who were photographed during the summer 2010.  Inspired by the mood of Paige Martin’s Familial Reality, experienced on a warm night in April redolent with summer’s promises, a plan evolved: to see what other women choreographers were up to on the city’s indoor and outdoor stages, and bring that spirit into the photography studio.  

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan has been making portraits of international choreographers for almost three decades.  Her photographs have been shown in numerous festivals and at performing arts venues around the world, most recently at Tanz-im-August in Berlin and at The National Arts Center in Ottawa.  In New York, her work was exhibited at The Nippon Gallery with support from the Japan Foundation, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of its homage to Pina Bausch.  Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

Performances scheduled for 7:30pm

Bob Eisen – 10 mins - solo
Catherine Miller – 25 mins - solo / duet
Low Lives Presentation – 20 mins

Bob Eisen “e-showraz” is another in an ongoing series of solo dances which, over the past five years, Bob has choreographed and performed.  There have been common elements to each of these pieces--an abiding interest in structure; rigorous, full-bodied movement; a sense of playing around the edges; and an off-beat humor. Bob continues to explore moving into his later years, and what is necessary to do that.

Catherine Miller: Her performance company, WalkingTalking, hailed as “mesmerizing” (Triangle Arts and Entertainment) will present a two-part program at CPR:  D’evolution a solo for Miller exploring the mechanisms that moves us forward and backward. Miller, who’s dancing is described as “sensually captivating” (NY Times) and “stunning” (Financial Times) embodies the troupe’s signature physicality, theatricality and flair for human nuance.     Second on the program is an excerpt from the duet, Blue Tarp Skies, about shaky foundations, foreclosures and the insistence of the American Dream danced by Miller and Lonnie Poupard, Jr.

Low Lives 3 - Presentation
A brief overview of the Low Lives platform and April, 2011 exhibition.                          Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance- based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues. The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and cultural borders. Low Lives offers local and global audiences a critical and contextual frame from which to consider live performance in both the physical and virtual space. Since 2009, Low Lives has networked live performances by 59 artists from 16 countries at over 13 arts organizations. www.lowlives.net.

The 3^rd annual Low Lives is co-presented with Chez Bushwick

Sunday, January 9th : "Secondary Sources"

By Fitzerald & Stapleton

7:30 @ CPR - FREE

“The Work The Work” debates the interplay of individuality, power, capitalism and gender within current Irish society. Throughout the performance the artists negotiate a choreographic score written by Fitzgerald & Stapleton, designed to support and challenge each artist’s moment to moment relationship with the audience, stage environment and each other. The choreographers write themselves into impossible situations in order to transcend any aesthetic predilections that might narrow their ability to celebrate the here and now of being alive. 'You're on earth, there's no cure for that' - Beckett. Fitzgerald & Stapleton is founded and directed by Irish artists Emma Fitzgerald and Aine Stapleton.

The Work The Work is supported by Culture Ireland.

Monday Janurary 10th : " The work The Work"

By Rex Levitates Dance Company

7:30 @ CPR -FREE

There are influences that we carry in our bodies, in the way we move, that come from other people, places and events. This is true whether we are dancing, watching others perform or just being. In this new work, commissioned by DDF, choreographer Liz Roche creates a tapestry of movement meanings that reflect on the performers’ embodied connections between primary and secondary sources of inspiration. With a characteristically intimate yet agile movement palette, Roche and her dancers strive to bring these embodied connections, histories and perspectives to the fore.

Choreography: Liz Roche

Commissioned by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. An early version of this work was created at Movement Research, New York, with the support of the Arts Council, Dance Ireland and Dublin City Council.

By Fitzerald & Stapleton

7:30 @ CPR - FREE

“The Work The Work” debates the interplay of individuality, power, capitalism and gender within current Irish society. Throughout the performance the artists negotiate a choreographic score written by Fitzgerald & Stapleton, designed to support and challenge each artist’s moment to moment relationship with the audience, stage environment and each other. The choreographers write themselves into impossible situations in order to transcend any aesthetic predilections that might narrow their ability to celebrate the here and now of being alive. 'You're on earth, there's no cure for that' - Beckett. Fitzgerald & Stapleton is founded and directed by Irish artists Emma Fitzgerald and Aine Stapleton.

The Work The Work is supported by Dance Ireland and Culture Ireland.