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CPR Programs Manager Regine Pieters brings together an eclectic group of artists with distinct backgrounds and movement practices to share works-in-progress, while cultivating a safe environment for thorough feedback and digestion. In addition to influencing her own artistry and practice, Elizabeth Dishman, morgaine de leonardis, and Myssi Robinson have significantly opened her eyes to the beauty and complexities that exist in art creation, performance, and community building in order to foster a greater sense of belonging. Regine is intrigued by interdisciplinary artists who push the boundaries of our lived experiences, and her curation is a response to the needs of time, space, and resources of artists that she is in continuous conversation with.
morgaine de leonardis is an irish-italian-american dance artist, producer, and accessibility practitioner. She gathers people in space to build & facilitate a wide range of experiences. Such as intimate performances, small conversations, workshares, exhibitions, installations, dining experiences, parties, and more. website coming soon (smiley face)
Dishman + Co. Choreography is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company. Through a rigorous practice/ethic of deep listening, Artistic Director Elizabeth Dishman and collaborating dancers, composers, musicians, and designers pursue new embodied languages that amplify each singular voice while generating a collective energy. Complex social/relational challenges reverberate as we work to transform multiple, sometimes competing expressions into a vibrant counterpoint. The choreography gradually builds a responsive, connected social space that flexibly holds and nourishes the varied, layered voices within it. This is the kind of world we would like to inhabit. Founded in 2001, Dishman + Co. has been presented by/at Gibney Dance Center, Center for Performance Research, BRIC Studio, Marjorie S. Dean Little Off-Broadway Theatre, 100 Grand, Triskelion Arts, 7 Stages, Emory University, Belhaven University, and Auburn University, among others. Our work has been described by critics as “complex skeins and cerebral dreams”; “bodies in rigorous concentration”; “playful and provocative…raw humanity seeps in.” Dishman + Co. is currently building a new full-length work entitled Belly, to premiere in 2023. www.DishmanAndCo.org
Myssi Robinson is a performer and maker from Powhatan lands / Richmond, VA She has interpreted many dances and is currently orienting to authorship, boundarylessness and deeper healing. Myssi's practice involves creative archiving, mixed-media marking and object / spatial design. Intuition and empathy play with maximalist instinct to give life to the art that she makes. It whispers may we all heal. Gratitude to Carolyn Johnson and Darrin Robinson for her life and abilities to create freely within it.
Closed captioning or ASL interpretation may be provided, upon request, with at least two weeks’ advance notice, by emailing regine@cprnyc.org.
Open Studios is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.
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