Organizer Information
CPR – Center for Performance Research is a nonprofit organization co-founded in 2007 by choreographers Jonah Bokaer and John Jasperse to support artists developing new work in contemporary dance, performance, and time-based art. CPR's founding organizations, John Jasperse Projects/Thin Man Dance, Inc. and Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc., co-purchased its Williamsburg, Brooklyn space in 2009, giving CPR a permanent home in a 4,000-square-foot ground-floor facility that is a certified L.E.E.D. Gold green building, among the first of its kind in Brooklyn. CPR describes its mission as supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance, performance, and time-based art. The organization's approach centers on fostering the artistic process as a means of creativity, connection, and social change, while prioritizing racial, ethnic, and aesthetic equity and support for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled artists. CPR's facility includes two flexible studio spaces, the Large Studio and the Small Studio, offered at subsidized rates for rehearsal, performance, classes, workshops, and exhibitions.
Title & Description
CPR 2027 Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program
CPR – Center for Performance Research is inviting eligible New York City-based artists to apply for its year-long 2027 Artist-in-Residence Program, running from January to December 2027. The residency supports artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based art, and CPR states it values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, encouraging risk-taking, interdisciplinarity, and the unexpected. The program creates an open environment for experimentation, exploration, embodiment, and exchange, providing a cohort of six artists with research and presentation opportunities, subsidized rehearsal space, curatorial and project support, and peer dialogue. It is intended to nurture individualized creative processes and prioritizes artists for whom the residency will make a major impact on the growth and evolution of their work and career. Applications are solicited through an open call, with AiRs selected by an independent panel of artists, curators, and arts leaders, an approach CPR frames as working toward a more accessible and equitable selection process and increased visibility, opportunities, and resources for a more diverse range of artists in the field.
Categories
- Dance
- Performance
- Time-Based Art
- Interdisciplinary Arts
- Choreography
Eligibility
- Applicants must be New York City-based artists; CPR cannot provide US visas, travel, accommodations, or other living expenses in connection with the residency
- Applicants must have previously had their work publicly presented
- Applicants must not have been selected as a CPR Artist-in-Residence in the last 5 years
- Individual artists, companies, collaboratives, or collectives may apply, but each applicant/application is considered as a single residency
- Current undergraduate students are not eligible
- Classical or traditional artforms will not be considered unless subverted or disrupted through modes of experimentation
- CPR strongly encourages BIPOC artists, LGBTQ+ artists, immigrant artists, artists with disabilities, and artists across generations to apply
Program Benefits
- Stipend: $2,000 per artist
- Advance access to CPR's rehearsal booking calendar
- 20 free hours of rehearsal space for the residency cycle
- Ability to book up to 150 subsidized rehearsal hours in either of CPR's studios during the residency year, with priority booking January 2027 through February 2028
- Additional artist fees and resources for CPR Public Programs, including access to technical equipment and production support
- Research and presentation opportunities through CPR's curated Public Programs (OPEN LAB and OPEN AiR)
- Curatorial support and feedback from CPR staff and fellow artists throughout the year
Application Fee
None
How to Apply?
Online Application
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: 24 August 2026
- Notifications: November 2026
- Residency Period: January 2027 – December 2027
- Rehearsal Booking Priority Window: January 2027 – February 2028
Location
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States
Additional Details
- CPR occupies a 4,000 sq. ft. ground-floor facility with two studios: the Large Studio (1,875 sq. ft.), equipped with an LED theatrical lighting system, full-range sound, projection capabilities, and a sprung wood dance floor with white marley, seating up to 68 people; and the Small Studio, which functions as a rehearsal studio, gallery, and meeting space with floor-to-ceiling storefront windows, track lighting, and a sprung wood dance floor
- CPR is fully ADA-compliant and accessible, with two all-gender restrooms, one of which is wheelchair-accessible
- A floor plan, images, and technical specifications are available via a link in the source
- Competitive applications are expected to demonstrate a strong understanding of and commitment to CPR's core values (play, risk, experimentation, curiosity, new forms, modes of embodiment and presence, and urgency), a clear understanding of how CPR's resources will be used throughout the residency, a central research question to be explored during the residency, and an understanding of how the applicant's practice might be activated through the OPEN LAB and OPEN AiR public programming formats
- The 2027 AiR Program is directly supported by Americans for the Arts National Arts Relief Fund, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, IndieSpace, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council