Kiritin Beyer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family eventually settled down in the south of France, where she spent her childhood on a farm overlooking the valley of the Pyrenees.

After High School, Kiritin moved to Paris where she joined the National Circus School, “L’Ecole National du Cirque Fratellini”. During her time at the Circus she was exposed to the creative world.

Shortly after, she chose photography as her medium. She left Europe to pursue her photography career in America in 2003. Kiritin has shown her works in various galleries, in Paris, New York and Miami.

In 2005, she volunteered for the Tsunami Relief in India for six months and came back with several portraits of those who survived the natural disaster.

In 2010, she volunteered in Haiti after “the earthquake” and focused on rebuilding a school in Carrefour named, “The Degand School”.

Currently, Kiritin Beyer is working as an Interior Design photographer for diverse editorial publications.

www.kiritinbeyer.com

At an early age, Parris Jaru began learning how to carve wood from fallen trees to make flutes and drums in the island of Jamaica. Later, after moving to New York City, he was strike by the art scene of the eighties and started working at Marvel Comics in the early 90s which influenced the start of his art career at that time.

Parris later opened a jewelry company named Blufork’s NYC catering to such clients as Barney’s Co-op, Anna Sui and Patricia Fields. Parris says, "Creating hand made jewelry from wood, semi precious stones, copper and silver with metallic paints and pigments, bringing me back to my earliest understanding of how to create art from materials found within the earth."

Although he immersed himself in the jewelry design, he still spent those years developing his voice on canvas through practice and patience.

As a source of gaining exposure and selling his works, Parris began selling on the streets of Soho and the East Village in NYC where he met with some of the most talented painters of the underground art scene.  Soho was full of inspiration and a vibrant New York district for Artists/Painters. He found a venue at the time to show his painting independently gaining exposure.

Parris Jaru now resides in Brooklyn, NY and exclusively works on commissioned pieces for his personal clients and interior designers and shows his works throughout New York City.

Parris states:

“The more I give to artistic expression the more it has given me, painting has become my instrument of survival as well as my greatest love in this life. When I show my work my only expectation is to speak to those with an open ear who has a desire to hear my speech outside of normal conversation.

 Then my job for the moment is done.”

www.parrisjaru.com

https://vimeo.com/75785488

Franck is a photographer and a video maker. Movement is a major concern in his photographs and video works. In Franck's visual research he explores the idea of the capacity to rebound, to ensure that the picture has generated not one, but several degrees of reading by the viewer. He wishes to extend the time for contemplation by questioning what the viewer sees, playing with the distance between the subject and the perception of the viewer, an interplay between what we see, what we accept and what remains. 

He collaborated in 2011 with the vocalist Helga Davis and has been pursuing other visual collaborations with video and photography. He lives and works between New York and Marseilles. He will  participate in a panel discussion at the Residency Unlimited on April 29th, 2013 and will hold a residence under mars2bklyn platform at Residency Unlimited in spring of 2014 .

Franck will be present his work at the mars2bklyn platform in a group show at The Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo from April 29-May5th 2013 .

http://www.francklesbros.com/

http://www.ateliernational.com/

http://www.residencyunlimited.org/

sound walk / balade sonore

Hidden Stories / Histoires Cachées is an invisible performance, a site-specific event that blends itself into the urban landscape. Supplied with headphones, the audience is temporarily endowed with the powers to hear the thoughts of certain passers-by and to follow them into the unknown. A single rule of thumb: follow an ordinary object (an orange, a newspaper, a box of matches, or a pen) as it makes its way through the streets of the city. Like stepping into a film that mixes fiction with reality, the audience embarks upon a rare and poignant adventure.

Credits:

Text Written by the ensemble. Excerpts from Maniére by Joel Bastard (editions Galinard)

Concept Development: Karin Holmstrom, Dion Doulis and Erika Latta.

Direction / Sound Design: Erika Latta.

co-Sound Design: Philippe Laliard + Dion Doulis. Sound Engineer: Fabrice Gallis.

Original Music: Peter Holmstrom

Performers: Dion Doulis, Hervé Cristianini, Karin Holmstrom, Philippe Laliard and Nolwenn Moreau.

DATES: Hosted by the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn May 2-4th, 2013  at 2pm and 7pm. Available in French or English

*reservation required ​: 646-926-0620 

Begat Theater / FRANCE

Begat Theater seeks out innovative ways to frame the work of contemporary authors within the context of public space. Blending elements of performance art, environmental street theater, visual art, and sound installation. The company develops new forms of dramatic writing that place their audiences in an active role, intimately close to the actors. The boundaries between fiction and reality are blurred. At the origin of each project, a powerful and original story is adapted from a contemporary novel or several novels. Human diversity and the ambiguity of communications are recurrent themes, with the solitary characters who inhabit the margins of society. Begat theater invites a fictional world, allowing them to glimpse the strange beauty of a new, displaced perspective. The company reinvents theatrical codes with each new piece they create.

Produced by WaxFactory and funded in part by The French American Fund for Contemporary Theater / étant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts, a program of FACE (2012) and Institut Française - Région Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur

begat.org

PRESS QUOTES 

“A completely new experience which must absolutely be seen... like a film that mixes reality and fiction, "Hidden Stories" is a separate category of street art... A poignant and strange adventure that shouldn't be missed." -L'Impartial (FRANCE) – August 2010

“Reveries for solitary walkers.The city is filled with hidden stories, with scenarios waiting to be discovered under every stone. Begat Theater and the Théâtre de l’Arpenteur make them appear from the inner depths of headphones, for their audience of walkers. "Walk man.1" and "Hidden Stories" reveal the almost magic power of sound to summon a fictional world without "distorting reality", to use Karin Holmström’s expression. These walks embark the spectator, alone or sometimes in groups, on an urban exploration, and place the act of walking at the heart of their approach. They favor listening and "simply looking at the city" as opposed to "elaborate sets", remarks Dion Doulis, therefore joining a tradition which aims to reveal theatricality at the heart of everyday life. They question the relationship between actor and spectator and play with the multiple possibilities of pre-recorded and amplified voices. All these ingredients make for a stimulating renewal of the urban sound walk. -Magazine La Stradda (FRANCE) – January 2013

“With a solid reputation for quality, Begat Theater is a street theater company that always creates a singular link between the spectator, the performance site, and the public space. After its memorable installation-show The Half-wits (inspired by Jeanne Benameur's novel), Karin Holmström proposes a surprising sound-walk in the city. Equipped with headphones, one only needs to follow an orange, a newspaper, a box of match or a pen, as it passes from hand to hand in order to discover the hidden stories of their owners. An intimate, stirring treasure hunt. A tracking shot between the real and the imaginary.”“The festival "Roulez Carros" owes this surprising and interactive street show to a very original company: Begat Theater. Street theater that speaks to the senses, that destabilizes and pushes aside preconceived ideas.” -Nice Matin (FRANCE) – September 2012

“Begat Theater transforms the city into an open-air theater.” -Sud Ouest (FRANCE) – August 2012

“Begat Theater puts the spectator in a particular state where time stops, where one’s gaze can settle on the slightest details, where the mind can freely associate ideas... Begat Theater succeeds in a tour de force which consists of making public space an intimate space.” -Temporairement Contemporain (FRANCE) – August 2012

“In a remarkable change of pace and a bold indication of this festival’s artistic ambition, Hoopla presents French theater group, Begat with Hidden Stories (Histoires Cachées). Audiences will follow the cast around Darling Harbour for a performance which few passers-by will be aware of. Wearing headphones, the audience listen to inner thoughts of characters as they weave and merge through storylines.” -Darling Harbour News (AUSTRALIA) – April 2012

“Begat Theater proposes a sound walk in the streets of the town. The audience is not safely tucked into their seats, watching and listening to a theater piece, rather he's the principal actor.” - La Provence (FRANCE) – May 2010

"A show that grabs you... and brings you into an enchanting unknown." - La Provence (FRANCE) – September 2010

"Four delightful destinies that the spectator comes to know through chance encounters and crossed paths.” - Le Reveil (FRANCE) –Septembre 2010

TTT (highest rating) Four slices of live, four stories hidden within the meandering city streets, reveal themselves as we choose to follow the journey of an orange, or a newspaper, or a box of matches, or a pen. These ordinary objects move between the hands of four equally common individuals: complete strangers whose paths cross briefly, before going off in different directions. Equipped with headsets, the audience follows each one of these characters and listens in on their every thought. They slip into the secret world of these strangers whom, ordinarily, they wouldn't even have noticed. After it's remarkable and acclaimed piece "Les Demeurées", Begat Theater presents an insightful and deeply moving performance in the heart of the public space. An unprecedented experience, a story in which the spectator becomes an unwitting, and unexpected, actor. -Télérama (FRANCE) September 2011

From July 20th to the 24th this year, and for the 25th year in a row, artists have once again invaded every square inch of the city streets. A piece of pavement, a streetlight, a wall... Not much is needed for art to become integrated into the urban environment. At this game four companies in particular excelled. Beginning with Begat Theater and its show Hidden Stories, the spectator, listening to a text via a headset, is invited to follow an object through the streets as it passes through the hands of several characters, unraveling the threads of their lives as they move within their interior labyrinth. A three faceted optical illusion is revealed: reality becomes blurred, the theatrical asserts itself as real, and those on the outside look on in a disbelieving way at the spectator.” - L’Humanité (FRANCE) – July 2011 

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Marta Rueda stages imaginary living spaces with wood, plaster, and metal. Photography is her favorite medium to capture the real, creating a constant interplay between drawing and sculpture. The sketch drawings can transform into sculpture and her graphic sculptures are forms of drawings. Rueda questions the role of living spaces and what we can do with and through them, providing an insight into the simplest elements of our daily comfort. She thus constructs a simultaneous autobiographical and anonymous home, where everyone can invest his/her own interpretation.

(-translated from « construcciones y otros espacios » by Sylviane B. Laurette, 2012)

Marta will be present her work at the mars2bklyn platform in a group show at The Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo from April 29-May5th 2013 .

Abel Macias

Sacredness of youth

If you focus your vision on something small then the world becomes so much larger. There is a clarity that arises: the subject or object moves to the foreground, close-up. The toy figure is life-size, larger than life even, so that the background is an expanded universe. The thing in focus is then all of the world and it changes in different light.  Such a pure gaze creates purity in the thing gazed upon. Why do we forget sometimes that’s it’s as simple as a state of mind? Maybe to be an adult is to have a headache; maybe to be a child is to shrink-wrap our mind around one sound at a time and forget the noise. 

- Richard Beckham II

Born in Atlanta Georgia, and having settled in a studio based out of Brooklyn, NY, Abel Macias’s work draws inspiration from his calling of the sacredness of youth. He spent many holidays as a child in his father’s country of Mexico, where influences of the ancient Mayans, Aztecs and modern Mexican culture made impressions on his young spirit.  The festival of Día de los Muertos, (Day of the Dead) that traces back to the ancient Aztec Indians can also be seen subtly in his body of work. Growing up a majority in America and seeing the great artist such as Picasso, Matisse, De Kooning, and the urban pop culture art of Haring and Basquiat, in addition to the fast passed pop culture of America have helped shaped, and inspired his views of his voice of sacred youth.  Like Basquiat, Mr. Macias is an honest urban graffiti artist. You may see his work around town and the outer boroughs under his pink cloud signature. He is always in a state of creation.  Abel draws from all this rich cultural background and puts forth body’s of work that meet the viewer’s eye with a rich spectrum of color, texture, intensity, sexuality, humanity, and societal conscience, that are the making of fine art.  Macias’s subject matter is presented with raw earnestness honesty, with a touch of playful humorous whimsy, that remind us all of human nature in its unaffected purist form of child like innocence.  His keen integration of text takes from his nostalgic memories and acute emotions come together with symbolic imagery to form a bold and subversive relationship bringing to the viewer his voice and vision of the Sacredness of Youth.

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LIGHTNING

DIRECTED BY BROCK LABRENZ, PERFORMED BY NATALIE THOMAS

Brock Labrenz is an artist working in various mediums; experimental & documentary film, photography and contemporary dance and dance theater. As an associate artist with German based The Forsythe Company and a Juilliard School Alumni, he brings a visceral, sensory-rich perspective to every project he creates. His work has been presented by PERFORMA, Frankfurt’s Das TAT; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the 2012 Venice Biennale and numerous international film festivals. 

Natalie Thomas has collaborated with Brock Labrenz on numerous projects. Most recently she produced, co-wrote, and starred in their short film 1901. 1901 had its premiere at the Lucerne International Film Festival in Switzerland and was later shown at the Shnit International Short Film Festival. Natalie and Brock also created Heute Nacht, a narrative short film, and Impermanent Collection; The Films, a short film series for The Whitney Museum of American Art. Natalie’s film and TV highlights include Brie in Month To Month (*best supporting actress award at the Iowa Film Festival), directed by Wes Hopper, Lauren in Contracts, directed by academy nominated- Roni Ezra, and Suzy in the upcoming film Rover, directed by Tony Blahd, as well as characters on Law and Order SVU, Law and Order and The Guiding Light. Natalie was featured in Portraits in Dramatic Time, directed by David Michalek, projected on the State Theater at Lincoln Center. Theater highlights include Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Bellona Destroyer of Cities at The Kitchen, Lucid at the Cherry Lane Theatre and The Wooster Group’s House/Lights at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Natalie is a former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater II and William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt. Natalie and Brock are currently in development for An Film’s next feature, Chinaland. ​

*Lightning wil be shown in the group show along with AtelieRnaTional at the Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo / Brooklyn April 30th-May 5th

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Tateishi’s work takes shape primarily through drawings that explore questions related to landscape, dreams, the fine lines between the visible/invisible and the abstract/concrete.  Her drawings evoke dreamlike scene or landscapes from another world that serve as new forms of writing, where the drawings themselves are devices that send the spectator on imaginary journeys. Tateishi explores such forms as the humid, dry, rigid, flowing, volatile, animal, plant, concrete, abstract, real, virtual, explosive, all while playing with the image’s scale.

Aya will be present her work at the mars2bklyn platform in a group show at The Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo from April 29-May5th 2013 .

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Pascal Perich 

is French American with Basque and Catalan origins.

He grew up in the South west of France and has been living in Brooklyn for the past twenty years. He specializes in portraiture photography and video.

He regularly collaborates with Télérama, the French international press and in magazines as diverse GQ , Men's Vogue, Time, the Financial Times, and El Pais.

In his work, he questions the real value of the subjective representation of a person within a photograph or a film.

STREETS OF LAREDO are an indie folk outfit hailing from New Zealand, based in Brooklyn, NY. A family affair, Streets of Laredo are the newest musical incarnation of Daniel, David & Sarah Gibson plus award winning photographer Si Moore of Bayly&Moore and Tom Darlow.  Described as a “ram shackled family circus of gypsies & ragamuffins” Streets of Laredo truly embrace the spontaneity of live performance. Breaking down “the invisible wall” between the band & audience, Streets of Laredo like to create a “happening” rather than a standard “gig”. Although at its core Streets of Laredo are a quartet, you never quite know what you’ll get at a Streets show. Surprise guest performers are a common occurrence with the crowd being an active participant and contributor to the experience. 

​Streets of Laredo will be playing along with Bird Courage and Sherita at the mars2bklyn Opening Party on May 1st at Superfine (126 Front Street, Brooklyn,NY 11211) in Dumbo at 7pm-10pm. 

RSVP at marseille2brookyn@gmail.com

*Drink sponsors include: Lillet, Pernod-Ricard and St. Killian. 

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Since 1998, Olivier Lubeck has realized over a 100 Super 8 video installations. His installations feature video samples from old movies or his own images that are projected in short loops on a multitude and a variety of screens.

In addition, he has shot hundreds of short sequences in super8 and several short movies including Allégorie in 2002 and Genèse in 2004. In 2009 he directed The shaekspearian Monologues, and the musical dvd 23janvier-18juillet 2009 for French singer songwriter Vincent Delerm . This last dvd was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique 2012 (French équivalent of the Grammy Awards).

Since 2010, he has focused on installations, and has become a permanent resident artist at the Cabaret Aléatoire at La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille. He collaborates regularly with French renown DJ Laurent Garnier.

Jean-François Roux

Ma pratique s’inscrit dans un registre de références populaires qui tendent à faire partager une certaine complicité entre oeuvre et public.

Aujourd’hui, mes préoccupations plastiques utilisent l’objet usuel issu du quotidien comme matériau. Le but étant de faire disparaître les caractéristiques de l'objet pour l'appréhender comme matière première dans un travail de sculpture et d’amener ces oeuvres sur le terrain de l'abstraction. 

Si les gestes opérés relèvent du détournement, l'accent est mis sur les propriétés et les composantes plastiques des objets familiers, leur charge poétique, leur potentiel de représentation. 

Jean-François Roux will be present his work at the mars2bklyn platform in a group show at The Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo from April 29-May5th 2013 .

Louis’ work is like a series of passages or displacements, formal journeys or semantic shifts of meaning, detours of the senses, stretching genres and defying disciplinary boundaries: transformations appear mythological, the personal becomes historical, art and science meet and short-circuit each other, create connections, an arrangement, possibilities. In his work, Louis creates a universe influenced by multiple art histories, cinema fantastique, science fiction, the extraordinary travels of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau, mixing these in a kind of transgression of aesthetic categories, thus throwing away any definitive definition of judging the work of art a formally: sculpture, installation, photography, collage, drawing ... or figurative, abstract or modern, contemporary ... (not to mention the artistic movements and their historical derivatives). Louis’ work aims to not only to transgress boundaries, but also to provide a broader vision of art, a little moved and moving, not static or linear or hierarchical.

Le travail d’Aymeric Louis se présente comme une série de passages ou de déplacements, de déplacements formels et/ou sémantiques, glissements de sens, étirements en tout genres : un salon des transformations dans lequel apparaissent des mythologies, personnelle tout autant qu’historique, artistique et scientifique se rencontrant, se court- circuitant, créant des connexions, un agencement, un principe de multiplicité. Un univers peuplé d’histoire de l’art, de cinéma fantastique, de science-fiction, des V oyages extraordinaires de Jules Verne ou de L’île du docteur Moreau de Wells, dans une sorte de transgression des catégories artistiques et esthétiques, rendant un peu plus floues, en quelque sorte, les définitions nécessairement définitives qui permettent de juger du statut des œuvres d’art : sculpture, installation, photographie, collage, dessin... ou figuratif, abstrait, ou encore moderne, contemporain... (sans même évoquer les mouvements artistiques et leurs dérivés historiques). Une transgression qui n’a pas pour seul but de transgresser, mais plutôt d’offrir une vision plus large de l’art, un peu déplacée et mouvante, non figée, ni linéairement ni hiérarchiquement.(...)

Aymeric will be present his work at the mars2bklyn platform in a group show at The Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo from April 29-May5th 2013 .

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Rima Fand is a Brooklyn-based musician and composer with a love for multidisciplinary performance. Her current project, a Lorca-inspired musical puppet play entitled Don Cristóbal, Billy-Club Man, co-created with puppeteer Erin Orr, was recently produced at the Abrons Arts Center in February 2013. She has also composed for Sarah Small’s 120-person Tableau Vivant of the Delirium Constructions, performed at Skylight One Hanson in the spring of 2011, and for a full-length musical, Cyclone (And the Pig-Faced Lady), performed in the NY Musical Theatre Festival in 2008. Other theater collaborations include: How I Fixed My Engine With Rose Water, performed in the Voice4Vision Puppet Festival at Theater For The New City (2006), Ondine with Deep Water Productions at Soho Rep (2004), The Seagull with White Heron at Second Stage (2004), Savage Nursery, directed by Erin Orr and produced by Dream Music Puppetry at HERE (2004), Mean Solar Day with the Nimbus Theatre Ensemble (2002), and Story of Rats with WaxFactory (2001). She has also created music for her raucous NYC string band, Luminescent Orchestrii, which has toured internationally for a decade, for her Balkan-inspired acoustic quartet, Sherita, and for her women's vocal trio, Hydra. Recordings include an album of her Lorca-inspired songs, Sol, Caracol, a solo project, Submerged, as well as several Luminescent Orchestrii albums.

Sherita

Sherita is an acoustic quartet exploring the sounds of Macedonia, Turkey, Greece, Albania and the Middle East. Named for a pink, fossil fuel dinosaur whose portrait has adorned the corner of Atlantic and Classon Aves in Brooklyn since the 1970s, the group draws from traditional music of the past to create evocative original music of the present. Sherita features Renée Renata Bergan on percussion and vocals, Rima Fand on violin and vocals, Adam Good on oud and guitar and Greg Squared on clarinets and vocals.

Sherita will be playing  with Streets of Laredo and Bird Courage for the mars2bklyn Opening Party on May 1st at Superfine (126 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211) in Dumbo at 7pm-10pm​

RSVP at marseille2brookyn@gmail.com

*Drink sponsors include: Lillet, Pernod-Ricard and St. Killian. 

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Ex Nihilo is a company that regards the public space as the work place and the site for their shows.  Using the public space  in all its richness and dimensions: spatial, historical, social, poetic… public space, quite simply as the other place for art. Each of their works are imagined for the space in which it will be shown. The specific history of the site, the relationships that exist there, its atmosphere, all this “enriches”  their writings, nourish the scenario and the set design of each of their works. They call these encounters with such places: Amalgame(s). Both performances and research, impregnated with feeling – ‘amal ‘al gam, the work of union, in Arabic – some of these encounters have formed shows that now figure in the company’s repertoire and are re-built every time they are shown… Others remain performances linked uniquely to a specific location. 

Ex Nihilo is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication/DRAC-PACA, the City of Marseille, the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône, the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, CULTURESFRANCE, the ADAMI, the Spedidam and the SACD.

Ex Nihilo Dance

April 29th 2013: Franck Lesbos, Marta Rueda, Aya Tateish (AtelieRnational) and Alun Williams of Parker Boxi at Residency Unlimited discuss their work in Marseille. Time: 6:30-8:00pm

April 30th 2013:  WaxFactory, Begat Theater and Jonah Bokaer discuss their work, collaboration and exchange between Marseille and Brooklyn. Location: at CPR in Brooklyn. Moderated by Bertie Ferdman. Time: 7pm

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Participating Venues for 2013, 2014

The Powerhouse Arena 

  —a laboratory for creative thought. Home to world-renowned art book publisher POWERHOUSE BOOKS, the Arena is a gallery, boutique, book store, performance, and events space located at 37 Main Street, in New York City’s scenic DUMBO neighborhood. With soaring 24-foot ceilings on the 5,000 square foot ground floor (with over 175 linear-feet of glass frontage and amphitheater-style seating), the POWERHOUSE ARENA showcases a series of landmark exhibitions, performances, and controlled mayhem fusing the worlds of art, photography, design, fashion, pop culture, advertising, music, dance, film, and television into a glorious whirlwind of captivating spectacle.

Residency Unlimited 

 Residency Unlimited is an artist-centered organization that produces customized residencies for local and international artists and curators and that supports the creation, presentation and dissemination of contemporary art through strategic partnerships with collaborating institutions. RU’s tailored support and services includes: enhanced networking opportunities, production and technical assistance, exhibition opportunities, on-line resources, art and public education programs. Operating across multiple platforms, RU is committed to promoting multidisciplinary practices and building lasting connections between artists and the broader arts community.

CPR

CPR is an artist-driven initiative, co-founded by Jonah Bokaer | Chez Bushwick and John Jasperse | Thin Man Dance, Inc. CPR’s mission is to support the development of new works in contemporary dance, performance and related forms, and to promote awareness of and appreciation for contemporary performing arts. CPR is particularly interested in supporting artistic processes that integrate visual design, installation, and technology.​​

The Irondale Center 

Through the power of the ensemble process, Irondale creates and presents alive, compelling theater, performance, and education programs that challenge traditional assumptions about art, and help us to better interpret contemporary culture. The Irondale Center – our theater, laboratory, and classroom – is a home for ensemble artists of all disciplines and cultures, and a resource for our community.

Superfine

Local artwork, the occasional live band, a sunken bar, and an orange-felted free pool table draw as much of a neighborhood crowd as chef Laura Taylor's seasonal, Mediterranean-inspired menu, which changes daily and features fresh fish, savory house-made sausage, perfectly cooked vegetables, and entree-size salads. Green chiles imported from New Mexico give Sunday brunch a delectable southwestern spin. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

126 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 at Pearl Pl

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Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr is a non-profit Presenting Organization and full-scale performance venue, dedicated to bringing a continuum of performance artists to the Bushwick, Brooklyn community. Focusing on the presentation of new and developing work in theater, dance, and puppetry, The Bushwick Starr offers a professional, supportive, and affordable space for both artists and audiences. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance.

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