The Performing Arts at CRS

Your true self is your creative self. Here you can share the messages you receive from your inner voice through the talents you have been given. By extending ourselves in this way, by sharing and creating something between and with other people, we help them to know themselves truly that they may in turn extend their own truths. By meeting people in this way, we heal ourselves and heal the world.

Who We Are

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is made possible by an innovative partnership between CRS and Dharma Road Productions, Inc. — d/b/a the "Center for Remembering & Sharing."

Incorporated in the state of New York, the Center for Remembering & Sharing is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit company founded by an international & multi-ethnic alliance of performing artists based in NYC who came together in the aftermath of 9/11 with the intention of making it easier for emerging & foreign-born artists to participate in the NYC performing arts community. The founding artists were Harold Lehmann, Sita Mani, Jean Hughes Miredin, Christopher Pelham, Lake Simons, Guido Tuveri, and Holly Twining. Between them, they have presented more than 80 original works in New York, Europe and around the world in the fields of dance, theatre, puppetry, video art, and hybrids thereof.

In 2004 the noted Japanese writer and spiritual counselor/teacher/healer Yasuko Kasaki founded CRS in order to support the teaching of A Course in Miracles, the practice of the healing and creative arts, and the sharing of miracles. Rather than depend on donations, foundation support, and public funding, Ms. Kasaki elected instead to invest the earnings from her own successful career to create a center for her students and clients to further their growth. With the assistance and partnership of Christopher Pelham and Dharma Road Productions, Inc., Ms. Kasaki and CRS opened an 1,800 sq. ft. community center near Union Square in Manhattan and CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) was born.

What's Next

Friday – Sunday, May 9–11, 2008 at 8 PM
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) Presents

Movement Works

Photo of Christine Coleman by Victor Harris
Photo of Mariko Endo by Juergen Specht
Photo of Cassie Terman by Ian Winters

General Admission $20
Students/Seniors/CRS Members $15


About the Program

Combining contemporary and Butoh dance, Stop Motion (her signature style), sign language, and clowning, Christine Coleman will show an excerpt from her upcoming evening length show Gobstopper Influence (June 5–14 at CRS), inspired by her childhood favorite movie “Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.” Erin Dudley, after working in a surprisingly American modern style with Butoh superstar Akira Kasai, returns to her roots with a primal and mysterious new collaboration with a sculpture and two tribal musicians. Mariko Endo, former principal dancer with Dairakudakan and a student of Akira Kasai, will share the stage with avant-garde saxophonist Gregory Reynolds in her “A dance and music as the sculpture of consciousness.” Action Theatre Improvisation master teacher Cassie Terman will improvise a solo.

Check out our calendar of future performances.

Today, the Center for Remembering & Sharing supports the partnership's mission by raising money to support the following projects:
• organizing educational and community-building events that encourage the exchange of ideas and experience relevant to its mission;
• providing residencies for artists;
• commissioning new artistic works;
• curating, producing and publishing exhibitions, performances, and written/recorded works;

The Center for Remembering & Sharing is a member of the Asian American Arts Alliance, A.R.T./New York, Dance Theatre Workshop (DTW), The Field, and Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, and is a recipient of support from Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs/NYC Dept of Sanitation/NYC Dept of Ed. Additional funding has been provided by the Puffin Foundation, the J P Morgan Chase SOAR Program of the Asian American Arts Alliance, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and CRS.

PERFORMANCE SERIES

CRS produces a performance series featuring experimental works by emerging artists in the fields of contemporary dance, butoh, theatre, puppetry, video, and music. Artists are chosen by invitation and by application/interview. We especially encourage CRS members, artists who explore spirituality, and artists born outside the United States. Readings, musical performances, and other events organized by CRS members, as well as rentals, punctuate the event schedule.

We provide participating artists with tech rehearsal time, box office staff, publicity, dressing rooms, and the full technical resources of the CRS Studio Theatre, including use of our sound system, 8-channel lighting board and theatrical lighting instruments, five dimmers of track lighting, and various practical lights. It is possible to add color if you bring your own colored gels. Our theatre holds 25–45 audience members in padded folding chairs on risers and on blankets and cushions on the floor. Further technical info about the space is available upon request.

If your work is appropriate for presentation in our spritual center, please see the application on this site for more details. Or make an appointment to come by and see the space for yourself and tell us about your project in person.

Download the application.

RESIDENCIES

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) administers an International Artists-in-Residence Program to provide outstanding artists from other countries an opportunity to explore, evolve, and share their art in New York for an extended period of time. The Center awards residencies to qualified dance, theatre, puppetry, and film/video artists—carefully chosen for their outstanding artistic merit, compatible aesthetic sensibility, experience, presence, and professionalism. Current artists-in-residence include Marijke Eliasberg, Akiko Furukawa, Mana Hashimoto, and Aya Shibahara.

Residency Benefits:

• An O-1 Visa

• The right to work in your field with any company in the US—and get paid

• CRS Member discount on additional studio rental

• The opportunity to teach at CRS (if applicable)

• Professional presentation of your work at CRS at least once per year

• Assistance in finding additional work opportunities

Basic Requirements

• You must be eligible for an O-1 Visa.

• You must be able to provide extensive documentation of extraordinary ability or achievement in your artistic field.

• You must be able to provide one or more contract offers for paid work in New York in your artistic field.

• You must show that the purpose of your creative work is to raise the consciousness of your audience.

Download the application.