Christopher Pelham

Christopher Pelham

Dancing with Non-Humans

Last month’s FILM+VIDEO SHOW & TELL featured video by choreographers/filmmakers JoAnna Mendl Shaw of The Equus Projects and Chisa Hidaka of Dolphin Dance Project. The video below documents a portion of the post-screening conversation. It was one of the most…

Celebrating is a way of resisting.

“To be positive is the most subversive. Celebrating is a way of resisting. We are still alive in all of this.” — Faustin Linyekula via Jennifer Edwards (sometimes CRS workshop instructor) and Christine Jowers of The Dance Enthusiast.

CRS Instructors on the Mainstage

CRS instructors Yumiko Niimi (Beginning Ballet Pointe) and Ritsuko Sato (Argentine Tango) will be busy this fall performing in The King and I and The Nutcracker, respectively. Yumiko won a role in the ensemble in the mainstage production of the…

Little Birds Like Big Flowers

This week we launched a new meetup group for our FILM+VIDEO SHOW & TELL program in order to reach out to local filmmakers and film lovers. As with our MUSIC SHOW & TELL series, we envision that our film programs…

Hurricane Irene

Due to the coming hurricane, CRS will be closed this Saturday and Sunday, August 27 and 28, 2011. All events have been cancelled. Saturday night’s Sardinian culture programs with Balletto di Sardegna have been re-scheduled for Thursday, Sept 1 from…

Our First Film+Video Show & Tell Event

On Saturday, August 6th, the 66th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, CRS presented the first Film+Video Show & Tell. We screened “Into Eternity” by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen with guest speaker Professor Chris Williams at Pace University. The movie…