Giving You the Best That We Got: The Ayana & Tsedaye Variety Show

Giving You the Best That We Got: The Ayana & Tsedaye Variety Show

(with Tsedaye on Video)

By CPR – Center for Performance Research

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Friday, June 14 · 7 - 9pm EDT

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CPR - Center for Performance Research

361 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211

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About this event

For CPR's annual Spring Movement, Ayana Evans curates Giving You the Best That We Got: The Ayana & Tsedaye Variety Show (with Tsedaye on Video). This talk show-style performance extravaganza will be like Oprah meets Miami Vice… but more neon!

In previous iterations collaborator and co-creator Tsedaye Makonnen was involved as a co-host and curator; this time Makonnen will be our video correspondent. Featuring live performances by artists working at the intersection of performance and visual art – and filmed at CPR before a live studio audience! – the Variety Show will include both commercial and yawn breaks, shag carpeting, and emotional sit-and-talks with everyone’s favorite performance artists.

Artists to be announced.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ayana Evans (curator) is a NYC-based performance artist. Her guerilla-style performances have been staged at El Museo del Barrio, The Barnes Foundation, The Bronx Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, Queens Museum and a variety of free public locations. Her performances have been reviewed in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, and New York Magazine's The Cut. She was a 2017-2018 awardee of the Franklin Furnace Fund for performance, 2018 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts, 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, 2021-22 Professor of the Practice at Brown University, and 2022 Chamberlain Award winner at Headlands Art Center. Her past residencies include Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Evans' current projects include an upcoming performance and class visit at Wellesley College as part of the Taking Off the White Gloves showcasing the work of Lorraine O’Grady and the development of a arts focused career fair that has welcomed over 200 formerly incarcerated individuals and transformed the job hunting space into a fun environment. Evans is currently a professor at Fordham College and NYU.

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CPR – Center for Performance Research

CPR – Center for Performance Research is dedicated to supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance and performance. CPR focuses its activities in three key areas: creative and professional development support; providing affordable space for artists; and public programming. Curated and open-call programs focus on providing artists with rehearsal, residency, and performance support, which generates time and space for research and dialogue, and creates opportunities to share work in a variety of contexts. CPR’s subsidized space rental program helps to ensure that artists can access CPR’s flexible studios and performance space at affordable rates to create and share their work. By presenting work to the public through performances, work-in-progress showings, salon-style discussions, exhibitions, and festivals, CPR exposes local audiences and its community to contemporary artistic practice and process.

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