CRS Re-Opening Celebration

Please join us in celebrating the re-opening of CRS and the kick off of what we hope will be another six fabulous years at 123 4th Ave. If you haven't come by to see what we've done to the place, you're in for a surprise!

$10 and a food/beverage contribution gets you in the door (kids are free) and a chance to wine and dine with the ever growing CRS community.

You're welcome to come by any time during the evening, and, please, bring your family!

You'll have a chance to meet many of the more than 30 new instructors teaching at CRS and hear about all the new classes, and enjoy performances by:

Masumi Kishimoto (physical comedy/dance)

Masumi Kishimoto teaches Alexander Technique group classes in Japanese at CRS Wednesdays at 6 pm. She is a native of Tokyo, Japan, who moved to New York City and entered the intensive training at the Ailey School and graduated from its certificate program in 2002. Since then, she has choreographed pieces that combine Classical Mime, Physical Comedy and Dance for performances at the Puffin Room, Judson Church, and Studio b.p.m., etc. She also performed with Gregg Goldston in a five-member ensemble piece commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels in 2006, and then in 2007 she performed at Cipriani Wall Street as a mime artist. As a dancer, she has been a member of a-core-dance arts since 2005. In 2008, she performed in the New York International Fringe Festival in a work choreographed by Asami Morita and Nichole Arvin, and also worked with Yana Schnitzler at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She has been a nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique since 2008. Her private and group classes gently re-educate body and mind, enabling students to become aware of their natural sense of balance. Any one can learn Alexander Technique, regardless of age or state of health. Using everyday movements such as sitting, standing and walking, students explore their unconscious habits, learn to move more freely, and develop a greater sense of wellbeing. Whatever you do (dance, music, acting, typing, sports...), AT can help you do it better and feel better doing it! For more information about her private lessons (in English or Japanese), click here.

Juri Nishio (African/modern dance)

Juri Nishio is a performance artist living in Brooklyn NY. She will begin teaching Contemporary Dance at CRS on Mondays at 2 pm starting May 3. She was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan and graduated from Nihon University of Art with a degree in drama. Her dance journey began in 2000 when Juri visited Senegal to participate in workshop with the family of the renown drummer Doudou N'Diaye Rose. She came to NY 2003 to investigate contemporary African Dance forms and in 2006 completed the International Student Independent Study program@ The Ailey School.

She has had the great pleasure of dancing with Germain Acgoney, Nora Chipaumire, Camille A Brown, the Urban Bush Women Apprenticeship program, M'WORD! ( N'Bewe Escobar), INSPIRIT, a dance company( Christal N Brown ), and Maimouna Keita School of African Dance ( Marie Basse Wiles ).

She also presented her solo works at Laguardia Community College, Daibosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, Charles Moore Dance Theater, Spring Field college, Trinity College, CRS, The Ailey School, Bowery Poetry Club and Hunter College.

Through her own language Zen, Wabi Sabi with plenty of Afro spice, she conveys the message from the spirit.

Eiko Tanaka (Violin)

 Eiko Tanaka was born in Osaka, Japan where she began studying the violin at the age of four. When she was 11, Ms. Tanaka won the first prize in the “All Japan Student Music Competition. At the age of 14, she was overwhelmingly acclaimed by Isaac Stern for her performance in his master class in Tokyo in which she was re-invited by him the following year. Ms. Tanaka won the second prize and Kuroyanagi prize (Scholarship for overseas study) in the “Japan Music Competition”, and won the third prize in the Tokyo International Music Competition. She has given many recitals both in Tokyo and Osaka since then. She has appeared as a soloist of Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Mozart Chamber Orchestra. She has been awarded several prestigious scholarships including from Asahi Beer Art Foundation, the Rohm Music Foundation, and the Foval Foundation in which she had been given the use of the Stradivarius violin. She had completed both her bachelor and master degrees at Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Tanaka’s main teachers include Yoko Takebe and Glenn Dicterow of the New York Philharmonic.

Eiko has performed with various renowned ensembles including the Israel Philharmonic 75th Anniversary US Tour working with Maestro Zubin Mehta and Lorin Maazel and plays with New York Philharmonic regularly.

She currently serves as an assistant concertmaster in the Albany Symphony Orchestra and extensively performs within NY musical scenes.

Scott Downes (singer/songwriter)

Hailing from Montgomery, Alabama by way of Atlanta, emerging indie songwriter Scott Downes has created a lyrical style all his own. Drawing on the influences of his Southern roots, his songs are vivid snapshots of life, revealing powerful emotions and an extraordinary way of experiencing everyday life. Scott's music plays comfortably along the likes of M. Ward, Iron and Wine, and Bon Iver. 

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