Self-Realization by Jia Lu, giclee on canvas, on display in the CRS Gallery
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Dharma Road Productions and the Arts at CRS

WHO WE ARE

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a cultural center opened in 2004 by Japanese writer and spiritual teacher/counselor Yasuko Kasaki and writer/perfomer/producer Christopher Pelham in order to provide a home for foreign artists in New York and, more generally, to help artists and non-artists alike to discover, clarify, and realize their true creative purpose in this life. This organization is made possible by an innovative partnership between CRS and the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit company 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 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.

The Center for Remembering & Sharing's current board of directors consists of:
Yasuko Kasaki — Chair
Christopher Pelham — Treasurer and Secretary
Satomi Kitahara

WHAT'S NEXT

Friday – Saturday, August 1–2, 2008 at 8:30 PM
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) Presents

The Wheel of Earthly Life by Tadashi (Dance Performance)

with works by Fred Hatt and Mariko Endo

“The Wheel of Earthly Life” is a story of a human life from the beginning to the end as we feel the connection between each stage of life and the cycles of each season on the earth. Enjoy an evening of a minimalistic solo dance theater that brings you the struggle, pathos, humor, and solemn moments of human lives, as we remember that the same seasons will return to the earth regardless of each of our life struggles. A new wave of Japanese interpretive dancer, Tadashi incorporates Japanese Butoh, American modern dance, and mime.

General Admission $20
Students/Seniors/CRS Members $15
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Check out our calendar of future performances.

WHAT WE DO

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;

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.

THE HISTORY OF THE CENTER

The Center was founded in 2002 by Harold Lehmann, Sita Mani, Jean Hughes Miredin, Christopher Pelham, Lake Simons, Guido Tuveri, and Holly Twining. At the time that they founded the Center, the had already 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.

Prior to opening its current space at 123 4th Ave, the Center produced or co-produced:

The Vent Festival
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC, 2002
Choreography by Alexandra Beller, Colleen Thomas, Jean-Huges Meredin, Lake Simons, Nadia Tarr, Guido Tuveri, and others

1945: Sa Coia (A Sardinian Tale)
Joyce Soho, NYC 2003
Written and choreographed by Guido Tuveri

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New York International Fringe Festival, NYC, 2003
Choreography by Akiko Furukawa, Aya Shibahara, Sakura Shimad, and Noriko Yasunaga
Named Fringest Show of the Festival

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.

Since 2004, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) has presented work by dozens of artists and companies at its own 40-seat theatre, including Anemone Dance Theatre, Artichoke Dance Company, Big Apple Playback Theatre, Company So-Go-No, Egress Theatre Company, Akiko Furukawa, Shinichi Momo Iova-Koga, Alex Kipp, Heather Harpham, Celeste Hastings, Harold Lehmann, members of the New York Baroque Dance Company, Cassie Terman, The South Wing, Moeno Wakamatsu, Nina Wise, and many others.

Presented in the center's lobby gallery space have been works by Anne Barry, James Beeler, Reiko Fujisawa, Takumi Fukunaga, Eric Holzman, Akiko Kato, Emi Koda, David Leung, Jia Lu, Beverly Mastropolo, Misha McGlown, Erin Orr, Michael Rosell, Lake Simons, Saeko Terano, and Junko Yamanaka.