Movement Research at Judson Church
Paris Cullen, Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC, Morgan Gregory
Monday, April 21, 2025 | 7PM
Free event
Judson Memorial Church
DanceParadeNYC, MainStage
Performance @Tompkins Square Park
Join the TRPNYC team as they march, and embrace the NYC community. The day includes a performance by the TRPNYC Movement Ensemble.
Dance Parade promotes dance through the celebration of diversity by presenting as many forms of dance as possible. We believe that live performance has the potential to awaken a communal human spirit and helps build a more equitable and vibrant society.
Prophecy Arts Camp @ARGS
A program curated to develop both creative and independent living skills, Prophecy Arts Camp provides young artists with hands-on experience creating self-reflective art collaboratively while bringing attention to history, the importance of philosophical thinking, and the utility behind creative entrepuership.
The trail year, the camp welcomes young dance and theater artists from across the Richmond, VA area to dive into a weekend of movement workshops, and collaborative making opportunities!
VCUDANCE First Year Rep Concert- Process memoir 8: (episode 2) The Wicked.
Photo by Torian Ugworji
Process memoir 8: The Prequel- A Revolutionary Party!
Photo by Ellen Kirby
Pictured: Chaunci Hannibal and Robbi Gaskins
American Dance Festival- Winter Intensive 2020
Company Director Johnnie Cruise Mercer teaches a pair of workshops drenched in TRPNYC ‘s current practices and growing physical philosophies.
The intensive is form Jan 3rd-8th in NYC. Follow the link below to register!
BAX AIR OPEN STUDIO SHOWING
Didn’t get to catch what we shared in Jersey the day before? No worries!
Join TRPNYC as we share our current practices, and further development in our six year process.
The company will be sharing:
still en indigo: a process toward thenowlater.
A schematic of material in deliberate prayer, still en indigo: a process toward thenowlater, is a revisitation to past thought and future possibility. Devised as a physical test of faith, the "process-performance" shared is a micro-chunck.
Following the sharing the audience will be asked to engage other material from the company’s process through conversation.
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From BAX:
The Open Studio Series begins a shared journey through the creative process. The audience engages with the artists as they open the doors to their rehearsal practice in November and then again in February. This journey continues with the Works-in Progress Series in January, and culminates in the Spring performances. This is a rare opportunity to follow a work and engage its creators from the early stages through to full productions.
We developed this series to further BAX's core mission of supporting arts and artists in progress. To us, the journey from the initial idea to the premiere of a work is as important as the work itself. We are inviting the public to see the work of our Artists-in-Residence as it is being created and developed.
Opening the doors to the various stages of a work's development and sharing the journey deepens the relationships between the work, the artist and the audience. Open Studio Showings include a moderated question-and-answer period where the audience's observations and the artist's intentions are explored.
MANA Contemporary's Performance Salon (Curated by Kyle Marshall)
Performance Salon is a lively, quarterly program hosted by guest artists. The evening brings together performance works to be experienced in an intimate, community atmosphere. For this edition, artist-in-residence Kyle Marshall curates an evening of upcoming works in progress.
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The company will be sharing:
still en indigo: a process toward thenowlater.
A schematic of material in deliberate prayer, still en indigo: a process toward thenowlater, is a revisitation to past thought and future possibility. Devised as a physical test of faith, the "process-performance" shared is a micro-chunck of Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC's current six year process-anthology.
RVA Homecoming 2019
Company Director, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, takes his annual trip back home as the company engages a weekend of process building, teaching, and developing deeper connections.
The company will be in residence at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Appomattox Regional Governors School further developing creative work for the company’s six year process.
The weekend concludes with an invite only
Community Showing on Nov 3rd, 4pm @VCU Dance Center.
Interested in receiving an invite; email jcruisem@gmail.com!!!
Dixon Place Residency/PM5 Process
A 3 month isolated process, Johnnie engages his most personal process-memoir; process memoir 5: A Conversation to, with, and for (our)self.
He is joined by choreographic artist/company partner Thomas Tyger Moore and a variety of other collaborting artist to create and draw up a process-performance made for Dixon Place to premiere in July 2018 as a part of the HOT! Festival!
Danspace Project: process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock.
Johnnie Cruise Mercer shares his fourth process memoir; process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock in a shared evening with Angie Pittman!
From The Manuel in response to Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 23 (NIV)
See her. God, she appears. From the view of her child- her son.
I am the bone of her bones, the flesh of her flesh- I was taken from her. Man. Made in his image...his image is not mine.
Truthfully. I feebly seek sanctuary. I run to her. We run to her. In despite of her. Constantly we run, The dark, she has provided light.
The evening is apart of Danspace's Winter 2019 Season.
photo credit: Scott Shaw
Danspace Project: process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock.
Johnnie Cruise Mercer shares his fourth process memoir; process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock! in a shared evening with Angie Pittman!
From The Manuel in response to Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 23 (NIV)
See her. God, she appears. From the view of her child- her son.
I am the bone of her bones, the flesh of her flesh- I was taken from her. Man. Made in his image...his image is not mine.
Truthfully. I feebly seek sanctuary. I run to her. We run to her. In despite of her. Constantly we run, The dark, she has provided light.
The evening is apart of Danspace's Winter 2019 Season.
photo credit: Scott Shaw
Danspace Project: process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock.
Johnnie Cruise Mercer shares his fourth process memoir; process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock in a shared evening with Angie Pittman!
From The Manuel in response to Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 23 (NIV)
See her. God, she appears. From the view of her child- her son.
I am the bone of her bones, the flesh of her flesh- I was taken from her. Man. Made in his image...his image is not mine.
Truthfully. I feebly seek sanctuary. I run to her. We run to her. In despite of her. Constantly we run, The dark, she has provided light.
The evening is apart of Danspace's Winter 2019 Season.
photo credit: Scott Shaw
Silo Farms Teaching Residency/Creative Residency #2
The company travels to the beautiful Silo Farms in Hellertown, PA for their second half of their bi-annual company creative retreat/teaching residency (Mulhenburg College, and Desales University)!
The company will host a showing open to the Hellertown community and beyond;
Showing: Jan 27th 12pm!
Email theredproj.perform@gmail.com for more info!
Silo Farms Teaching Residency/Creative Residency #1
The company travels to the beautiful Silo Farms in Hellertown, PA for their bi-annual company creative retreat/teaching residency (Mulhenburg College, and Desales University)!
RVA Homecoming
We are going home!
The company now returns to their stomping ground for their inaugual RVA Homecoming 2018!
Join us for a weekend full of conversations, classes, workshops, and an evening of performance (the first time the full company has performed in Richmond since 2015!)
Stay on the look out for info/details on events soon!
photo credit: Torian Ugworji
Stephen Petronio Center: Partnership Residency Program
The company travels to the Catskills as the one of the first round of artist to be in residence at the new state-of-the art Stephen Petronio Center! The company and collaborator Monstah Black work for a week on process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock which will be performed in a Split Bill at Danspace Projects Inc. in Winter 2019!
This residency is made possible by both Danspace Project Inc and NYCDanceForce in their inaugural Partnership Residency Program with the Petronio Center.
photo credit: Scott Shaw
Johnnie's $1.00 Birthday Party/Pop-FUND!
Join Choreographic/Company Director Johnnie Cruise Mercer as he celebrates his 27th, and raises money for the 2018-2019 Happenings! DRINKS FOOD and EVERYTHING IS $1.00 ALL NIGHT! Come support his born day, and the company as we party through the night!
LOCATION TBD!
STUFFED Dinner + Dance
Johnnie Cruise Mercer shares the fourth iteration of The indigo kid! Come join him, and the STUFFEDArts community for an evening of food, dance, and commune!
BDF Residency 2018
tRpnyc travels to Bates Dance Festival to create and build physical material for the 2018-2019 season and beyond.
July 16th-29th
Join tRpnyc in a FREE PUBLIC sharing following the two week residency!
Look out for more info Summer 2018!
ADF Residency 2018
tRpnyc goes home to the American Dance Festival to create, and build their fourth process-memoir; the word, the spirit, and Little Rock.
July 8th-14th with a sharing on Friday, July 13th!
FREE TO THE PUBLIC!
Look out for more info Summer 2018!!!!
Choreoquest's Afro Pas De Duex @Billie Holiday Theater
tRpnyc will share an excerpt from there recently performed process-memoir: 'on the action of black&white'
ChoreoQuest is a one year choreographer-in-residency program at RestorationART. The 2018 resident choreographers are currently seeking dancers of color and all body types with experience and training in Afro Latin Jazz, Afro Caribbean, House, Soca, Contemporary Modern Dance, Singing, and Acting to perform in the annuel ChoreoQuest Afro Pas De Deux Festival on June 22 & 23, 2018.
More ticket info soon!
The Pas De Deux festival presents work that addresses the historic binaries and dichotomies that have led to injustices around Gender, Race, Nationality, Immigration, Sexuality, Class, Education and/or Religion
Choreoquest's Afro Pas De Duex @Billie Holiday Theater
tRpnyc will share an excerpt from there recently performed process-memoir: 'on the action of black&white'
ChoreoQuest is a one year choreographer-in-residency program at RestorationART. The 2018 resident choreographers are currently seeking dancers of color and all body types with experience and training in Afro Latin Jazz, Afro Caribbean, House, Soca, Contemporary Modern Dance, Singing, and Acting to perform in the annuel ChoreoQuest Afro Pas De Deux Festival on June 22 & 23, 2018.
More Ticket Info Soon!
The Pas De Deux festival presents work that addresses the historic binaries and dichotomies that have led to injustices around Gender, Race, Nationality, Immigration, Sexuality, Class, Education and/or Religion
to ascend past numbness and witness birth.
Residency Period May- June 2018
Performances May 31st & June 1st 2018- 7:30pm
NYU Tisch's Jack Crystal Theater
After a week residence of process/exploration the company reveals their third process-memoir; to ascend past numbness and witness birth
$20.00 General Admission (Cash, venmo at the Door)
$15.00 Student/Artist Tickets (Adv Purchase by Venmo: https://venmo.com/Johnnie-Mercer)
Free for all NYU Students!!!
http://tisch.nyu.edu/dance/events/johnniecruzmercer2018
Join the company on June 1st after the show for a company toast!!! Mingle and talk with us as we celebrate an amazing 2017-2018 season and usher in 2018-2019!!! Best of all there’s free wine and munchies!!!!!
to ascend past numbness and witness birth.
Residency Period May- June 2018
Performances May 31st & June 1st 2018- 7:30pm
NYU Tisch's Jack Crystal Theater
After a week residence of process/exploration the company reveals their third process-memoir; to ascend past numbness and witness birth
$20.00 General Admission (Cash, venmo at the Door)
$15.00 Student/Artist Tickets (Adv Purchase by Venmo: https://venmo.com/Johnnie-Mercer)
Free for all NYU Students!!!