Crazy Sexy Cancer

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to join them in celebrating the 4th anniversary of their opening (most likely the final anniversary in this space) with what is shaping up to be a terrific line-up of professional programs, presentations and performances:

SCHEDULE (Sat., July 12)
4 PM Crazy Sexy Cancer
5:30 – 6 PM Discussion with Ms. Kasaki
6 PM Action Theatre Demonstration
6:30 PM Dance Performance
7-10 PM Catered Reception

TICKETS
Film screening, Performances & Reception
$25 individuals, $35 families — CRS Members only (until June 30)
$30 individuals, $40 families — general admission

Reception only (no advance tickets required)
$20 individuals, $30 families

CRS kicks off the program with a screening of the documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer. “Hip and humorous, intimate and empowering, this cutting-edge documentary shatters old stigmas with the force of spirit, redefining what it means to truly live – not just for those struggling with cancer, but for anyone who needs a personal revolution.” Following the screening CRS leads a discussion about the connections between physical and spiritual healing.

Next, CRS will introduce you to several of its professional artists-in-residence: physical theatre improvisation artists Heather Harpham and Cassie Terman and choreographer and dancer Akiko Furukawa. These artists possess a heightened awareness of their deepest impulses as well as the creativity to transform and integrate those impulses into an aesthetic framework art and the honesty and guts to share the result as art.

CRS’ celebration wouldn’t be complete without nourishment for the body as well. The most healthy, life-sustaining food CRS knows of in New York is lovingly prepared at Caravan of Dreams. Alkaline, organic, kosher, vegan, live or cooked, the food from Caravan is divine. Their chef is the first in New York to embrace the dietary principles of Dr. Robert Young’s phMiracle, which also plays an important role in Crazy Sexy Cancer and in the healing journeys of many people. CRS thinks you will find that these foods you will be learning about can be delicious, too!

Crazy Sexy Cancer the documentary (running time: 89 minutes; language: English)

Crazy Sexy Cancer is an irreverent and uplifting documentary about a young woman looking for a cure and finding her life. In 2003, 31-year-old actress/photographer Kris Carr was diagnosed with a rare and incurable cancer. Weeks later she began filming her story. Taking a seemingly tragic situation and turning it into a creative expression, Kris shares her inspirational story of survival with courage, strength, and lots of humor.

With experimental treatment as her only option, Kris became determined to find answers where there were none. She traveled throughout the country interviewing experts in alternative medicine as she tenaciously dove head first into a fascinating and often hilarious holistic world. As Kris’s amazing journey unfolds, she realizes that healing is about truly living rather than fighting. Crazy Sexy Cancer is more than a film, it’s an attitude! It’s about rising to the challenge of life, and no matter what, refusing to give up who you are at your core.

Action Theatre Improvisation — Heather Harpham & Cassie Terman

CRS Action Theatre Instructor Heather Harpham and CRS Artist-in-Residence Cassie Terman will introduce this rich improvisational technique for translating your experience of the present moment into artistic expression. The New York Times calls their performance “bewitching…great fun!” They are both Master Teachers of Action Theater, having taught the technique for fifteen years. Ms. Harpham is currently developing a new work, Happiness, drawn from her experience of having a sick child, of living amid the dying, and returning to ordinary life.

Action Theater is a method of physical theater improvisation that builds vocal, verbal, and physical performance skills, hones awareness and increases expressive range. Action Theater uses embodied presence as a doorway into the agility of a vast imagination. The exercises incorporated are simple, playful and challenging and work on a deep level to expand moment-to-moment awareness and its relationship to both action and being. How do we fully experience how we are? The distracting power of judgement and fear is calmed as one’s curiosity and compassion for the smallest moment is roused, however lovely or terrifying it might be. While operating as a performance practice, these investigations speak to people from all walks of life.

Dance Performance by Akiko Furukawa

CRS Artist-in-Residence Akiko Furukawa will perform her latest solo work. A native of Kyoto, she began her dance training there at Watanabe’s Stage Jazz center with Takashi Watanabe and Tomoko Imanaka. Her choreography has been presented in New York at St. Mark’s church (by DanSpace Project), Aaron Davis Hall, Japan Society, the Evolving Arts Theatre, Merce Cunningham Theater, One Arm Red, CRS, and The Play Room. Her collaborative work "re" was named "the Fringest show" of the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. Her work “Black Crow” was commissioned by Aaron Davis Hall’s fund for new work, supported by the Jerome Foundation and Phillip Morris Companies, Inc. As a performer, she has worked with Cristian Canciani’s CCan Dance, Guido Tuveri, Jean-Hugues Miredin, Kevin Wynn, Abby Chan, Sunhwa Chung/Ko-Ryo Dance Theatre, Jennifer Archibald, Jana Hicks, Max Stone, Mark Drahozal, Daman Harun, Dixon Mena, Nadia Tarr, Takemi Kitamura, Akiko Maruyama, Hisae Jabaran Yamamoto, Noriko Yasunaga, and Parsons Dance Company in the Times Square 2000 project, among others. Recently, she has been working continuously with Erica Essner Performance CO-OP and Jenni Hong.