CPR – Center for Performance Research opens its Winter 2025 season with Cloud States, a new multidisciplinary project by Brooklyn-based artist Jian Yi. Blending dance, film, and live performance, the piece offers a contemplative, sensory-rich exploration of loss, love, and the shifting landscapes of self-identity.
Filmed and staged across Brooklyn neighborhoods, Cloud States serves as a love letter to a city shaped by immigrants and constant reinvention. Yi layers poetic visual storytelling with immersive lighting and sound, creating an atmosphere in which memory and emotion drift between past, present, and imagined futures. Performers move through these environments with quiet intensity, evoking moments of joy, longing, and connection that resonate across cultural and personal borders.
By merging movement, cinematic language, and embodied performance, Yi invites audiences into a liminal space—a place where the fragments of lived experience gather, dissolve, and reconfigure. The work considers what binds us as “lonely travelers” navigating the emotional terrain of contemporary life.
Event Information
Location: CPR – Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn
Website: cprnyc.org
Hours: Please check with the venue for door times
Event Dates: December 11–12, 2025 at 7pm
Tickets: $15–40, pay what you can
Ticket Link: cprnyc.org/events/jian-yi
Featured Contributors
Choreographer / Writer / Director: Jian Yi
Performers: Yuxi Ma, Jian Yi
Cinematographer / Project Assistant: Yining Chi
Lighting Designer: Tuçe Yasak
Producing Associate: Stephanie Acosta
