2022
January 21-March 20, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition
(home)Body
An immersive dance/poetry/video/installation

2020
November 24-28, Lisbon
InShadow–Lisbon Screendance Festival
Screening of "Moving Through Loneliness" (10 minute edit)

October 30-November 2, Kosovo
The Goddess on the Throne Film Festival
Screening of "Moving Through Loneliness" (10 minute edit)

October 14, Providence, Rhode Island
Motion State Dance Film Series
Screening of "Moving Through Loneliness" (10 minute edit)

September 10 - October 10, Mexico City
5th Mexico City Videodance Festival
Screening of "Moving Through Loneliness" (10 minute edit)

April 4, Barnard College, New York City
Moving Bodies - Moving Image Festival
Screening of "Moving Through Loneliness" (10 minute edit)

2019 
April 5, 2019 - January 12, 2020, The Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz 
Moving Through Loneliness: Stories of Seniors and Isolation 
Over a period of six months we worked with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and a cohort of seniors and advocates to create a installation which features video (all the time) and live performance (some of the time). Collaborators include Kate Edmunds (Installation Design), Mara Milam, (Filmmaker), Jonathan Segel (Music/Sound Score), and an intergenerational group of performers. We will improvise live in the installation on First Fridays, April - January, from 6:00-7:00pm. 

July 7-13, NOTAFE, Viljandi, Estonia 
Aikido for Movement Artists 
Cid will teach a weeklong workshop at NOTAFE. We will focus on empty hand techniques (Taijutsu), Bo (long staff) practice, and use Aikido techniques and movement philosophies to inform our improvisation practice. 

2018
October 19-21, The All Joan Show, Motion Pacific, Santa Cruz, CA  
CPP has been collaborating with cellist/composer Joan Jeanrenaud since 2004. The program includes 2004's Strange Toys, 2006's Horton nominated small variations, excerpts from 2013's Your Body is Not a Shark (in collaboration with poet Denise Leto) and a short world premiere - Wasps & Ladybugs.

September 21-22, The All Joan Show, Joe Goode Performance Annex, San Francisco, CA  
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CPP has been collaborating with cellist/composer Joan Jeanrenaud since 2004. This evening of work features three of our past collaborations and one new work. The program includes 2004's Strange Toys, 2006's Horton nominated small variations, and excerpts from 2013's Your Body is Not a Shark (in collaboration with poet Denise Leto).

May 25-27 and May 31-June 3, University of California, Santa Cruz 
In collaboration with UCSC dance students and CPP company members, choreographer Cid Pearlman created an interdisciplinary performance informed by Maggie Nelson’s book length poem Bluets. Visual Design by Kate Edmunds, with an original score by composer Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven). This is part of a large, multi-city project, which will happen over the next few years - more soon about this! Also on the program is small variations performed by Cid Pearlman Performance. Nominated for LA’s Horton Award in 2006, small variations features original music by composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud.

February 24, Tannery World Dance & Culture Center's Winter Festival 
Alongside dawsondancesf and recent WAC/Dance MFA graduate Darrian O'Reilly,  CPP presented 2004's Strange Toys featuring music by Joan Jeanrenaud - a sneak peak from "The All Joan Show" show in May/June. 

May 16, 2015, Crocker Theater, Aptos, CA
Economies of Effort: 1, created in collaboration with the dancers, composer Albert Mathias, and visual artist Robbie Schoen.

May 2, 2015, National Dance Week
Cid and dancers created Open Book/Closed Book, a  Site Specific Dance performed on the grounds of the Downtown Library.

April 30, 2015,  Motion Pacific, max10 Performance Laboratory
A quarterly uncurated performance salon brought to you by Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects and Motion Pacific. Maximum ten performers, maximum ten minutes each, maximum fun.

April 15-16, 2015, Economies of Effort: 2 at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Tallinn Estonia
Cid Pearlman in collaboration with dancers Tiina Mölder & Helen Reitsnik, Siim Tõniste & Üüve-Lydia Toompere, Kenneth Flak (Norway) and Külli Roosna, and Krista Köster & Carmel Köster.

March 30 - April 12, 2015,  Workshops and Lectures, Tallinn Estonia
In collaboration with OMA Keskus a Estonian Feminist NGO. Feature article here.

March 9, 2015,  Pieter Performance, Los Angeles, CA
Economies of Effort: 1, created in collaboration with the dancers, composer Albert Mathias, and visual artist Robbie Schoen.

February 20-22, 2015,  Motion Pacific, Santa Cruz, CA
Economies of Effort: 1, created in collaboration with the dancers, composer Albert Mathias, and visual artist Robbie Schoen.

February 5-7, 2015,  Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, Ca
World premiere of Economies of Effort: 1, created in collaboration with the dancers, composer Albert Mathias, and visual artist Robbie Schoen.

January 22,  Motion Pacific, max10 Performance Laboratory, Santa Cruz, CA
A quarterly uncurated performance salon brought to you by Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects and Motion Pacific. Maximum ten performers, maximum ten minutes each, maximum fun.

2014
November 13-15, 2014, Society of Dance History Scholars/Congress of Research Dance Conference, University of Iowa
Writing Dancing/Dancing Writing
Cid Pearlman and Denise Leto presented a paper on Your Body is Not a Shark, their collaboration with Joan Jeanrenaud and Maya Barsacq/Cadenza Orchestra

November 22, 2014, Movement Improvisation for Aikidoka
Heart of San Francisco Aikido
An improvisation workshop for Aikidoists of all levels of experience. More info here.

June 20, 2014, Art That Moves, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz
Cid was a Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence at the MAH, and created a participatory event for Art that Moves. Read  Cid's blog post about the event here. Event details here.

April 11-12, 2014, Looking Left
Motion Pacific, Santa Cruz
Curated and produced by Cid Pearlman
A somewhat annual low tech festival of dance and performance in Santa Cruz. This year's Looking Left features works by Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects (Santa Cruz), Gerald Casel (Santa Cruz), David King (Santa Cruz), Molly Katzman & Lauren Godla (Santa Cruz), Carol McDowell (Los Angeles), Fog Beast (Bay Area), and Christy Funsch (San Francisco).

May 3, 2014, Not a Trolley Dance, site specific walking tour, downtown Santa Cruz
Cid created a site specific work for National Dance Week, in collaboration with Sara Wilboure, Cynthia Strauss, Alex Law, and Claire Melbourne.
More info here.

2013
November 27 - December 27, 2013 The Snow Queen at San Jose Repertory Theater
Cid created dances for this musical theater world premiere.

November 11-16, 2013, Artists Residency at Iowa State University
Cid was a guest artist at Iowa State University, where students learned and performed "Broken String."

May 24 - June 2, 2013, Ice Road, Blueprints, UC Santa Cruz
Cid created a tryptic of dances for UCSC students, inspired by the extreme cold and stark beauty she experienced during her recent residency in Northern Europe.

April 19-21, 2013 Dance Under Construction/Congress of Research on Dance, UCLA, Los Angeles
Cid Pearlman & Denise Leto discuss their collaboration (with Joan Jeanrenaud), "Your Body is Not a Shark."

February - March, 2013, Viljandi, Estonia
Cid & David were back in Estonia. David had a Fulbright Award to teach at Tartu University's Viljandi Culture Academy. Cid was a guest lecturer at Viljandi Culture Academy, and once again taught at Tallinn University.

January 25, 2013 Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia
Hiiumaa Dance Festival presents "Kasvuhoone./Greenhouse." Made possible with funding from the US Embassy/Estonia. This is a work Cid created in collaboration with the organizers and friends of the HTF festival last March, which premiered at the August 2012 Festival.

January 17-20,2013  Motion at the Mill, Santa Cruz
World premiere of "Your Body is Not a Shark" created in collboration with composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, poet Denise Leto, and Maya Barsacq's CADENZA/Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra. 

January  11-13, 2013, ODC Theater, San Francisco World premiere of "Your Body is Not a Shark" created in collboration with composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, poet Denise Leto, and Maya Barsacq's CADENZA/Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra.

2012
October 19-21 2012, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Dance & CP/PP present "Looking Left/Chicago"
An annual low tech festival of dance and performance featuring artists from Santa Cruz and Chicago. Included on the program is the first excerpt from Pearlman's "Your Body is Not a Shark," and works by Peter Carpenter (Chicago), David Lakein (Chicago/Berlin), Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts (formerly of Chicago), and Santa Cruz/Bay Area choreographers Molly Katzman Sierrah Dietzman, Eli Weiberg, Damara Vita Ganley & Kasey Collins, Dixie Fun Dance Theatre.

November 30 - December 2, 2013
Cid created a new student work for the Cabrillo Winter Dance Concert.

August 3, 2012, Hiiumaa, Estonia
"Kasvuhoone" (Green House) premiered at the Hiiumaa Dance Festival. This new work was created during an intensive rehearsal period in March and April of 2012, with support from the US Embassy/Estonia.

May 25, 2012, Los Angeles, CA
"This is what we do in winter" and works by Cid's Estonian collaborators, at Live Arts Los Angeles

May 24, 2012, Los Angeles, CA
The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures presents a free noontime performance of "This is what we do in winter" and works by Cid's Estonian collaborators at Glorya Kaufman Hall, Q&A to follow

May 19-20, 2012, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Arts Festival presents "This is what we do in winter" featuring dancers from Estonia and the U.S at the Marines Memorial Theatre, Saturday at 9:00pm and Sunday at 5:00pm.

May 17-18, 2012,  Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Dance & CP/PP present "This is what we do in winter" and works by Cid's Estonian collaborators at Motion at the Mill. Both shows at 8:00pm.

March 20 - April 15, 2012, Tallinn, Estonia
Cid returned to Estonia to create a new work for next summer's Hiiumaa Dance Festival

February 17-19, 2012, Santa Cruz, CA
Cid made a dance with UCSC students for the 20th Random With a Purpose

February 23-March 4, 2012, Pocatello, Idaho
Cid was a guest at Idaho State University, where the students learned and performed "Broken String"

2011
December 2011, The Cabrillo Winter Dance Concert
Cid Pearlman and David King co-produce this annual event, featuring dances by Cabrillo College Faculty and guest artists.

November 2011,  Tallinn, Estonia
"I'm drowning not waving," created with four dancers aged 12-20 at the Hiiumaa Dance Festival.  premiered at Kanuti Gildi SAAL in Tallinn. Collaborators: Ando Naulainen (sound artist) and Pille Kose (scenographer)

October 2011, Looking Left, Santa Cruz, CA
Presented by Santa Cruz Dance & Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects
An annual low tech festival of dance and performance featuring artists from San Deigo to San Francisco. On this year's program are Cid Pearlman (Santa Cruz), Meg Wolfe (Los Angeles), NUGENT DANCE (Los Angeles), Daniel Bear Davis & Kristen Greco (Santa Cruz/Oakland), Damara Vita Ganley & Melecio Estrella (Bay Area), Dixie Fun Dance Theater (New York City/Santa Cruz) and Rebecca Alson-Milkman (Los Angeles). Cid will premiere "The Drowning Poems," created with and performed by Damara Ganley, Molly Katzman and Daniel Bear Davis.

August 2011 , Hiiumaa, Estonia
Cid created a new dance at the Hiiumaa Dance Festival - choregraphed in six days, performed by festival psrticipants.

June 2011
Cid Pearlman & David King taught in Tallinn and Jõhvi, Estonia. These workshops were made possible with funding from the Union of Estonian Dance Artists and the U.S. Embassy/Tallinn. See our "teaching" page for more information.

May 2011 Cabrillo College Spring Dance Concert
Cid Pearlman and David King co-produce this annual event, featuring dances by Cabrillo College student choregraphers and faculty.

May 2011 Queer
Presented by the San Francisco International Arts Festival at Fort Mason's Southside Theater
A chamber opera by Erling Wold, based on Williams Burroughs' novel "Queer"
Choreography by Cid Pearlman
Premiered 2001
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April 2011
National Dance Week, Dance in Unlikely Places, preview of the Drowning Poems at the Museum of Arts & History, Santa Cruz. This new trio for Damary Ganely, Daniel Bear Davis and Molly Katzman will have its premiere in the fall on 2011.

2010
August 2010
Choreography students from Tallinn University performed catch-as-catch-can at the  HiiumaaTantsu Festival, an exciting new dance festival on one of Estonia's lovliest islands.

July 2010
NoTaFe (Noore Tantsu Festival), Viljandi, Estonia
We performed This is what we do in winter, with music by Jonathan Segel,
and catch-as-catch-can, music by Jonathan Segel and Rafe Pearlman.
Cid taught a Choreography workshop and company member David King taught Contemporary Technique.

May 2010
KorFest, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia
Unraveled featured two world premieres, This is what we do in winter and Keerulised Keeled, as well as catch-as-catch-can, performed by students from Tallinn Univeristy, and Tie Line, from 2009's Emotional Geographies.

May 2010
Imagining Bodies Symposium, Tallinn Univesity, Tallinn, Estonia
Cid co-coordinated this dance symposium which featured performance, film, papers, installations and more. 35 presenters from 15 countries gathered in Tallinn to think about the body and its relationship to landscape, memory and community.
We performed excerpts from This is what we do in winter and catch-as-catch-can