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Featured: Big Art Group's Broke House (NYC)

Featured: Big Art Group’s Broke House (NYC)

“Big Art Group is a live performance collective created by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and video. There are a score of companies that do just this. What’s different about Big Art Group is how they design a...
Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)

Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)

Art of Projection Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern shows and the novel spatial/temporal representations pioneered by Surrealists and experimental filmmakers during the early and mid-twentieth...
Featured: Ricci Forte (Rome, Italy) NSFW

Featured: Ricci Forte (Rome, Italy) NSFW

Ricci Forte was formed at Silvio D’Amico’s Accademia Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica/Rome and at New York University, they studied writing with Edward Albee. They won drama awards such as: Premio Studio 12, Oddone Cappellino, Vallecorsi, Fondi-La Pastora and Hystrio. They represented Eliseo Theatre/Rome at the first edition of ExtraCandoni Festival. “troia’s...
Featured: Muta Imago Company (Rome, Italy)

Featured: Muta Imago Company (Rome, Italy)

Muta Imago is a project of artistic research that was set up in Rome in 2006 and guided by Claudia Sorace (director) and Riccardo Fazi (dramaturg – sound designer). Over the years the group has produced shows, performances and installations in which the investigation about the relationship between the human being,...
Featured: Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Cesena, Italy)

Featured: Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Cesena, Italy)

The Italian contemporary performance collective, Societas Raffaello Sanzio is one of the most recognized and sought after Italian companies of the past decade.  Founding leaders of the company include Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi.  For the first 20 years the works were directed and designed by Romeo Castellucci,...
Featured: Pathosformel (Milan, Italy)

Featured: Pathosformel (Milan, Italy)

Pathosformel is Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani, young artists based in Milan. Their work explores new ways of using the body on stage and radically experiments with movement and visual imagery. The Timidity of Bones was created in 2007 when it won special mention at Premio Scenario, Italian theatre’s...
Featured - The Varieties of Performance Experience: A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson January 24, 2012 @7pm(NYC)

Featured – The Varieties of Performance Experience: A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson January 24, 2012 @7pm(NYC)

The Varieties of Performance Experience A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson (NYC) The Kitchen (NYC)  January 24, 2012 7pm FREE  Protagonist? Irruption? Squatter? Successively celebrated, rejected, ignored, and rediscovered, “performance” as a term and practice is a vexed and provocative domain within a number of fields....
Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, photos, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary Performance Network is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work,...
Books: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Books: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance Chris Salter Foreword by Peter Sellars This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged...
Featured: Einstein on the Beach Tour 2012-2013 Preview Dates Announced

Featured: Einstein on the Beach Tour 2012-2013 Preview Dates Announced

Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, this rarely performed and revolutionary work launched director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass to international success when it was first produced in Avignon, France in 1976, with subsequent performances in Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera....
Contemporary Performance Update - November 25, 2011

Contemporary Performance Update – November 25, 2011

   Welcome to this week’s network update. Below are some links to top content and latest additions to the blog. You can also see this weeks Member Spotligh tinterview with Grace Exhibition Space/Jill McDermid-Hokanson/Erik Hokanson (Brooklyn, NYC). Let us know what you are working on and see you on the...
From The Archive: CPN New York Platform

From The Archive: CPN New York Platform

The Platform was held on Monday January 12, 2009 1pm to 5pm “Changing Role of the Performer in the 21st Century” The Wild Project (NYC) 195 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10009 Five perspectives on the role of the performer in America. On January 12, 2009, Big Art Group...
Books: The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

Books: The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and has been commissioned by venues...
In Performance: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy) The Minister's Black Veil

In Performance: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy) The Minister’s Black Veil

«The theatre that I seek and practice is never an interpretation or a commentary on something pre-existing. I seek the total presence of a body that is dense and tangible; I seek the lines of force that emerge from a cold, visual objectivity that withdraws matter from reality and from...
In Performance: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH Tour 2012-2013

In Performance: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH Tour 2012-2013

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH An Opera in Four Acts by Philip Glass & Robert Wilson Choreography by Lucinda Childs For the First Time in Two Decades, Full Production of the Rarely Performed Work Will Tour Internationally in 2012-2013 The Philip Glass/Robert Wilson collaboration Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four...
Books: Digital Performance - A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Books: Digital Performance – A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Digital Performance – A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation Winner, 2008 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics given by the Media Ecology Association (MEA). and Winner, Music and the Performing Arts category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition...
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Books: Performance, Technology, & Science

Books: Performance, Technology, & Science

Performance, Technology, & Science Johannes Birringer Performance, Technology, & Science by Johannes Birringer explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range of practices in design,...
Opportunities: Open Call for ARTErra Artistic Residence in Portugal

Opportunities: Open Call for ARTErra Artistic Residence in Portugal

ARTErra in Lobão da Beira, PORTUGAL is a rural art residency structure that  support and encourage artistic creation and production. Housed in a remarkably small rural village, you will find in ARTErra physical spaces and tools for the reception of the project / proposal of the artist or collective of different artistic disciplines. In addition to...
Books: Land/Scape/Theater

Books: Land/Scape/Theater

Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater’s increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the “landscape dramaturgy” of Suzan-Lori Parks, Artaud’s trip to the Sierra Madre,Gertrude Stein’s landscape theory and practice, Guillermo Gomez-Peña’s “border subjects,” and Bayreuth...
Discussion: Let’s Try That Once More, This Time In The Past: Performance & Documentation at Union Docs (NYC)

Discussion: Let’s Try That Once More, This Time In The Past: Performance & Documentation at Union Docs (NYC)

Let’s Try That Once More, This Time In The Past: Performance & Documentation Sunday, February 19th at 7:30 pm, $9 suggested donation. Johanna Linsley and Christa Holka in attendance for discussion.  Purchase Tickets (From The Organizers) As performance navigates the shifting of its institutional position – from practitioners’ self-identification as alternative/radical/revolutionary to blockbuster museum fodder...
Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and discussed members, content, photos, and blog posts. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary Performance Network is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Join now and share your work with over 3090 global members....
Books - Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre by Sarah Bay-Cheng

Books – Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein’s Avant-Garde Theatre by Sarah Bay-Cheng

 Mama Dada is the first book the examine Gertrude Stein’s drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein’s major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde theaters. This book addresses the growing interest in Stein’s theater...
Books: Theatre Performance and Technology: The Development of Scenography in the Twentieth Century

Books: Theatre Performance and Technology: The Development of Scenography in the Twentieth Century

Technology has always been an important part of theater, both as a means to an end and as end in itself. Throughout the twentieth century a unifying attitude in all art forms is the desire to examine the materials and the tools of making art. In the theatre this approach significantly expands the relationships between...
Discussion: Why I Make Live Art (When I'm Not Making The Others) Panel at The Invisible Dog (NYC)

Discussion: Why I Make Live Art (When I’m Not Making The Others) Panel at The Invisible Dog (NYC)

WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:00pm The Invisible Dog 51 bergen street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) will be an evening of current explanations by contemporary performance makers around the siren call of “liveness” in art...
In Performance: Jim Findlay's Botanica Feb 1-25, 2012 (NYC)

In Performance: Jim Findlay’s Botanica Feb 1-25, 2012 (NYC)

Jim Findlay BOTANICA  3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich St., New York City) 2/1-25/2012 BOTANICA explores our complicated and inextricably dependent relationship to plant life, presented as a creepy futuristic black comedy where morals, ethics, and consequences unravel along with the human sense of mastery. Primary sources for Botanica include erotic literary texts by French...
Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, photos, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary Performance Network is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Join now and share your work with over 3000 global members....
Featured: CREW - Immersive Performance (Belgium)

Featured: CREW – Immersive Performance (Belgium)

CREW is a performance group and multi-disciplinary team of artists and researchers. CREW_lab is the experimental spin-off where immersive technologies and strategies can be developed, tested and theorized. _lab explores and develops immersive technological devices, artistic strategies and changing (theoretical) notions of narrativity, presence and spectatorship in immersive environments.
In Performance: M. Lamar Presents SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD (NYC)

In Performance: M. Lamar Presents SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD (NYC)

M. Lamar Presents SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD  One night only at Cathedral Of Saint John The Divine. Thursday, February 16, 2012 Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York The Atlantic Ocean holds the remains of countless black bodies, people lost en-route from “home” to hell. During the transatlantic...


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