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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...
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...
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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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...
Opportunities: Artist Residency - Contemporary Artists Center, Woodside (Troy, NY, USA)

Opportunities: Artist Residency – Contemporary Artists Center, Woodside (Troy, NY, USA)

Artist Residency Contemporary Artists Center, Woodside (Troy NY) The Contemporary Artists Center has recently opened its newest residency program on the campus of the Woodside National Historic Register Site in Troy, NY. Two neo-gothic stone church buildings now house their artist program and welcome artists from all over the U.S. and abroad. The CAC is...
Books: 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance

Books: 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance

39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything. It is a unique and moving document for our times, full of curiosity and wonder, thoughtfulness and pain. About The Author: Matthew Goulish, founder...
Opportunities: Open Call for The (International) Home Theater Festival

Opportunities: Open Call for The (International) Home Theater Festival

  The (International) Home Theater Festival is comingApril/May 2012. From the SF Bay Guardian: In 2010, Bay Area performance artist and provocateur Philip Huang bucked the notion of institutionalized artistic legitimacy and challenged his friends to stage performances in their own homes. “We can legitimize ourselves,” his manifesto promised, calling the welfare state of professional arts...
Opportunities: Low Lives -  Occupy!
 International Call For Artists and Co- Presenters

Opportunities: Low Lives – Occupy!
 International Call For Artists and Co- Presenters

Open call for proposals
 Deadline: 6 February 2012 Low Lives launches new program in partnership with Occupy With Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. On March 3rd, 2012, Low Lives: Occupy! an international platform designed to enable artists, audiences, and presenters in alliance with the Occupy movement to support the occupation, will transmit live performances, actions, and...
Opportunities: PEEPING TOM AUDITION FOR DANCERS (Brussels, Belgium)

Opportunities: PEEPING TOM AUDITION FOR DANCERS (Brussels, Belgium)

PEEPING TOM AUDITION FOR DANCERS (Original post in French Below) Peeping Tom is looking for a dancer (+ 22 years) high-level technique, flexible contortionist for a reprise of roles in the piece ’32 rue Vandenbranden’ and a film project from 2012 to 2014. Candidates must be available for the audition, the rehearsals and tours from 30/01/12 until 26/02/12, from 26/03 to 03/04/12, from 4 to 12.5 / 12 from 13 to17/06/12, from 01 to 06/07/12, from 28/09 to 07/10/12, from 23/10 to11/11/12, from 21/11 to 08 / 12/12, from 3/24/13 to 12/04/13 and from 02/05 to 17/05/13. Audition in Brussels Monday...
In Performance: Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods - BLESSED Jan 12-14, 2012 (NYC)

In Performance: Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods – BLESSED Jan 12-14, 2012 (NYC)

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & EIRA BLESSED Thu Jan 12 — Sat Jan 14 at 7:30pm $24 Advance Purchase / $30 Day of Performance – $15 Night: Jan 13 Pre-Show Talk Jan 12 at 6:30pm, Post-Show Talk Jan 13 American-Belgian choreographer Meg Stuart met Portuguese dancer and choreographer Francisco Camacho for the first time in New...
Highlights: American Realness Festival 01.05-14.2012 (NYC)

Highlights: American Realness Festival 01.05-14.2012 (NYC)

BIG ART GROUP BROKE HOUSE THURS JAN 5 & 12 8:30 PM SAT JAN 7 9:30 PM FRI JAN 13 8:30 PM SAT JAN 14 7:00 PM Run time: 75 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE 466 Grand Street / tickets $15 / AbronsArtsCenter.org Broke House is a new group performance from Caden Manson / Big...
Education: The Body as Critical Site, Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

Education: The Body as Critical Site, Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Department of Performance combines intensive studio practice with the rigorous critical, theoretical, and historical study necessary to inform individual aesthetic choices and expression. The core of the program is a series of interdisciplinary theory/practice lab courses that explore the use of the body as an expressive...
In Performance: Turbulence - a dance about the economy (San Francisco)

In Performance: Turbulence – a dance about the economy (San Francisco)

Turbulence (a dance about the economy) Zero Performance / Keith Hennessy DEC 17-18, SAT-SUN at 8PM Performer/collaborators: Jassem Hindi (France/Lebanon), Julie Phelps, Emily Leap, Laura Arrington, Jesse Hewit, Jorge De Hoyos, Hana Erdman, Gabriel Todd, Ruairi O’Donovan (Ireland), Karina Sarkissova (Sweden), Jupiter Knows, Keith Hennessy plus special guests. Unstable structures supported by unsustainable systems, this...


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