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Highlights: Alkantara Festival 2012 (Portugal)

Highlights: Alkantara Festival 2012 (Portugal)

Alkantara is an association based in Lisbon, dedicated to the development of the performing arts in Portugal and in an international context. Its work is motivated by a worldview mindful of difference and a less Eurocentric vision of contemporary artistic creation. Known until 2005 as Danças na Cidade (‘Dances in...
In Performance: Luciana Achugar

In Performance: Luciana Achugar

Luciana Achugar FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM May 11, 2012 – May 19, 2012 8 pm Abrons Arts Center Luciana achugar’s FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM is a dance meditation on the relationship between aesthetics and ideology. It presents dance as a celebration of experience, and pleasure as the consummation of experience. In FEELingpleasuresatisfactiocelebrationholyFORM four women engage in...
In Performance: DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps - Danza Permanente (Belgium)

In Performance: DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps – Danza Permanente (Belgium)

DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps Danza Permanente 11-12 May, 2012, 20:30 (World Premiere) STUK kunstencentrum Leuven, Belgium 15-16 May, 2012, 21:00 (French Premiere) Le Forum, Blanc-Mesnil Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis 26-30 September, 2012 (US Premiere) The Kitchen, NYC Co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Française’s (FIAF) Crossing the Line 2012 https://vimeo.com/41078542...
Highlights: La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival (NYC)

Highlights: La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival (NYC)

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, which takes place in all three of our venues and features over 50 emerging and seasoned choreographers, reflects La MaMa’s longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. 2012 Festival Line-Up: May 9: Love Story, Palestine May11: Chamber Works I May 17: Beauty...
Featured - Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. (NYC)

Featured – Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. (NYC)

Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. May 29 – June 3, 2012 Curatorial Team: Eleanor Hullihan, Neal Medlyn, Marissa Perel, and Enrico Wey Bring on 2012 with its four horsemen and cult sacrifices. If this is the last of the great mortality myths, let’s push it to a...
In Performance: Darmstadt - Classics of the Avant Garde (NYC)

In Performance: Darmstadt – Classics of the Avant Garde (NYC)

Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” Unless otherwise noted, all programs begin at 8PM at ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn Ticket price $15 / $12 Members purchase tickets Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” curators Nick Hallett and Zach Layton announce their fourth annual Institute at ISSUE Project Room....
Featured: Month of Performance Art Berlin (Week of May 7 - 13, 2012)

Featured: Month of Performance Art Berlin (Week of May 7 – 13, 2012)

The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART is a month-long and citywide platform dedicated to highlighting, promoting and interconnecting the wealth and diversity of independent, contemporary and experimental Performance Art practices thriving in BERLIN. The only Performance Art project of its kind in Germany and beyond, MPA-B reflects the creative force injected by autonomous cultural...
In Performance: World Premier of Constanza Macras’ new piece "Open for Everything" opening the Wiener Festwochen 2012

In Performance: World Premier of Constanza Macras’ new piece “Open for Everything” opening the Wiener Festwochen 2012

World Premier of Constanza Macras’ new piece “Open for Everything” opening the Wiener Festwochen 2012 “Open for Everything” is a travel through the stagnation of Roma communities in Europe to whom chances to work like any other citizen are rather low, where itinerant traditions have been replaced by sedentary life beside...
In Performance - Jack Ferver and Mark Swanson: Two Alike May 17–19, 2009 (NYC)

In Performance – Jack Ferver and Mark Swanson: Two Alike May 17–19, 2009 (NYC)

Jack Ferver and Mark Swanson: Two Alike The Kitchen 512 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 Thursday–Saturday, May 17–19, 8pm Tickets $15 Two Alike, a collaboration between Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson, is a visceral and darkly humorous performance exploring the shattering effects of abused queer youth. Existing in an...
Week In Review April 9-15, 2012

Week In Review April 9-15, 2012

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 PerformanceNetwork is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Invite your collaborators to share their work...
Week In Review

Week In Review

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, discussions, 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...
Featured: Neuer Tanz (Düsseldorf, Germany)

Featured: Neuer Tanz (Düsseldorf, Germany)

The Neuer Tanz ensemble was founded in 1986 by dancer Wanda Golonka and visual artist VA Wölfl. Since 1987 the company has worked in the Düsseldorf royal stables of Benrath Castle Park. Neuer Tanz was the first independent company awarded the first German Producers prize for choreography. Each piece is...
Last Chance NYC: EVELYN by Nellie Tinder At Bushwick Starr

Last Chance NYC: EVELYN by Nellie Tinder At Bushwick Starr

 EVELYN by Nellie Tinder THE BUSHWICK STARR 207 STARR STREET BROOKLYN NY – 11237 Until March 10, 2012 A musical fever-dream delivered by a chorus of some of downtown’s smartest new talent, Evelyn is an idiosyncratic genre mash-up and a haunting yet humorously parodic love letter to things past. Riffing...
Highlights: Festival Bo:m 2.22-4.18.2012 (Seoul, Korea)

Highlights: Festival Bo:m 2.22-4.18.2012 (Seoul, Korea)

The Festival Bo:m is an international festival of performing arts and visual arts that is multi-cultural as well as multi-genre. The Festival Bo:m produces art works and productions by Korean as well as international artists whose works represent an unique vision in their art. The Festival Bo:m will introduce innovative...
Books: Staging the Screen - The Use of Film and Video in Theatre

Books: Staging the Screen – The Use of Film and Video in Theatre

Staging the Screen: The Use of Film and Video in Theatre by: Greg Giesekam The use of film and video is commonplace in contemporary theatre, viewed by some as contaminating theatre’s ‘liveness’, by others as inevitable and desirable. After tracing the history of current approaches back to early practitioners such...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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Week In Review: Contemporary Performance Update - April 14, 2012

Week In Review: Contemporary Performance Update – April 14, 2012

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. Invite your collaborators to share their work with 3483 global members.Artist...
In Performance: Dimanche Rouge #16 Experimental Performances May 20, 2012  (Paris)

In Performance: Dimanche Rouge #16 Experimental Performances May 20, 2012 (Paris)

DIMANCHE ROUGE #16 Performances Expérimentales 20 Mai 2012, 16H-minuit FREE  Maison de l’Architecture 148, rue Faubourg St-Martin 75010 Paris 01 42 09 33 63 Metro/R.E.R. Gare de l’Est Multimédia, danse, vidéo, son, performance art, spoken word, installations For its 16th edition, Dimanche Rouge invites you to discover an evening of experimental performances and a DJ...
Week In Review: April 7, 2012

Week In Review: April 7, 2012

Contemporary Performance Update – April 7, 2012 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 PerformanceNetwork is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Invite your collaborators to share...
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 century. Central to the book’s...
Opportunities: Exit Art's The Academia de los Nocturnos (NYC)

Opportunities: Exit Art’s The Academia de los Nocturnos (NYC)

Exit Art is in Week Eight (May 15 – 19) of our last exhibition, Collective/Performative, before closing. It features Pablo Helguera, who will host a series of gatherings, culminating in a 3am performance, inspired by the 16th-century Spanish Academia de los Nocturnos (Academy of the Night Revelers) who created the first “tertulia,” an intellectual soiree, that...
Featured - We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium - Fri, May 4 – 5, 2012 (NYC)

Featured – We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium – Fri, May 4 – 5, 2012 (NYC)

We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium New Museum Friday May 4, 4–8 p.m. Saturday May 5, 12–3:45 p.m. “We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium” asks both what is at stake and what is made possible by embracing difference as a queer strategy within contemporary art, politics, and society. The two-day symposium was conceived by performance artist...
Featured: Robert Wilson Video Portraits in Times Square at 11.57pm Every Night in May(NYC)

Featured: Robert Wilson Video Portraits in Times Square at 11.57pm Every Night in May(NYC)

Robert Wilson Writer and Performer, 2005 Music by Xavier Naudascher. Voice by William Pope.L The video work that will appear on the Times Square digital signs — Robert Wilson Video Portraits — has toured the globe in some of the most prestigious museums, galleries and public spaces. The exhibition’s stop at the Crossroads of the...
In Performance: Catch 50 @ The Chocolate Factory May 5, 2012 (NYC)

In Performance: Catch 50 @ The Chocolate Factory May 5, 2012 (NYC)

CATCH 50 5 mind-bending shows in one unbelievable night of total performance mayhem Saturday May 5, 2012 , Cinco de Mayo The Chocolate Factory Tickets are $10 per hour slot of performance  CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event curated by Jeff Larson, Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons that blows through Brooklyn every couple of months....
Opportunities: Call for performers - Station House Opera revival of Roadmetal, Sweetbread (UK)

Opportunities: Call for performers – Station House Opera revival of Roadmetal, Sweetbread (UK)

Performers needed for Station House Opera’s Roadmetal, Sweetbread Station House Opera is looking for performers for a revival of its landmark production Roadmetal, Sweetbread, to be toured in October 2012, and from January 2013. Roadmetal, Sweetbread was first produced in 1998 at the ICA in London, since when it has been performed in over 20...
Opportunities: Open Call for Koumaria 2012 Running Oct 8-21, 2012 (Sparta, Greece)

Opportunities: Open Call for Koumaria 2012 Running Oct 8-21, 2012 (Sparta, Greece)

Since 2009 the artist collective Medea Electronique has organized annually a 10-day experimental artist residency, Koumaria, near Sparta in Greece, focusing on improvisation and new media practices. Avant-garde artists from all over the world, inspired by the Greek natural landscape, come together to create a multicultural and cross-media ‘dialogue’ culminating in a collective presentation in Athens...
In Performance - Keren Cytter: Show Real Drama, May 5–May 6, 2012 6pm (NYC)

In Performance – Keren Cytter: Show Real Drama, May 5–May 6, 2012 6pm (NYC)

Keren Cytter: Show Real Drama The Kitchen 512 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 May 5– 6, 2012 6pm Curated by Tim Griffin Reservations required: Please RSVP to cytterRSVP@thekitchen.org and provide your first and last name, your email address, and the number of people in your party.(Maximum of 4 tickets per person). You will receive an email confirmation...
In Performance - Trajal Harrell Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)

In Performance – Trajal Harrell Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)

Trajal Harrell Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L) Apr 25 — 28 at 7:30pm $24 Advance Purchase / $30 Day of Performance – $15 Night: Apr 26 New York Live Arts 219 W 19th Street New York, NY 10011 Pre-Show Talk Apr 25 at 6:30pm with Ralph Lemon Post-Show...
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