Featured: Lindy Annis (Berlin, Germany)
Lindy Annis Lindy Annis was born in Boston, U.S.A. She studied acting and theater at New York University (Experimental Theatre Wing): Bachelor of Arts/Drama. She moved to Berlin, Germany where she works as performance artist, theater author and other related roles. She has worked with such people as Tim Miller, The Wooster Group, Yoshiko Chuma...
Play With Fire: Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design (NYC)
Play With Fire Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design This festival brings together video artists, performers and designers who progress their field by finding new applications for video! Play with Fire is a platform for discussing the common set-backs and advantages of working with video while celebrating its forms by hosting a series of...
Featured: Ash Bulayev (Athens, Greece)
Ash Bulayev Ash Bulayev is an independent director/choreographer and media artist, and is a co-Artistic Director of amorphy.org (www.amorphy.org) in collaboration with choreographer Tzeni Argyriou. He has lived in New York City from 1991-2003, where he has created multiple original productions ranging from site-specific/multi-location work, interactive installations to dance/theater projects which where presented in U.S.A.,...
Digest: News for the week of September 21-27, 2009
Books: Staging the Screen – The Use of Film and Video in Theatre September 26th, 2009 In Performance: Saburo Teshigawara’s Glass Tooth (Tokyo, Japan) September 25th, 2009 Featured: Bert Neumann, “Imitation of Life” September 23rd, 2009 Highlights: Prelude09 (NYC) September 22nd, 2009 Emerging: Joshua Seidner’s POWDERBURN (NYC) September 21st, 2009
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 as Méliès, Painlévé and Piscator,...
In Performance: Saburo Teshigawara’s Glass Tooth (Tokyo, Japan)
Saburo Teshigawara’s Glass Tooth Pieces of glass reflect the fragment of time. Bodies confront, waver in unquantifiable contradictions amplify and explore the unknown aesthetics. Accompanied by prominent KARAS dancers, Saburo Teshigawara performs on a massive square made of countless broken glass pieces. Premiered in Tokyo, on 15th, 16th, 17th December 2006. Currently on tour. Credits: Duration:...
Highlights: Happy New Ears New Music and Sound Art Festival (Kortrijk, Belgium)
Happy New Ears New Music and Sound Art Festival. Over a period of fourteen years Happy New Ears evolved from a festival at the former Limelight arts centre to an independent and internationally renowned festival for new music and sound art. In October 2008 The Wire wrote: «Kortrijk’s Happy New Ears festival is establishing a...
Featured: Bert Neumann, “Imitation of Life”
Bert Neumann, chief set designer at Berlin’s Volksbühne since 1992, grew up in East Berlin, studied stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and with Leonore Blievernicht and Susanne Schuboth founded the design firm LSD (Last Second Design) in 1990. In the interview he tells of the façades in our everyday lives, the sadness of fun...
Highlights: Prelude09 (NYC)
Prelude 09 Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, the sixth-annual Prelude Festival celebrates the explorers and visionaries of NYC’s theatre and performance scene. Below are some highlights of the 3 day festival. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dan Safer / Witness Relocation The Panic Show Thursday, October 1 4-4.30pm | Elebash Hall The...
Digest: News for the week of September 13-20, 2009
Emerging: Daniel Linehan’s (New York/Brussels) Not About Everything September 14th, 2009 | No Comments Featured: Hotel Modern (Rotterdam, Netherlands) September 15th, 2009 | No Comments Featured: The Light Surgeons (London, England) September 16th, 2009 In Performance: Fischerspooner (NYC) September 17th, 2009 In Performance: Sans Objet by Compagnie 111 (Toulouse, France) September 18th, 2009
In Performance: Sans Objet by Compagnie 111 (Toulouse, France)
COMPAGNIE 111 SANS OBJET It is a meeting between man and a robot, one of these huge articulated arms which are used in car assembly lines to carry out the hard and tedious tasks that workers used to do; It is a real robot, straight from its original factory. There, it had a purpose. Here,...
