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Monthly archive November, 2009

Announcements: Eyebeam Residencies Winter/Spring 2010

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 14, 2009 All applicants will be informed of their application status by January 29, 2010. CONTEXT: Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the USA. Our unique collaborative environment fosters fellowships and residencies, research, education, public programming and a vital web space, eyebeam.org. We are located in the heart...

Featured: Blast Theory (Brighton, England)

Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores interactivity and the social and...

In Performance: Jeremy Wade’s “there is no end to more” (NYC/Berlin)

Jeremy Wade there is no end to more Thursday, December 3, 7:30 PM Friday, December 4, 7:30 PM — Post-Performance Discussion Saturday, December 5, 7:30 PM Japan Society presents the world premiere of its commission to Bessie Award- winning American choreographer Jeremy Wade. In a bold and violent juxtaposition of movement, text, animation and video of...

Announcements: Artist in Residency Program – The Gershwin, NYC

Artist in Residency Program – The Gershwin, NYC (from the website)We have created an Artist-in-residence program (furnished with complimentary continental breakfast) to keep the artist alive so that art may live. As we believe that art goes with heart we want our laureates to welcome in their heart a place for the other endangered species:...

Highlights: Under The Radar (NYC, USA)

Highlights: Under The Radar (NYC, USA) L’EFFET DE SERGE Philippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio (France) Sunday Afternoons, in his living room and for a limited audience, a character named Serge performs 1-3 minutes numbers based on special effects. Low-key humor and homespun magic always merge in Quesne’s work. CHAUTAUQUA! Created by The National Theater of the USA...

Announcements: Call for submissions for the The Live Art Almanac – Volume 2

Call for submissions for the The Live Art Almanac – Volume 2 An international publication of writing on and around Live Art Deadline: 31 December 2009 The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 is a not-for-profit publication, produced and published by the Live Art Development Agency (London, UK) in partnership with Live Art UK, Performance Space...
In Performance: The Wooster Group's VIEUX CARRÉ in France

In Performance: The Wooster Group’s VIEUX CARRÉ in France

The Wooster Group’s  VIEUX CARRÉ in France The Wooster Group is currently touring Tennessee Williams’ VIEUX CARRÉ in France. Like Williams’ first big success The Glass Menagerie, Vieux Carré is a “memory play,” narrated by the author himself in minimal disguise. In it Williams revisits the squalid rooming house that was his first home in New Orleans...
Featured: Hannah Hurtzig’s Mobile Academy (Berlin, Germany)

Featured: Hannah Hurtzig’s Mobile Academy (Berlin, Germany)

Hannah Hurtzig’s Mobile Academy has been realising projects with alternating partners, in which different narrative formats of communicating knowledge are put to the test. Since 2004, talks, dialogues, narratives and consultations have resulted in various film and sound archives on the theme of ‘Narratives of Places, Cities and Territories’. Examples of the kinds of work...
Featured: Bad Co. (Zagreb, Croatia)

Featured: Bad Co. (Zagreb, Croatia)

BADco. is a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the collective are Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec. As a combination of four choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and one philosopher, since its beginning (2000), BADco. systematically focuses on the...
Featured: Jeremy Xido (Vienna, Austria)

Featured: Jeremy Xido (Vienna, Austria)

JEREMY XIDO originally from Detroit, graduated cum laude in Painting and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York and trained at the Actor’s Studio with Barbara Poitier, Arthur Penn and Andre Gregory. He has trained with Earl Mosley at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York, and Sasha Waltz, Jordi Cortes, Frey Faust, Ivan Wolfe and Curt...
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