In Performance: SCHWARZE JUNGFRAUEN June 2-5, 2010 (Berlin)
SCHWARZE JUNGFRAUEN by Feridun Zaimoğlu and Günter Senkel Directed by Neco Çelik Ballhaus Naunynstraße Repeat performance 2 – 5 June 2010 at 8:00 pm The stage premiere of the Kreuzberg filmmaker Neco Çelik is based on a series of interviews Feridun Zaimoğlu and Günter Senkel conducted with young Muslim converts in Germany. The women they...
In Print: Yale Theater Journal Publishes Scripts of Big Art Group and Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo and Juliet and Big Art Group’s SOS have been published in the new issue of Theater Journal. The issue focuses on the changing nature of playwriting, the impact of the economic crisis on theater in the US and Grotowski’s anniversary in Poland. Below is a quote from the editor, Tom...
New Links in Artists, Festivals, and Writings
Artist and Companies Ane Lan , Kløfta, Norway Homepage of Norwegian performance artist Ane Lan Antonio Tagliarini (Rome, Italy) Italian performer who’s work is developed between dance and theatre. Band of Bless (Montreal, Canada) Performance artist Dana Michel. Writings and Blogs Anna Monteverdi _LA SPEZIA (Italy) Blog on Digital Performance with many resource links (Groups,...
Featured: Brut Wien – Queerograd 05.27-05.29.2010 (Vienna, Austria)
Queerograd: Ausgestattet mit der Ideologie des edlen Leibes Brut Wien – Konzerthaus 27.05 19:00, 28.05 18:30, 29.05 18:00 Queerograd is a platform-format oscillating between serious discourse and trashy politainment where hetero-normative matrix, identities and identity constructions, gender and societal relations, leftist perspectives and radical globalism are debated in theory as well as in performative practice. queerograd does...
Highlights: Alkantara Festival May 21- June 9, 2010 (Portugal)
Alkantara Festival May 21- June 9, 2010 (Portugal) Alkantara is built on the foundations of Danças na Cidade, a dance platform established in 1993. Danças na Cidade was particularly engaged in the promotion of national and international contemporary dance, encouraging encounters and dialogue between artists. The platform’s flagship initiatives were the festival of the same...
Highlights: The Festival d’Avignon July 7-21, 2010 (France)
ABOUT: “We have conceived this 64th Festival together with director Christoph Marthaler and writer Olivier Cadiot, our two associate artists. In the course of our many conversations, we have encountered two creative minds fully immersed in today’s reality, two “anthropologist artists” of our daily lives. Their literary and theatrical writings, imbued with musicality, closely scrutinise...
Opportunities: Residency Unlimited Website
Residency Unlimited (From their website) Residency Unlimited is a not-for-profit organization that fosters dynamic artist residency initiatives through the principle of collaboration. By partnering with other organizations in New York and beyond, this collaborative strategy is mutually beneficial and maximizes the success of the individual residency experience. Through the pooling of resources, artists benefit from...
DEADLINE TODAY: P4M.Performance.Video.Festival
P4M.Performance.Video.Festival Deadline is today (Submission Deadline May 9, 2010) Call for entries for the the first annual P4M online video festival. Contemporary Performance will host an online video festival of performance works and excerpts June 14 – July 2, 2010 here on ContemporaryPerformance.com. Please submit your video URLs and information below. We are open to any...
Featured: Digicult Online/Offline Italian Platform (Milan, Italy)
DIGICULT is an online/offline Italian platform, created to spread digital art and culture worldwide. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT is based on participation of more than 40 professionals, representing a wide Italian Network of critics, curators and journalists in the field....
Call For Papers: The Embodiment of Authority – Perspectives on Performances
The Embodiment of Authority: Perspectives on Performances 10–12 September 2010, at the Department of Doctoral Studies in Musical Performance and Research, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. “Performance’s only life is the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representation of representations [···].” Peggy Phelan’s statement from the early 90s,...
In Performance: Tarek Atoui at The New Museum May 6, 2010(NYC)
Tarek Atoui at The New Museum (NYC) Thu, May 6, 2010 7:00 PM *** Editors note. I know this is very last minute but we just found out. I highly recommend catching Tarek in NYC tonight. I had the chance to see him perform last summer in Austria and he’s not to be missed. Tarek...
Highlights: Theater der Welt 2010
THEATER DER WELT 2010 From 30 June to 17 July nearly 400 artists from all over the globe have been invited by the Theater an der Ruhr, Schauspiel Essen and the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 to Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen. During Theater der Welt 2010 they present their personal visions of our...
