In Performance: Pathosformel (Italy) – La timidezza delle ossa
“La timidezza delle ossa” (shyness of bones). Nose, thigh-bone, knuckles and shoulder blade are broken up and shown through a thin epidermis revealing everything. They are phantasms altering our perception of the human…
Highlights: The Kitchen Fall Season 2010 (NYC)
The Kitchen has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country for more than three decades. Founded as an artist collective in 1971 by Woody and Steina Vasulka and…
In Performance: Catch 40 August 28 at 8pm (NYC)
CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance and video series-event put on every two months, in Brooklyn, NY. CATCH is slap-dashidly curated and hosted by Andrew Dinwiddie and Jeff Larson and…
In Performance: Philippe Quesne | Vivarium Studio – Big Bang (Paris, France)
BIG BANG begins with a gigantic explosion. The aftermath: six people who run ashore a small island and rewrite the history of the world in pleasurable episodes. Through elegant tableaux, meaningful gestures and…
In Performance: The Gospel at Colonus at the Edinburgh International Festival August 21-23
The Gospel at Colonus is a gospel version of Sophocles’s tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. The show was created in New York City in 1985 by Lee Breuer, the experimental-theatre director, and composer Bob…
Highlights: Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010
Melbourne Festival is one of Australia’s international arts festivals and one of the major multi-arts festivals of the world, in terms of quality of work, innovation of vision, and scale and breadth of…
Books: John Jesurun – A Media Trilogy
Three media-plays by MacArthur Award-winning playwright-director-designer John Jesurun. DEEP SLEEP, WHITE WATER and BLACK MARIA chart the “loss of the real” in a landscape of adrenaline-charged freefall poetry, mediated images and vestiges of…
In Performance: Final Night – Scotty Heron and HIJACK – smithsoniansmith (NYC)
smithsoniansmith is a lo-fi, sci-fi mess. Dancing sculptors, builders and architects in the midst of a sexy, violent play. Performers courting the radical edge of dance, edge of trash, edge of decency. Choreographed…
In Performance: Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella Sept 3 and 4, 2010 (NYC)
Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella is a reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, inspired by versions as disparate as Disney’s and the macabre Grimm brothers’. It is a one-woman show starring Sherry, Young’s southern…
Network Update: August 2010
Contemporary Performance Network just reached its first month as a site and we are growing fast! 390 at last count from the US, France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Finnland, Estonia, India, Spain, Argentina,…
Opportunities: The Festival Belluard Bollwerk – call for proposals/ Appel à la création/ Ausschreibung 2011: HOPE
The Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and the Migros Culture Percentage are looking for artistic projects that are dealing with hope. At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century hope seems…
Featured: Miguel Gutierrez and The Powerful People (NYC)
Miguel Gutierrez, an active figure in the New York scene for the past twelve years, is a dance and music artist who creates group work with a variety of dancers, music and visual…
