Featured: A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner – Community Action Center (NYC) NSFW
A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner Community Action Center Taxter & Spengemann 459 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 September 24th, 11am- 6pm: The artists will host Casual Separatist Friday. The gallery will be dedicated and enforced exclusively as a “womyn”-only space September 25th, 4pm: Gallery talk with the artists and special guest stars September 18...
In Performance: “WINGING IT” IN HIGH HEELS AND A BLINDFOLD: A Discussion with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mark Russell, Terry Fox, and Lucy Sexton (NYC)
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 ay 7:00 PM New Museum Theater (directions) New York A presentation and panel discussion around the performance works of master improviser Ishmael Houston-Jones, “WINGING IT” will include a screening of scenes from Houston-Jones’s past works. Following the screening, performance artist of Dance Noise fame Lucy Sexton will moderate a discussion with Houston-Jones, Under...
In Performance: Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi – CIUDADES PARALELAS / PARALLEL CITIES
CIUDADES PARALELAS / PARALLEL CITIES (Berlin, Buenos Aires, Zurich) A project curated by Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi About: Hotel rooms, shopping centres, factories… these are functional places, not usually thought of as interesting to the outside eye. But without them life in the city would be uninhabitable. Their ubiquitous, parallel existences the world over...
In Performance: Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells – The Quiet Volume (UK)
The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two at a time (in line with Hampton’s other Autoteatro work), exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different peoples’ experiences of reading unfold. Two audience members / participants sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words...
Contemporary Performance Network Update – September 2010
Dear Members, I hope you are doing well and your work is coming along. I just wanted to thank you again for being a part of the Contemporary Performance Network. Its very exciting to see the many artists from all over the world sharing their work and connecting. Over the past two months we have...
Featured: Richard Maxwell and The New York City Players (NYC)
Bio: Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. Maxwell studied acting at Illinois State University. In Chicago, he was a founder of the Cook County Theater Department. He is now the artistic director of New York City Players and a resident writer at New Dramatists. In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship,...
In Performance: Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio – The Divine Comedy
Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio – The Divine Comedy If The Divine Comedy is a text that has accompanied Romeo Castellucci since his adolescence, he does not show a literal “adaptation” of it. His work is inspired by this text, as he writes in his working notes: “Read, reread, dilate, hammer at and study...
In Performance: Tomorrow, In A Year (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Description: The world seen through the eyes of Charles Darwin forms the basis for the performance Tomorrow, in a year. Theatre production company Hotel Pro Forma’s striking visuals blend with pop-duo The Knife’s ground-breaking music to create a new species of electro-opera. An opera singer, a pop singer and an actor perform The Knife’s music...
Featured: Goat Island (Chicago, USA)
Goat Island is a Chicago-based collaborative performance group. In summer 2005 the company restructured itself where there are now two distinct layers of membership, which is defined by Core and Associate. Core members are Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson (director), Mark Jeffery, Bryan Saner, and Litó Walkey. Associate members are Cynthia Ashby, Lucy Cash...
Featured: Mapa Teatro (Bogota, Columbia)
One of the foremost artistic companies in Colombia, Mapa Teatro has been producing theater, performance and art installation projects since 1984. Founders and directors, Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden have created a wide ranging repertoire of theater, opera, mixed-media performance, and site-specific installation. Their work proposes richly textured visual metaphors in which they consider often complex...
Highlights: Prelude NYC 2010
PRELUDE.10 asks a blunt question that straddles funding, audience and disciplinary tensions pervasive in our contemporary performance sector: “Why Does Live Matter?” What is its purpose? How do we measure its value to individuals, to communities, and to that collector of the dead – History? Three themes over three days drive our investigation: Communication, Provocation,...
Highlights: Philadelphia Live Arts Festival 2010 (Philadelphia, USA)
About: Philadelphia Live Arts Festival 2010 September 3-18, 2010 A collection of the world’s best contemporary performing artists energize Philadelphia audiences each year during the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Selected by Nick Stuccio, the Festival’s Producing Director, about half of these artists are based in Philadelphia, while others come in from across the globe. In...
