“Big Art Group is a live performance collective created by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and video. There are a score of companies that do just this. What’s different about Big Art Group is how they design a performance that is so exacting...

Ricci Forte was formed at Silvio D’Amico’s Accademia Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica/Rome and at New York University, they studied writing with Edward Albee. They won drama awards such as: Premio Studio 12, Oddone Cappellino, Vallecorsi, Fondi-La Pastora and Hystrio. They represented Eliseo Theatre/Rome at the first edition of ExtraCandoni Festival. “troia’s discount” was shown in 2006....

The Italian contemporary performance collective, Societas Raffaello Sanzio is one of the most recognized and sought after Italian companies of the past decade.  Founding leaders of the company include Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi.  For the first 20 years the works were directed and designed by Romeo Castellucci, the company creates works in...

Pathosformel is Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani, young artists based in Milan. Their work explores new ways of using the body on stage and radically experiments with movement and visual imagery. The Timidity of Bones was created in 2007 when it won special mention at Premio Scenario, Italian theatre’s leading awards celebration. In 2008...

WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:00pm The Invisible Dog 51 bergen street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) will be an evening of current explanations by contemporary performance makers around the siren call of “liveness” in art...

The Varieties of Performance Experience A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson (NYC) The Kitchen (NYC)  January 24, 2012 7pm FREE  Protagonist? Irruption? Squatter? Successively celebrated, rejected, ignored, and rediscovered, “performance” as a term and practice is a vexed and provocative domain within a number of fields. The publication of two new...

THE LEGACY OF REZA ABDOH Martin E. Segal Theatre Center 
(Map) December 19, 2011 10am – 9pm Part I 10-4pm ALL-DAY SCREENINGS Curated by Adam Soch Williams, videographer and documentarian 10am Introductory remarks (via Skype) by Daniel Mufson, author Reza Abdoh (1999) 10:15-11:50am Bogeyman (1991) 11:50am-1:15pm Law of Remains (1992) 1:15pm-3pm Tight Right White (1993) 3pm-4pm Selections...

Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, this rarely performed and revolutionary work launched director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass to international success when it was first produced in Avignon, France in 1976, with subsequent performances in Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera. It is still recognized as...

Continuing the’s dedication to expanding the integration of art and culture in everyday life, this fall MAD will present the inaugural edition of its series on performance in untraditional spaces, Risk + Reward. From a world premiere performance by enfant terrible Jack Ferver, to museum-wide, all-day investigation in improvisational structures by Sarah Maxfield, and new...

The Platform was held on Monday January 12, 2009 1pm to 5pm “Changing Role of the Performer in the 21st Century” The Wild Project (NYC) 195 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10009 Five perspectives on the role of the performer in America. On January 12, 2009, Big Art Group in coordination with the Advancing...