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...

The Performance Club is a group of people who go to performances together, mostly in NYC, and then discuss them afterwards, in person and/or via this website, a curated, multi-feature blog which is both a forum for arts writing as well as a chance for all interested parties to share their own critical voices in...

Storytelling is, among other things, the art of regulating the flow of information shared with an audience. Playwright Richard Foreman is a foremost master of this art, withholding much that makes our world familiar and meaningful. Getting Out of Bed with Richard Foreman - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

For the last decade Branch Nebula have been developing distinctive, hybrid movement-based performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics, music and design to create powerful and visceral experiences for audiences. Their latest major ensemble work Sweat premiered at Performance Space in 2010 and toured to Dance Massive, Melbourne and In Transit Festival, Berlin in 2011. The Helpmann nominated Paradise City toured nationally and...

The Brazilian action artist Michel Groisman stages his own body in sculptural motion-pictures designed for art galleries and museums. With the machines he constructs, he relates the movements of parts of his body one to another in extremely slow sequences of movements. In other projects, Groisman integrates visitors via games into mutual actions with their...

With over 1200 videos posted  by members of the Contemporary Performance Network, our video library is growing daily. Today’s post is the first in a series to highlight and feature some of these videos in curated sets. Our first set is about documentation of the working process. How do you as a creator document your...

1minute69 (Lille, France) Extracts of B0DYSC4PES live performance, as it has been presented for the 1st time in Roma, May 2011. Through body projection mapping and live motion tracking, 1minute69 offers an interactive audiovisual piece in line with a study of body representation in our societies. 1minute69 is an artist collective created by french digital...

Belluard Bollwerk International 6.24 – 7.2.2011 Fribourg, Switzerland Belluard Bollwerk International takes a special position in the Swiss and European festival landscape through its qualitative, pointed program, its scale, unique location and inviting, convivial atmosphere. Belluard Bollwerk International presents projects from the fields of theatre, dance, performance, music, visual arts, video, music en related art...