Highlights: American Realness Festival 01.05-14.2012 (NYC)
BIG ART GROUP BROKE HOUSE THURS JAN 5 & 12 8:30 PM SAT JAN 7 9:30 PM FRI JAN 13 8:30 PM SAT JAN 14 7:00 PM Run time: 75 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE 466 Grand Street / tickets $15 / AbronsArtsCenter.org Broke House is a new group performance from Caden Manson / Big...
Highlights: Slow Down Winter Performance Festival December 15-18, 2011 (Amsterdam, NL)
Slow Down Winter Performance Festival presents original productions created by artists who explore the boundaries of performance. It is a festival for artists with a unique view on the world and for audiences unafraid of questioning their own perspectives. A selection of 9 international performance-artist is presenting art pieces which durational nature, giving the audience...
Highlights: Under The Radar January 2012 (NYC)
Under the Radar (UTR) is an annual theater festival that spotlights international artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. The festival is a wild mix of works by ensembles, solo artists, writers, and creators. The ultimate goal of UTR is to offer a crash course in theater that is exciting, independent, and...
Highlights: Spielart Festival 11.18 – 12.04, 2011 (Munich, Germany)
SPIELART has been exploring and researching new trends and movements in the world of international theater since 1995, in order to present them to audiences in Munich every two years. The antennas are aimed at unusual forms of expression and aesthetics, current topics, strong personalities, and impressive productions. SPIELART, however, also always concentrates on posing...
Highlights: PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland, Oregon)
PICA’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance and visual art in Portland, Oregon. Now in its ninth year, the TBA Festival is presented September 8-18, 2011, with visual art exhibits running through October. TBA activates the entire community with art...
Highlights: Crossing the Line September 17-October 16, 2011 (NYC)
This fifth edition of Crossing the Line presents diverse and dynamic new work from significant artists who are revolutionizing artistic practices on both sides of the Atlantic. The Festival takes you from Central Park and Museum Mile to an historic Gilded Age-era mansion, as well as to some of the city's most notable arts venues....
Highlights: Noorderzon Festival (Groningen, Netherlands) August 18-28, 2011
The Noorderzon has grown from a small scale culture festival into an internationally-profiled cultural event, spanning eleven days and receiving upwards to 135.000 visitors. In 2001 Mark Yeoman was appointed as director and artistic leader of the festival. The change to a director from outside the Netherlands created a number of possibilities for new initiatives,...
Highlights: Tanz Im August 8.12- 8.28, 2011 (Berlin, Germany)
Tanz Im August 8.12- 8.28, 2011 (Berlin, Germany) Highlights ROBERT AND MARIA Maria Hassabi & Robert Steijn FOTO Antoine Tempe Maria Hassabi, a New York-based choreographer and performer, is known for her works’ aesthetic precision, sculptural quality and extended durations that almost exceed the limits of live performances. In this quiet collaborative duet with Robert...
Highlights: ImPulsTanz Festival 2011 (Vienna, Austria)
ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival July 12 – August 14 Thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers from all over the world, come together, work together, for five weeks, in one city – ImPulsTanz. 1984. In Austria‘s leading cultural city Vienna the cultural manager Karl Regenburger and the choreographer Ismael Ivo launch the Internationale...
Highlights: Festival TransAmériques May 26 – June 11, 2011 (Montreal, Québec)
Festival TransAmériques May 26 – June 11, 2011 Montreal, Québec An international event celebrating new works in contemporary dance and theatre, the Festival TransAmériques combines disciplines and artistic trends under cohesive programming. The Festival presents exciting forms of the art of our era, featuring works by choreographers, writers and directors. The only criterion is to...
Highlights: Wiener Festwochen May 13 – June 19, 2001 (Vienna, Austria)
From the world’s ends about ends of the world. The world’s end, in both senses of the term, is the theme of this year’s Performing Arts Programme, which ranges from Greenland to Mali, from Kazakhstan to Colombia, and whose subject-matter likewise embraces extreme climatic zones that show clearly that water is a reason for war...
Highlights: Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX, US)
Mission: Fusebox champions innovative works of art across a variety of different mediums. The festival acts as a catalyst for new ideas, new artistic models, and approaches to help us engage with the issues and questions that define contemporary life. Core Values: CONVERSATION Creating new avenues of conversation. INNOVATION Presenting contemporary works and programs that...

