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...
Higlights: Uovo Festival (Milan, Italy) March 16-26, 2011
UOVO AN UNDISCIPLINED PROJECT ON THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Uovo is an international and undisciplined project that promotes contemporary creativity in its diverse declinations and expressive formats, going beyond the traditional division of genres and places of representation and favoring a cross between diverse disciplines of art and of communication. A nomadic and undisciplined path that...
Highlights: Perforations Festival New York March 11-20, 2011 (NYC)
The Perforations Festival takes place annually in Croatia and presents a range of artists working in performance art, theater, and dance, whose diverse approaches to art-making blurs the borders between these genres. Their work touches upon issues of identity (public, political, religious), redefining borders and space, a collective past, and personal histories, but most of...
Highlights: The Vooruit Festival – The Game is Up 2011 (Ghent, Belgium)
the game is up! 2011 March 15 -26, 2011 a festival that breaks the rules The Vooruit festival the game is up! is a playground for clever artists that create performances with a twist. Under the tagline ‘You’re about to do something you shouldn’t’, the first edition asked the artists and the audience to discard...
Highlights: Black Box Marstrand Festival (Norway)
Gisèle Vienne (FR) I Apologize «I Apologize» was born out of an accident reconstruction. This reconstruction is the basis from which derive several versions of the same event, in order to define its truth and reality. These various versions take on a blurred identity, somewhere between the representation of a real event and the representation...
Highlights- APAP MEGA Listings: UTR, Coil, American Realness, and Off The Map
As we move into this next exciting week of too many shows to possible see during the APAP conference, Under The Radar Festival, Coil Festival, American Realness Festival, and some non-festival performances that are “Off The Map”, we’ve put together our master highlights list. Good Luck and post back and let us know what you...
Highlights: Here’s Culturemart January 7 – 23, 2011 (NYC)
Culturemart Here Art Center (NYC) January 7 – 23, 2011 CULTUREMART provides a platform for Here’s resident artists to blur the boundaries between dance, theatre, music, new media, puppetry, and visual art, melding these forms to support their adventurous visions. This year’s program features 12 workshop performances spanning topics as varied as natural architecture, clones,...
Highlights: Under The Radar Festival January 5-16, 2011 (NYC)
Under The Radar Festival 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 go al of UTR is to offer a crash course in theater that is...
Highlights: Performance Space 122 6th Annual COIL Festival (NYC)
Performance Space 122 6th Annual COIL Festival January 5 – 15, 2011 PS122’s winter festival of contemporary performance featuring works from its past, present and future seasons 11 days. 17 companies. Since COIL began in 2006, 50+ companies from NYC, the US, UK, Australia, continental Europe, Latin America and Asia have been presented as part of...
Highlights: American Realness Festival (NYC)
AMERICAN REALNESS: A FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE JANUARY 6-10, 2011 ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND STREET AT PITT STREET GENERAL ADMISSION $10 – $20 ABRONSARTSCENTER.ORG AMERICAN REALNESS is a festival of new dance and contemporary performance made for the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference; a platform for the other-ed, experimental and subversive American artist tearing...
