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Opportunities: Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (Brooklyn, USA)
Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) July 4-28, 2013 This year, Brooklyn-based performance artists, curators, critics, gallery directors, cultural organizers, and many others from all over the world are working together to perform…
Newsletter: Whats New On Contemporary Performance – May 2013
Whats New On Contemporary Performance – May 2013 We have listed the top OPPORTUNITIES, BOOKS, and VIDEOS for you.Some of these are NSFW. Also, we are moving the network to a new architecture…
Opportunities: HomeBase BUILD VI Artist-in-Residency (Berlin)
* HB BUILD VI, Fall 2013 Artist-in-Residency (Berlin) * Duration: October 2nd, 2013 – January 3rd, 2014 * Exhibition and Display of new works / HB Festival – 13, 14, 15 Dec 2013…
Featured: “yo.contenido” Tijuana 10/2013
www.yocontenido.com (available june 2013) http://monstertruck000.wix.com/javierpulidogandara yo.contenido is an exhibition that will open in October 2013 as part of the arts festival in the city of Tijuana “ENTIJUANARTE” (Oct 4th-6th). The exhibition is…
Books: Notes on Conceptualisms by Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place
Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place‘s Notes on Conceptualisms is not strictly a text on contemporary performance. However, this little manual/poem/theoretical document pertains directly to conceptual performance and conversations emerging across performance fields, especially…
Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)
Art of Projection Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern…
Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)
Art of Projection Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern…
In Performance: Hofesh Shechter – Political Mother (St.Pölten, Austria)
Political Mother Hofesh Shechter Festspielhaus St.Pölten 16.2.2013 St.Pölten, Austria The Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, who recently received a variety of talent and newcomer awards, continues his string of successes with his work “Political…
In Performance: Doris Uhlich – Come Back (Vienna, Austria)
Come Back Doris Uhlich Brut Wien 16.1./18.1./19.1./22.1./24.1. – 26.1.2013 Vienna, Austria Choreographer Doris Uhlich’s Come Back brings five former ballet dancers from Vienna’s State Opera and People’s Opera back to the brut stage…
First Person: Jill Bernard’s “Drum Machine” (Houston, TX, USA)
Drum Machine was performed by Jill Bernard, special guest of Station Theater, at Avant Garden on November 25, 2012. Station Theater is a comedy and arts conservatory in Houston, Texas. Bernard began the…
First Person: A New English Theatre of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
A bomb goes off, a telephone rings in the darkness, the lights flicker, and a thin tract of stage slowly reveals the actors standing dreamily at a hotel’s front desk. But this is…
Video: FOLK-S will you still love me tomorrow? by Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy)
FOLK-S will you still love me tomorrow? by Alessandro Sciarroni creation and dramaturgy Alessandro Sciarroni folk-dancers Marco D’Agostin, Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Francesca Foscarini, Matteo Ramponi, Alessandro Sciarroni, Francesco Vecchi sound Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld…
In Performance: Continuum Live Art Series, AvantGarden (Houston, TX, USA) NSFW
Continuum Live Art Series will take place at AvantGarden from November 2012 to April 2013. The series will include evenings of performance events and evenings of workshops. The first workshop will be Sunday,…
First Person: Deborah Hay, Richmond Hall (Houston, TX, USA)
Deborah Hay, a member of the Judson Dance Theater and a founder of postmodern dance, performed at Richmond Hall on October 13 at noon and again at 3pm. Her site specific work called Richmond…
Opportunities: Sibiu International Theatre Festival 2013 (Romania)
Sibiu International Theatre Festival is a performing arts festival held annually in Transylvania, Romania. In terms of audience numbers it’s the third largest theatre festival in the world. The 20th edition takes place…
First Person: Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, 343 Perspectives at Peckham Space (London, UK)
Using residents of areas in London that are only served by one mode of transport, the 343 bus Larsen’s film shows different perspectives on the people who live within these communities. The…
Video: Day 2 of PRELUDE12 (NYC)
PRELUDE.12 is the ninth annual PRELUDE dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance, interdisciplinary and mediatized performance. In its largest lineup ever, PRELUDE.12 will offer an array…
In Performance: Saying the Unsayable – Needcompany, ‘Marketplace 76′ (Vienna, Bruges, Brussels)
Jan Lauwers and Needcompany are premiering their new work Marketplace 76 in Europe this Fall. As ever, there’s provocation within the seeming perfection of Lauwers’ form and this piece promises to stir questions of…
Featured: Video Stream from Opening Night Of PRELUDE12
To Open Prelude 12 at CUNY Graduate Center on October 3, 2012, 12 Performance makers from the NYC experimental and “downtown” community were asked to deliver manifestos. Below is the live stream capture…
In Performance: Philippe Saire’s BLACKOUT (Zurich, Switzerland)
Black Out Philippe Saire Rote Fabrik October 4 & 5, 2012 Black Out, after a series of pieces marked by theatricality, renews with the plenitude of movement and above all bearswitness to…
In Performance: Danish Dance Theatre: Walking in the Night (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Oct 9. – 20. 2012 DANSEhallerne at Carlsberg, Pasteursvej 14, Copenhagen V, DK 5:00 pm & 8:00 pm Duration: 1 h 20 mins (intermission: 20 min.) / Age: 15 years old World-renowned choreographer…
In Performance: Forced Entertainment – The Coming Storm (Vienna, Austria)
The Coming Storm Forced Entertainment Tanzquartier Wien 5.10.-6.10.2012 Vienna, Austria In this new work Forced Entertainment – international innovators of contemporary theatre – tangle and cross-cut multiple stories to make a…
Video: Ronald Bal – Hidden Borders
Artist; Ronald Bal Work; Performance 10 min. Location; Zwolle Country; Netherlands Year; 2012
In Performance: SITE Project (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
SITE Project: Contemporary Performance Event and Gallery Exhibition Curated by Whitney V. Hunter SITE Project is a month-long gallery exhibition and two-night contemporary performance event. The exhibition features 10 invited NY-based African diasporic, visual…
Video: CONSTANZA MACRAS | DorkyPark ‘s Open For Everything
OPEN FOR EVERYTHING is a travel through the stagnation of Roma communities in Europe to whom chances to work like any other citizen are rather low, where itinerant traditions have been replaced by…
Einstein on the Beach 2012 Official Trailer
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH An Opera in Four Acts Robert Wilson Philip Glass Lucinda Childs Presented in association with Pomegranate Arts Sep 14 & 15, 19—22, 2012 at 7pm Sep 16 & 23,…
Video: Lucky Trimmer Tanz Performance Serie #18 (Berlin, Germany)
LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance Serie #18 28. September 2012 | 20.00 Uhr 29. September 2012 | 18.00 + 21:00 Uhr Sophiensaele Berlin, Festsaal www.sophiensaele.com
Video: Francisco Camacho’s ANDIAMO!
Direcção Artística e Coreografia FRANCISCO CAMACHO Co-criação e Interpretação ANTONIA BURESI, DAVID MARQUES, ROBERTO MARTINEZ, MARIANA TENGNER BARROS e TIAGO CADETE | Participações especiais CARLOTA LAGIDO E SÍLVIA REAL Cenografia e adereços RAFAEL…
Featured: Arte por la izquierda, Art Stance (Mexico City)
We live in the trenches that the government has built, installed around our ideas. From there we raise our willingness, hopping to break these seemingly solid structures of control, so obvious, with those…
TBA:12 – Time-Based Art Festival Sept 6-12, 2012 (Portland, OR, USA)
September marks the tenth anniversary of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, and the first curated by Artistic Director Angela Mattox. Happening September 6–16, 2012, TBA is a convergence of contemporary…
First Person: Medium by The Bridge Club (Houston, TX, USA)
All four performers were wearing skirts and shirts appearing to be in a style from around the 1950’s which also included similar hair styles. While suspended well above the audience in their unique,…
Alexander Calder’s “Circus”
Carlos Vilardebo’s 1961 film of Alexander Calder’s “circus,” an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals. These figures, crafted from a collection of “cork,…
DV8 – Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men
Added by FACT/SF on August 8, 2012
VIOLET
Added by Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods on February 15, 2012 Five dancers reveal simultaneously and singularly an energetic landscape, a charged terrain of options. Their actions are manifestations of surging phenomena, imperceptible but always…
Triadisches Ballet / Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer
Added by Paulo Henrique on February 10, 2012 Inspired in part by Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and his observations and experiences during the First World War, Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of the human body as…
We Destroy Art/Performance of Fabryka Destrukcja / Improvisation of Destruction Factory
Added by Factory Destruction on August 6, 2012 at 1:56pm Destruction Factory – we destroy art. Performance: Piotr Filonowicz, Paweł Olejnik Video/Audio: Paweł Głogowski Destructive improvisation. I/III Who: Fabryka Destrukcja (Destruction Factory) is two performers…
Kin-Hackt Body Instruments Collection – Arms (Ableton Live and Kinect)
This is one of the Body Instruments designed by Adriano Clemente for his project Kin-Hackt. This performance is one extract from the “Composition for Five Bodies and Kinect”. This is achieved with a…
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May 6, 2013Featured: Gisèle Vienne (Paris, France)
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April 15, 2013
Featured: Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Margulies Collection.
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May 17, 2013Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)
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Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)
Art of Projection Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern…










