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Highlights: Alkantara Festival 2012 (Portugal)

Highlights: Alkantara Festival 2012 (Portugal)

Alkantara is an association based in Lisbon, dedicated to the development of the performing arts in Portugal and in an international context. Its work is motivated by a worldview mindful of difference and a less Eurocentric vision of contemporary artistic creation. Known until 2005 as Danças na Cidade (‘Dances in...
In Performance: Luciana Achugar

In Performance: Luciana Achugar

Luciana Achugar FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM May 11, 2012 – May 19, 2012 8 pm Abrons Arts Center Luciana achugar’s FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM is a dance meditation on the relationship between aesthetics and ideology. It presents dance as a celebration of experience, and pleasure as the consummation of experience. In FEELingpleasuresatisfactiocelebrationholyFORM four women engage in...
In Performance: DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps - Danza Permanente (Belgium)

In Performance: DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps – Danza Permanente (Belgium)

DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps Danza Permanente 11-12 May, 2012, 20:30 (World Premiere) STUK kunstencentrum Leuven, Belgium 15-16 May, 2012, 21:00 (French Premiere) Le Forum, Blanc-Mesnil Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis 26-30 September, 2012 (US Premiere) The Kitchen, NYC Co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Française’s (FIAF) Crossing the Line 2012 https://vimeo.com/41078542...
Highlights: La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival (NYC)

Highlights: La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival (NYC)

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, which takes place in all three of our venues and features over 50 emerging and seasoned choreographers, reflects La MaMa’s longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. 2012 Festival Line-Up: May 9: Love Story, Palestine May11: Chamber Works I May 17: Beauty...
Featured - Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. (NYC)

Featured – Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. (NYC)

Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. May 29 – June 3, 2012 Curatorial Team: Eleanor Hullihan, Neal Medlyn, Marissa Perel, and Enrico Wey Bring on 2012 with its four horsemen and cult sacrifices. If this is the last of the great mortality myths, let’s push it to a...
In Performance: Darmstadt - Classics of the Avant Garde (NYC)

In Performance: Darmstadt – Classics of the Avant Garde (NYC)

Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” Unless otherwise noted, all programs begin at 8PM at ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn Ticket price $15 / $12 Members purchase tickets Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” curators Nick Hallett and Zach Layton announce their fourth annual Institute at ISSUE Project Room....
Featured: Month of Performance Art Berlin (Week of May 7 - 13, 2012)

Featured: Month of Performance Art Berlin (Week of May 7 – 13, 2012)

The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART is a month-long and citywide platform dedicated to highlighting, promoting and interconnecting the wealth and diversity of independent, contemporary and experimental Performance Art practices thriving in BERLIN. The only Performance Art project of its kind in Germany and beyond, MPA-B reflects the creative force injected by autonomous cultural...
In Performance: World Premier of Constanza Macras’ new piece "Open for Everything" opening the Wiener Festwochen 2012

In Performance: World Premier of Constanza Macras’ new piece “Open for Everything” opening the Wiener Festwochen 2012

World Premier of Constanza Macras’ new piece “Open for Everything” opening the Wiener Festwochen 2012 “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 sedentary life beside...
In Performance - Jack Ferver and Mark Swanson: Two Alike May 17–19, 2009 (NYC)

In Performance – Jack Ferver and Mark Swanson: Two Alike May 17–19, 2009 (NYC)

Jack Ferver and Mark Swanson: Two Alike The Kitchen 512 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 Thursday–Saturday, May 17–19, 8pm Tickets $15 Two Alike, a collaboration between Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson, is a visceral and darkly humorous performance exploring the shattering effects of abused queer youth. Existing in an...
Week In Review April 9-15, 2012

Week In Review April 9-15, 2012

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, photos, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary PerformanceNetwork is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Invite your collaborators to share their work...
Week In Review

Week In Review

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, discussions, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary Performance Network is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share...
Featured: Neuer Tanz (Düsseldorf, Germany)

Featured: Neuer Tanz (Düsseldorf, Germany)

The Neuer Tanz ensemble was founded in 1986 by dancer Wanda Golonka and visual artist VA Wölfl. Since 1987 the company has worked in the Düsseldorf royal stables of Benrath Castle Park. Neuer Tanz was the first independent company awarded the first German Producers prize for choreography. Each piece is...
Last Chance NYC: EVELYN by Nellie Tinder At Bushwick Starr

Last Chance NYC: EVELYN by Nellie Tinder At Bushwick Starr

 EVELYN by Nellie Tinder THE BUSHWICK STARR 207 STARR STREET BROOKLYN NY – 11237 Until March 10, 2012 A musical fever-dream delivered by a chorus of some of downtown’s smartest new talent, Evelyn is an idiosyncratic genre mash-up and a haunting yet humorously parodic love letter to things past. Riffing...
Highlights: Festival Bo:m 2.22-4.18.2012 (Seoul, Korea)

Highlights: Festival Bo:m 2.22-4.18.2012 (Seoul, Korea)

The Festival Bo:m is an international festival of performing arts and visual arts that is multi-cultural as well as multi-genre. The Festival Bo:m produces art works and productions by Korean as well as international artists whose works represent an unique vision in their art. The Festival Bo:m will introduce innovative...
Books: Staging the Screen - The Use of Film and Video in Theatre

Books: Staging the Screen – The Use of Film and Video in Theatre

Staging the Screen: The Use of Film and Video in Theatre by: Greg Giesekam The use of film and video is commonplace in contemporary theatre, viewed by some as contaminating theatre’s ‘liveness’, by others as inevitable and desirable. After tracing the history of current approaches back to early practitioners such...
Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)

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 shows and the novel spatial/temporal representations pioneered by Surrealists and experimental filmmakers during the early and mid-twentieth...
Featured: Ricci Forte (Rome, Italy) NSFW

Featured: Ricci Forte (Rome, Italy) NSFW

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...
Featured: Muta Imago Company (Rome, Italy)

Featured: Muta Imago Company (Rome, Italy)

Muta Imago is a project of artistic research that was set up in Rome in 2006 and guided by Claudia Sorace (director) and Riccardo Fazi (dramaturg – sound designer). Over the years the group has produced shows, performances and installations in which the investigation about the relationship between the human being,...
Featured: Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Cesena, Italy)

Featured: Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Cesena, Italy)

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,...
Featured: Pathosformel (Milan, Italy)

Featured: Pathosformel (Milan, Italy)

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...
Books: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Books: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance Chris Salter Foreword by Peter Sellars This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged...
Featured: Einstein on the Beach Tour 2012-2013 Preview Dates Announced

Featured: Einstein on the Beach Tour 2012-2013 Preview Dates Announced

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....
From The Archive: CPN New York Platform

From The Archive: CPN New York Platform

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 Performance: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH Tour 2012-2013

In Performance: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH Tour 2012-2013

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH An Opera in Four Acts by Philip Glass & Robert Wilson Choreography by Lucinda Childs For the First Time in Two Decades, Full Production of the Rarely Performed Work Will Tour Internationally in 2012-2013 The Philip Glass/Robert Wilson collaboration Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four...
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In Performance - Trajal Harrell Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)

In Performance – Trajal Harrell Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)

Trajal Harrell Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L) Apr 25 — 28 at 7:30pm $24 Advance Purchase / $30 Day of Performance – $15 Night: Apr 26 New York Live Arts 219 W 19th Street New York, NY 10011 Pre-Show Talk Apr 25 at 6:30pm with Ralph Lemon Post-Show...
In Performance - Boom! Collective: City April 27, 2012 - April 28, 2012 @ 8 pm (NYC)

In Performance – Boom! Collective: City April 27, 2012 – April 28, 2012 @ 8 pm (NYC)

CITY BLOOM! COLLECTIVE April 27, 2012 – April 28, 2012 @ 8 pm Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street) New York, NY Winner of the 2010 Rudolf Laban Award, the Budapest-and-London-based dance ensemble BLOOM! Collective makes its eagerly anticipated U.S. debut with CITY, a sharp-witted, fearless work that grapples with power, discrimination, and the pressures of political conformity. Founded...
In Performance: We Do Our Best, Liz Santoro in a shared evening with Anne Zuerner (NYC)

In Performance: We Do Our Best, Liz Santoro in a shared evening with Anne Zuerner (NYC)

We Do Our Best Liz Santoro in a shared evening with Anne Zuerner April 12-14, 2012 at 8pm Danspace Project St Marks Church 131 E.10th Street, NY (866) 811 4111 www.danspaceproject.org choreography Liz Santoro performance Mélanie Giffard, Cynthia Koppe and Liz Santoro artistic collaboration Pierre Godard costumes Reid Bartelme lighting Kathy Kaufmann Made possible with the support of FUSED (French...
In Performance: Bond on Blonde at MOMA PS1 Sunday March 25, 2012 3-6pm

In Performance: Bond on Blonde at MOMA PS1 Sunday March 25, 2012 3-6pm

MX Justin Vivian Bond and Caden Manson: Bond on Blonde Sunday March 25, 2012 at 3:00pm until 6:00pm MOMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave Long Island City, New York, NY 11101 “They say blondes have more—more money, more sex, more fun. My experience says it’s true. Artifice=Advancement. So, where does that get you?...
Week In Review: Feb 27, March 3, 2012

Week In Review: Feb 27, March 3, 2012

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, photos, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary PerformanceNetwork is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Invite your collaborators to share their work with 3240 global members.  ...
Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

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Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, photos, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary PerformanceNetwork is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Invite your collaborators to share their work with 3176 global members. We’ve...
In Performance: The Wooster Group & New York City Players Early Plays (NYC)

In Performance: The Wooster Group & New York City Players Early Plays (NYC)

Early Plays The Wooster Group New York City Players based on the Glencairn Plays by Eugene O’Neill Adapted and Directed by Richard Maxwell Produced by The Wooster Group  Feb 15 – March 11, 2012 St. Ann’s Warehouse 38 Water Street (dumbo)Brooklyn, NYC Tickets start at $22 The Wooster Group has invited Richard Maxwell of New...
Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Week In Review: Network Round Up Of Top Members, Content, Photos, and Video

Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We’ve gathered the top most viewed, liked, and commented on members, content, blogs, forums, and videos. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary Performance Network is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. Join now and share your work with over 3129 global...
Books: Digital Performance - A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Books: Digital Performance – A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Digital Performance – A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation Winner, 2008 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics given by the Media Ecology Association (MEA). and Winner, Music and the Performing Arts category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of...
Opportunities: Open Call For Performing Artists and Managers (Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, Turkey)

Opportunities: Open Call For Performing Artists and Managers (Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, Turkey)

E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is a mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom (as project co-organisers) and Turkey (as associated partner country). The project aims to set up a network of artists and cultural practitioners from several...
Books: Performance, Technology, & Science

Books: Performance, Technology, & Science

Performance, Technology, & Science Johannes Birringer Performance, Technology, & Science by Johannes Birringer explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range of practices in design,...
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