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Contemporary Performance is a global platform for contemporary performance, connecting artists, curators, and institutions through opportunities, critical writing, and artist resources. We publish residencies, grants, open calls, performance reviews, and field research across theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary practices.

Performance Reviews

Tere O’Connor’s Construct-a-Guy and The Lace at New York Live Arts: Architectures of Multiplicity

Tere O’Connor’s Construct-a-Guy and The Lace at New York Live Arts bring forty years of choreographic thinking into a single program. These dances reveal O’Connor’s evolving architectures of multiplicity, rigor, and queer complexity, inviting audiences into a system of movement shaped by attention and continual recalibration.

Reading The Field

Choreographies of Collapse: Performance in a Time of Climate Reckoning – Reading the Field – June 2025

Explore how contemporary performance artists engage climate collapse through site-specific rituals, ecological movement, and embodied environmental resistance.

No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

Five artists reclaim the body as rupture, resistance, and ritual. Explore extreme embodiment in this month’s Reading the Field from Contemporary Performance.

Festivals AND VENUES

RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS

Never Miss An Opportunity Again: 3 Simple Systems For Tracking Artist Opportunities

If you keep hearing about grants, residencies, and festivals right after the deadline, it is because you are managing many responsibilities and do not...

Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Not all time is equal. As artists, we need to recognize what drains us, what restores us, and why boredom might be the missing piece in our creative capacity.

Set up a Creative Practice Notebook in 6 Steps

There’s no single way to keep a creative journal—but if you’re trying to sustain an artistic life across the cycles of making, pausing, researching,...

5 Things to Consider When Running an Artist’s Email List

Developing and maintaining an active email list is a crucial strategy for keeping your audience informed about your latest projects, upcoming events, and other relevant updates. Regular communication helps build a loyal following and keeps people engaged with your work. Here’s how to effectively create and manage your email list:

CV Maintenance: The Key to Being Ready for Opportunities

Maintaining an up-to-date CV is essential for every artist. Treat it as a living document you maintain as you go, keeping a Google Doc or Word document on your computer to make it an actively updateable repository of your work.
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