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Caden Manson (Editor In Chief)

Caden Manson (Editor In Chief)

Caden Manson is Editor In Chief and Curator of Contemporary Performance Network and co-founder and artistic director of Big Art Group, a New York City performance company founded in 1999.

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

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 as Méliès, Painlévé and Piscator, Staging
March 25, 2013

Books: Move. Choreographing You: Art and Dance Since the 1960s

Move. Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance since the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated book, published in connection with a major exhibition, focuses on visual artists and choreographers who create sculptures and installations that direct the movements of audiences–making
March 14, 2013

Featured: Reza Abdoh (1963-1995)

Reza Abdoh Reza Abdoh, avant-garde director, playwright, company leader and poet, was born on February 23, 1963 to Ali Abdoh and Homa Oboodi in Teheran, Iran. At the age of seven, he saw Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in
February 23, 2013

Featured: Hotel Pro Forma (Copenhagen, Denmark)

ABOUT HOTEL PRO FORMA Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion of theatre into new territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre and non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression. Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation, consciousness and intuition,
January 23, 2013

Highlights: American Realness January 10-20, 2013 (NYC)

Over the past three years American Realness has established itself as “a stronghold of forward-thinking, category-defying performance”. (The New York Times). tbspMGMT is thrilled to announce that the 2013 edition of this “spunky, smart” program will return to the Abrons Arts Center
January 9, 2013

Highlights: PS122’s COIL13 Jan. 3-19, 2013 (NYC)

COIL is Performance Space 122’s annual winter performance festival full of contemporary, textured, global, local, contemplative, grounded, rigorous, and always very live performance. Below are ContemporaryPerformance.com’s highlights Seagull (Thinking of you) Half Straddle / Tina Satter (USA) New Ohio Theatre 154 Christopher
January 8, 2013

In Performance: Catch 54 (NYC)

CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event that blows through Brooklyn every couple of months. CATCH is curated by Jeff Larson, Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons. 8pm Saturday 15 December The Bushwick Starr: 207 Starr Street between Wyckoff and Irving BROOKLYN
December 11, 2012

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 video and images Matteo Maffesanti lighting Rocco Giansante costumes
December 3, 2012

Featured: The Institute of Failure

About the Institute Situated on the ungraspable border between deadpan irony and high seriousness, The Institute of Failure dedicates itself to the documentation, study, and theorisation of failure as it occurs in all aspects of human endeavour. Existing as a website and
November 26, 2012

Books: The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

What is theatre? What is performance? What are their connections and differences? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth century, and, importantly, where are they heading next? Proposing answers to these big questions, The Routledge
November 25, 2012

In Performance: Liz Santoro’s Watch it (NYC)

Watch it Liz Santoro Thursday, November 15-17, 2012 $15 general / $10 members and students Loading Dock click here to purchase tickets, or call 1.800.838.3006 World Premiere How do we receive attention, and how do we give attention?  What drives it, what distracts
November 12, 2012

In Performance: Cage on Vinyl on Marley (NYC)

Cage on Vinyl on Marley Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 11am-6pm National Academy Museum 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC Norte Maar and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) continue their exhaustive Cage Transmitted Series celebrating the centennial of John Cage,
October 24, 2012
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