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.

In Performance: Meg Stuart’s Violet

‘VIOLET’ is Meg Stuart’s new work in which five dancers reveal simultaneously and singularly an energetic landscape, a charged terrain of options. Their actions are manifestations of surging phenomena, imperceptible but always active. Violet is a steep descent into a maelstrom, a
July 21, 2011

Highlights: ImPulsTanz Festival 2011 (Vienna, Austria)

ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival July 12 – August 14 Thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers from all over the world, come together, work together, for five weeks, in one city – ImPulsTanz. 1984. In Austria‘s leading cultural city Vienna
July 20, 2011

Featured: Winner of the Network Video Contest!

1minute69 (Lille, France) Extracts of B0DYSC4PES live performance, as it has been presented for the 1st time in Roma, May 2011. Through body projection mapping and live motion tracking, 1minute69 offers an interactive audiovisual piece in line with a study of body
June 27, 2011

In Performance: Judith Sánchez Ruíz (NYC)

FRIDAY JUNE 24 8pm / free admission Invisible Dog 51 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Site specific performance by choreographer Judith Sánchez Ruíz in collaboration with visual artist Ian Trask. Composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist John McGrew will create the music score. Performers: Judith Sánchez Ruíz, Simon
June 23, 2011

Featured: Belluard Bollwerk International (Fribourg, Switzerland)

Belluard Bollwerk International 6.24 – 7.2.2011 Fribourg, Switzerland Belluard Bollwerk International takes a special position in the Swiss and European festival landscape through its qualitative, pointed program, its scale, unique location and inviting, convivial atmosphere. Belluard Bollwerk International presents projects from the
June 21, 2011

In Performance: How to Build a Forest (NYC) FREE!

PearlDamour + Shawn Hall: How to Build a Forest Friday-Sunday, June 17-19 and 24-26, 2-10pm The Kitchen FREE Known for transforming narrative into something richer, stranger, and ineluctably feminine, OBIE Award-winning PearlDamour (Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour) join forces with New Orleans-based
June 16, 2011

Books: The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography

Scenography – the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment – is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures,
June 15, 2011

Education: Headlong Performance Institute (Philadelphia, PA)

Headlong Performance Institute is an intensive Philadelphia semester in hybrid performance founded and taught by working artists, including artistic directors of Headlong Dance Theater and Pig Iron Theatre Company. HPI students train, create, perform, and see work (including a full schedule of
June 13, 2011

In Performance: June at CPR (Brooklyn, NYC, USA)

CPR Presents: New Voices In Live Performance Tourists from the Future:  a sci-fi, new-wave pop fable of time-travel and eco-tourism Megan Whitmarsh, Matt Salata, and My Barbarian The 4th of 4 events in collaboration with The Watermill Center June 13, 2011 7:30pm
June 10, 2011

Member Spotlight: Red Bind (Toulouse, France)

Red Bind (Toulouse, France) are multidisciplinary artists; they investigate subjects such as dominant/dominated relationships, social yokes, gender and its limits and ambiguities, issues of the double and of the multiple characters under a single skin, codes and what happens to them out
June 8, 2011

In Performance: Hiroaki Umeda (jp) – Holistic Strata (Amsterdam, NL)

Holistic Strata Hiroaki Umeda (jp) Festival Julidans (Amsterdam,NL) 09 July 2011, 20:30 Hiraoki Umeda’s performances generate an intense visual experience, characterized by minimalistic subtlety and radical expression combined with technological manipulations of light and sound. In his performance installation Holistic Strata, he translates
June 7, 2011
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