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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.

Week in Review March 26, 2011

We had another busy week on the network with over 100 members joining us! We started discussions of the book Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance. Its been slow going as people rush to read the book, but we can take as long
March 26, 2011

Member Spotlight: Laurel Jay Carpenter (Alfred, NY, USA)

Laurel Jay Carpenter is a performance and installation artist, investigating longing, devotion and alchemy in her durational live works. She has exhibited extensively in New York City at venues including Exit Art/The First World, The Knitting Factory, Performance Space 122, Judson Church
March 22, 2011

Books: The Art of Stillness: The Theater Practice of Tadashi Suzuki

[amazonify]1403961700[/amazonify] For more than forty years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theater, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his famous production of The Trojan Women, which subsequently toured around the world.
March 18, 2011

Emerging: Marc Arthur’s Peter and the Wolf (NYC)

MARC ARTHUR PETER AND THE WOLF Friday, March 18th at 7:30pm Saturday, March 19th at 2pm & 7:30pm 184 Eldridge Street (corner of Rivington), New York Tickets: $15 The classic Sergei Prokofiev composition Peter and the Wolf (1936) is torn apart in
March 15, 2011

Higlights: Uovo Festival (Milan, Italy) March 16-26, 2011

UOVO AN UNDISCIPLINED PROJECT ON THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Uovo is an international and undisciplined project that promotes contemporary creativity in its diverse declinations and expressive formats, going beyond the traditional division of genres and places of representation and favoring a cross between
March 14, 2011

Member Spotlight: Julie Tolentino (Joshua Tree, CA, USA)

Julie Tolentino Joshua Tree, CA, US Bio: Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including her time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and audio soundscapes. She performed with David Rousseve/REALITY Dance Theater, Ron Athey, Ibrahim Quarishi, Helen Paris and Leslie Hill, Margarita Guergue,
March 7, 2011

Books: Tom Sellar, Editor of Theater Magazine. Video

Tom Sellar, Editor of Theater Magazine discusses the journal’s inception, notable special issues, the journal’s editorial vision/direction, and what he’s looking for in submissions. Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 40 journals. This places the Press’s books
March 3, 2011

Books: Liveness – Performance in a Mediatized Culture

[amazonify]0415773539[/amazonify]Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s ground-breaking
March 1, 2011

Featured: DD Dorvillier Future Human Dance Corps (USA)

6F3SBUQ29E4 DD Dorvillier is a New York based choreographer, performer, and teacher. In 2003 she and composer David Kean were awarded two Bessies for Choreography and Soundscore of Dressed for Floating (Danspace Project, 2002). Her No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic
February 27, 2011

Featured: Verdensteatret (Oslo, Norway)

Based in Oslo and led by Lisbeth J. Bodd and Asle Nilsen, Verdensteatret has long had strong ties to the European, especially German, theatrical tradition that includes Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Heiner Müller. Following experiments in fields such as visual performance, environmental
February 23, 2011

Member Spotlight: The Nerve Tank (NYC, USA)

Every week the members of Contemporary Performance Network vote to spotlight one member. This week’s Member Spotlight is The Nerve Tank (NYC, USA) Bio: Founded in 2006 by Melanie S. Armer and Chance D. Muehleck, The Nerve Tank is an incubator for theatrical
February 21, 2011
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