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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: Intermediality in Theatre and Performance

Intermediality: the incorporation of digital technology into theatre practice, and the presence of film, television and digital media in contemporary theatre is a significant feature of twentieth-century performance. Presented here for the first time is a major collection of essays, written by
January 18, 2011

Ellen Stewart (1919 – 2011)

Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa, ETC passes away at 91. Ellen Stewart (born November 7, 1919 Alexandria, Louisiana), was an American theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club) Ellen Stewart was the Founder and
January 13, 2011

Books: Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)

About: [amazonify]0262524643[/amazonify]The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky’s exhibition designs
January 9, 2011

Highlights: Here’s Culturemart January 7 – 23, 2011 (NYC)

Culturemart Here Art Center (NYC) January 7 – 23, 2011 CULTUREMART provides a platform for Here’s resident artists to blur the boundaries between dance, theatre, music, new media, puppetry, and visual art, melding these forms to support their adventurous visions. This year’s
January 7, 2011

In Performance: APAP Off The Map Part 2 (NYC)

Freedom Club The Riot Group/New Paradise Laboratories January 6 – 15, 2011 The Connelly Theatre 220 East 4th Street, NYC 10009 A fierce, undead tension animates the American frontier: the struggle between the freedom of the individual and the question of who
December 28, 2010

In Performance: APAP Off The Map (NYC)

We’re coming up on APAP in New York and this past week we’ve highlighted the Under The Radar Festival, American Realness Festival, and the Coil Festival. Before we move back out into the wider world of performance we wanted to feature two
December 27, 2010

Highlights: American Realness Festival (NYC)

AMERICAN REALNESS: A FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE JANUARY 6-10, 2011 ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND STREET AT PITT STREET GENERAL ADMISSION $10 – $20 ABRONSARTSCENTER.ORG AMERICAN REALNESS is a festival of new dance and contemporary performance made for the annual Association of Performing Arts
December 21, 2010

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
December 15, 2010

In Performance: matanicola’s What on Earth (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel)

What on Earth by matanicola World premiere Thursday, 09/12/2010, 21:00 Friday, 10/12/2010, 21:00 Saturday, 11/12/2010, 21:00 Sunday, 12/12/2010, 21:00 The Theatre Warehouse, Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Ticket reservations: 03-5107070 http://misterticket.co.il/ A beautiful and painful warning which embodies a disturbing poetic
December 7, 2010

Featured: Joel Kyack’s Superclogger (Los Angeles)

Superclogger was Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack’s first large-scale public project. Conceived with Providence-based artist and bike mechanic Peter Fuller and developed out of Kyack’s interest in chaos, performance, and the relationship between individual will and collective control, Superclogger presented various puppet
December 1, 2010

Books: Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

[amazonify]0415173833[/amazonify]Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be ‘Britain’s most brilliant experimental theatre company'( Guardian), Certain Fragments investigates the processes of devising performance, the
November 21, 2010
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