Contemporary Performance Network

THREE WAYS TO SEE THE WORK #1 (Large)American Realness Festival at ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE466 Grand Street / tickets $15 / AbronsArtsCenter.orgJanuary 5, 2012 8:30pmJanuary 7, 2012 9:30pmJanuary 12, 2012 8:30pmJanuary 13, 2012 8:30pmJanuary 14, 2012 7:00pm #2 (Medium)Interactive Installation at La MaMa

   Welcome to this week’s network update. This week’s Member Spotlight Vote has already started. You can cast your vote here. Below are some links to top content and latest additions to the blog. Let us know what you are working on and

The Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and the Migros Culture Percentage are looking for artistic projects that are dealing with RETOX.. The Festival Belluard Bollwerk International 2012 is telling you to wake up and invites everyone to RETOX. The term RETOX – or retoxification

AUDITION Performers and Dancers PS.122 in collaboration with Columbia University are presenting Davis Freeman’s critically acclaimed work Too Shy to Stare as part of PS.122’s COIL Festival January 4-15, 2012. PS122 is looking for actor’s, dancers or physical performers, with different body

Big Art Group will perform the balloon sacrifice action (from SOS) at BANZAI!!!!! this Saturday May 28th, 2011. Catch us if you can!   BANZAI!!!!!Art and Performance BlitzSaturday, May 28th 8PM-3AMMemorial Day Weekend Red Lotus Room893 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY 11238(Between Classon & Franklin)

The Watermill Center: Accepting Applications for The 2011 International Summer Program Application deadline: March 31, 2011 Image courtesy of Lovis Dengler The Watermill Center is currently looking for artists of all disciplines between the ages of 18 and 40 to apply for The

Hey Henning, Here is my short list of must haves from the books page. I made them live links so you can just click on them.   I love this book and have had it my collection for along time. I’ve even

We are very happy to announce a call for proposals to be included in our first publication titled Contemporary Performance TXTS. This will be a network produced book about how we as contemporary performance makers prepare, road map, document, and archive our

Hi Everyone,   Link your offsite blog to our front page (members only)   We’re making a master blog feed that will post to the front page. The CPN Master Blog will list and link to individual offsite blogs. If you have

CONTROL YOUR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS There are a number of different types of notifications you’ll receive by default. This includes messages sent to only you, to groups you belong to, to your events, to the whole Network, or messages people sent to all

“Image Eaters”, a 36 page article by Jacob Gallagher-Ross about the work of Big Art Group, has been published in this quarters edition of TDR: The Drama Review. Excerpt: Theatre artists keen to investigate the theatrical possibilities of technological image-making must inevitably

CITYRAMA is a new performance created by Caden Manson / Big Art Group in collaboration with the students of HKB and the Teatro Stabile of Torino. CITYRAMA comprises a site-based theatrical and video installation that functions as a performance machine, asking the

The Grotowski SourcebookEdited by Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford Wylam The influence of Jerzy Grotowski’s work on twentieth century theatre is undeniable. A key player in making his work known wasThe Drama Review, and now, for the first time, 30 years’ worth

Yves-Noel Genod After training as an actor in the school of Antoine Vitez Theatre National de Chaillot, Yves-Noel Genod working with Claude Regy , Francois Tanguy at the Raft Theatre of Le Mans, and Julie Brochen for ‘ The Living Corpse ‘of

Philipp Gehmacher grew up in Salzburg and in Vienna. In 1993 he went to London Contemporary Dance School where he received a BA in Contemporary Dance in 1996. After the first solo “the mumbling fish” he enrolled for an MA Dance Studies

SOMETIMES IT’S THERE Ulrika Kinn Svensson and Koen De Prete ‘Sometimes it’s there’ is an intimate performance created by two young choreographers and friends, born out of a need to join their creative forces. This atmospheric piece is a search for subtle

Festival Escrita na Paisagem is looking for works to be presented at its Video-Performance Showroom, which will take place between the 20th and the 23rd September, in Évora, Portugal. READ MORE –>

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 skill”

From the Artistic Director: We are looking forward to presenting you with another three weeks of international art and theory. Choreographers, directors, scholars, artists and musicians from everywhere from Tokyo to New York to Johannesburg are coming to Hamburg with their view

The Fukuoka Prize The Fukuoka Prize was established to honor outstanding achievements by individuals or groups/organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse cultures of Asia. The aim is to foster and increase awareness of the value of Asian cultures as

d performance community. Over the past 25 years what was once an abandoned school has become one of the world’s leading arts institutions, an esteemed presenter of experimental and alternative performance and a home to countless emerging artists. Located on the corner

Dedicated to the Revolutions is a show about seven scientific revolutions that a grade eight teacher once said altered the course of humanity: Gutenberg, Copernican, Newtonian, Industrial, Darwinian, Nuclear and Information. Erin Shields, Aimée Dawn Robinson, Chad Dembski Photo: Trevor Schwellnus Six

Tanz Im August 2010 From the Organizers: During the 22nd edition of Tanz im August, we would like to draw your attention to a topic that has become increasingly important – not only in politics and the media, but also in contemporary

Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear: Everything starts in a forest. Extremely natural, inhabited by a buzzard in feathers and bones, this wooded landscape is staged like the reflection of the interior experiences of the characters who cross it.