Fully Funded Artist Residency – MacDowell Fellowship 2027
MacDowell Fellowship 2027 offers a fully funded artist residency in New Hampshire, plus up to $1,500. Apply by September 10, 2026.
In Performance: SOFTLAMP.autonomies (American Realness)
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Performance Space New York Announces Fall Season – Posthuman
Performance Space New York has announced their fall season and for the next three months artists and audiences will be exploring worlds that extend beyond human perspective, disrupting traditional conceptions of humanity. Rather than positioning human consciousness as the primary source and content
Currents in Contemporary Performance Is Now Published
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Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance, March 1-3, 2018 (NYC)
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5 Currents In Contemporary Performance To Know (Free PDF)
Currents focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance. The book focuses on contemporary performing artists and companies pushing the formal relationships of architecture, artist, and audience. This first publication five areas on the forefront of
Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, Civic Practice: In Conversation with Aaron Landsman
Aaron Landsman is a playwright and performance artist whose work is occasionally co-authored with community members. His most recent piece, Perfect City, is a long-term collaboration with young people on the Lower East Side, architectural interventionists, and activists about the politics of
What is Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, and Civic Practice?
This essay originally appeared in Currents, published by Contemporary Performance and edited by Caden Manson and is also available in hardcopy and available for download as a free pdf below.. Currents focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and
10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 1. Aaron Landsman
Aaron Landsman Aaron Landsman makes live performances involving people, space, time and language. Based in New York City, his projects range from monologues and stage plays to participatory and conceptual works presented in places where people perform their lives: offices, homes, meeting
Do You Know These Artists? Special Effects Festival NYC (Jan 11-13, 2018)
We wanted to share with you the artists for Special Effects Festival NYC 2018 and what we are focusing on with this project. This year’s edition asks; how do we strengthen community? how do we build empathy? and how do we stay focused
10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 1. Adrienne Truscott
The Contemporary Performance Think Tank is organized by Contemporary Performance Network. Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource
Immersive Theater: In Conversation With Shasta Geaux Pop
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Performance Cabaret: In Conversation with Erin Markey
Erin Markey makes music, shows and videos. She has shown work at Under the Radar Festival, A.R.T., New Museum, PS 122, New York City Comedy Festival, Ars Nova, Lincoln Center Director's Lab, UCBeast, Bard Spiegeltent, Tasmania's Festival of Voices, San Francisco Film
What Is Performance Cabaret?
Performance Cabaret queers the classic cabaret refrain “Let me entertain you!” towards work that engages high and low culture together, uniting crisscrossing roots in musical cabaret, variety, comedy, drag, burlesque, and performance art. Performance cabaret is typically driven by an auteur who
10 Mixed Reality Artists To Know: 1. Blast Theory (UK)
“mixed reality performances deliberately adopt hybrid forms that combine the real and virtual in multiple ways and through this, encourage multiple and shifting viewpoints” – Performing Mixed Reality, Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi As technology continues to invade and evolve our lives, so
Mixed Reality Performance: In Conversation with Yehuda Duenyas
The Contemporary Performance Think Tank is organized by Contemporary Performance Network. Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource
Have You Heard About Mixed Reality Performance?
As technology continues to invade and evolve our lives, so too does it continue to invade and evolve our theater. While seeing technology on stage is nothing new, more and more theater-makers are investigating entirely new forms of performance that completely revolve
10 Choreographers You Should Know: 1. Dana Michel (Montreal, Canada)
The Contemporary Performance Think Tank is organized by Contemporary Performance Network. Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource
In Conversation with Jen Rosenblit
Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource for practitioners. This year’s topic is contemporary performing artists and companies
Contemporary Choreography: In Conversation with Alex Rodabaugh
The Contemporary Performance Think Tank is organized by Contemporary Performance Network. Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource
What is Contemporary Choreography?
Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource for practitioners. This year’s topic is contemporary performing artists and companies
Featured: Drodesera Festival Supercontinent, The 5th LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award (Dro, Italy)
DRODESERA is a contemporary art festival currently at its 37th edition This year is taks place from 21st to 29th July at Centrale Fies, Dro (Trento), which has been hosting the festival exclusively for last 17 years. The Art Work Space has
10 Immersive Theater Companies To Discover
Immersive theater has been proliferating throughout the contemporary performance and theater fields in the last 10 years. Discover 10 immersive theater companies working today. 1. PunchDrunk (London/NYC) www.punchdrunk.com “Since 2000, Punchdrunk has pioneered a game changing form of theatre in which roaming audiences
10 Immersive Theater Companies To Discover – 4. Fruit for the Apocalypse (London)
4. Fruit for the Apocalypse (London) www.fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu “Fruit for the Apocalypse create and present new audio-kinetic adventures in Opera, Ballet and Composition working with emerging artists and forging new collaborations in a site-responsive context. We are a diverse collective of artists and producers
Interview with Jen Rosenblit: Performing Process and Problematics
Jen Rosenblit has been making performance in New York City since 2005. Her Bessie Award-winning work questions intimacy inside of problematic spaces, uniting choreographies, text, and design towards philosophical quandaries. Her work has been commissioned by The Kitchen, New York Live Arts,
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