Funded Rome Residency €42,000 – Villa Medici Fellowship 2027
Villa Medici Fellowship 2027 offers a €42,000 grant and 12-month residency in Rome. French-speaking artists apply by October 16, 2026.
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,
Up Coming: Simone Aughterlony & Jen Rosenblit -Everything Fits In The Room (1.19-1.22.17 Berlin)
Aughterlony and Rosenblit navigate current forms of feminist politics beyond manifestos. Unpacking the phenomenology of utopias solicits the fear that all things will not fit in the imagined path. A free-standing wall sits in the middle of the room offering possibilities to
Interview with Ant Hampton: representation, participation, and physicality
As a vector of performance, participation has risen in prominence over the last fifty to sixty years to become one of the key concepts in contemporary performance practices. Ant Hampton exemplifies an approach to participation that depends on subtlety, rigor, and imagination.
Featured: Special Effects Festival (Jan 8-10, 2015 NYC)
SPECIAL EFFECTS January 8 – 10 2015 The Wild Project, 195 E 3rd St at Ave B A Contemporary Performance Festival sfx.contemporaryperformance.com Contemporary Performance announces the festival Special Effects from January 8-10, 2015. The festival consists of artists from the Contemporary
Almanac 2013: Adrian Jevicki (Brooklyn, USA)
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Almanac 2013: Anna Sperber (Brooklyn, USA)
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Almanac 2013: Armando Lopez-Bircann (Washington DC, USA)
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Alamanac 2013: Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (Brooklyn, USA)
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Almanac 2013: Sara Schnadt (Los Angeles, USA)
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Almanac 2013: Joseph Herring (Pensacola, USA)
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Almanac13: Marina McClure (Los Angeles, USA)
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Almanac 13: Dana Gingras/Animals Of Distinction (Montréal, Canada)
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Featured: LAX – Live Arts Exchange (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Live Arts Exchange (LAX) A high-voltage performance series featuring work made in LA. September 10 to September 21 The Bootleg Theater 2220 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90057 TICKETS Tickets are $15-20 and can be purchased online at http://liveartsexchange.org/tickets/ Early bird festival passes available
Featured: ATOM-r’s THE OPERATURE, Augmented Reality Performance Publication (Chicago) NSFW
Pinups creator, Christopher Schulz, and Chicago based performance art group, ATOM-r, have collaborated to carefully craft THE OPERATURE a 60 page Augmented Reality performance publication with pull out poster and micro-essay contributions from Anna Felicity Friedman, Kira O’Reilly, Anthony Romero, Matthew Steinbrecher
Featured: Binge Culture’s WHALES (New Zealand)
Written by: Binge Culture Whales is an outdoor interactive performance by kiwi experimental theatre company, Binge Culture, a group in search of participative theatre that is profound, and the audience’s part integral. In staging a whale stranding (which are a relatively frequent
Featured: Queer Performance Takes Over Entire Four-Floors of BAM Fisher Building (NYC)
EVERYBOOTY @BAM$20 in advance, $25 at the door. ($15 tickets with code 30339 until Thursday June 26 11:59pm EST)http://www.bam.org/Everybooty Queer Performance to take over the entire four-floor of the BAM Fisher Building (including an incredible rooftop!) for one night that mashes up performance,
Featured: Artist Uses Augmented Reality to Stage a Performance Intervention at MOMA (NYC)
On May 16th, 2014 to coincide with the exhibit “The Abandonment of Art” Adam H Weinert launches a digital installation in The Museum of Modern Art without the museum’s consent. Using an Augmented Reality platform provided through a residency with Dance-Tech, Weinert
Almanac13: NO SHOW: Bridget Balodis + Mark Pritchard (Melbourne, Australia)
NO SHOW: Bridget Balodis + Mark Pritchard (Melbourne, Australia) NO SHOW: Bridget Balodis + Mark Pritchard. NO SHOW is the joint project of two independent theatre directors investigating new ways of telling stories in live spaces. We create interactive and immersive theatre
Almanac13: Deborah Leiser-Moore (Melbourne, Australia)
KaBooM KaBooM is a physical performance event – its subject is War. KaBooM is based on real stories of ex-soldiers who have fought on the frontline: Fabrice, a child soldier from Burundi, who hid in lakes to escape machetes wielding hoards; Majid,
Almanac13: Deanne Butterworth (Melbourne, Australia)
This post is part of a series of profiles on performance and performance makers from the book Contemporary Performance Almanac 2013, an overview of contemporary performance presented during the 2012/2013 season available for touring now. TWINSHIPS TWINSHIPS is one result of a six-month Housemate
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