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.
Live Streaming Now! Forced Entertainment’s -12am Awake & Looking Down
Forced Entertainment’s “12am Awake & Looking Down” Performing at PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany. In 12 am: Awake & Looking Down, five silent performers endlessly reinvent their identities using stacks of cardboard signs with which they name themselves, and a store of jumble-sale clothing
Featured: Special Effects Festival Happening Now Jan 9-12, 2014 (New York)
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Contemporary Performance announces the inaugural festival Special Effects from January 9-12, 2014. The festival consists of six artists from the Contemporary Performance Network presenting work at The Wild Project in the NYC’s East Village and Participant Inc. Curated by network
Contemporary Performance releases PFORM on iPhone, Android and html5
Contemporary Performance is pleased to announce the launch of the 2nd annual PFORM App (formerly APAPP) in iOS, Android and HTML5. Available now. PFORM is a companion app tailored to the spectrum of performance events and festivals held Januarys in New York. PFORM provides listings, maps,
Featured: Hilary Scullane (Houston, TX, USA)
Hilary Scullane is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and currently lives in Houston, Texas. She utilizes performance with sculpture and video to explore issues within social and personal realms. Her body is her primary tool. Using personal narrative as her starting
Featured: Uptown/Downtown Benefit for Abrons Arts Center (NYC)
Uptown/Downtown Benefit for Abrons Arts Center October 14, 2013 at 6:30pm The Playhouse and Abrons Gallery Benefit Ticketing Levels $1,000 ($980 tax-deductible) $500 ($480 tax-deductible) $250 ($230 tax-deductible) $100 ($80 tax-deductible) Mikhail Baryshnikov serves as the Honorary Chairman for Uptown Downtown, a
Featured: Rodrigo García / La Carnicería Teatro (Madrid, Spain)
Rodrigo García (1964) is author, set designer and director. Originally from Argentina, he has lived and worked in Madrid since 1986, where he founded his own theatre company, La Carnicería Teatro. He makes theatre in a very experimental and personal way, always
Featured: Live Arts Exchange (LAX) Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Live Arts Exchange (LAX) creates space for and draws attention to contemporary performance emerging out of Los Angeles. This home-grown performance series showcases some of the most innovative artists and independent companies in LA, creates social events that encourage cross-genre hangouts, and
Featured: Sway Youngston (Austin, TX, USA)
Sway Youngston, a recent addition to the Austin, Texas performance art scene, is a founding member of the Houston performance art group, Continuum and has been performing since 2009. She loves to perform nude when possible in an attempt to overcome fear
Featured: Nature Theater of Oklahoma (NYC)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a New York-based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. The ensemble strives to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room. The Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s
Featured: OKRADIO – Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to Romeo Castellucci
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to world-renowned Italian (and American! – from Kansas!) theater artist Romeo Castellucci about religion, moral imperative, spectatorship, time, and play. A show in which they dare to ask the question “Romeo Castellucci, if you got fired from theater,
Featured: The Wooster Group Video Blog (NYC)
Check out The Wooster Group’s video blog with off the cuff clips, rehearsal snippets, back stage workings, archival footage, random ephemera, actor interviews and inside jokes. If you are a fan of the group, we highly recommend a weekly visit. Its been
Newsletter: Whats New On Contemporary Performance – May 2013
Whats New On Contemporary Performance – May 2013 We have listed the top OPPORTUNITIES, BOOKS, and VIDEOS for you.Some of these are NSFW. Also, we are moving the network to a new architecture and server. We have outgrown ning (what we’ve been
Featured: “yo.contenido” Tijuana 10/2013
www.yocontenido.com (available june 2013) http://monstertruck000.wix.com/javierpulidogandara yo.contenido is an exhibition that will open in October 2013 as part of the arts festival in the city of Tijuana “ENTIJUANARTE” (Oct 4th-6th). The exhibition is in the curatorial charge of the art critic Luis
Featured: Gisèle Vienne (Paris, France)
Gisele Vienne is a puppeteer by training. She trained at the national academy of puppetry arts in Charleville-Mezieres between 1996 and 1999. She founded D.A.C.M. with Etienne Bideau-Rey, whom she met at school. Gisèle Vienne questions the body and creates hybrid forms that
Featured: Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Margulies Collection.
I went to Miami for a travel related to art, having the opportunity to enjoy museums and collections. The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse comprises a 45,000 square feet exhibition space that is involved with the art movement in Wynwood, the
Featured: Mass Live Arts Festival (Massachusetts, USA)
Mass Live Arts (MLA) is a festival of experimental theater and performance at the Daniel Arts Center [Bard College at Simon’s Rock] in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Mass Live Arts (MLA) is dedicated to presenting large-scale bold new works of contemporary performance in the
Featured: AKHE, Russian Engineering Theatre (Russia)
AKHE THEATRE [singlepic id=234 w= h= float=] The group was founded by three members of Boris Ponizovski theatre “Yes – No” (Maksim Isaev, Pavel Semtchenko, Vadim Vasiliev ) in 1989. Immediately the group announced itself as independent ( in term of styles
Featured: Christian Rizzo/Association Fragile (Paris, France)
Christian Rizzo Christian Rizzo’s artistic career began in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and designed a line of clothing, after which he studied fine arts at the Villa dArson in Nice, then unexpectedly branched out into dance. In the 90s
Feature: Lauren Argo (Kentucky, USA)
Kentucky is known for a lot of things, but, let’s face it, contemporary art isn’t really one of them. That is rapidly changing. Over the next few months, I will introduce you to artists with Kentucky roots who are dedicated to performance
Featured: Reza Abdoh (1963-1995)
Reza Abdoh Reza Abdoh, avant-garde director, playwright, company leader and poet, was born on February 23, 1963 to Ali Abdoh and Homa Oboodi in Teheran, Iran. At the age of seven, he saw Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in
Featured: Hotel Pro Forma (Copenhagen, Denmark)
ABOUT HOTEL PRO FORMA Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion of theatre into new territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre and non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression. Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation, consciousness and intuition,
Featured: Master Calendar for Festivals and Performances in January (NYC)
The NYC January performance festivals are upon us. COIL 13 starts today. If you haven’t downloaded our APAPP to organize on your iphone or android (or you don’t have a smart phone), we’ve supplied our master calendar below. This calendar contains the
Featured: The Institute of Failure
About the Institute Situated on the ungraspable border between deadpan irony and high seriousness, The Institute of Failure dedicates itself to the documentation, study, and theorisation of failure as it occurs in all aspects of human endeavour. Existing as a website and
Announcement: Contemporary Performance Launching APAPP (Annual Performance App)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contemporary Performance is pleased to announce the inaugural version of APAPP, the Annual Performance App, a companion app available in iOS, Android and HTML5 tailored to the incredible and exciting spectrum of performance events and festivals held
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