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.
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
Featured: Performagia 1 – 7 Catalogs (Mexico)
Whenever we talk about the value of things we are concerned about the relation of our existence and the thing we are valuing. In this measurement of reality we ensure in a statement not only what we think but the idea of
Featured: “Celebração” at Culturgest (Lisbon, Portugal)
CELEBRAÇÃO is a festival of dance and performance, designed by artists living and working in Lisbon, and offering spectators a weekend of shows and talks – an opportunity for experiencing new ways of thinking and acting together. CELEBRAÇÃO will create closer ties
Featured: EGOMANIA—About Schlingensief Film at Goethe-Institut (NYC)
EGOMANIA—About Schlingensief Film exhibition 10/11/12 – 10/21/12 Opening night screening: 10/10/12, 7:00pm Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10003 With English subtitles Free admission The Goethe-Institut New York will present a closer look at the oeuvre of the
Featured: Video Stream from Opening Night Of PRELUDE12
To Open Prelude 12 at CUNY Graduate Center on October 3, 2012, 12 Performance makers from the NYC experimental and “downtown” community were asked to deliver manifestos. Below is the live stream capture of the first night. More videos can be found
Featured: Photographs of a Dance Movement – Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Salzburg, Austria)
Photographs of a Dance Movement Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria 27.7. -11.11.2012 The American Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), one of the most significant and influential choreographers of the 20th century, and his artistic work revolutionized the dance and theater world. Considered one
Featured: Arte por la izquierda, Art Stance (Mexico City)
We live in the trenches that the government has built, installed around our ideas. From there we raise our willingness, hopping to break these seemingly solid structures of control, so obvious, with those qualities that Chomsky gave to a specific method of
Featured: Babycastles Indie Arcade Summit@Museum of Art and Design (NYC)
BABYCASTLES SUMMIT Museum of Art and Design Friday at 6:00pm until Sunday at 9:00pm $35 for Weekend Pass for ALL TALKS / WORKSHOPS / BANDS / ARCADE http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/257844 Exploring innovation in interactive media and human interaction, the collective Babycastles will host a
Featured: Doreen LaMantia Maloney (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 some of the artists and organizations who are dedicated
Featured: Between The Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing Arts (NYC)
Between the Seas returns to the Wild Project for its second edition that will run from August 20th to the 26th. This year’s program will bring NYC and USA premieres from Israel (Noa Dar and Rachel Erdos with Ido Tadmor), Lebanon (Lina Abiad),
Featured: Paul D C Kindersley (UK)
According to the British artist Paul Kindersley, the performance element in his work is, if not acted out, always suggested in his pieces. ‘They are props, which could be left over or yet to be used in some ritual. Objects placed in relation
Featured: Soho Rep – FEED and Uncle Vanya (NYC)
Soho Rep’s FEED is a curated program, founded by Raphael Martin, with “thematic live events, multimedia and publications that give you something to chew on before and after the show.” It’s a method to explore the ideas and dialogue raised by shows
Featured: The Athens-Epidaurus Festival (Greece)
The Athens-Epidaurus Festival in Greece, founded in 1955, has grown into a major cultural force in Europe since 2006 when the visionary Artistic Director Yorgos Loukos took the leadership ( a good overview of the festival’s history is available here). Loukos has
Featured: Nature Theater Of Oklahoma Launches OKRadio (NYC)
Kelly Copper and Pavol Liška of Nature Theater of Oklahoma have launched OKRadio from their closet radio studio in Long Island City (NYC). During their first podcast Kelly discusses their mutual love and creative connection with recorded media and Pavol explains his history with
Featured: Bert Neumann, “Imitation of Life”
[amazonify]3934344089[/amazonify]Bert Neumann, chief set designer at Berlin’s Volksbühne since 1992, grew up in East Berlin, studied stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and with Leonore Blievernicht and Susanne Schuboth founded the design firm LSD (Last Second Design) in 1990. In the interview
Featured: The Light Surgeons (London, England)
The Light Surgeons (London, England) The Light Surgeons operates as a multimedia production company from a base in east London, producing a wide variety of creative projects from the commercial to artist lead. Their work spans many diverse mediums; print, photography, motion
Featured: Hotel Modern (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Hotel Modern (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Hotel Modern was established in 1997. Its members are Arlène Hoornweg and Pauline Kalker, who both graduated from Arnhem Theatre School, and visual artist, model maker and performer, Herman Helle. The group works together with (sound) artists for
Featured: Robert Wilson/Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach Exhibition (NYC)
Reuniting the score and designs from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, this exhibition focuses on the opera's premiere performances in 1976.
Highlights: Avignon Festival July 7-28, 2012 (Avignon, France)
A popular and contemporary artistic adventure. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, the Avignon Festival is today one of the most important contemporary performing arts events in the world. Every year in July, Avignon becomes a city-theater, transforming its architectural heritage into
Featured – Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. (NYC)
Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: PUSH IT. REAL. GOOD. May 29 – June 3, 2012 Curatorial Team: Eleanor Hullihan, Neal Medlyn, Marissa Perel, and Enrico Wey Bring on 2012 with its four horsemen and cult sacrifices. If this is the last of the
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