Pathosformel is Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani, young artists based in Milan. Their work explores new ways of using the body on stage and radically experiments with movement and visual imagery. The Timidity of Bones was created in 2007 when it
WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:00pm The Invisible Dog 51 bergen street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) will be an evening of current
CREW is a performance group and multi-disciplinary team of artists and researchers. CREW_lab is the experimental spin-off where immersive technologies and strategies can be developed, tested and theorized. _lab explores and develops immersive technological devices, artistic strategies and changing (theoretical) notions of
The Varieties of Performance Experience A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson (NYC) The Kitchen (NYC) January 24, 2012 7pm FREE Protagonist? Irruption? Squatter? Successively celebrated, rejected, ignored, and rediscovered, “performance” as a term and practice is a vexed
THE LEGACY OF REZA ABDOH Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Map) December 19, 2011 10am – 9pm Part I 10-4pm ALL-DAY SCREENINGS Curated by Adam Soch Williams, videographer and documentarian 10am Introductory remarks (via Skype) by Daniel Mufson, author Reza Abdoh (1999) 10:15-11:50am Bogeyman
Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, this rarely performed and revolutionary work launched director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass to international success when it was first produced in Avignon, France in 1976, with subsequent
Continuing the’s dedication to expanding the integration of art and culture in everyday life, this fall MAD will present the inaugural edition of its series on performance in untraditional spaces, Risk + Reward. From a world premiere performance by enfant terrible Jack
The Platform was held on Monday January 12, 2009 1pm to 5pm “Changing Role of the Performer in the 21st Century” The Wild Project (NYC) 195 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10009 Five perspectives on the role of the performer in
The Performance Club is a group of people who go to performances together, mostly in NYC, and then discuss them afterwards, in person and/or via this website, a curated, multi-feature blog which is both a forum for arts writing as well as
For the last decade Branch Nebula have been developing distinctive, hybrid movement-based performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics, music and design to create powerful and visceral experiences for audiences. Their latest major ensemble work Sweat premiered at Performance Space in 2010 and toured to Dance Massive, Melbourne
The Brazilian action artist Michel Groisman stages his own body in sculptural motion-pictures designed for art galleries and museums. With the machines he constructs, he relates the movements of parts of his body one to another in extremely slow sequences of movements.
With over 1200 videos posted by members of the Contemporary Performance Network, our video library is growing daily. Today’s post is the first in a series to highlight and feature some of these videos in curated sets. Our first set is about
1minute69 (Lille, France) Extracts of B0DYSC4PES live performance, as it has been presented for the 1st time in Roma, May 2011. Through body projection mapping and live motion tracking, 1minute69 offers an interactive audiovisual piece in line with a study of body
Belluard Bollwerk International 6.24 – 7.2.2011 Fribourg, Switzerland Belluard Bollwerk International takes a special position in the Swiss and European festival landscape through its qualitative, pointed program, its scale, unique location and inviting, convivial atmosphere. Belluard Bollwerk International presents projects from the
MGM has been making highly structured dances since 2005. The project has developed as a touring machine, taking a single dance and performing it within and across dozens of spaces, mobilizing the audience, site, context, and choreography through this encounter. MGM’s creative
PSi is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange among scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance. We seek to create opportunities for dialogue among artists, thinkers, activists and academics. PSi is actively committed to creating
Smeds Ensemble is an international theatre group, founded in 2007 and named after its artistic director Kristian Smeds. Smeds Ensemble is a production unit which functions as a meeting forum for Finnish and international artists. Smeds Ensemble works on a widening field
Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience is an initiative of Theatre Studies at Utrecht University and the theatre festival Festival a/d Werf. This conference takes place from 25 to 29 May 2011 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience combines science, scholarly
The Cockettes were a psychedelic queer troupe founded by Hibiscus in the late 1960s in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. On New Years Eve, 31 December 1969, at the Palace Theatre in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Steven F. Arnold let the
The International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (ICKamsterdam) is a platform for contemporary dance. It joins the forces of werkplaats (workshop), produktiehuis (production centre), research platform and company, and thus strives for a continuous development and enrichment of dance. With an international and
matanicola is a creative duo project founded by Israeli choreographer and performer Matan Zamir and Italian choreographer and performer Nicola Mascia. The duo’s first production »under«, created in collaboration with Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder, premiered in Berlin in August 2005 and has
Two degrees Conference/Workshops Teatro Maria Matos Lisbo, Portugal May 6th and 7th On May 6th and 7th, Teatro Maria Matos (Lisbon) and Transforma (Torres Vedras) organize an international conference on Art, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. On day 1, invited speakers from Belgium,
No performance’s land? Three days Conference & Performance CRIA Lisbon, 15-17th April 2011 IUL (Lisbon University Institute) Culturgest Exploring the limits and boundaries for both an onthology of performance and the conceptualization of its disciplinary field, in aesthetics and social sciences, we
We made a major milestone this week by reaching 1,600 members and I wanted to thank all of you for joining, inviting friends/collaborators, and most importantly… making the network so vital with your dialogue and work and ideas! Below is your weekly