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The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART is a month-long and citywide platform dedicated to highlighting, promoting and interconnecting the wealth and diversity of independent, contemporary and experimental Performance Art practices thriving in BERLIN. The only Performance Art project of its kind in Germany and beyond, MPA-B

We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium New Museum Friday May 4, 4–8 p.m. Saturday May 5, 12–3:45 p.m. “We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium” asks both what is at stake and what is made possible by embracing difference as a queer strategy within

Robert Wilson Writer and Performer, 2005 Music by Xavier Naudascher. Voice by William Pope.L The video work that will appear on the Times Square digital signs — Robert Wilson Video Portraits — has toured the globe in some of the most prestigious

“Big Art Group is a live performance collective created by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and video. There are a score of companies that do just this. What’s different about

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

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

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