Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0 Thursday, April 21 7:00 pm Friday, April 22 8:30 am – 10:00 pm Saturday, April 23 9:00 am – 10:00 pm MIT Media Lab, 6th floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge (Building E14) *This event is
6F3SBUQ29E4 DD Dorvillier is a New York based choreographer, performer, and teacher. In 2003 she and composer David Kean were awarded two Bessies for Choreography and Soundscore of Dressed for Floating (Danspace Project, 2002). Her No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic
Based in Oslo and led by Lisbeth J. Bodd and Asle Nilsen, Verdensteatret has long had strong ties to the European, especially German, theatrical tradition that includes Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Heiner Müller. Following experiments in fields such as visual performance, environmental
Mundo Perfeito means: “perfect world”. This company is based on a kitchen in a small apartment in Amadora, a city in the suburbs of Lisbon. The company’s name translates the irony of a critic way of regarding the present and the idealism
Meg Stuart (born in New Orleans) is an American Choreographer and Dancer based in Brussels, Belgium. She is one of the key figures in the European and International contemporary dance world. From 1983 to 1986 Stuart studied at the New York University
In July 2004, Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington of Turbulence.org, and Michelle Riel, Assistant Professor of New Media at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), originated the Networked_Performance blog. It was their intent to chronicle current network-enabled practice, to obtain a wide-range
Dance Works Rotterdam/André Gingras is one of the oldest, still existing modern dance companies in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1975 by Käthy Gosschalk as Werkcentrum Dans. In 1988 Gosschalk changed the name to De Rotterdamse Dansgroep (The Rotterdam Dance
[singlepic id=314 w=590 h= float=] About Bruno Listopad: Bruno Listopad is a Portuguese choreographer, performance maker, mentor and teacher. He was educated in Portugal, France and the Netherlands in which he studied dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and fine arts at
Superclogger was Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack’s first large-scale public project. Conceived with Providence-based artist and bike mechanic Peter Fuller and developed out of Kyack’s interest in chaos, performance, and the relationship between individual will and collective control, Superclogger presented various puppet
Alain Buffard started dancing in 1978 with Alwin Nikolaïs at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers. He danced in several productions from Brigitte Farges and Daniel Larrieu, as well as Régine Chopinot, Philippe Decouflé. He realizes a choreography for two
The Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças was founded in 1990, by the choreographer Lia Rodrigues, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company has built a solid reputation and has been invited to perform its repertoire in important festivals and dance institutions around Brasil
BODIES ON THE LINE New York City October 30 – November 7, 2010 Anna Deavere Smith – Director Gideon Lester – Curator Funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bodies on the Line is a 10-day colloquium at New
MADE HERE: Performing Artists on Work and Life in NYC (Screening + Panel) Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave at 34th St. On Monday, November 1: 3:00 p.m. + 4:30 p.m. (Full Screening of All Episodes, 70
About: Sweet & Tender Collaborations is first and foremost an idea for cultural production and exchange. It is an artist-driven initiative and an artistic project in constant development. Sweet and Tender consists of an international group of individual artists that does not
Xavier Kim was born in 1976 in Nancy, France. He began his university training studying philosophy but soon changed his focus to embrace juggling, acrobatics and dance with even greater enthusiasm. Xavier created A.K.Y.S Projecte in late 2002 to qualify for a
About Body Pixel: Body Pixel is a place where I’m (Deborah Hustic) writing about things in art that totally turn me on. Most of the things are body related stuff. What you can expect here?! Reviews on contemporary dance performances, interviews with
A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner Community Action Center Taxter & Spengemann 459 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 September 24th, 11am- 6pm: The artists will host Casual Separatist Friday. The gallery will be dedicated and enforced exclusively as a “womyn”-only space September
Bio: Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. Maxwell studied acting at Illinois State University. In Chicago, he was a founder of the Cook County Theater Department. He is now the artistic director of New York City Players
Goat Island is a Chicago-based collaborative performance group. In summer 2005 the company restructured itself where there are now two distinct layers of membership, which is defined by Core and Associate. Core members are Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson (director), Mark
One of the foremost artistic companies in Colombia, Mapa Teatro has been producing theater, performance and art installation projects since 1984. Founders and directors, Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden have created a wide ranging repertoire of theater, opera, mixed-media performance, and site-specific installation.
Bio: In 2007 Alessandro Sciarroni undertook his first creation as an independent artist. The performance entitled “Your girl” was selected and took part in the competition in the final stages of the Dro International Performance Prize, Centrale Fies. The work “If I
Miguel Gutierrez, an active figure in the New York scene for the past twelve years, is a dance and music artist who creates group work with a variety of dancers, music and visual artists under the moniker Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful
Yves-Noel Genod After training as an actor in the school of Antoine Vitez Theatre National de Chaillot, Yves-Noel Genod working with Claude Regy , Francois Tanguy at the Raft Theatre of Le Mans, and Julie Brochen for ‘ The Living Corpse ‘of
Philipp Gehmacher grew up in Salzburg and in Vienna. In 1993 he went to London Contemporary Dance School where he received a BA in Contemporary Dance in 1996. After the first solo “the mumbling fish” he enrolled for an MA Dance Studies