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Nile Harris’s “this house is not a home” – July 14-16, 2023 (NYC)

Nile Harris, renowned for his innovative performances, returns to the stage with his latest work, "this house is not a home", set to run from July 14-16, 2023. The performance, an energetic rant that takes the shape of online logic, will be

July 4, 2023

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On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp – Sanctuary – July 12, 13, 14, 15 (NYC)

On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp SanctuaryJuly 12, 13, 14, 15 (in person)tickets here and livestream (July 13 only)6:30 processes begin7pm performances beginCreated for the final ICE FACTORY at the New Ohio (which is closing at the end of the festival)

July 4, 2023

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In Performance: Gelsey Bell: [MORNING//MOURNING] at Prototype Festival (NYC)

Gelsey Bell: [MORNING//MOURNING]HERE MainstageJanuary 6, 9-22 at 7:30pm and January 7 at 5pmTickets Gelsey Bell is a Brooklyn-based composer, writer, performer, and all-around musical superstar. Her work melds deeply informed research, sonic experimentation, and embodied storytelling. [MORNING//MOURNING] takes us on a journey

January 14, 2023

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In Performance: Silvana Estrada: MARCHITA at Prototype Festival (NYC)

Silvana Estrada: MARCHITA HERE DOT January 12-14, 6pm and 9:30pm Tickets Silvana Estrada is a Mexican multi-instrumentalist musician who recently won the Latin GRAMMY Award for “Best New Artist.” Their work holds soft vulnerability and fierce fortitude in a delicate balance. Incorporating

January 14, 2023

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Trojan Women at Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC) Nov 18—19, 2022

Trojan Women Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC)Nov 18—199, 2022Tickets–> The ancient Korean musical storytelling form of pansori fuses with K-pop and Greek tragedy in a production from the National Theater of Korea and Singaporean director Ong Keng Sen. K-pop producer and Parasite composer Jung Jae-il created

October 31, 2022

Anna Karasinska: New Creation, Santarcangelo dei Teatri

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In Performance: Anna Karasinska – New Creation at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

Anna Karasinska is a Polish-born artist and director who creates radically formally simple pieces as a means to disrupt the traditional hierarchies found in theatre by placing the audience at the heart of her work. Her latest piece ‘New Creation’ is part

July 16, 2022

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In Performance: Igor Shugaleev – 375 0908 2334 / The body you are calling is currently not available at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

Igor Shugaleev: 375 0908 2334 / The body you are calling is currently not availableSantarcangelo dei TeatriJuly 9 23.00July 10 21.30 Igor Shugaleev is an independent artist and actor from Belarus who creates work at the intersection of dance, theatre and endurance

July 15, 2022

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In Performance: Dreams Come True, Hichmoul Pilon Production, collectif anthropie e Siamo ovunque – We are Everywhere at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

‘We are Everywhere’ is a project devised by Nous sommes, a French-speaking Swiss initiative of an editorial committee composed of members of Dreams Come true, Hichmoul Pilon Production and anthropie. The Italian committee is called Siamo Ovunque and is based in Bologna.

July 15, 2022

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In Performance: Mats Staub- Death and Birth in My Life at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

Mats Staub: Death and Birth in My LifeSantarcangelo dei Teatri Mats Staub is an artist based in Berlin whose work lives at the intersection of theatre studies, journalism, film, and exhibition. He identifies as ‘a traveler through the realms of memory.’ His

July 12, 2022

Annamaria Ajmone - La notte è il mio giorno preferito ©Andrea Macchia

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In Performance: Annamaria Ajmone – La notte è il mio giorno preferito at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

Annamaria Ajmone: La notte è il mio giorno preferitoSantarcangelo dei Teatri Annamaria Ajmone is an Italian dancer and choreographer whose work centres around the idea that the body is a malleable material that has the ability to transform a space into a

July 12, 2022

Catol Teixeira - la peau entre les doigts ©Julie-Folly

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In Performance: Catol Teixeira – la peau entre les doigts at Santarcangelo dei Teatri

Catol Teixeira is a Geneva-based performer and choreographer from Brazil. Their practice enacts the concept of dance as a collective manifestation and uses improvisation to ask the audience ‘what does it mean to move’ and ask themselves ‘what does it mean to

July 11, 2022

Tip the Ivy Performance, 2022 Photo: kunst-dokumentationen.com

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Colin Self’s Tip the Ivy at Performance Space New York May 5-7, 2022

Tip the Ivy is the latest multidisciplinary opera by Colin Self. In keeping with the artist’s previous works, it foregrounds its own making as a collaborative group process. Originating from a manuscript, the work mutates through collective authorship by the five collaborators and

May 2, 2022

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Rimini Protokoll’s Conference of the Absent

There is a crisis! And in times of global crisis, it's all about global cooperation. Nevertheless, this time the crisis is being dealt with locally - on behalf of the world: at a conference that no one needs to book a flight

November 24, 2021

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Special Effects Festival NYC Jan 9 & 10, 2020

Special Effects Festival January 09-10, 2020@ Wild Project, 195 E 3rd St, New York, NY This year’s edition of Special Effects Festival asks…How do we combine difference?How do we assemble coalition?and what is the power of togetherness. Artist driven and oriented, Special

January 6, 2020

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In Performance: Moved by the Motion (Wu Tsang & boychild), Sudden Rise (The Present is Not Enough)

Sudden RiseMoved by the Motion (Wu Tsang & boychild)The Present is Not Enough, HAU1June 28-29 On the curtain of HAU’s proscenium theatre flashes a western archive. Images from a Euro-centric art historical past and present. In the first 30 seconds, we travel

July 5, 2019

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In Performance: Mamela Nyamza, Black Privilege (The Present is Not Enough)

Black PrivilegeMamela Nyamza The Present is Not Enough, HAU2June 25-26 From a black void emerges the glimpse of a goddess. Mamela Nyamza, appears perched on top of a bronze wheeled-staircase. Her own bronzed body in the warm light reflects the gold jewelry

July 5, 2019

ELIO GERVASI "THE CHOREOGRAPHIC ENGINE ImpulsTanz

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ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival 2019 (11 July to 11 August)

ImPulsTanz FestivalVienna, Austria11 July – 11 August 2019More Information – https://www.impulstanz.com/en/festivalinfo/ Founded in 1984, ImPulsTanz has developed into one of the largest festivals of contemporary dance and performance worldwide. Each summer, thousands of dancers, choreographers and artists from all over the world

July 4, 2019

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In Performance: Burgerz

BurgerzTravis Alabanza HAU Hebbel am Ufer, BerlinJune 28-30, 2019 In 2016, someone threw a burger at Travis Alabanza. The act occurred in public, and in broad daylight; the burger was accompanied by a transphobic slur. In Alabanza’s not-quite-solo performance Burgerz —presented as part

June 30, 2019

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In Performance: Markus Öhrn, 3 Episodes of Life (Weiner Festwotchen)

3 Episodes of Life: Episode 1 Markus Öhrn May 31-June 9 Wiener Festwochen 3 Episodes of Life: Episode 1 is a reperformance of the violence and brutality present in so many rehearsal rooms stretched to their most grotesque culminating in an hour

June 14, 2019

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In Performance: Benjamin Verdonck, Leidlein Für Gigi (Weiner Festwotchen)

Liedlein Für Gigi (Songs for Gigi)Benjamin VerdonckJune 6-9 2019Wiener Festwochen A box with strings, two musicians, a voice. Sometimes the most direct path to hope is through simplicity. Inside of a hand made mini theater shapes, colors, and lights dance and flicker.

June 11, 2019

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In Performance: Romeo Castellucci/ Societas, Le Metope del Partenone (Wiener Festwotchen)

Le Metope del Partenone Romeo Castellucci/ Societas June 7-9, 2019 Wiener Festwochen We walk into a blank warehouse, grey floors and off white walls. There are some stains, remnants from earlier performances. A few benches line the sides of the room. Everyone

June 10, 2019

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In Performance: Milo Rau/NT Gent, Orset in Mossul (Weiner Festwootchen)

Orest in Mossul Milo Rau/NTGent June 6-8 2019 Wiener Festwochen The first statement in the ghent manifesto reads “It’s not just about portraying the world anymore. It’s about changing it. The aim is not to depict the real, but to make the

June 9, 2019

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In Performance: Sorour Darabi, Farci.e (Wiener Festwochen)

Farci.e Sorour Darabi June 5-6 2019 Wiener Festwochen How does language encounter our bodies? What happens when our unexplainable being collides with insufficient and colonialist linguistic frameworks? Farcie is the French word for stuffed. Sorour Darabi is an Iranian artist. While studying

June 8, 2019

Madame Lynch a new spectacle with music from The Drunkard's Wife

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Opening: Madame Lynch from The Drunkard’s Wife (NYC) May 29-June15, 2019

Madame Lynch a new spectacle with music from The Drunkard’s Wife Previews May 26 and 28, 2019Runs May 29 – June 15, 2019 at The New Ohio Theatre 154 Christopher Street Tickets: $25 A spectacle with music, Madame Lynch takes on the

May 15, 2019

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Tere O’Connor’s Construct-a-Guy and The Lace at New York Live Arts: Architectures of Multiplicity

Nile Harris’s “this house is not a home” – July 14-16, 2023 (NYC)

On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp – Sanctuary – July 12, 13, 14, 15 (NYC)

In Performance: Gelsey Bell: [MORNING//MOURNING] at Prototype Festival (NYC)

In Performance: Silvana Estrada: MARCHITA at Prototype Festival (NYC)

Trojan Women at Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC) Nov 18—19, 2022

In Performance: Anna Karasinska – New Creation at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

In Performance: Igor Shugaleev – 375 0908 2334 / The body you are calling is currently not available at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

In Performance: Dreams Come True, Hichmoul Pilon Production, collectif anthropie e Siamo ovunque – We are Everywhere at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

In Performance: Mats Staub- Death and Birth in My Life at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

In Performance: Annamaria Ajmone – La notte è il mio giorno preferito at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)

In Performance: Catol Teixeira – la peau entre les doigts at Santarcangelo dei Teatri

Colin Self’s Tip the Ivy at Performance Space New York May 5-7, 2022

Rimini Protokoll’s Conference of the Absent

Special Effects Festival NYC Jan 9 & 10, 2020

In Performance: Moved by the Motion (Wu Tsang & boychild), Sudden Rise (The Present is Not Enough)

In Performance: Mamela Nyamza, Black Privilege (The Present is Not Enough)

ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival 2019 (11 July to 11 August)

In Performance: Burgerz

In Performance: Markus Öhrn, 3 Episodes of Life (Weiner Festwotchen)

In Performance: Benjamin Verdonck, Leidlein Für Gigi (Weiner Festwotchen)

In Performance: Romeo Castellucci/ Societas, Le Metope del Partenone (Wiener Festwotchen)

In Performance: Milo Rau/NT Gent, Orset in Mossul (Weiner Festwootchen)

In Performance: Sorour Darabi, Farci.e (Wiener Festwochen)

Opening: Madame Lynch from The Drunkard’s Wife (NYC) May 29-June15, 2019

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