26 May In Performance: Go down, MosesRomeo Castellucci June 9-12, 2016 (NYCish)
American Premiere Go down, MosesRomeo Castellucci Jun 9 7:30 pm; Jun 10 7:30 pm; Jun 11 8:00 pm; Jun 12 3:00 pm BUY TICKETS “Staggering...
In Performance
02 May In Performance: LUIS GARAY/Maneries
Maneries Luis Garay Walker Art Center On stage before the lights go down, dancer Florencia Vecino stands holding a plastic water bottle, and DJ Mauro Ap sits on the floor in front of a laptop. When the scenes descends into a murky blackness where sound and...
15 Apr In Performance: KID KOALA/Nufonia Must Fall
Nufonia Must Fall Kid Koala Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA) Nufonia Must Fall is more than your average “robot falls in love” story. DJ, producer, and artist Kid Koala has adapted his 340-page graphic novel into a live experience that combines music, puppetry, and over a dozen miniature stages to...
10 Mar In Performance: Germinal (Walker Art Center)
Germinal Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA) Like any great creation myth, Germinal begins with darkness. The four performers discover how to create light, then communication, then sound, then all the other elements that make up a proper universe, including both the joy...
19 Feb In Performance: Forced Entertainment Live Streamed Speak Bitterness @ MCA Chicago, Saturday February 20, 4pm – 10 pm CST (10pm – 4am GMT)
MCA Chicago is presenting the landmark Forced Entertainment performance Speak Bitterness – a 6-hour marathon event in which the performers attempt to confess … to everything. The performance will be streamed live this Saturday February 20, 4pm – 10 pm CST (10pm - 4am (GMT). Tune in at Speak Bitterness Live Stream! And join...
28 Jan In Performance: Rabih Mroué/Riding on a Cloud
Rabih Mrouré/Riding on a Cloud Photo by Joe Namy Using recorded voice and video mixed with live performance, Riding on a Cloud paints a documentary picture of Yassar Mrouré’s life after the Lebanese civil war. With a stack of tapes and videos before him, performer Yassar Mrouré...
28 Jan In Performance: Score for a Lecture (COIL)
The Bureau for the Future of Choreography/Score for a Lecture Image by Evelyne Donnelly To attend the world premiere work Score for a Lecture is to become part of a collective experiment in performance, communication and failure. One part telephone, one part hide and seek, this collaborative...
18 Jan In Performance: Gray Spaces (Special Effects)
SFX’s one-night grab bag of discourse-in-performance, GRAY SPACES features new works engaging contemporary questions of technology, identity, ritual, and more by an impressive lineup of emerging performance makers. “Gray” is the operative word of the evening--these artists and their work exist explicitly in the liminal,...
18 Jan In Performance: Destruction (American Realness)
In Destruction, composer and countertenor M. Lamar floats into the intimate Underground Theatre at Abrons Arts Center to the sound of death bells, draped in a black leather coat. With an androgynous, otherworldly presence reminiscent of Prince or Bowie, his haunting voice shepherds us into...
17 Jan In Performance: Steve of Tomorrow (SFX)
Steve of Tomorrow / David Commander/ Rob Ramirez FRI JAN 15, 8PM SAT JAN 16, 11PM & 8PM University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street Through a combination of multimedia, puppetry, and toy theatre deliberately walking the line between high tech and low class, Steve of Tomorrow stages an apocalypse in the...
17 Jan In Performance: The Holler Sessions (COIL)
The Holler Sessions / Frank Boyd If there is one theme that particularly emerges from Frank Boyd’s 80 minute solo performance, The Holler Sessions, it is listening. Not only hearing the curated selection of classic Jazz Boyd’s Kansas City DJ broadcasts, nor following his passionate and...
17 Jan In Performance: Morphia Series (COIL)
Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham/ Morphia Series Photo by Rachelle Roberts Visitors to Morphia Series are led into the dark space two at a time and instructed to take a morsel of food and a tiny glass of wine before being seated. After this delicious communion, the...