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They, Themself, and Schmerm Becca Blackwell TBA:17 and Artists Repertory Theatre September 8, 2017 Becca Blackwell’s They, Themself, and Schmerm is a one-person show embracing and challenging the stand-up form. The hour-long performance starts off with a 90’s tinged video montage introducing

Opening Night of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2017 Time Based Arts festival kicked off with a performance by ground-breaking artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. As guests connected with old friends and new ones and waited in line for food and/or drink (from

to a simple, rock ‘n’ roll . . . song. Michael Clark Company Tanz im August, Haus der Berliner Festspiele August 17-19, 2017 The deliberate, elegant precision of the title of this latest piece from British dance mainstay Michael Clark is apt.

Kreatur Sasha Waltz & Guests Tanz im August, Haus der Berliner Festspiele August 21-24, 2017 Kreatur is an expansive undertaking from the venerable Sasha Waltz, a human origin story of epic proportions packed into just ninety minutes. Vibrating constantly between formal precision

Panoramix & Laughing Hole La Ribot Retrospective La Ribot, Tanz im August August 2017 The Spanish choreographer and multidisciplinary artist La Ribot, a pioneer of conceptual dance, is receiving a retrospective at Tanz im August including past work as well as new

Trophée Rudi van der Merwe Tanz im August, Vierfelderhof August 19-20 The performance space (in this case, a field at the outer edges of the Berlin city limits) becomes a site to be conquered in Rudi van der Merwe’s outdoor Trophée. At

FUN! Lea Moro Tanz im August, HAU2 August 11-13 The title of FUN!, its aggressive capitalization and that emphatic punctuation, reads both as encouraging exhortation (have fun!) and vaguely threatening guarantee (you WILL have fun). It’s an apt encapsulation of a performance

Kalakuta Republik Serge Aimé Coulibaly Tanz im August, HAU 1 August 11-12 Kalakuta Republik, by the Burkinabé choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly, takes its name from the residence of the Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti, a commune which Kuti declared to be

Private: Wear a mask when you talk to me Alexandra Bachzetsis Tanz im August, HAU 2 August 11-13 As the audience takes their seats, choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis applies makeup at a small mirror; an unsurprising image, but this mirror is affixed to

Keen [No. 2] Ivy Baldwin Dance Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St June 1-11 A massive installation constructed out of white paper (by the artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen) fills the back wall of the Abrons Playhouse. Its elaborate, vaguely

 Los Angeles Performance Practice Jeanine Durning’s inging May 12–13, 2017 Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) presents inging, created and performed by celebrated choreographer Jeanine Durning, an Alpert-Award winning artist and influential dance maker. For the first Los Angeles presentation of her choreographic work, Durning performs this intimate exploration of rarely

FCCC #1 Future Clinic for Critical Care   Saturday May 6, 2017 from 14:00 – 18:00 Location: The Aquarium, Berlin Skalitzer Str. 6 Organized and curated by Jeremy Wade Featuring: Locomotive Labels – Solo Dance by Justin Kennedy Totemic Identity Healing – with Katerina

Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center Jan 15 – 7pm at The Invisible Dog Art Center 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn Eleven acts participated in a special COIL edition of the CATCH series at The Invisible Dog. The series – as described