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Opportunities: Performance Crossings 2020 / Call for Artists (Prague) Deadline – 26th January
Performance Crossings 2020 / Call for Artists (Prague) 05-09 May 2020 Deadline: 26th January Online Application: https://bit.ly/36IcIL5 Fee to Participate or Apply: Description Of Opportunity: Cross Attic invites you to present your artwork at performance art festival Performance Crossings, which will take place on 5th – 9th May 2020 in Prague, CZ. ▎Performance Crossings 2020 is the fourth edition of an international festival focusing on performance art and related art forms which presents artists from all around the world and opens the dialogue between artists and audiences, between thoughts and their articulation. ▎The curatorial approach of this year is to present a diversity of topics deeply rooted in particular artistic practice. We do not wish to limit artists by a predefined t...
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 Effects gathers experimental performance works by practitioners exploring contemporary issues. Drawing on a network of over 8K artists who are part of contemporaryperformance.com, the festival samples the diversity and richness of the discipline of performance and presents an open forum for critical thinking on the issues of the day. Special Effects Festival (SFX) was founded in 2014 by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, artistic directors of Big Art Group and editors at Contemporary Performance Network. Our missio...
Opportunities: Small Season 2020 (Sfumato Theatre Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria) Deadline – 15/03/2020
Small Season 2020 (Sfumato Theatre Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria) 26/06/2020 – 05/07/2020 Deadline: 15/03/2020 Online Application: https://www.facebook.com/events/1197190293819903/ Fee to Participate or Apply: 0 Description Of Opportunity: THE FESTIVAL Small Season festival will have its 20-year anniversary in 2020. It has been functioning as a non-profit 10-day summer observatory of the local scene where Bulgarian artists present their ideas and works in any stage of progress. To celebrate the anniversary, for the first time Theatre Laboratory Sfumato is announcing an international open call for performances to program in the festival. We are looking for artists from any discipline who work within thetheatrical tradition and are interested to share their work in Sofia. Previous intern...
Opportunities: MA Directing of Devised & Object Theatre (Prague) Deadline – Feb 14, 2020
MA Directing of Devised & Object Theatre (Prague) 14/02/2020 Deadline: 14/02/2020 Online Application: Fee to Participate or Apply: Description Of Opportunity: LEARN NEW WAYS TO DO THEATRE, CREATE YOUR OWN WORK & MAKE CONNECTIONS! (deadline to apply: February 14th!) MA Degree in Directing of Devised & Object Theatre a 2 year English language program at DAMU, Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre in Prague! COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Master in Directing of Devised and Object Theatre offers advanced studies in the practice of theatre-making with a twofold focus: learning the process of devising a theatre performance from scratch, with a strong emphasis on a visuality of expression. Students will learn to create theatre performances with strong visua...
Opportunities: Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute (MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA) Deadline – January 7, 2020
Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute (MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA) July 13-Aug 3, 2020 Deadline: January 7, 2020 Online Application: www.bangonacan.org/summer_festival Fee to Participate or Apply: Application fee $40 Description Of Opportunity: The Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a three-week musical utopia for innovative composers and performers dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary chamber music. The program culminates in a world-class 3-day festival called LOUD Weekend where student/faculty ensembles and many special guest luminaries of experimental music converge to create an eclectic supermix of over 30 concerts in 3 days, taking over every space in and around the museum. In the words of the reviewer fo...
SLC Performance Lab Podcast Ep. 01.02 with Deb Margolin
Produced by ContemporaryPerformance.com and the Sarah Lawrence College MFA Theatre Program, the SLC Performance Lab interviews visiting artists to the MFA Theatre Program's Grad Lab, one of the core classes of the program where grads work with guest artists and develop group generated performance pieces monthly. Our second episode features playwright, actor, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company, Deb Margolin.
Opportunities: Open Call – MFA in Dance – Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York)
Hone your artistry in a program of study where critical thinking meets creative practice. Located just 30 minutes north of Manhattan by train Apply to the MFA in Dance graduate program today
Opportunities: danceWEB (Vienna) Deadline – 12 December 2019
danceWEB (Vienna) 8 July–12 August 2020 Deadline: 12 December 2019 Online Application: impulstanz.com/en/danceweb Fee to Participate or Apply: Description Of Opportunity: danceWEB 2020 Further Education and Exchange Programme With all ImPulsTanz workshops and research projects, all ImPulsTanz productions, artistic accompaniment by Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies as mentors, exclusive danceWEB salons, exclusive lectures, curatorial talks, accommodation, admission to the ImPulsTanz parties and much more The programme takes place from 8th July to 12th August 2020. Application deadline: 12th December 2019, 12:00 noon CET Further information and application: impulstanz.com/en/danceweb How To Apply: impulstanz.com/en/danceweb Contact Email:scholarship@danceweb.eu Website: impulstanz.com/en/danceweb...
Opportunities: International Performing Arts and Curatorial Residency in Southern Italy (Naples, Italy,) Deadline – 19 July 2020
Opportunities: International Performing Arts and Curatorial Residency in Southern Italy (Naples, Italy) All year long Deadline: 19 July 2020 Online Application: By email Fee to Participate or Apply: FREE Description Of Opportunity: One of the most creative spots in the world and an international residency that since one year has brought in Europe amazing artists from all over the world open to performers video artists curators movie directors all Kind of artists engaged in some new form the residency is free studio space is free lodging is free but there is a refund membership of 30/50/70 euros per person for the whole period depending on if artists sleep on site or not The residency is part of Kulturscio’k cultural project on website all informations and details and pictures applications ...
Opportunities: Blue Raincoat Theatre Academy – The Factory Performance Space ( Sligo, Ireland)
Blue Raincoat Theatre Academy – The Factory Performance Space (Sligo, Ireland) 11th – 26th January 2020 Online Application: www.blueraincoat.com Workshop Fee: €150 Description Of Opportunity: Theatre Academy 2020 VOICE & MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS Blue Raincoat Theatre Company will host the 9th annual Blue Raincoat Theatre Academy 11th – 26th January 2020. The Academy provides multi-disciplinary training for all artists and performers. Workshops will take place at The Factory Performance Space, Lower Quay St., Sligo. VOICE Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th January 2020 Voice Training and Development are explored through the methodologies and techniques of the Roy Hart International Voice Centre, France. David Goldsworthy, Senior Teacher at the Roy Hart Centre, will conduct thi...
SLC Performance Lab Podcast Ep. 01.01 with Jennifer Kidwell
Welcome to our new partnership and podcast series, SLC Performance Lab. Contemporary Performance has partnered with the Sarah Lawrence College MFA Theatre Program to produce the SLC Performance Lab Podcast. The SLC Performance lab interviews visiting artists to the MFA Theatre Program’s Grad Lab, one of the core classes of the program where graduate students work with guest artists and develop group generated performance pieces each month. This Month’s guest is Jennifer Kidwell. Jennifer Kidwell’s (b. 1978) poignant, performer-driven theater work addresses the complexities of race and notions of American history with sharp intelligence and wry humor. Invested in probing challenging social and historical truths, Kidwell says her work is “concerned with discomfort and...
Opportunities: Open Call – 2 Year MFA in Theatre – Sarah Lawrence College (New York)
A 2 Year MFA Master In Fine Arts in Theater 30 minutes from NYCDeadline: January 1.Apply to the Theatre graduate program today» The Master of Fine Arts in Theatre at Sarah Lawrence College helps artists find themselves and their individual aesthetic voice in an expansive art form. Under the guidance of a faculty of artists who are working professionals, the program offers an advanced study of theatre that is multi-disciplinary, collaborative, extensive, and practical. Embrace an approach to theatre that is as progressive as Sarah Lawrence College itself. Students may apply for fall entry to the Master of Fine Arts in Theatre program. Applicants must have received a Bachelor of Arts or equivalent degree from an accredited college or university. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores are n...