Opportunity: Online course “Performing the Memory” Where: online When: March 18-April 8, 2024, Mondays 6-8PM CET Deadline: March 13, 2024 Online Application: yes Fee to Participate or Apply: EUR 175
Description Of Opportunity:
This practice-based course focuses on the concept of memory as immediate inspriation and tool for creating performance art. Through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples by artists such as Franko B., La Pocha Nostra, Kimsooja, Preach R Sun, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, or Miao Jiaxin, participants will approach different forms of memory such as personal vs. collective, and the discourses connected with them: from emotion such as love and loss, to issues of identity, gender, and race, or experiences of migration, displacement and diaspora. Building on these discussions as well as selected readings, participants will be guided to explore various approaches of using memory in their artistic practice, which they will be able to elaborate through both assigned as well as in-class performances. The course is divided into three main sections focusing on personal, group, and collective memories through which participants will explore a span of memories from intimate experiences to global issues like the current Covid-19 pandemic. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment in a safe, judgement-free zone where they can express themselves most honestly while receiving the support and knowledge to grow confidence and strengthen their personal performance persona, presence, and space
Dates: March 18-April 8, Mondays 6-8PM CET
How To Apply:
enroll online at https://ecc-performanceart.eu/performingthememory
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Opportunity: Teatri Riflessi 9 – International Short Performance Festival Where: Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, Italy When: 18-20 July 2024 Deadline: 24 March 2024 Fee to Participate or Apply: Free
Description Of Opportunity:
Teatri Riflessi – Contemporary Visions has opened its call for short performances: live works no longer than 15 minutes, without distinction of genre. Selected works will receive a cachet of €500 and support for travel expenses, compete for several monetary prizes and special mentions, the possibility of receiving scholarships and artist residencies and being hosted within festivals and seasons thanks to the members of the Network of the festival and the numerous national members of the Boards and Jury (theatre and festival directors, theatre networks, programming organisms, and residency centres).
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Opportunity: Open Call mittelyoung 2024 Where: Cividale del Friuli (UD) ITALY When: 16-18/07/2024 Deadline: 14/02/2024 Online Application: https://www.mittelfest.org/en/mittelyoung2024/ Fee to Participate or Apply: none
Description Of Opportunity:
Submit your art project for a paid opportunity on the international stage of Mittelfest, the Mitteleuropa festival.
The under30 Open Call for Italian, Central-European and Balkan projects of theatre, music, dance and circus, examined by a group of curators under30 who will select 9 projects to be showcased from 16 to 18 July in Cividale del Friuli. Shows selected for mittelyoung can be financially supported up to €4,000. The 3 best shows will be re-scheduled during mittelfest Disordini (Disorders) from 19 to 28 July 2024.
The projects must be in line with the theme 2024: Disordini (Disorders).
27 countries are involved: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine.
The opportunity to become part of a whole new generation on stage: the young Europe is here, now.
How To Apply:
For more information write to: mittelyoung@mittelfest.org For more information visit: https://www.mittelfest.org/en/mittelyoung2024
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Opportunity: INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR COMPANIES/ARTISTS FESTIVAL LMDP 11 DEADLINE 02/04/2024 13th of December 2023 Where: Spazio DOMOSC Via Isaac Newton 12 When: 13/12/2023 Deadline: 02/04/2024 Online Application: info@kyberteatro.it Fee to Participate or Apply: None
Description Of Opportunity:
INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATER, ART AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES“THE WANDERS OF THE POSSIBLE” Cagliari (ITALY) –XI° Edition 2024
Between NOVEMBER and DECEMBER 2024, the 11th edition of the International Festival of Theater Art and New Technologies, “The Wonders of the Possible,” will be held in Cagliari at the DOMOSC Space.
The LMDP Festival supports the development and experimentation of new creative, theatrical and artistic languages through new technologies, with the programming of shows, performances, installations, workshops, and conferences.
Kyber Teatro, a spin-off of L’Aquilone di Viviana, the creator and organizer of the LMDP Festival, promotes international encounters between artists, scientists and technological researchers and the contamination between the arts, offering all Italian and foreign artists and performers, including emerging and/or under-35 companies, the opportunity to participate in the Festival by sending their project by April 2, 2024
Focus: theater and new technologies 2024-LMDP11 #Scene Immersive
Addressed to:
• Companies, Individual Artists • Companies/Artists emerging or/and under 35. • Companies/Non-emerging artists of all ages (we encourage applications from artists at any stage of their careers). Maximum 3 participants per project.
Eligible Projects:
• Theater and new technology performances
• Performances of art and new technologies
Economic conditions
Open Call winners will be guaranteed full coverage of mobility costs (travel to Cagliari, food and lodging). The organizing company will communicate the travel itinerary and other useful information for hospitality to the winning artists. In addition, a small reimbursement of expenses will be guaranteed for the presentation of No. 2 replicas of their show/performance. If possible and by prior arrangement with our technical manager, any materials required to present the performance/show/installation will also be covered.
Publication and archiving
Artists agree to provide a brief biography and synopsis of the work and agree that the material may be published on the LMDP Festival website and social media or given to the press for promotional purposes. Permission is given for Kyber Teatro – L’Aquilone di Viviana to archive the material and make it accessible via the Festival website. All rights to the project images will remain with the artist. The Organization is also authorized to document through audio video recordings or images the unfolding of the event at every stage.
How To Apply:
Selection Process: DEADLINE APRIL 2, 2024.
Artists interested in participating in the Festival should email info@kyberteatro.it the following materials: – Artists/Company CV; – Location of departure of each artist and technical staff of the company;
– Presentation dossier in PDF format; – Technical sheet; – A selection of up to 5 photographs; – Link to the integral audio and video material to be made available on Vimeo or Youtube;
The outcome of the evaluation will be communicated to those selected only by May 6, 2024.
Terms of Participation Applications and materials must be sent by APRIL 2, 2024 to the email address: info@kyberteatro.it
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Founded by the visionary duo,Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson of Big Art Group, the Special Effects Festival (SFX) has championed groundbreaking, genre-defying work since 2014. After a hiatus due to the pandemic, the festival is back to rekindle the spirit of the avant-garde and create a shared space to gather for contemporary performance.
Held every year in the midst of the Annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference in NYC, SFX celebrates the eclecticism of contemporary performance.
SFX – Time and Material Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 7:00pm Tickets–>
“Time and Material” features performances by Molly Ross, Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Cherrie Yu, and Chloe Engel who center materiality in their practice and explore the body in relation to objects and textures in dynamic and expansive ways; and in so doing, offer strategies for shaping time more generously.
Curated and hosted by Kyla Gordon, a New York-based curator, researcher, writer, and archivist specializing in performance art, film, new media, and fashion. She currently works as a curator at 99 Canal and a research assistant at The Museum of Modern Art NY.
Time and Material features performances by Molly Ross, Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Cherrie Yu, and Chloe Engel who center materiality in their practice and explore the body in relation to objects and textures in dynamic and expansive ways; and in so doing, offer strategies for shaping time more generously.
Curated and hosted by Kyla Gordon, a New York-based curator, researcher, writer, and archivist specializing in performance art, film, new media, and fashion. She currently works as a research assistant at The Museum of Modern Art NY.
CARPETBURN! by Molly Ross performed with Austin Selden
CARPETBURN! is a dance where the dancers get lost in the right direction.
Molly Ross, originally from Michigan, is based in Brooklyn NY. Her work has been presented at PAGEANT, FourOneOne, and Essex Flowers. She has also been collaborating with Nola Sporn Smith as MOLLY&NOLA since 2017. Their work has been presented at various institutions and DIY spaces in NYC. She loves dancing with Austin, Nola, and Jo McKendry.
Austin Selden grew up in Michigan and his favorite restaurant was/is found in his local mall, Olga’s Kitchen. He went to U of M, where he started making dances with Sarah Konner and they still make dances together. He and Molly didn’t meet in Michigan. He’s 35 with two herniated discs.
willing to eat stars | Trailer # 3 Performed and Overall Direction by Maxi Hawkeye Canion Text by Maxi Hawkeye Canion Video by Laura Carella Sound Designed and Performed by Nazareth Hassan
A performative glimpse into my rehearsal process for “willing to eat stars” in the form of a live trailer (number 3). As a bare-bones and experimental iteration of the overall work, we will present a reading of references that have inspired its inner verse, to be personified through the character “Dandi Damage”. “How heavy I lay only to be late, again”
Maxi Hawkeye Canion (they/she), originally from El Paso, TX, is a versatile artist specializing in durational performance, movement, and improvisation. In their creative process, Maxi materializes sensory experiences, guiding viewers to the intersection where the hyper-surreal and ordinary harmoniously meet. Collaboration and community are integral to their work as they investigate the intricacies of identity, intimacy, and failure. Their focus is on intricate character design, developing personas that synthesize broader socio-political stances and incorporate maximalist references from subversive niche media.
Recently, they held residencies at Art Omi, MOtiVE Brooklyn, Otion Front Studio, New Dance Alliance, Gibney, and the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency. During these residencies, they nurtured “willing to eat stars,” a work in process that weaves a hyper-surrealist horror with the bleak and mundane. Along with this, they have performed their work at Performance Space x Spectrum, Momenta #002, FUERZAfest, Performance Mix Festival 37, JACK, BOFFO Performance Festival, Pageant, Triskelion Arts, Arts on Site, Judson Church, BAAD!, CPR, and Chelsea Factory.
As a performer, Maxi has collaborated with notable artists such as Eve Tagny, Alexandra Waierstall, Ryan Ponder McNamara, Miles Greenberg, Sigrid Lauren, J. Bouey, slowdanger, Shikeith, Monica Mirabile, Richard Kennedy, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Sidra Bell, among others.
Verb List by Cherrie Yu
Verb List started as an found-footage project that collects movements from Chinese andChinese-diasporic moving image history. The title “Verb List” references the American sculptor Richard Serra’s 1967 drawing. In my project I borrow Serra’s structure of words and actions. Treating the history of moving image as my raw materials, I wish to create a movement archive from Chinese and diasporic communities, and explore cinematic history as collective memory.
Cherrie Yu is an artist born in Xi’an, China and lives in the US. She works in choreography, moving image, writing and installation. She has been an artist in residence at ACRE, McColl Center, Yaddo, Monson Art, Kala Art Institute and Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Her works have been exhibited at Contemporary Calgary Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Mint Museum, Links Hall, Wassaic Project, Roman Susan Gallery, Pageant Space and Judson Memorial Church.
Rubber performed and choreographed by Chloë Engel sound design by Jeremy WY
Rubber is a practice that explores rubber as medium. Rubber is a material unwilling to claim a singular purpose: it acts as the barrier between body and hazard (think latex gloves, fishing waders, a butchering apron); its donning induces erotic thrill for many; and a “Rubber Room,” a padded cell for confining a psych patient, is a carceral space mandating that a person cannot exist in community, a victim of their own potential corporeal violence. Rubber evokes a complex narrative: deviancy, safety protocol, and the forced isolation of peoples. I draw from my experience as a play therapist, the child of a psychiatric survivor, and a rubber enthusiast, to build a practice with rubber that engages questions of pleasure, pathology, queerness, and Madness.
Chloë Engelis a play therapist and performance artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Their therapeutic work with children ages 3-6 infuses their artistic practice with a respect for personal and collective play. Their studio practice is anchored by an ongoing research project investigating the mistreatment and subjugation of Mad peoples in Western European culture. They hold a BA from Bennington College in Performance. Chloë’s performance work has been shown at Lifeworld (Brooklyn, NY), AUNTS (Brooklyn, NY), Open Performance at Movement Research, No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA), Middlebury College, and Bennington College. Chloë is in an ongoing collaborative process with multimedia artist, Anna Kroll. Their joint work has been presented in Tendon magazine and a part of re:semblance at New Media Artspace (NYC/ online), in Spark IV: A New World? (Baltimore / online) and Mind on Fire (Baltimore). Their current project is an immersive tabletop game called The Space is a Body and You Are In It, that was recently installed at The Peale in Baltimore as a part of Spark 6: Refractions. They have facilitated collaborative imagining workshops with The Deep Play Institute and School of Making Thinking.
GRAY SPACES Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 7:00pm Tickets–>
Curated and hosted by Lisa Clair, a New York based playwright and performer. She makes work under the name Lisa Clair Group, a collective of performers, musicians, and designers who collaborate across disciplines to create live, experimental performance.
The Aricama Invitation: Creative Counseling Cuisine Retreat to Reinvigorate Dead Broken Dreams by Maria Camia
The Creative Counseling Cuisine Retreat is a mock conference presentation that invites the audience to revive their heart center with a slideshow presentation, puppetry, foolery, and the big question of life: If you were one of God’s Sisters, (the hot one, of course), what experience would you give yourself in this lifetime? Group audience participation required and appreciated.
Maria Camiais a Filipino American Artist, Fashion Designer, and Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner who creates Spiritual / Sci-Fi Puppetry Theater with the intention to globally inspire liberation through healing and play. She has performed original work at Chicago’s International Puppet Festival, La MaMa, Dixon Place, and Coney Island USA. Maria received the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre ‘23, the Jim Henson Production Grant ‘23, and the Puffin Grant ‘23 for her show The Healing Shipment. She is currently a resident for the Museum of Chinese in America
PDF on humanism by Joey Weiss
In the beginning, humans. Their tools reflecting back to them their good plans and great ideas. This presentation will explore the concept of Humanism, now forgotten but kind of popular in the early 21st century.
Joey Weiss is an artist with a background in painting and sculpture, with work recently at the Exponential Festival, and NYCITFF at New Ohio Theater. Joey has collaborated in the past with Jordan Baum, Yuki Kawahisa, Kate Benson, April Matthis and Ben Williams in various projects.
Dick Biter (Bite Size) by Blaze Ferrer performed with Alex Romania
Dick Biter (Bite Size) is a (mini) dance that mourns the death of punk while channeling its contemporary deritus. Using deconstructed drag movement, riot grrrl sounds, mylar fringe buttplugs, and Fiona Apple’s 1997 VMAs speech as a springboard, Dick Biter collages dance scores and texts to embody both the divine femme and butch, and propose a space for abrasive, seat-forward revelry.
Blaze Ferreris an interdisciplinary performer and choreographer interested in the mainstreaming of queerness within the American capitalist hegemony. Blaze makes experiences that express the vibrancy and limits of embodiment through post-Judson choreographic scores and the incorporation of consumerist cultural iconography. As a lead artist, Blaze has made work for The Brick Theater, The Exponential Festival, Pageant, Movement Research@Judson Church, Sundays on Broadway, New Dance Alliance, AUNTS, danceh0l0, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (NEEDING IT), HERE, Dixon Place, and various DIY events. Blaze has performed for and helped generate pieces with Yanira Castro Stacy Lynn Smith, Psychic Wormhole, Jeff Aaron Bryant, Nora Sorena Casey + Christopher Dennison, The Drunkard’s Wife, Radiohole, Ursula Eagly, Londs Reuter, Ilan Bachrach + Robert M. Johanson, minor theater, Sophie Weisskoff, Ben Ferber, The Pack and Built For Collapse. Blaze has received grants and funding from Foundation For Contemporary Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, and NYFA.
Opportunity: Open Calls BRÜCKEREI #2 Where: Tanzhaus Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland When: 13-25.05.2024 Deadline: 15.02.2024 Online Application: Fee to Participate or Apply: 0
Description Of Opportunity:
For the second edition of the choreographic development platform BRÜCKEREI, we seek 3 choreographers and 10 Swiss-based professional dancers to research alongside 10 local dance amateurs.
BRÜCKEREI #2 is a creative playground bringing together passionate and hungry performance-makers and movers of all kinds for a 2-week intensive, inclusive and dynamic artistic exchange. Under the guidance of the renowned British performer, choreographer and author Jonathan Burrows, the diverse participants will experiment with different ways of communicating choreographic ideas, expand their movement language and challenge their creativity. Hosted at Tanzhaus Zürich, a leading dance facility located on the riverbank of the Limmat, BRÜCKEREI fosters a process-oriented mindset and a collaborative culture wherein inspiration is stimulated, failure is embraced and experimentation is encouraged! More information about the call of entries can be found at www.brueckerei.com/join
We welcome applications from professional dancers at any stage of their career, regardless of background or aesthetic discipline. However, you must be legally based in Switzerland and have completed a professional training.
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Opportunity: George Town Festival 2024|OPEN CALL Where: George Town, Penang, Malaysia When: 19 to 28 July 2024, Deadline: 31st of December 2023, 23:59 (GMT+8) Online Application: www.georgetownfestival.com Fee to Participate or Apply: FREE
Description Of Opportunity:
George Town Festival 2024 is calling for proposals from Malaysian and international artists and companies.
George Town Festival is an annual celebration of arts and culture in the heart of Penang, Malaysia. The 15th edition of George Town Festival is scheduled to take place from 19 to 28 July 2024, with the theme “Here and Now”.
We welcome submissions across all genres including theatre, music/sound art, dance, visual art, performance, and any other cross-disciplinary elements. Moreover, we welcome proposals for participatory, durational, or site-specific formats.
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Opportunity: Online Course “Inhabiting Time” with Marilyn Arsem Where: online When: Nov 14-Dec 12, Tuesdays 6-8PM CET Deadline: November 10 Online Application: https://ecc-performanceart.eu/inhabitingtime Fee to Participate or Apply: EUR 175
Description Of Opportunity:
At the heart of this course is the question of how to continue making live art in a world that is more often pre-recorded, edited and virtual. Working with everyday materials and actions, participants will engage in a series of exercises to examine their experience and understanding of time. As participants focus on the element of time in their performance actions, we will consider questions such as “What remains essential? What do we relinquish? What transforms?”
How To Apply:
enroll online at https://ecc-performanceart.eu/inhabitingtime
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Opportunity: OPEN CALL FOR AUDITION | MA PERFORMANCE PRACTICES Where: ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands When: Audition week: 29 January- 02 February | Availability for the whole week is required Deadline: 04 January 2024 Online Application: Fee to Participate or Apply: Application and auditions are free. Tuition fees apply after the applicant has been accepted.
Description Of Opportunity:
The HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES at ArtEZ University of the Arts is now open to applications from artists to join our Master’s degree programme starting in Autumn 2024!
Deadline submission application
4 January 2024
Audition week
29 January- 02 February | availability for the whole week is required
The MA Performance Practices welcomes artists interested in practice-as-research to advance their careers in performance art, choreography, contemporary theatre, experimental dance, or visual art.
Our curriculum is at the forefront of both artistic and intellectual enquiry around politics and ethics, empowering artists to develop performance making as a strategy for equitable societies, and intersectional futures. Facilitated by a team of internationally renowned practitioners and researchers, the students are intra-active agents, co-constituting the(ir) learning together with the wider ecology and contributing to the sustainable advancement of their fields.
If you are an artist with a curiosity for learning, a spirit of experimentation, an ambition to grow, and committed to artmaking as a life-long practice in dialogue with peers and audiences, you will find your place at the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES.
How To Apply:
How to apply: Click on this page and read the requirements and process. (https://www.performancepractices.nl/practical)
Mandatory documents are: – Motivation letter – CV – Links to your artistic work
For students from outside of the EU we offer two scholarship opportunities, which partially cover the tuition fees.
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ContemporaryPerformance.com and the Sarah Lawrence College MFA Theatre Program produce the SLC Performance Lab. During the year, visiting artists to the MFA Theatre Program’s Performance Lab are interviewed after leading a workshop with the students. Performance Lab is one of the core components of the program where graduate students work with guest artists and develop performance experiments.
Ethan Philbrick is interviewed by Nicki Miller (SLC’24)and Frank Barret (SLC’25)and produced by Julia Duffy (SLC’25)
Founded by the visionary duo, Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson of Big Art Group, the Special Effects Festival (SFX) has championed groundbreaking, genre-defying work since 2014. After a hiatus due to the pandemic, the festival is back to rekindle in the spirits of the avant-garde and create a shared space to gather for contemporary performance.
Held each year in the midst of the Annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference in NYC, SFX celebrates the eclecticism of contemporary performance.
Venue Spotlight: wild project Located in the heart of East Village, Manhattan, wild project has been the incubator for independent theater, film, music, visual arts, and spoken word projects since 2007. It’s more than just a space; it’s an ethos. An 89-seat theater that stands as a testament to artistic excellence, community engagement, and environmental responsibility. With deep commitments to LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC projects, this space breathes life into local East Village artistry.
Compensation/Support:
Artists who present one piece under 30 minutes on one of the nights of the festival receive a $200 fee and a split of half the door with the other included artists on that night. Each artist will have a 2-hour block to tech their piece in the space the day of the performance. The artists will be supported by a crew including the technical director and light/sound operator. wild project will support front-of-house and ticketing.
Application Guidelines:
Open to all contemporary performance makers in the NYC area, with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+, POC, women, and non-binary voices.
Submissions should clearly demonstrate how the work tackles contemporary issues and promotes critical dialogue.
Both new and established artists are encouraged to apply.
Performance pieces can range in length but should not exceed 30 minutes.
Three or four performances will be presented each night so it is important that setup and strike be under 5 minutes.
All performances should be adaptable to the 89-seat theater space provided by wild project and be able to use the rep plot provided. Specs listed on wild project website
A brief synopsis of the work, artist biography, and video link of the work, link to images, website should accompany your application.
Opportunity: Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects Where: Los Angeles When: Annual Deadline: October 11 Online Application: https://welcometolace.org/lightning-fund/ Fee to Participate or Apply: free
Description Of Opportunity:
The Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects. This annual award will give $10,000 to an artist in LA and one in NYC, administered by LACE (LA) and Franklin Furnace (NYC). The first year we are focusing on mid/late career artists. Following years will be open to emerging and established artists.
LACE applications are open until Oct. 11; The Furnace applications will open later this year.
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