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In Performance: Christina Pitter, Decolonizing My Vagina (The Exponential Festival)

Decolonizing My Vagina Christina Pitter The Exponential Festival, JACK Jan 8-29, 2017 Decolonizing My Vagina is a 75-minute show written and perfor…

In Performance: James and Jerome, Museum: Lecture (Exponential Festival)

It’s ten minutes past the hour, and the performance still hasn’t started. The performer/creators, James and Jerome, stand on the floor-level stage, ba…

In Performance: Deepali Gupta, Over(Reverberating) (The Exponential Festival)

Over(Reverberating) is a live-performance of selected songs from Deepali Gupta’s 2017 album of the same name. Between each song, Deepali shares snippe…

In Performance: Andrew Schneider, AFTER (Under the Radar)

AFTER Andrew Schneider Under the Radar, The Public Theater January 4-14, 2018 Without warning, the audience is plunged into darkness. So beings AFT…

5 Currents In Contemporary Performance To Know (Free PDF)

Currents focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance. The book focuses on contemporary performing artists…

Opportunities: Signal Fire 2018 Programs (Western USA) Deadline – 01/31/2018

Signal Fire announces a call for applications for its ninth year of remote residencies and retreats on public wildlands, open to artists working in al…

Opportunities: New Victory LabWorks Now Accepting Applications! (New 42nd street, New York, NY) Deadline – 01/15/2018

New Victory LabWorks Now Accepting Applications! (New 42nd street, New York, NY) July 2018 through June 2019 Deadline: 01/15/2018 Online Application: …

Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, Civic Practice: In Conversation with Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a playwright and performance artist whose work is occasionally co-authored with community members. His most recent piece, Perfect Ci…

Opportunities: Open Call – Altofest 8th Ed. Naples (Naples, Italy) Deadline – 01/07/2018

alert regarding every attempt of imposing a depersonalized cultural proposal. A community that is able to recognize culture as a primary good, of whic…

What is Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, and Civic Practice?

This essay originally appeared in Currents, published by Contemporary Performance and edited by Caden Manson and is also available in hardcopy and ava…

10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 9. Ping Chong + Company

Ping Chong + Company Ping Chong + Company produces theatrical works addressing the important cultural and civic issues of our times, striving to reac…

10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 3. Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates Theaster Gates was born in Chicago in 1973. He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming …

Welcome to Contemporary Performance, a social network and community organizing platform providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate. The term Contemporary Performance is used to describe hybrid performance works and artists that travel between the fields of Experimental Theatre & Dance, Video Art, Visual Art, Music Composition and Performance Art without adhering to one specific field’s practice.

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