Feature, Interviews

Pavel Zuštiak on “The Painted Bird” Trilogy

A conversation with the choreographer and Guggenheim fellow about how "The Painted Bird Trilogy" took shape (fittingly, in a garden with screeching peacocks in the background).

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Feature, Festivals, From the Editor

Fusebox Festival Wrap-Up

We're back from a super-fantastic weekend at The Fusebox Festival. Here's a look back.

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Feature, Interviews

John Heginbotham’s debut at Baryshnikov Arts Center

The celebrated dancer-choreographer eats cupcakes with Aaron Mattocks in advance of his company's premiere this week

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Feature, Ideas

Culturebot Explores Critical Horizontalism at the Fusebox Festival

This May in Austin, we continue our examination of new models of critical engagement and the pressing issues of contemporary performance

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Dance, Feature

BLOOM! Dance Collective Brings “CITY” to US

The Budapest-based dance collective talks about the show they're bringing to NYC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh

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Ideas

A Conversation on Art, Money & Politics (Part One)

Posted on 15 May 2012

On April 11, 2012 Jan Cohen-Cruz, Randy Martin, Morgan Jenness , Rachel Chavkin and moderator Amy Whitaker came together at the Broad Street Ballroom of Léman Manhattan Preparatory School near Wall Street for a discussion called "At The Intersection: Art, Money and Politics" as part of LMCC's Access Restricted series, curated and produced by Culturebot's Andrew Horwitz. This conversation is available as a podcast at artonair.org. Continue Reading

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Ideas, Live Art, News

“I’d Hide You” – The UK’s Blast Theory Interactive Performance/Game Launches May 17

Posted on 14 May 2012

Blast Theory's new interactive performance project premieres May 17 2012 at Future Everything in Manchester, England. Continue Reading

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Ideas, Live Art

What Marina Abramović’s Institute Tells Us About How the Art World Contextualizes Performance

Posted on 14 May 2012

And where we can look for alternative presentational aesthetics, with reference to Michael Kliën and Steve Valk Continue Reading

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Etcetera, Events, Opportunities

Opportunities, Asks and Other Odds and Ends

Posted on 13 May 2012

Living Theater needs your money to stay open, Peculiar Works issues a call for artists, Erik Ehn needs your money to do a show at La Mama, Performers and Sandhogs meet to explore the subterranean world of Newtown Creek, CPR has a movement festival & more Continue Reading

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Digest

The Digest: May 10, 2012

Posted on 10 May 2012

Claudia la Rocco talks her practice, Yussef el Guindi explains why he forsakes NYC for Seattle, & a Québécois theater-maker makes art out of conservative programming at big houses Continue Reading

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Live Art, News

Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution?

Posted on 09 May 2012

An artist toying with concepts of erotica and therapy gets rejected by the art world, a whole lot of free publicity, and raises some very interesting questions about the nature of art Continue Reading

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Festivals, Live Art, Reviews, Visual Art

Reporting from Itinerant Manhattan

Posted on 07 May 2012

Culturebot contributor Zhenesse Heinemann reports from QMAD's ITINERANT Festival, Manhattan version. Continue Reading

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Ideas, Points of View, Theater

An Essay on Ibrahim El-Husseini’s “Comedy of Sorrows”

Posted on 07 May 2012

Guest contributor Hani Omar Khalil explores Ibrahim El-Husseini's "Comedy of Sorrows" ("Commedia Al-Ahzaan"), a theatrical response to the Egyptian Revolution Continue Reading

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News, Visual Art

Join the Petition to Support Sotheby’s Locked-Out Art Handlers

Posted on 06 May 2012

Help support the 43 unionized art workers currently struggling to defend their right to collective bargaining against one of the leading auction houses in the world Continue Reading

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Music, Videos

You Can Call Me Frances’ “Undenuck”

Posted on 06 May 2012

Four Dublin-based dancers have formed a hypnotically catch art-pop band Continue Reading

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