This just in from the esteemed Wayne Ashley. Looks very cool. “Share, Share Widely”: A Conference on New Media Education Friday, May 6th, 11am – 8pm The Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th street) New York
this just in from Peter Petralia, Proto-Type and our pals at Chashama: chashama presents PROTO-TYPE THEATERS MUSEUM OF DREAMS A six-hour performance installation (work-in-progress) Developed in association with the Outside/Input Program of the Ontological Hysteric Theater Four performances only starting May 19th at 208 W.
We just received an email announcing a new program – a Master’s Degree in New Media Art and Performance is being offered at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus beginning in the fall of 2005. Keep reading for more info.
Dublin Fringe Festival (DFF) is Irelands leading multi-disciplinary festival of contemporary performing arts, providing an annual platform for the most innovative and fresh theatre, visual arts, dance, live art, mixed media and music. The Fringe celebrates new and emerging artists and fresh approaches to performance
The NY Times had an article called “The Avant Garde Goes To Clown School” which offers a good overview of some of the more prominent “avant-garde” theater troupes out there including Les Freres Corbusier who “have been fragmenting narratives and deconstructing historical characters in pursuit
This is a very interesting conference run by a dance company in Limerick, Ireland which was formerlly headed up by Yoshiko CHuma. They also run a bulletin board / chat site about choreography which is pretty interesting – http://www.choreograph.net. It’s an event looking at a
Okay. Its kinda silly, admittedly. But funny. How often do experimental performance spaces get name-checked on cable tv? I have gotten independent confirmation that in Episode #208 “Loyal” Elena Peabody’s ex-lover is explaining to Bette (Jennifer Beales) that “my first play had just debuted at
Michelle Matlock’s The Mammy Project opens this Thursday at Performance Space 122. In “The Mammy Project” Matlock digs up the dirt on the century-old icon of Aunt Jemima. The bandannaed superstar of minstrel shows, Hollywood epics, and the breakfast nook is re-imagined from her dark
La Luz Talleres and The Museum of Modern Art of Oaxaca announce: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra will conduct an 8-day performance workshop in Oaxaca (Mexico). Dates. August 3-10, 2005 www.pochanostra.com Theme: What does Radical Artistic Behaviour mean in the year 2005? Internationally known
I don’t know anything about this, but a Culturebot reader just forwarded the following news item from the AFTRA newsletter: LABOR UPDATES – FIA calls for Boycott of Blue Man Group. Canadian Equity – together with the American Federation of Musicians and IATSE – has
Many of you probably know David Neumann or saw him last week in Adrienne Truscott’s they will use the highways. Well, this just came in about David Neumann’s upcoming new work: Bessie Award-winner David Neumann teams up with acclaimed filmmaker and composer Hal Hartley and
Michelle Matlock is a character actress and physical comedienne extraordinaire, having worked as a clown/variety performer with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Circus Amok, Dare Devil Opera Company and as a member of The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit. In The Mammy Project she digs