Category: News
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The Digest: Jan. 27, 2011 [Special Arts Economy Doom Edition]
More news: American arts vitality hits new low, Rocco Landesman et al. on improving American theater at #Newplay Fest, and Sam Brownback aims to make Kansas the first art-free state in the union.
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Applications OPEN for the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training
Applications are now being accepted for Pig Iron Theatre’s new School for Advanced Performance Training. More info after the jump.
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The Digest: Jan. 26, 2011
Republicans aren’t serious about cutting arts funding to balance the budget…they’d do it either way; a Ukrainian playwright killed by terrorism in Moscow is remembered; The A.W.A.R.D. Show! goes to Seattle!; and more.
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Columbia and PS122 launch Arts Collaboration Lab
Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 are joining forces to launch The Arts Collaboration Lab, a pioneering intensive summer workshop and residency program for artists and arts students. The Arts Collaboration Lab will inaugurate its pilot season on Columbia’s campus in July 2011.
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Ellen Stewart Passes Away at 91
Ellen Stewart, the legendary Founder and Director of the La MaMa E.T.C. died on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan.
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Performance News
News from around the interwebs: Theater gets political (and politicized), dance goes contortionist in the new economy, Portland fields its best up-and-coming theatrical talent & more.
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DTW/Bill T. Jones Merge
DTW and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company officially announce their merger to become New York Live Arts.
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Cuiffo as Lenny Bruce Adds Show
Steve Cuiffo’s verbatim recreation of Lenny Bruce’s Carnegie Hall concert sold out so quickly that they’ve added a second show. Click through for more info.
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Sundance Institute Announces 2011 New Frontier Artists
Sundance Institute announced today the line up of artists selected for the 2011 edition of New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival. The program, celebrating its fifth year, brings together established and emerging artists from film, art, performance, gaming, and new media technology, to provide for them a film festival environment to share their work, and…