Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy)(Edit)
Having trained with Lenz Rifrazioni, Alessandro Sciarroni undertook
his first independent creations in 2007. Your girl was selected for
the Dro International Performance Prize, Centrale Fies.
Ann Liv Young (Brooklyn, NYC)(Edit)
Ann Liv Young was born on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and has
been creating dance work for over eight years. Her work has been
presented at major venues in New York City and Europe.r
Ant Hampton (Great Britain)(Edit)
Performance maker, writer and director. Founded Rotozaza in 1998, a
project which has explored the use of instructions played-out by
the audience themselves (Autoteatro).
Anya Liftig (Brooklyn, New york)(Edit)
An internationally touring performance artist (recently noted for
her guerilla intervention into Marina Abramovic's
Retrospective)
Astrid Endruweit (Berlin,
Germany)(Edit)
Astrid Endruweit is a dancer and actress for eight years with
Michael Laub / Remote Control Productions. She also creates and
performers her own work.
Bad Co. (Zagreb, Croatia)(Edit)
A collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia.
The artistic core of the collective are Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana
Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš,
Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec.
Banana Bag & Bodice (Brooklyn,
USA)(Edit)
Banana Bag & Bodice is an ensemble-based theatre company that
creates unique Play Shows with a strong emphasis on original text,
music and design. Founded in 1999, we have created 9 original
productions varying in style and content, from a futuristic
Big Dance Theater (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Founded in 1991, Big Dance Theater is known for its inspired use of
dance, music, text and visual design to expand and refract literary
texts, weaving disparate sources and forms into seamless theatrical
wholes.
Blast Theory (London, UK)(Edit)
A group of seven artists based in London who make live events for
theatres, clubs, galleries and the street.
Bruno Beltrão / Grupo de Rua (Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil)(Edit)
A Brazilian choreographer who has worked since 1996 with his Grupo
de Rua (GRN). He uses urban dances in the context of conceptual
theatre and tries to find a theatrical credibility for hip hop.
During eight years he has been mixing various influences, in
Caden Manson/Big Art Group (NYC, USA)(Edit)
A New York City performance company founded in 1999. The company
uses the language of media and blended states of performance in a
unique form to build culturally transgressive and challenging new
works.
Chelfitch (Tokyo, Japan)(Edit)
The company's name, "chelfitsch," is Okada's coinage. It represents
the baby-like disarticulation of the English word "selfish." It is
meant to evoke the social and cultural characteristics of today's
Japan, not least of Tokyo.
Christian Rizzo / Association Fragile
(Paris, France)(Edit)
Christian Rizzo is not easy to define. He is a multifaceted artist
who thinks outside the box, developing his favorite themes and
obsessions, revisiting archetypes and rituals and essentializing
them into abstract signs, bridging extremes: vagueness and h
Complicite (London, UK)(Edit)
Each collaborative adventure into the unknown starts off, anything
is possible. The result is an astonishingly broad and continually
evolving spectrum of work. It is built on what Artistic Director
Simon McBurney calls a series of extraordinary and intric
Constanza Macras : Dorky Park (Berlin,
Germany)(Edit)
Dorky Park is a dance company from Berlin, Germany, created and
directed by choreographer Constanza Macras. Initially, between 1997
an 2003, the dance troupe was called Tamagotchi Y2K. Constanza
Macras was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studie
Crew (Belgium)(Edit)
A Belgium-based performance group. Eric Joris being its key figure,
this production team has brought together people from different
domains depending on the projects that were being made. On the
whole, CREW has insisted on making performances at the melti
Damaged Goods .::. Meg Stuart (Brussels,
Belgium)(Edit)
Since 1994, Meg Stuart has been working in Brussels with her
company Damaged Goods, a non-profit organisation. Her
evening-length pieces Disfigure Study (1991), No Longer Readymade
(1993) and No One Is Watching, have been touring extensively
throughout Eu
David Levine (Berlin, Germany)(Edit)
Works in video, theater, performance and installation. Works
examine the intersection of art, work, and spectatorship.
deufert +plischke (Berlin,
Germany)(Edit)
Welcome to the website of deufert +plischke. If you want to know
who we are you can find a number of texts to download including
some reviews on our work in the Apropos section
Dumbtype (Tokyo, Japan)(Edit)
Founded in 1984, the artist collective Dumb Type is based in Kyoto,
Japan. Members are trained in varied disciplines, including visual
arts, architecture, music composition and computer programming.
Their work ranges across such diverse media as art exhib
Elevator Repair Service (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Founded by director John Collins and a group of actors in 1991.
Since that time, ERS has built a body of work that has earned it a
loyal following and made it one of New York’s most highly-acclaimed
experimental theater companies of the past 20 years.
Fanny & Alexander (Ravenna,
Italy)(Edit)
Fanny & Alexander is an art workshop founded in Ravenna in 1992
by Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani. To date they have produced
about forty events ranging across theatre, video and film,
installation, photographic exhibitions, conferences and study
Forced Entertainment (Sheffield,
UK)(Edit)
Our work spans theatre and performance through digital media, video
installation and publication. It is original, contemporary work
that develops new forms and old to find the most effective
articulation of its ideas. The work is shown in a variety of
con
Gisèle Vienne (Paris, France)(Edit)
Gisèle Vienne, born 1976, lives and works in Paris and Grenoble.
After studying philosophy, she follows the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Arts de la Marionette from 1996 to 1999. She is a
choreographer / director, performer and plasticienne.
Gob Squad (Berlin, Germany)(Edit)
Gob Squad make performances, videos, installations and weird
happenings, mixing performance, theatre, film and real life.
Founded in 1994, the company is based in Nottingham, Hamburg and
Berlin.
Granular Synthesis(Edit)
Kurt Hentschlaeger und Ulf Langheinrich have been working together
as Granular-Synthesis since 1991
Guy Cassiers(Edit)
Born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1960, is one of the most versatile
theatre makers in Flanders and the Netherlands. He originally
studied graphic art at the Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp. From
1988 to 1992 Cassiers was artistic director of the company Oud
Hu
h2dance (United Kingdom)(Edit)
h2dance (formed in 1999) presents the joint choreography and
direction of Artistic Directors Hanna Gillgren (Sweden) and Heidi
Rustgaard (Norway). Their work addresses political and gender
issues with hu
Headlong (Philadelphia, PA -
USA)(Edit)
Over the years, Headlong has created over forty dances, many of
which are known for their witty take on contemporary culture.
Rather than relying on a single dance style or technique, Headlong
develops a unique movement vocabulary for each new piece.
Heiner Goebbels(Edit)
The composer and director Heiner Goebbels (*1952) belongs to the
most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre
scene. His compositions for ensembles and big orchestras published
by » Ricordi Munich are currently performed worldwide as wel
Hotel Modern (Rotterdam,
Netherlands)(Edit)
A theatre company, established in 1997. They blend visual art,
object theatre, drama, music, film, modelling and performance in
evocative productions.
Hotel Proforma (Copenhagen,
Denmark)(Edit)
Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion of theatre into new
territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre and
non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression.
Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation,
conscious
Implied Violence (Seattle,
Washington)(Edit)
Implied Violence is an intimate, intelligent, connected group of
emerging artists who create work with and for one another. We are
mercurial youngsters with style and wit. We keep secrets and speak
in code.
Jay Scheib (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Writer, Director and Designer, Jay Scheib has been developing new
works for performance for over ten years in the US and throughout
Europe.
Jeremy Xido (Vienna, Austria)(Edit)
Originally from Detroit, graduated cum laude in Painting and
Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In 2000 received a
Fulbright Grant to develop the company Cabula6 in Barcelona.
John Jasperse Company (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Featuring the choreography of John Jasperse, the Company continues
to build a growing presence on the international contemporary dance
scene.
John Jesurun ( NYC, USA)(Edit)
A playwright, director, designer living in New York. His
presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural
space and media.
Jonah Bokaer (Brooklyn, USA)(Edit)
An award-winning choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a
short lifetime to expanding possibilities for live performance
through choreography, digital media, crossdisciplinary
collaborations, and social enterprise, in the United States and
inter
Kathy Rose (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Kathy Rose’s work has evolved from her early drawn animated films
of the 1970’s, through her unique, pioneering performance work
combining dance with film in the 1980-90’s, to her current surreal
performance video spectacles and installations, with influ
Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero (SF,
USA)(Edit)
Hennessy is a Canadian-born performer, director and organizer
living in San Francisco since 1982. Creating performances for
theaters and streets, Hennessy’s work is marked by queerly
evocative images, untamed physicality, and sharp political texts.
He dir
koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Koosil-ja moved to New York in 1981 to study dance with Merce
Cunningham. She has received five National Endowment for the Arts
Choreographer Fellowships and three New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowships.
Kurt Hentschlager(Edit)
Chicago based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates
performances and environments. The immersive nature of his work
reflects on the metaphor of the sublime and the human
condition.
La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona,
Spain)(Edit)
Cutting edge theatre company with a 25 year history. Information
about past and upcoming work. [English, Spanish and Catalan]
La MaMa ETC (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For 47 years La
MaMa has passionately pursued its original mission to develop,
nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance
work by artists of all nations and cultures.
La Ribot(Edit)
In 1991, under the name of La Ribot, the Madrid artist took her
work along new paths by creating scenic works at the moving
intersection of live art, performance and video. Humour and
eccentricity are the distinctive features of her work, which covers
a b
LeeSaar (NYC, USA)(Edit)
LeeSaar The Company was established in Israel in 2000 by the
actress and writer Lee Sher and The Dancer/Choreographer Saar
Harari. The company uses the different disciplines and training of
Theater and Dance to create original dance and theater
performanc
Lindy Annis (Berlin, Germany)(Edit)
Lindy Annis was born in Boston, U.S.A. She studied acting and
theater at New York University (Experimental Theatre Wing):
Bachelor of Arts/Drama. She moved to Berlin, Germany where she
works as performance artist, theater author and other related
roles.
Lola Arias (Buenos Aires,
Argentina)(Edit)
Writer, performer, theater director and songwriter. Texts have been
translated to English, French and German and she has been presented
in Avignon, Steirischer Herbst, Spielart and In Transit.
Mabou Mines (NYC, USA)(Edit)
An avant-garde theatre company founded in 1970 and based in New
York City. The company was founded by JoAnne Akailitis, Lee Breuer,
Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow. It was named
after Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, where the founders rehearsed
Maike Lond (Tallinn, Estonia)(Edit)
Musician, interdisciplinary artist. Graduated Interfaculty Art
Science in Royal Academy of Art in Der Haag. In 2008-2009 worked
with Von Krahl Theatre on “Is There A Life After Capitalism” and
“Republic of Dreams”
Massimo Furlan (Genève,
Switzerland)(Edit)
Born from Italian parents in Lausanne on October 8th, 1965, Massimo
Furlan, after having followed training at the Beaux-Arts School of
Lausanne (1984-1988), initiates an operating cycle centred on the
themes of the memory and the forgetting.
Michel Schweizer / La Coma
(Bordeaux, France)(Edit)
Michel Schweizer works in Bordeaux, where he has studied both
theatre and visual arts. In his work he combines theatre, dance,
visual art and entrepreneurship. He calls his artistic enterprise
La Coma a profit centre. From this centre he starts off his pu
Mobile Academy (Berlin, Germany)(Edit)
The Mobile Academy always changes location, time and theme,
maintaining a consistent intensity and a growing sense of
doubt.
Muta Imago (Rome, Italy)(Edit)
Muta Imago is a Rome - based theatre group born in 2004 after the
meeting of Riccardo Fazi, dramaturg, Claudia Sorace, director and
Massimo Troncanetti, stage designer. From 2006 the group firmly
collaborates with the actor Glen Blackhall. Moving from
Nao Bustamante (LA, USA)(Edit)
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video
artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her
work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and
video.
National Theater of United States of
America (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Through multiplicity of voice and vision, we create unified,
intoxicating, space-specific theatrical universes which our
audiences complete. Together, we confront the culture and history
that we all breathe, promoting multiple perceptions, questions and
o
Nature Theater of Oklahom (NYC,
USA)(Edit)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a New York-based performance group
under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. The ensemble
strives to create an unsettling live situation that demands total
presence from everyone in the room.
New Paradise Laboratories
(Philadelphia, USA)(Edit)
founded to create surprising, meticulous, spiritually challenging,
and wholly distinctive experimental theatre productions that
investigate the human body and its capacity for physical
expression, on-stage and in lfe. These productions are invented
using
Nibroll (Tokyo, Japan)(Edit)
Tokyo based collaborative of choreographer, musicaians, Fashion
designers and visual arts
NO99 (Tallinn, Estonia)(Edit)
is a state-owned repertoire theatre that has its own building with
two theatre halls in central Tallinn. The theatre’s artistic
director is Tiit Ojasoo, and Ene-Liis Semper is the chief stage
designer-director. Texts are often composed by the directors
th
Orthographe (Ravenna, Italy)(Edit)
Created in 2004 around the research work of Alexander Panzavolta
and the optical chamber. The group's name derives from their first
show Orthographe de la physionomie en mouvement, a creation for the
Venice Biennale 2005.
Pan Pan (Dublin, Ireland)(Edit)
Pan Pan have created 15 new productions and has toured throughout
Ireland as well as Germany, Netherlands, U.K, Italy,Sweden, Poland,
Austria, Australia and Korea. Pan Pan also founded and produce the
Dublin International Theatre Symposium .
Par B.Leux (Montréal Québec,
Canada)(Edit)
Founded in 1996 by its artistic director, choreographer Benoît
Lachambre, par b.l.eux is a company dedicated to research and
creation in dance.
Pig Iron (Philadelphia, PA -
USA)(Edit)
Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, Pig Iron Theatre
Company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant
performance works that defy easy categorization.
Ping Chong & Company (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Originally The Fiji Theatre Company, was founded in 1975 to explore
the meaning of contemporary theatre and art on a national and
international level. The company's mission is to explore the
intersections of race, culture, history, art, media and
technolo
Plasma (Zürich, Switzerland)(Edit)
The Swiss drama group PLASMA sees itself as a laboratory in which
is searched for theatrical forms of expression. Since 2001 projects
have thereby come into being, which distinguish themselves by an
own mark and by their professional translation into acti
Proto-type(Edit)
Proto-type Theater is based in Lancaster, UK and Brooklyn, NY and
we make original theater and media work that tours
internationally.
Rachid Ouramdane (Paris, France)(Edit)
French-born of Algerian descent, Rachid Ouramdane is at the
forefront of Europe’s new generation of conceptual dance-thinkers
and performers who are bringing vital new ideas to the stage.
Reactor (UK)(Edit)
Reactor creates projects that place the audience in a central and
interactive role, exploring the dynamics of group behaviour and the
production of collective reality and responsibility;
Rimini Protokoll(Edit)
Rimini Protokoll is the label for the works of artists Helgard Haug
(female, German, born 1969), Stefan Kaegi (Swiss, b. 1972) and
Daniel Wetzel (German, b. 1969) in various team constellations
(related to theatre, live art, radio plays and installation),
Robbinschilds (NYC, USA)(Edit)
robbinschilds was formed by movement artists Sonya Robbins and
Layla Childs in 2003. The company, which was founded on the
artistic director’s shared interest in performance and
installation, is focused on presenting highly visual time-based
works.
Robert Wilson(Edit)
Since the late 1960s, Robert Wilson's productions have decisively
shaped the look of theater and opera. Through his signature use of
light, his investigations into the structure of a simple movement,
the classical rigor of his scenic and furniture design,
Rude Mechs (Austin, Texas)(Edit)
Since 1995, Rude Mechs has used performance to explore
collectivity, collaboration, and community. The result is a
mercurial slate of 22 original theatrical productions ranging from
Low-Fi, Agit-Prop, Lec-Dems to Multi-Media, Romantic-Era, Closet
Dramas.
Rudi skotheim Jensen (Norway)(Edit)
Director, writer and choreographer within the "crossover"
terminology, of the contemporary performing arts.
Santasangre(Edit)
Santasangre is an artistic research project that was born in Rome
in late 2001 from Diana Arbib, Luca Brinch, Maria Carmela Milan,
Pasquale Tricoci. in 2004, with the arrival of Dario Salvagnini and
Roberta Zanardo, reaching the current training.
Scott Heron (New Orleans, LA)(Edit)
His solo and group work has been presented in practically every
downtown New York venue including The Kitchen, Movement Research at
Judson Church, Dixon Place and especially Performance Space 122
which has commissioned four evening-length works. Musical c
Smeds Ensemble (Helsinki,
Finland)(Edit)
A production unit which functions as a meeting forum for Finnish
and international artists. Co-operation has been planned with major
Finnish festivals and theatres, and also various organisations in
Brussels, Tallinn, Vilnius, Linz and Budapest.
Snuff Puppets (Melbourne,
Australia)(Edit)
The company tours nationally and internationally, with shows on the
streets, in circus tents, theatres and at rock concerts. Snuff
Puppets combine the elements of puppetry, live music,[1] visual and
physical theatre. Subjects that are considered taboo are
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio(Edit)
Italian director Romeo Castellucci founded the theatre company
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio with his sister, Claudia Castellucci, and
wife, Chiara Guidi, in 1981. In the twenty five years since, the
group has staged some of the most radical and controversial
Station House Opera(Edit)
With past projects ranging from spectacular site-specific works
created with 10,000 concrete blocks, to simultaneous performances
across continents using live internet streaming, Station House
Opera is an internationally renowned performance company with
Superamas(Edit)
SUPERAMAS have seen their task as taking on dance with materials
from other areas of life. The group uses “untreated”, often
unspectacular circumstances as well as readymades coming from
everyday culture, and it treats those elements equally.
Taavet Jansen (Tallinn, Estonia)(Edit)
Director, programmer and interdisciplinary artist. Graduated as
choreographer in Tallinn University and got masters degree in dance
and New Media program Dance Unlimited in Amsterdam Theatreschool.
Worked with several renowned and not-yet-renowned artists
Tashmadada (Melbourne,
Australia)(Edit)
Tashmadada is a contemporary performance company committed to
bringing together arts practitioners as well as providing a forum
for discussion about the arts.
Temporary Distortion (NYC, USA)(Edit)
A performance group who creates unique, nonlinear juxtapositions of
text, image, and sound...focused on stillness, minimalism, and the
search for a new style of chamber theater.
Tere O'Connor Dance (NYC)(Edit)
Tere O’Connor’s choreography finds its logic outside the realm of
“translation”. He views dance as a system of information with its
own properties, an abstract documentary form that need not be
assessed through the lens of western culture, spoken languag
Thaddeus Phillips & Lucidity
Suitcase (Philadelphia, PA - USA)(Edit)
The LUCIDITY SUITCASE Intercontinental is a theater creation team
made up of artists from Colorado, Colombia, Iowa, New Mexico, New
York & Bulgaria that use 'rough' media, documentary footage,
transformational scenography, improvisation and research t
The Builders Association (NYC,
USA)(Edit)
Creates large-scale theater projects exploring the interface
between live performance and media. Work re-animates theater for a
contemporary audience, using current tools to interpret old forms.
Productions combine historic and new texts with performance,
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater(Edit)
Founded in 1968 by Richard Foreman with the aim of stripping the
theater bare of everything but the singular and essential impulse
to stage the static tension of interpersonal relations in space.
The OHT seeks to produce works that balance a primitive an
The Wooster Group(Edit)
An ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth
LeCompte, make work for theater, dance and media.
Thinaar (Brooklyn, NY)(Edit)
A web repository for the work - upcoming and past - of playwright
and performer Aaron Landsman. Landsman's locative and theatrical
works have been presented in Belarus, Sweden and Norway.
Third Angel (Sheffield, UK)(Edit)
Third Angel makes entertaining and original contemporary
performance that speaks directly, honestly and engagingly to its
audience. Established in Sheffield in 1995, the company makes work
that encompasses performance, theatre, live art, installation,
fil
Time Etchells - Notebook(Edit)
The notebook / blog is updated pretty often and covers a wide range
of stuff that I'm working on as well as things I'm seeing and
thinking about.
Trajal Harrell (NYC, USA)(Edit)
Born in Douglas, Georgia, he graduated from Yale University where
he studied American Studies with a concentration in creative
processes ― researching theater, literary theory, and art
history.
Wu Ingrid Tsang(Edit)
He engages the voice as a physical medium and metaphor. His
projects and performances have been presented at REDCAT (LA), Art
in General (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Espai d'Art Contemporani
(Castellon), Sala de Art Publico Siqueiros (Mexico City), Impakt
Fest
Yaemeen Godder (Jaffa, Israel)(Edit)
Yasmeen Godder was born and raised in Jerusalem, and moved to New
York with her family at age eleven. Her works have regularly been
presented at the Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in Tel Aviv, and
extensively throughout the world: Lincoln Center Festival in