Contemporary Performance Network
A Resource for Performing Artists, Scholars and Audiences.
Festivals
- Alkantara Festival (Portugal)
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International performance festival that also hosts many meetings, residencies, and national and international co-productions
- Belluard Bollwerk International (Fribourg,
Switzerland)
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Belluard Bollwerk International is a arts festival that, since 1983, takes place every year during ten days and announces the summer in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Crossing the Line FI:AF (NYC, USA)
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A platform for transformation. A festival of new work that enables all of us to re-imagine the way we exist in the world, the way we look at the world, and the way we sense and experience the world.
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(internatonale) Keuze (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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International Theatre Festival Rotterdam
- Donau Festival (Krems, Austria)
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The Donaufestival 09 sees itself – not claiming to be in the slightest complete – as a seven-day attempt to respond to the unreality of reality of our times by means of various artistic media and positions. Anything that religious and political agitators,
- Escrita na Paisagem (Portugal)
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Portuguese transdisciplinary festival.
- Facyl Festival International Arts Festival of Castilla
y León (Salamanca, Spain)
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- Festival
d'Automne a Paris (Paris, France)
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Autumn Festival in Paris, France
- Festival d'Avigon (Avignon, France)
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The mission of the Festival is to show-case French and foreign contemporary drama, dance creations and stage performances in general - about forty productions each year - to an ever-growing audience (around 100,000).
- Festival de Liège (Liège - Belgium)
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A cross roads of individual, authentic statements by internationally renowned artists, a place where creative ideas, adventure, debate, confrontation, discovery will be a wide open window on our world.
- Festival Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
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The theme of the first edition of Festival/Tokyo, the Festival/Tokyo 09 Spring, was “Towards a new real”. For a period of one month, more than 60 000 spectators gathered to see one of the 19 performances divided on 128 shows, engaging more than 500 perfor
- Festival TransAmériques (Montréal, Canada)
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National event celebrating new works in contemporary dance and theatre, the Festival TransAmériques combines disciplines and artistic trends under cohesive programming.
- Festival VEO (València, Spain)
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Theater, music and dance together for the seventh consecutive year at the festival València Escena Oberta or in a more emphatic in VEO: a festival of transgressive proposed findings delirious and which programming is built around contemporary creation, th
- Fusebox Festival (Austin, USA)
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Fusebox is an annual contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX each April.
- GayWise Festival (London, GB)
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London's International cross arts festival for Lesbain, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Arts
- Holland Festival (Amsterdam, Holland)
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The Holland Festival has been the trend-setting performance arts festival in the Netherlands since 1947, annually presenting exceptional work at the international level. The Festival has had an illustrious history, with every artistic director taking it i
- Inteatro Polverigi Festival (Polverigi,
Italy)
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The Festival plays an important role in the field of performing arts in Italy and abroad, promoting and scheduling some of the most original and important new companies and artists.
- Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels,
Belgium)
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Kunsten Festival des Arts, created by Frie Leysen in 1994, takes place every year in May and lasts up to four weeks, during which a wide range of events takes place at twenty different venues in Brussels. The programme of the festival invariably presents
- La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva,
Switzerland)
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Festival of theater, dance, music and performances held in various places in the Genève.
- Les Festival EXIT (Paris, France)
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As an active participant in the contemporary artistic creation, the Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Creteil is a place where all manners and movements of art are produced, displayed, and performed. With over 300 performances a year, MAC's policy start
- LES GRANDES TRAVERSÉES (Bordeaux, France)
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A 'carte blanche' festival of international contemporary/living arts
- LIFT (London, England)
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LIFT produces and presents interactive cultural experiences which enable people to make meaningful connections on a local, national and international level. Since 1981, LIFT has been recognised as one of Europe’s leading arts festivals, introducing theatr
- Melbourne International Arts Festival
(Melbourne, Australia)
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Melbourne International Arts Festival is Australia's premier celebration of international performing and visual arts and Melbourne's flagship cultural event.
- Movement Research Festival (NYC, USA)
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An annual two-part festival that explores contemporary dance forms through performances, classes, workshops, contact jams, multimedia installations and discursive formats.
- Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (Napoli,
Italy)
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The Festival interweaves a special relationship with Naples, not only staging its shows in the city’s theatres but also in other more unusual venues. The Festival has commissioned and produced site-specific shows for its subterranean caves, for its roofto
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Festival of Live Art (Glasgow, Scotland)
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an international premier programme where companies and independent artist from around the world are invited to present premiers of their work, which may not otherwise be seen in the UK.
- On The Boards (Seattle, Washington)
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On the Boards is a non-profit contemporary performing arts organization located in the lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. Founded by artists in 1978, our programming supports the development of artists and companies who are creating ground-breaking
- Open Art (Beijing, China)
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Open International Performance Art Festival is the first in China and is the largest and longest in the history of an unofficial and non-governmental International Performance Art Festival in China.
- Perfect Performance (Stockholm, Sweden)
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A presenting platform that works from Stockholm as a base, we arrange festivals, seminars and work as consultants with our biggest theaters and schools. Perfect Performance present international Live Art, with an emphasis on theater, dance and performanc
- Performa (NYC, USA)
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PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world.
- Philadelphia Dance Projects (Philadelphia, PA
USA )
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Supporting contemporary dance through projects that encourage artists and audiences to more fully participate and engage in the experience and pursuit of dance as an evolving form. Each year, PDP presents an annual series offering contemporary dance perfo
- Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (Philadelphia, PA -
USA)
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A collection of the world’s best contemporary performing artists energize Philadelphia audiences each year during the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Selected by Nick Stuccio, the Festival’s Producing Director, about half of these artists are based in Ph
- Prelude (NYC, USA)
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Festival and symposium of the best of NYC's contemporary theatre and performance scene.
- Romaeuropa (Rome,
Italy)
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Fall arts festival of Rome
- Sommerszene (Salzburg, Austria)
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Szene salzburg started as a platform for local artists for contemporary performing arts and music. salzburg being famous for her traditional culture and music the szene grew to be the contemporary counter weight to this historical reputation. today the sz
- SpielArt Festival (Munich, Germany)
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SPIELART is an international festival of contemporary theatre art. It presents artists who are willing to risk something, who use sensuality, humor and intelligence to express what is special, lively and surprising in the theatre art form. SPIELART target
- Steirischer Herbst (Graz, Austria)
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As a festival, steirischer herbst is special in many respects: by dint of its many voices, its promotion of communication between the various disciplines of art, thanks to the link-up of aesthetic positions and theoretical discourse. Its clear-cut positio
- The Via Festival (Maubeuge, France)
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- Time-Based Art Festival (Portland, Oregon)
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Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon. The TBA Festival examines and celebrates every form of contemporary art and is the only festiva
- Tokyo Performing Arts Market (Tokyo, Japan)
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TPAM is a place for presenters who connect artists and audiences, such as directors/managers of theaters and public halls, festival directors, producers, promoters, agents and company managers, to gather from Japan and around the world, discovering and di
- TUPP
(Uppsala, Sweden)
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International Performance Festival
- UNDER THE RADAR (NYC, USA)
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UNDER THE RADAR is a look at new theater on shuffle mode - examples from around the world and the U.S. that spotlight artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. The festival is a wild mix of works by ensembles, solo artists, writers, a
- Uovo Festival
(Milan, Italy)
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Performance festival in Milan
- Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich, Switzerland)
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Each year the festival directors invite from around the world 25 to 30 individuals and companies whose creations are marked by formal independence, innovative character and artistic ambition.
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