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What were the best performances you saw in 2012?
Started this discussion. Last reply by DINO DINCO Jan 24. 5 Replies 1 Like
What is "visual art performance"?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ann Moradian May 1, 2012. 24 Replies 4 Likes
13 live performances that influenced you.
Started this discussion. Last reply by Peter Ksander Feb 17. 30 Replies 9 Likes
How do you define Contemporary Performance
Started this discussion. Last reply by Neil Ellis Orts Jun 13. 11 Replies 1 Like
Join The Master Blog And Feature Your Website On The Front Page
Started this discussion. Last reply by Natasha Padilha Mar 20, 2011. 5 Replies 0 Likes
What have you seen lately?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rachel Harris-Beck Oct 26, 2010. 5 Replies 1 Like
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- Curator for Contemporary Performance Network
Artistic Director of Big Art Group
- Bio
- Caden Manson is founder of Big Art Group (1999 to present) and Curator of ContemporaryPerformance.org (2010 to present)
ABOUT BIG ART GROUP:Big Art Group is 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. Since its inception, it has toured nationally and internationally and produced critically acclaimed works including the ‘Real Time Film’ trilogy Shelf Life, Flicker, House of No More, SOS; and its reality-based theatre series The People. He is co-creator, director, video designer and scenographer on all 11 Big Art Group productions that have toured to over 60 cities thoughout North American, Asia and Europe for the past 12 years. Manson has also shown video installations in Austria, France, USA and Germany; performed his solo work,PAIN KILLER, in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; and taught workshops and masters courses in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Turin, New York, Toulouse, Montreal, San Francisco, and Bern. His ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, Theatre Garonne, Wexner Center for The Arts, and The Kitchen NYC. He is a recipient of the 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellowship, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and received a 2009 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He lives in New York City and outside Philadelphia where he maintains his studio.
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE NETWORK
The Contemporary Performance Network is an online community and blog with a growing roster of artists, scholars and presentering members in the field of performance. Manson founded the community in July of 2010 and today it has grown to over 12000 members and fans world wide. The term Contemporary Performance is used to describe hybrid performance works and artists that travel between the fields of Experimental Theatre, Dance, Video Art, Visual Art, Music Composition and Performance Art without adhering to one specific field's practice.
Contemporary Performance Blog
Opportunities: Akram Khan Company Audition (England)
Highly Skilled and Experienced Contemporary Dancers Required Akram Khan Company seeks highly skilled and experienced contemporary dancers for existing roles in its company production iTMOi. The dancers must be available to tour with...
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Opportunities: Atelier for Young Festival Managers Edinburgh 2014 Deadline June 30, 2013
Do you belong to the next generation of artistic festival directors? Do you feel the need to broaden your programming skills, grow your network and get inspired by your peers and experienced forerunners?...
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Opportunities: Wayne McGregor is seeking dancers (London, GB)
Wayne McGregor is seeking dancers with strong classical and contemporary technique for contracts commencing July 2013. To apply, please send your CV and photo with a cover letter and a completed Equal Opportunities...
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Education: Auditions For Barcelona’s Institute of the Arts (Edinburgh, Leeds, Dublin, London)
Aspiring young British and Irish performers will have the opportunity to launch their studies in Spain thanks to innovative courses being introduced by Barcelona’s Institute of the Arts this September. Inspired and supported...
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Opportunities: K3 Residency Program at K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie (Hamburg, Germany)
K3 Residency Program 2014/2015 Deadline – August 5, 2013 As part of its residency, K3 residency program provides three eight-month residencies per season to choreographers, who are currently at the beginning of the careers, but have already...
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Comment Wall (100 comments)
- At 6:52pm on June 13, 2013,
Dave said… Thank you very much.
- At 4:05pm on June 13, 2013, Joseph DeLappe said…
Thanks Camden, I saw the post yesterday - really appreciate it! Very pleased to have come across the Contemporary Performance Network. Best - Joseph
- At 3:56pm on September 5, 2012,
3-Legged Dog said… Thank you for adding us! We have heard great things about the Contemporary Performance Network and feel great have joined.
Any fellow experimental artists that wish to explore our space in NYC and be given a personal tour need only email: diego@3leggeddog.org
and mention Caden or CPN.
www.3ldnyc.org
- At 7:07pm on February 12, 2012,
Alain Pringels said… I'm very excited about this website. I really look forward to get to know some experimental theatres. We (www.toneelgroepdeappel.nl) have plans to invite groups to The Hague.
Greets,
Alain
- At 5:40pm on February 3, 2012,
FACT/SF said… Yay - thanks for fixing it!
- At 9:42pm on December 16, 2011,
Grace Exhibition Space said… Thank you for everything, Caden!
I hope we get to meet you soon, you are doing great things.
Best, Jill & Erik
- At 1:27pm on November 1, 2011,
Fernando Ocampo said… Hey, Thank You for the message.
Grettings!!
- At 7:11am on October 25, 2011,
Mehata Hiroshi said… Thank you for adding :))
Nice to meet you !!
Best regards .
Mehata
- At 2:06pm on October 6, 2011,
Ashley Ferro-Murray said… - Hi Caden, great to e-meet you. I hope you had a great time at Berkeley, I've been hearing wonderful things about Shannon's course. The images posted to your site are incredibly engaging. I'd love to be in touch about the things you have going on.
- At 3:23pm on September 17, 2011,
Culturehub - SeoulArts/LaMaMa said… Thanks! We are happy to be apart of this awesome network!
- At 12:43pm on September 6, 2011,
Noah Fischer said… thanks, Caden, glad to be here.
- At 8:36pm on September 3, 2011,
Melanie Jame Wolf said… Hi Caden, Thanks a bunch for the advice and the help woth my blog post. You have created a great resource here. I'm excited to be a part of it. Cheers, Melanie Jame.
- At 9:34am on September 2, 2011,
RE.AL said… - Thank you Caden!
- At 12:59pm on August 30, 2011,
Simon Ellis said… - Cheers Caden. Much appreciated.
- At 12:51pm on August 29, 2011, Simon Ellis said…
- Hi Caden – have added an image. Cheers, Simon
- At 5:25pm on August 27, 2011,
EGG said… THANK YOU CADEN
- At 5:17am on August 26, 2011,
Julia said… - thank you!
- At 6:09am on August 13, 2011,
Nebahat Erpolat said… Hello Caden, thankyou for your kind reception & wonderful platform..greetings from Berlin.
- At 2:04pm on July 29, 2011,
Nelle Hens said… - Thank you Caden!
- At 11:05pm on July 11, 2011,
Meg Wolfe said… thank you!
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