 | tg STAN -
Founded in Antwerp in 1989. Its members want to put in scene themselves, as
actors, with their capacities and their failures (acknowledged) in the center
of the step that they revendiquent : destruction of the theatrical illusion,
naked play, contradiction and the description of the possible divergences in
the rigorous play and engagement with respect to the character and of what it
tells. |
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| 127.0.0.1 - nyc
performance art group with monthly open improv sessions, assembling content
for web-based streaming productions to launch Fall 2001 |
| Akari Morpheus
Kollaborationz Inc. - multi media experimental performance theatre ,
non-profit artists resource and community outreach project |
| Arka
Theatre - Founded and managed by the actor/director Massimo Zanasi, Arka
Theatre concentrates on research involving modes of expression and on
producing works which have been touring the world for several years. It is a
centre for cultural and artistic proposals emphasizing linguistic and
aesthetic forms in the various arts. |
| Axis Company - Greenwich Village,
New York. |
| Beyond the Proscenium Productions
- A non-profit theatre company, presents works to "challenge the imagination
and boundaries of both artists and audiences." |
| Big Art Group - An NYC
performance company, formed in 1998 by Caden Manson, aggressively attacking
the boundaries of performance though its explorations with structure, medium
and process. |
| Blast Theory - A group of four
artists based in London who make live events for theatres, clubs, galleries
and the street. The group's work confronts a media saturated world in which
popular culture rules, using video and computers to ask questions about the
ideologies present in the information that envelops us. |
| BlueForms Theatre Group - A Columbus,
Ohio based fellowship of artists building a more conscious and compassionate
world by creating joyful and profound theatre. |
| Border Crossings - An
international theatre company specializing in combined arts performances
fusing many forms of world theatre, dance and music. Works across borders,
between cultures and art forms, between nations and peoples. |
| Budhan Theatres - A
street theatre group of the Chhara community of India which acts as the voice
of the oppressed people through the medium of street theatre. |
| The Builders Association
- 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, sound, video, and architectural sets to create a
world onstage which reflects contemporary culture |
| 20cent Fiction
- A student run production company of all trades based at Umass Dartmouth.
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| Collapsable Giraffe -
Williamsburg performance group. |
| The Collection
Agency - A performance ensemble that focuses on the creation of bold new
works and adaptations. Works in a broad range of styles, forms, and media,
with original projects that range from the "standard" straight drama to the
"cutting edge" of performance art. Based in New York City.
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| Collective Unconcious - An art
collective, performance space, and theatrical venue administered by a
confederation of 14 member-artists from various disciplines. C:U is committed
to providing low-cost, high-value entertainment in the Lower East Side, and
supporting the production of new material in the performing arts. |
| Creation Production Company
- New York-based company that generates innovative forms of theatre through
experiments with language, new music theatre, and explorations of political
issues, seamlessly integrating the visual arts, music, dance, technology, and
architecture. |
| Crudoyle Productions - Details of
current and forthcoming activities. |
| C&T - it stands for more than
theatre - A United Kingdom-based theatre company working in educational
and community settings, combining New Technology and participation. |
| Curious Theater Branch -
Curious Theater Branch. Original ideas. Original Theater. Changing the world,
one imagination at a time. |
| DADAnewyork - Founded in 1986 by
the late John W. Wilson, an original Joffrey Ballet member and DADA scholar.
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| deep ellum ensemble - Composed
primarily of former Texans, founded in New York City. Work is made from plays,
original ideas and various media, and includes native Southern storytelling, a
capella singing and chant. Show schedule and profile provided. |
| Dixon Place - A non-profit
organization providing a venue for literary and performing artists to present
new works in live performances. |
| Djalma Butoh Company - Based out of
New Mexico. |
| Dogtroep - dutch theatre group
DOGTROEP, plays on location, experimental, national and international. |
| Dr Jerungdu and the Jerungdu Theater
Company - Go to Jerungdu Theatre for satire, artrock, fringe & avantgarde.
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| The East Village Experimental Theatre
Company - A Philadelphia based company that is dedicated to developing
interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative works that integrate visual,
performing, and media arts in live performances, film, video, audio, and site
specific events. |
| Elevator Repair Service - Elevator
Repair Service is a theater group based in New York City. See the schedule of
upcoming shows, read what the press has to say, or get on the mailing list.
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| EXITheatre - Working in
non-theatrical spaces, breaking away from expected traditional forms of
theatre. |
| experimental theatre
chicago - Created to help promote alternative live performance and
theatrical risk taking and seeking to establish Chicago as the national center
for experimental theatre. |
| The Fat House -
Leicester, UK; produce devised performance work which avoids the constriction
of a director or 'outside eye'. |
| Ferocious Monsters Theatre and
Film - Seattle theatre company Ferocious Monsters focuses on experimental
theatre and film. |
| Fevered Sleep - Site for
Fevered Sleep, performance company that makes theatre, installation and
site-specific performance |
| Firebrand Theory Theater Company
- Dedicated to stirring up public feelings by investigation of controversial
issues and dramatizing the infinite mystery of the extraordinary in the
ordinary. |
| Fool's Gold Theatre Company
- Specializes in bringing inspired works of literature to life by producing
dynamic, film-like walkabout productions in non-traditional theatrical venues.
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| Forced Entertainment -
An ensemble of artists based in Sheffield, England working together since 1984
producing work in theatre, installation, digital media and film. |
| Frantic Theatre Co - In
House Music Hall - Frantic tour all over the UK performing wild and
wonderful Music Hall and Variety shows in venues big or small, from living
rooms to community centres from theatres to dinner parties. |
| Fred Skeleton
Theatre Company - A transatlantic performance group working out of Kelowna,
British Columbia, and South Wales in the United Kingdom. |
| Funkopolis - Founded in 1996, the
company creates ensemble-based performance work utilizing gestural performance
techniques in a commitment to creatively investigating the world around them.
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| Funkopolis -
Ensemble focused on the creation of original work, and dedicated to redefining
the relationship between actor, director, designer, technician, and artist.
|
| Gertrude Stein Repertrory Theatre -
Their goal is to re-invent the process of creating theater, from training and
education to collaboration and production. They have a particular interest in
international and multicultural projects, because they feel that the arts of
the 21st century must be global. |
| Global Village Idiot Productions
(GVIP) - Home page for Global Village Idiot Productions (GVIP) dedicated
to the creation and staging of original experimental theatrical works. |
| The Greylight Theatre
Collective - Founded in 1996 to promote, produce, and perform new and
alternative works of theatre, produces new scripts, children's works, Commedia
del Arte, and theatrical happenings. |
| GreyZelda Theatre Group - A
non-profit Chicago-based company founded in 2004. |
| HamFisted! - A
company based in Birmingham, UK, that creates new live theatre, performance
art and cross disciplinary arts locally, and tours on a regional and national
basis. History of the company, fanzine with biographies and pictures, and
information about current projects. |
| 15 Head - a theatre lab - Non-profit,
professional, experimental theatre lab in Minneapolis, MN. |
| The Healing Circle - Dedicated to
perserving the culture of our African ancestor while providing healing for
self and community through music, theater, and dance. |
| HERE Arts Center - An award-winning and
critically acclaimed performance and art center. |
| Horse Trade Theater Group -
Encompasses Kraine Theater, St. Marks Theater, and Red Room Theater in NYC:
includes calendar, upcoming season, reservation and rental information. |
| I 80 Drama Company - Group of
actors, directors, designers, and administrators collectively exploring the
American landscape through theater. |
| Ilotopie - A French
street theatre company who create shows on water and other artistic events in
public spaces. |
| (in parentheses) - is aNew York
based company producing adaptations of contemporary literary works and
original plays in theater and film. The company for us is an umbrella from the
main stream culture under which we research, experiment and offer an
alternative; a parenthesis embedded deeply inside the main text but
structurally and definitely independent from it. |
| the industrial
theatre co - Official site of a Bombay-based theatre company that aims to
discover and popularize alternative spaces for theatre. Founded by Pushan
Kripalani, Rehaan Engineer, Karan Makhija, and Nadir Khan. |
| Intersection for the Arts -
One San Francisco's original venues for new works in Theatrical, Literary, and
Performing Arts. This site showcases all of the upcoming and current
happenings. |
| Irondale Ensemble Project - An
experimental/research theater ensemble. Information on productions, education,
library, newsletters, funding, links and contacts. |
| Izumi Ashizawa Performance -
Izumi Ashizawa Performance seeks cultural integration through its original
performance languages. |
| Kee Company - Founded in 1996 by
Canadian theatre artist Colleen Lanki, this Tokyo based theatre company does
original, multilingual productions blending different theatrical styles and
traditions. |
| konic thtr - Konic Thtr can be
defined as a label for the production and realisation of artistic projects
using interactive technology. Interactions body-sound-light and image, where
the public will finish or modify the process that the authors initially
proposed. |
| La MaMa Theatre - Performance space in
the East Village, NYC |
| Laboratory Theater -
Brooklyn-based experimental theater ensemble dedicated to collaborating on the
creation of original, interdisciplinary work for the theater. |
| 3 Legged Dog - is a non-profit
media and theater group producing new, original works in theater, performance,
media and hybrid forms. 3-Legged Dog's mission is to explore the new narrative
possibilities created by technology, to examine the braided realities of
language and structure, to foster self-expression and skill in young artists
through practical educational initiatives, and to provide an environment for
artists to excel across a range of disciplines. |
| Les Freres Corbusier - Creating
aggressively visceral theater combining historical revisionism, Grand Guignol
comedy, experimental dance, rigorous academic research, multimedia excess, and
found texts. |
| The LIDA Project Experimental Theatre Company
- Experimental theatre company based in Denver Colorado |
| LISA D - Austrian fashion designer,
based in Berlin. Has been presenting numerous happenings, performances and
shows, in which she tells stories in the language of fashion. |
| Lucky Pierre - Chicago based
performance group |
| Mabou Mines - Mabou Mines is an
avant-garde theater company emphasizing the creation of new theater pieces
from original texts and the theatrical use of existing texts staged from a
specific point of view. Established in 1970 and based in New York City. |
| Manbites Dog Theater -
Nearly two decades of cutting edge theater in Durham and voted Best Theater in
the Triangle 2003. |
| Michael Sakamoto -
Butoh Dance Theater - Background information, repertoire, calendar, press
and clips. |
| Naked on Stage - A group of
creative writers from St Andrews University. |
| Nao Dada Baba - Documentation of live
projects 1993-2001 including Genetic Wake, 9 adaptations from the novel
Finnegans Wake; Glasgow Weekend, a curated programme of Urban Context
performance and art at London Foundry; and Foundry/Dom London/Moscow Cultural
Exchange programme. |
| The neo-futurists - The
Neo-Futurists are an ensemble of artists who write, direct, and perform their
own work dedicated to social, political, and personal enlightenment in the
form of audience-interactive conceptual theater |
| New World Performance Laboratory -
A Center for Theatre Creation and Research. Experimental theatre productions
and workshops conducted by James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta, former assistants
to Jerzy Grotowski. |
| New World Players -
Non-profit, community-based experimental theatre lab dedicated to presenting
works by under-represented groups. |
| oblivion productions - Creating and
producing forward-looking performance. |
| Off_Leash Area: Contemporary
Performance Works - An interdisciplinary company of mid-career artists
creating new performance works in Minneapolis. |
| One Year Lease - Dedicated to
working with classic texts. Performing in New York City and in Europe. |
| One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre -
An adult oriented performance theatre company based in the Arts Centre in
Calgary Alberta Canada. |
| OneLight Theatre - Since its
inception in 1999, OneLight Theatre has been a company where every member
contributes; actors, technicians, members of the production team, all have a
voice. |
| Ontological+Richard.Foreman -
Information concerning current and future performances at the Ontological at
St. Marks Theater, which is the permanent home of Richard Foreman's
Ontological-Hysteric Theater. |
| The Other Theatre - Montreal
company devoted to experimental creation, including installations,
adaptations, and collectively written material. |
| P-Cult - An experimental theater and
entertainment company of New York City artists, performers and designers
specializing in pop-art and conceptual, pop-based extreme live imagery.
Information about events, individual artists, picture gallery, and booking
information. |
| Peace Theatre - Official site
of the Iranian theatre group. |
| Peculiar Works Project
- Offers "unusual, intelligent material for site-based performance."
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| Performance Space 122 - NYC - a
not-for-profit arts center serving the New York City dance and performance
community. P.S.122 is committed to supporting the development of work by
individual artists who create live art with an authentic vision. It is fully
dedicated to finding, developing, and bringing to the public eye artistic
creations from a diversity of cultures, points of view, ages, and sexual
orientations. |
| Planet SITI - SITI was founded in 1992
by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary
theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural
exchange and collaboration. |
| proto-type: theatre, media,
insanity - NYC based multi-disciplinary performance company that combines
video, theatre, music, and installation to create vivid live events relevant
to people from all walks of life. |
| Rachel Rosenthal Company -
Performer Rachel Rosenthal teaches her performance technique DbD (Doing by
Doing) that integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation,
inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and sets. |
| Radio Hole - Performing
schizophrenia for the information age. |
| Reverend Billy's Church of Stop Shopping
- A comic political site that hopes to resist the destruction of neighborhoods
by malls and chaines stores. |
| Richard Maxwell and the New York City
Players - The company strives to bring new forms of theater and
performance to the public and to advance public awareness of live theater and
further public understanding of theater practices including script-writing,
actor processes and directing techniques. |
| The Riot Group (UK) - produced
original performance pieces which mix absurd comedy, political satire, and a
unique confrontational acting style. |
| SCIATTO - As a group for
stage action and a laboratory of architectural planning, Sciatto looks at
social and urban borderlines as the last field for artistic performances. |
| Small Wooden Shoe Theatrical
Society - A Canadian company creating and presenting rigorous contemporary
performance. |
| Soho Repertory Theater - producing
some of the most groundbreaking theater in New York City, a "hot house" for
daring, intrinsically theatrical excellence. |
| SohoThinkTank - SOHO THINK TANK
strengthens, nurtures and promotes an aesthetically and culturally diverse
community of independent theatre artists and theatre companies, by producing,
presenting, and programming new work at the Ohio Theater, in Soho |
| Stolen Chair Theatre Company -
Committed to discovering new relationships between text, performers, and
audiences, to exploring and exploding social mythology, and to creating a
theatrical space where the familiar can give rise to the unknown. |
| Target Margin Theater - Founded
on the principle that works of art return us to real truths most powerfully by
their divergence from a strict illustration of reality. Through contemporary,
as well as classic texts, we continuously seek to expand our conception of
what can take place in theater. |
| Teatrincorso - Trento-Italy
based theatre company dedicated to multi media experimental performance
theatre. The group makes live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the
street. It is working in educational and community settings. Elena Marino,
Teatrincorso's director, is also writer of theatrical texts. Teatrincorso
organizes the International Festival "Officine dei Teatri". |
| Temporary Distortion -
presenting unique nonlinear combinations of text, image, and sound...creating
strange new theatrical experiences. |
| theater et al - creating visual,
culturally diverse performances since 1997, theater et al combines
world-premiere adaptations of neglected works (often in new translation) with
an aggressive mix of movement, image, sound and music--seeking to reimagine
the art of theatrical storytelling, on an epic scale, for a contemporary
audience. |
| theatre in decay - One of
Australia's foremost underground experimental theatre companies, concentrating
on themes of politics and horror. |
| Tomee Theatre Company -
Established in 1982. Experimental theatre, theatre education, drama research.
History, education, productions. |
| Tornado Theatre - Broadcasting
unique live shows over the Internet using a revolutionary 360-degree streaming
video system. Visit the site to watch shows, contribute ideas, read about the
artists or chat with fellow Tornado enthusiasts. It's online entertainment
with a twist! |
| Undermain Theatre - An ensemble of
artists committed to providing our community with innovative,
thought-provoking, professional theater. |
| UNI Theatre - Artist run
company focused on developing, exploring and producing thought-provoking
expressive theatre works. Ontario, Canada. |
| Uninvited Guests - A United
Kingdom/German live art company based in Bristol, England. Dedicated to making
innovative collaborative work which challenges the boundaries between
art-forms and opens live and digital work to new audiences. |
| Via Theatre - Brian Jucha shares his
projects and archive |
| Virtual Reality Theatre
Forum - Research club attempts to use an ideal model of 'Anytime,
Anywhere, and Anyone can do Theatre'. |
| Wandering Romen Players - A
site-specific theater company performing classic works with experimental
twists in Pennsylvania. The site offers history, artistic goals, and future
employment possibilities. |
| WaxFactory - An international
group of artist dedicated to exploring a multiplicity of theatrical visions.
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| The Wooster Group - Theatre
collective in NYC |
| Woven - Experimental theatre
company performs a different show each night compiled from over 60 pieces
combining original movement, music and dialogue. |
| Xunesis - Chicago based performing
arts and production company that builds multidisciplinary collaborative teams
centered around a specific concept to create pieces for stage, exhibits,
installations for museums, educational institutions, media or film
productions. |
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