Member Sheila Kerrigan has been performing and teaching for decades. Her work is an unforgettable blend of mime and theater that tackles “big ideas” like success and failure (in a non-scary way.) Sheila shares some of her wisdom with us, and talks about her latest productions!
How you define yourself as an artist?
I’m a mime, a [...]
Dell’Arte International (DAI) is the North American center for theatre training, research, and performance of the actor-creator. They are a committed community of artists who model and share in a sustained ensemble artistic practice. DAI is a professional company, a summer festival, an actor-training school offering an accredited 3-year MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre, [...]
This new online repository makes historically significant performances by African American artists readily available to artists, scholars and students.
A do-it-yourself, industrial art space in Oakland, California, providing artists with a place to create and innovate, NIMBY enables large-scale projects with a high wow-factor, such as Lifesize Mouse Trap (like the board game), to be realized.
Their settings range from a grove of trees in Austin to an old railroad-turned-pedestrian bridge across the Mississippi River to a NYC stage covered with orderly rows of marshmallows. This collaborative pair of performance artists gets — and keeps — your attention with their narrative blend of image, physicality, text and architectural elements.
Play it by Ear Productions is a not-for-profit theatre company devoted to the production and distribution of original plays for radio, the internet, and compact disc. If you thought that audio theatre was dead and buried, a genre of by-gone days, lend an ear in the direction of the company’s producing director, Lance Roger Axt…
The members of Third Rail Projects do not consider themselves to be a traditional dance company, but rather “a collective of artists working in a variety of media.” Their current month-long engagement at the World Financial Center, “Undercurrents & Exchange”, inserts a new dance into each weekday’s lunch-hour environment.
In only the last week I’ve heard about several innovative ways that musicians are using the internet to not only connect with one another, but to collaborate and produce finished pieces of music despite limitations of distance, time and physical space. Good ideas are meant for sharing…
The 2009 MAP Fund online application is now open for registration. Please keep in mind the following eligibility requirements:
Applications must come from organizations based in the United States that have current nonprofit federal tax status - 501(c)(3). Artists or ensembles without 501(c)(3) status may apply to MAP through a fiscal sponsor.
Organizations and artists must demonstrate [...]
This one goes out to our members in NYC…
As part of Fractured Atlas’s Place + Displaced project we sponsored a series of performances of Danny Hoch’s new show Taking Over in some NYC neighborhoods that are experiencing gentrification-related struggles. Taking Over is now headed to The Public Theater, and there are discounts for members of [...]
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