Contemporary Performance Almanac 2018 II Contemporary Performance Almanac 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1719193153 © Contemporary Performance 2018 Contemporary Performance 105 West 10th St. #3 New York, NY 10011 contemporaryperformance.com Front Cover Photo: Maria Apleri for KOR’SIA Back Photo: Setty McIntosh III IV V Note From The Editors: Welcome to the 5th annual edition of the Contemporary Performance Almanac. We’re thrilled that the community of Contemporary Performance—both the online network and the larger performance world—has responded with such enthusi- asm to this ongoing project. From the overwhelming response to the first annual edition, we’ve been spurred on by the positive feedback from the contributors and readers of the book. It’s exciting to see artists returning with new work and to see new contributors to the collection. Our motivation for the creation of this project remains the same: So often presenters do not have access to artists and works that haven’t traveled outside their city or country of origin, and artists do not have access to survey the work of peers that might be working in sympathetic modalities. Contemporary Performance sees a need to give artists, presenters, and others in the field an opportunity to start new working relationships. We hope that this Almanac—as an extension of the Network—can meet that need, and to aid discovery, spark curiosity, and facilitate exchange. We’re continually excited to see the breadth of disciplines practiced by the participants and the global scope of the contributions. Inside the pages of this Almanac are the artworks described by the artists in their own words: eloquent, challenging, provocative and urgent. Enjoy. -Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson Participate in the next Contemporary Performance Almanac 2019 by submitting your work online at https://contemporaryperformance.com/almanac19 VI VII About Contemporary Performance Network: The Contemporary Performance Network is a social network and community organizing platform providing artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a space to meet, share work, and collaborate. 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. The Network was founded in 2010 and has grown to 7600 artists, presenters, curators, foundations, scholars and publishers from 85 countries world wide. As artists, we began to tour internationally with Big Art Group in 2001. Some of our most meaningful experiences have been the personal encounters that we’ve made with audiences and with other artists through the years, and we wanted to take that experience of the festival “artist’s tent”— a meeting place to have informal conversation, exchange ideas, and compare notes — and recreate it for a global network, in order to bring more people under its canopy and ignite more discussion. We’ve been thrilled with the response. The Network continues to grow, evolve and adapt. As we are experimentalists ourselves, we are always looking for new ways to leverage technology, discover fresh communication strategies and play with form. In the process, we are continually learning and encountering surprises of our own as the Network changes. We couldn’t have done it without the support of family, friends and colleagues who provided encouragement and patience through the process, and to them we say thank you. And we thank above all the community of the Contemporary Performance Network for their participation and spirit, whose creativity daily inspires us and to whom this book is dedicated. Join the network at www.contemporaryperformance.org VIII IX Table of Contents X 3 Pony Show / Keila Cordova (Philadelphia, USA) 3 ACT Natimuk (Natimuk, Australia) 5 Adelheid|Female Economy & Zina (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 7 Alexander Borinsky/Rustchuk Farm (Brooklyn, USA) 9 Almanac Dance Circus Theatre (Philadelphia, USA) 11 Alyssa Gersony (New York City, USA) 13 Andressa Furletti (Brooklyn, USA) 15 Anna-Helena McLean (Moon Fool International Theatre and Music Exchange) (London, UK) 17 anna.laclaque (Braunschweig, Germany) 19 Anne-Flore de Rochambeau (Montreal, Canada) 21 Arturas Bumšteinas (Vilnius, Lithuania) 23 Aurora Fradella (Prague, Rep. Ceca) 25 Bak Artes Performativas / Bak Performing Arts (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 27 Bandelion / Dandelion Dancetheater (Oakland, USA) 29 Benjamin Kahn & Cherish Menzo (Belgium, Belgium) 31 Blackbird Dance - Oiseau Noir Danse (New York City, USA) 33 Blavatsky Society (Prague, Czech Republic) 35 Carron Little (Chicago, USA) 37 Charlotte Brathwaite (New York City, USA) 39 Company Divisar - Mehdi Duman (Geneva, Switzerland) 41 Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company (New York City, USA) 43 de serpa soares/sussman/white (Berlin, Germany) 45 Deborah Slater (San Francisco, USA) 47 Julia Rosa Peer (Innsbruck, Austria) 49 DLT Experience (Toronto, Canada) 51 Elif Sezen (Melbourne, Australia) 53 Fabio Bonelli (Milano, Italy) 55 Fernando Calzadilla (Miami, USA) 57 Flam Chen (Tucson, USA) 59 Gabrielle Civil (Columbus, OH, USA) 61 Hannes Egger (Bolzano, Italy) 63 HARTMANNMUELLER (Düsseldorf, Germany) 65 HECTOR CANONGE (New York City, USA) 67 Hung Dance (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) 69 Jadi Carboni and Burkhard Beins (Berlin, Germany) 71 Jesse Glass (Shin-Urayasu, Japan) 73 Jørgen Frederik Scheel Haarstad (Oslo, Norway) 75 Katerina Drakopoulou (Athens, Greece) 77 KOR’SIA (Madrid, Spain) 79 Logan K. Young (Washington, D.C., USA) 81 Lucia August/EveryBody Can Dance (Oakland, USA) 83 Luminarium Dance Company (Boston, MA, U.S.A.) 85 MA•ZE (Budapest, Hungary) 87 Maladype Theatre (Budapest, Hungary) 89 Mark Rautenbach (Cape Town, South Africa) 91 Mary Pearson / Mpearsonater (Liverpool, UK) 93 Meridian (Nanaimo, BC, Canada) 95 Molissa Fenley and Company (New York City, USA) 97 Molly Joyce (Pittsburgh, USA) 99 Nettles Artists Collective (New York NY, USA) 101 Nettles Artists Collective (New York City, USA) 103 NINO MAGLAKELIDZE - SHEETS & CARL (TBILISI, GEORGIA) 105 Noemi Veberičç Levovnik (Berlin, Germany) 107 OHT | Office for a Human Theatre (Rovereto, Italy) 109 Opera del Espacio (Los Angeles, USA) 111 Orlando Cela (Arlington, United States) 113 Pam Tzeng (Calgary, Canada) 115 PartSuspended - Hari Marini (London, UK) 117 Patrick S. Ford (Hong Kong, PRC.) 119 Pepper Pepper (Portland Oregon, USA) 121 Praba Pilar (Dystopia, USA) 123 Priscila Rezende (Belo Horizonte, Brasil) 125 Przemek Kamiński (Berlin, Germany) 127 Rachel Karp (New York City, USA) 129 Rainer Pagel (Belfast, UK- Northern Ireland) 131 Rareş Augustin Crăiuţ (Brussels, Belgium) 133 Riccardo Matlakas (London, UK) 135 Sachie Mikawa (Los Angeles, USA) 137 Samantha Shay / Source Material (Reykjavik, Iceland) 139 Sandro Masai (Aalborg, Denmark) 141 Sanna Kekäläinen (Helsinki, Finland) 143 Sirje Aleksandra Viise (Berlin, Germany) 145 sisu&company (Hamburg, Germany) 147 smorenberg/santarciel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 149 SPECTROLAB (Cuiabá, Brazil) 151 Stevarius / Steven Van Nuffelen (Antwerp, Belgium) 153 Strada Company (Tucson, USA) 155 The Actors Studio Seni Teater Rakyat (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 157 The Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles, USA) 159 The Kaizen M.D. (Singapore, Singapore) 161 The Nerve Tank (New York City, USA) 163 Theatre Gargantua (Toronto, Canada) 165 Theatre of Heavy Clouds (Milwaukee, USA) 167 Theatre Smith-Gilmour (Toronto, Canada) 169 Tiarma Dame Ruth Sirait (Bandung, Indonesia) 171 Torn Space Theater (Buffalo, USA) 173 Veronika Nicolaeva (Moscow, Russia) 175 Vikram Iyengar / Ranan (Calcutta, India) 177 William Skaleski (Milwaukee, USA) 179 Wolf 359 (New York City, USA) 181 Xandra Ibarra (Oakland, United States) 183 XOXO (Charlotte, North Carolina, USA) 185 XV Artists and Companies Photo: Kathryn Raines, Plate 3 (top) & Still from video by Mike Williams DigitalFirst Photography (bottom) 3 3 Pony Show / Keila Cordova (Philadelphia, USA) I’m interested in our bodies as cargo ships of memory, of love and loss, trauma, joy, poetry, comedy and drama. I wish to create language out of bodies and probe the hidden discourse in our physicality to understand our human story. Keila Cordova is a choreographer, performer and writer whose works have been performed at Phila- delphia Fringe Festivals, in NYC at Judson Church, Harlem Stage, Dixon Place, Boogie Down Dance Festival/BAAD!, D.U.M.B.O. Festival, HERE Arts Center as well as newMoves (Pittsburgh, PA), Grounds for Sculpture (NJ) and festivals in San Diego, Chicago and Toronto. She’s received artistic support from Small But Mighty Arts, the Leeway and Puffin Foundations, Funds for New Work awards from Harlem Stage, the Greenwall Foundation; artist residency awards from Constance B. Saltonstall Foundation, Millay Colony, Norcroft and an Audre Lorde Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (New School) and has taught movement workshops in Philadelphia, New York City, Pittsburgh and Atlanta. It’s an important time to be an artist. The will of the artist for truth telling, bringing an “outsider” per- spective on the human condition, is an urgent task; no small feat. I am influenced by the rhythm in the spaces between words, the poetry of the body and the mutability of the human narrative. How do we get along? How do people connect? We can’t be afraid of honesty, of what is in our hearts. Simple. Clear. Flow. Disciplines: Performance, Dance, Theatre, Choreography, Storytelling, Improvisation KITH Our Body is a Road Map. Hear Our Story. KITH is