...Bertie Ferdman © 2013 by Bertie Ferdman 2013 Cuidades Paralelas building, Buenos Aires, 2010. Photo: Lorena Fernandez Bertie Ferdman A New Journey through Other Spaces Contemporary Performance beyond “Site-Specific” It is only in a place and at a time where we do...

...—site-specific one-on-one performances in Hamlin Park and an ensemble performance turned social dance at Links Hall—stage “two dreams of contemporary dance”: “One is the urge to dissolve the boundary between performer and audience; the other is to intensify that distinction.” Kramer probes...

... years of violence and prejudice, and describes a younger generation whose work ventures beyond the confines of Northern Irish struggle. She also explores a growing community of theater companies creating site-specific work in locations that were significant during the Troubles, to commemorate the events...

... borderless Europe; and Rolf Dennemann describes the use of nontraditional venues and site-specific performances to draw unexpected audiences together. © 2011 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2011 An Histrionic, Infecting the City Festival, Spier Performing Arts Festival, Cape Town...

... to be casually appended to bus tours of the Bronx, flash mobs in Grand Central Terminal, dances on courthouse steps, and reimaginings of Macbeth in abandoned hotels. And while site-specific subsumes an array of approaches to performing outside the context of an auditorium, artists’ strategies...

... familiar theater building leads to many ques- in New York in September 2012, directly following tions about how we connect with, look at, and a performance in Times Square of Agoraphobia, converse with each other. a piece van den Berg devised for public squares. Site-­specific performance is not only...

... of different ages with different levels of experience analyze performances staged on four continents (Europe, Australia, North America, and Asia) that range from revi- sions of classic tragedies to site-­ specific performances to dance. Significantly, almost all of the contributors combine...

... Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou- Rahme If Only This Mountain Between Us Could Be Ground At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) is a site- specific video and sound installation by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou- Rahme featuring a new...

... theater Lehniner Platz’s artists incorporate into their site-specific stagings. In Dialogues, avant-garde choreog- Bodies, directed by Sasha Waltz, 2000. rapher Sasha Waltz, now codirector of Berlin’s Schaubühne, moved her dancers Photo: Bernd Uhlig between the stage inside and the surrounding...

... national pavilions, the Quadrennial expanded sixty indoor and outdoor venues in the center with Lotker’s vision to include site-­specific perfor- of Prague. It included more than six hundred mances, urban interventions, and original plat- live events and more than one hundred and forms for invited...

... the set. But whether actors, to create really comfortable dressing I’m at the VictoryTheater or MCC or Primary rooms because the actors, in some of these little Stages, everything is a site-specific piece to me...

... devices and aesthetic elements include the following: site-specific stagings iMumbo Jumbo, using semicircular hay-bale seating; burning herbs and lighted torches that create an directed by Brett atmosphere of multisensory stimulation; song, dance, and percussion overlaying and Bailey...

..., and regular contributor to Frankfurter Allgemeine cultural consultant, specializing in site-­specific Sonntagszeitung, Freitag Wochenzeitung, Die interdisciplinary projects. Welt, Kunstforum International, and Theater heute on urbanism...

.... Also, people are interested in setting up models like The Performance Club. For example, Sara Coffey at the Vermont Performance Lab created a club that was in part modeled on what I had done. Hers is site specific, since it is situated in rural Vermont and she is looking at cultivat- ing a very...

... of Tony Kushner’s Angels in choices to the tradition, but rather new America as the “site-specific” answer to the contexts with their own political, social, usual “placelessness” of America also and cultural underpinnings. seems somewhat hasty and unconvincing, H.R. Coursen’s Shakespeare...

... kinds of theater you’re talking about — documen- when it was the last phases of the Communist tary work, interdisciplinary work, participatory Party before transforming itself to Hezbollah. work, urban site-­specific work. It feels as if energy My student was doing a lot of work confront...

...- counter to the presiding spirit of her tribute to the lineage. Perhaps each new book. Her reading of the final Central attempt brings not improvements or better Park scene of Tony Kushner’s Angels in choices to the tradition, but rather new America as the “site-specific” answer to the contexts...

... their resistance to what the racial and sexual conflicts they - however is, after all, a very painful recognition? Outside, gingerly-put on stage. Knowing is not of course-as the theaters in this issue do, with enough: the most important word in the title site-specific pieces that make us think about...

... more to Cummings’s discussion of Bogart’s less-documented accomplishments. Bogart’s radical approaches to classic plays and her contribution to the rise of site-specific work in New York strike me as an impressive part of her directorial...

... more to Cummings’s discussion of Bogart’s less-documented accomplishments. Bogart’s radical approaches to classic plays and her contribution to the rise of site-specific work in New York strike me as an impressive part of her directorial...