Ryan Platt
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies Colorado Collegeany website is but the sum of its links
Art
Who can live without EAI’s intrepid video collection?
Just who are the phantom geniuses who run this thing? (Kind of a joke– it’s highly sophisticated volunteer work…)
The Walker Art Center’s “iTunes U” Page
Blogs
(contemporary literature, especially poetry– this is a rich connection to a different disciplinary constellation than that which I inhabit)
Dance
Corpus: Internet Magazin für Tanz Choreografie Performance
GTF: Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung
LIT Verlag: Jahrbuch Tanzforschung
MAP: media archive performance
Festivals
Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, May to early January; currently have intriguing web resources in an audio/visual library)
Euroscene Leipzig (November)
I went to the 2007 festival. It is small, but focuses on “established” experimental work, and evidently has enough of a budget to attract more than one major name, which in 2007 all proved to be overrated. Although I would go again if interested in the work, I left with the impression that the curators were more interested in the artists’ prominence than the quality of the work itself.
Latitudes Contemporaines (Dance, mid-June, Lille)
Le Festival Transamériques (Montreal, late May to early June)
Push Festival (Vancouver, late January)
STRP Festival: Art and Technology (Eindhoven, early to mid April)
Tanzplattform Deutschland (biannual, 2010 in Nürnberg)
Theater der Welt (biannual, 2010)
Film
Journals (Performance)
Journals (Lit)
Journals (Theory/Philosophy)
New Media
Brooke Singer’s Academic Homepage
CYNETart at Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau
Elektra Digital Arts Festival (Montreal)
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Sonic Acts (Amsterdam)
Performance Venues (U.S.)
Theatre
This prize looks surely to belong to the EU’s frightening bureaucracy, but it has been awarded to a few interesting artists and is probably a useful index of something…
Fischer Verlag (Their large theatre section has a series devoted to new plays, but its selection seems aesthetically uncurated, inlcuding diverse authors such as the American New Dramatist alumnus Richard Dresser, Belgian performance-art-esque provocateur Jan Lauwers, German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, and a variety who don’t attract in the least. It’s a useful, if unkempt, archive. Reminds me of a similiar series by Methuen Drama in the UK.)
les presses du réel: performing arts series
Located in Brussels, this looks like the definitive source for information about Flemish performing arts in all genres, which witnessed a renaissance in the nineties and continue to be influential throughout Europe. The Institute’s library looks excellent, and there’s an extensive on-line catalogue and description, which reminds me of the excellent facilities at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris.
