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Theatre Collection Organisations, Venues and Festivals
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- Active Ingredient
Aimed at emerging artists and people involved in new works in all disciplines of the arts, Nottingham-based
Active Ingredient offers, amongst other services, a website (including profiles, gallery and artists' index)
and training in electronic technology.
- AHDS Digital Resources on Performing Arts (UK)
The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a UK national service funded by the JISC and AHRB to collect,
preserve and promote the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the arts and
humanities.
- Alsager Arts Centre
Alsager Arts Centre developed as a public facility out of the 'Cultural Policy' of
the old Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education, in the early eighties.
Over the years it has presented some of the biggest names in contemporary performance
of all kinds, from Forced Entertainment to Benjamin Zephaniah, Yolande Snaith to Goat Island,
Scanner to Frantic Assembly, Bobby Baker to Odin Teatret.
The Arts Centre aims to promote the best emergent, national and international
small-scale touring contemporary theatre, live art, contemporary dance, performance
writing, new music and installation.
- The Arches
Based in the cavernous space underneath Glasgow’s Central Station the Arches is one
of Europe's leading cultural venues and was the venue for the National Review of Live Art
for several years.
- Arnolfini
Key centre for the contemporary arts in Bristol, programming exhibitions,
films and Live Art.
- Artangel
Artangel has pioneered a new way of collaborating with artists and engaging audiences in
an ambitious series of highly successful commissions since the early 1990s.
- Artsadmin
Artsadmin is a unique producing organisation for contemporary artists
working in theatre, dance, live art, visual arts, and mixed media.
- The Arts Catalyst (Rob La Frenais)
The Arts Catalyst was set up in 1993 to make new connections between
science and the arts. Artists are commissioned to create new work in
collaboration with scientists and technologists. Practitioners have included
Stelarc, Kitsou Dubois, Jan Fabre, James Acord and Anne Bean.
- Arts Council England
- Arts Council of Great
Britain Archive (ACGB)
Information on the ACBG Archive held at the V&A.
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- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Baltic is a major new international centre for Contemporary Art, situated on the South Bank of
the river Tyne, Gateshead, UK. The BALTIC Library and Archive database provides a complete
catalogue of all books, periodicals and archive material held in the collection and gives online
access to many of the films, audio files, images and publicity material including recent
performance art and experimental theatre resources.
- Barbican
The Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue and presents a year-round
programme of art, music, film, theatre, dance and education.
- Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
BAC aims to create and promote exciting, innovative, accessible, high quality and
surprising arts activity through creative collaboration between artists, staff and public.
- Beaconsfield
Based in South London, Beaconsfield presents regular performance based exhibitions
and events as part of a policy "to occupy a niche between the institution, the
commercial and the 'alternative”.
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Départment des Arts du Spectacle
(National Library of France, Performing Arts Department)
Extensive resource including special collections of The Living Theatre and Jean-Louis Barrault.
- Bluecoat Arts Centre
Bluecoat's mission statement is "To provide an innovative contemporary arts experience
shaped by and going beyond, the unique building that houses it."
- Brisbane Powerhouse
Australia's largest centre entirely dedicated to contemporary performance
and contemporary cultural development.
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British Library Sound Archive Video Collection
Includes video recordings of performances from LIFT, Barclays New Stages and the ICA,
the complete rehearsal and performance video archive of Forced Entertainment,
and material from artists such as Marina Abramovic, Bobby Baker, Desperate Optimists,
Gloria, Annie Griffin, Holly Hughes, Lumière & Son, Moti Roti, Reckless Sleepers, Stan's Cafe,
Station House Opera, Théâtre de Complicite and the Wooster Group.
- Broadway Media Centre
Broadway is the East Midlands flagship cinema and media centre with an established
national and international reputation for film exhibition, production and festivals.
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- Camden People's Theatre, London (CPT)
A theatre that provides a unique space for the production and presentation of innovative
contemporary theatre and live art by both emerging and established artists.
CPT encourages the development of exciting, challenging arts and entertainment
experiences created by a diverse range of artists that reflects the rich multi-cultural
character of London.
- Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow
A contemporary art gallery which hosts a live programme.
- Center for Contemporary Art Israel
A registered, non-profit organization founded in 1998 to promote time-based and contemporary
artistic practices in Israel. Producer of Blurrr – The International Performance Art Biennial and
VideoZone – International Video Art Biennial. The Center also maintains an archive of video pieces by
Israeli and international artists,with works from the 1960s to the present.
- Centre for Performance Research
The Centre for Performance Research (CPR) is a pioneering and multi-faceted theatre
organisation located and rooted in Wales, working nationally and internationally.
- Chapter
Based in Cardiff, Chapter is one of Europe's largest and most dynamic arts centres.
- Chelsea Theatre
Chelsea Theatre, London's theatre for Live Art, is proud to have hosted some of the
biggest names in contemporary performance. It has presented World Premieres from Ron Athey,
Goat Island and Annie Sprinkle and is dedicated to commissioning, producing and
presenting the freshest and most innovative artists, nationally and internationally.
- Chinese Arts Centre
The International development agency for contemporary Chinese artists.
- Chisenhale Dance Space
For over 25 years Chisenhale Dance Space has been a seedbed for research and development
in movement arts and independent dance. Based in Bow, East London, they are a
unique artist-driven organisation that offers project support for body-based work of all
kinds, by diverse artists from all communities, investigating new areas in their own practice.
- CIAO
Based in California, USA, CIAO work to archive the avant-garde, documenting and preserving
digital/variable media art. It catalogues and preserves collections of avant-garde art.
- Cleveland Performand Art Festival Collection
A major collection of material pertaining to the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, which was created by
Thomas Mulready in 1987 as a project of Cleveland Public Theatre. Probably the largest and most significant
collection of material pertaining to performance art in the USA.
- Colchester Arts Centre
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- The Drill Hall
A central London theatre presenting occasional Live Art events with an
emphasis on work by women and gay artists.
- Duckie
The 'gay indie club' Duckie presents regular nights at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South
London and has occasional themed seasons taking place across the city.
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- Eurokaz
The Zagreb festival of New Theatre. Held annually, the scope of the festival has widened
to include participants such as Robert Wilson,Stelarc, Jan Fabre, Orlan, Annie Sprinkle and Goat
Island.
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Exeter Digital Archives of performance practice
Exeter Digital Archives consist of several archives which have been brought together under one
imprint in order to acknowledge the dynamic range of contemporary performance practice.
- Exeter Phoenix
Exeter Phoenix presents a unique and exciting contemporary
programme of dance, theatre, live art, music, spoken word, film and visual art.
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- FACT
FACT, the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, is the UK's leading organisation for
the commissioning and presentation of film, video and new media art forms. FACT exists to
inspire and promote the artistic significance of film, video and new and emerging
media.
- FADO
A Canadian artist-run centre for performance art. Based in Toronto, Canada, FADO was established to
provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art, showcasing
the work of Canadian and international performance artists.
- Ferens Art Gallery
Opened in 1927, the award winning Ferens Art Gallery combines internationally renowned
permanent collection displays with a thriving programme of temporary exhibitions.
Unique to the Ferens is its purpose built Live Arts Space which hosts a varied programme
of events and activities, from performance and time-based art, to concerts and lectures.
- Fierce! Festival
Based in Birmingham, and regarded as one of the UK’s most respected performing arts festivals.
- Franklin Furnace
Based in New York, USA, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc's has an extensive archive that
follows its mission to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art
and is dedicated to serving artists by providing both physical and virtual venues for the presentation of
time-based visual art, including but not limited to artists' books and periodicals, installation art,
performance art, and "live art on the internet".
- Future Histories of the Moving Image Research Network
A body set up to address the issues of sustainability and historiography arising from
the growing number of moving image arts database and digitised collection projects in
the UK.
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- Greenroom
Established in 1983 to develop and present local,
national and international performance at venues across Manchester.
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- Harta Performing Monza
An International Performance Art Festival held in Monza, Italy.
- Hemipheric Institute of Performance and Politics
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists,
scholars and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behaviour
(broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. Currently working
with New York University libraries to create a first-rate video archive accessible on-line as well
as offer DVD access from NYU's Avery Fisher Centre in Bobst library. Publishes E-Misférica bi-annual journal.
- Home
Home is a leading creative production company in the UK specializing in innovative live
events with contemporary artists and performers. They explore diverse contexts and spaces,
create new forms of cultural experience and emphasize interactivity, entertainment and
participation.
- Hull Time Based Arts
Promoters and commissioners of the production and exhibition of innovative
time-based contemporary art.
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- Institute of Contemporary Interdisclipinary Arts
(University of Bath)
ICIA is an academic research centre commissioning new arts projects regionally and nationally, as
well as providing training for artists, arts professionals, academics and educators with an emphasis on
interdisciplinary practice.
- i.e.V.R. - The Institute for the
Exploration of Virtual Realities
Institute at the University of Kansas exploring the uses of virtual
reality and related technologies, currently in theatre production and
performance
- The International Theatre Institute
The International Theatre Institute is an international non-government
organisation founded in Prague in 1948 by UNESCO and the international theatre community.
A worldwide network, ITI aims to promote international exchange of knowledge and practice in theatre arts
(drama, dance, music, theatre), in order to consolidate peace and solidarity between peoples, to deepen
mutual understanding and increase creative co-operation between all people in the theatre arts.
The website includes ITI National Centres list and contact information for over 90 countries.
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
- International Festival of Experimental Art
The only festival in Russia to be dedicated to the latest developments in modern art
and technologies (biennial).
- The International Workshop Festival
An annual Autumn Festival of performance workshops for professional performing
artists and students.
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Intute Live Art Resources
Intute is a free online service providing access to Web resources for
education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners.
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- The Kitchen
The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film
and Literature, New York City.
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- Laban
At the heart of South East London's thriving arts community, Laban brings together students,
choreographers, designers, writers, researchers, artists, theatre
practitioners and musicians from around the world.
- The Laboratory
A research unit at the Ruskin
School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, which fosters and
promotes new work in the visual arts.
- LIVE - Canadian and International
Performance Art Biennale
Performance Arts festival running since 1999.
- LIFT - London International Festival of Theatre
Based in London, UK, LIFT is a biennial summer festival introducing some of the world's most
exciting artist and theatre-makers to the London landscape.
- LIMF - London International Mime Festival
Beginning at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977, LIMF is now
the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986,
the Festival has taken place each year and includes workshops, films, debates performances
and special events.
- Live Art Development Agency
The Live Art Development Agency offers a portfolio of Resources, Professional Development Schemes,
and Projects and Initiatives for the support and development of Live Art practices and discourses
in London, the UK and internationally.
- Live Art UKWebsite for the national network of
Live Art promoters.
- The Living RoomA Web home for experimental musicians, performers
and multimedia artists.
- Locus+
A visual arts organisation, based at the University of Sunderland, that works with
artists in different sites, contexts and formats (including live art). Locus+ hold
the largest archive of time-based work in the UK.
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- MAC (Midlands Arts Centre)
Established in 1963, and now the most visited arts centre in the Midlands, mac exists
"to make innovative creative arts activities an important part of people’s lives".
- The Magdalena Project
The Magdalena Project is an international network of women in contemporary theatre,
founded in 1986 and spanning over 50 countries, with autonomous national groups organising
festivals, gatherings and events on a regular basis.
- Mobius
Founded by Marilyn Arsem in 1977 and based in Boston, US, Mobius, Inc. is an artist-run non-profit organization
for experimental work in all media.
- Motiroti
A London based international arts organisation that creates and produces
original works combining new media, visual and performing arts.
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- NAVINKI
Annual International performance festival based in Minsk, Belarus.
- New Moves International
An arts production company which presents radical live and mediated performance work
within the context of international festivals. It presents an annual festival entitled
'New Territories', which includes the National Review of Live Art.
- New Work Network
New Work Network promotes and supports the development of new performance, live and
interdisciplinary arts practice by providing demand-led networking support for artists
and by facilitating engagement and collaboration between practitioners nationally and
internationally.
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The library houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating and non-circulating reference
and research materials on music, dance, theatre, recorded sound, and other performing arts.
- NOW Festival
Based in Nottingham, UK, since 1989 the Now Festival has emerged from live art through new performance
and dance, via interests in electronic music and sounds, robotics and digital technologies.
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- Oval House Theatre
Oval House Theatre's reputation as "one of the most important centres for pioneer fringe
theatre groups" dates from the 1960s, supporting the experimental theatre companies of the
'60s and '70s, the emergence of gay and lesbian and women's theatre in the 1970's and 80's
and the development of new Black and Asian writing in the '90s and into the next millenium.
Oval House now programmes work by some of the most innovative, cutting edge theatre
practitioners in Britain and beyond.
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- P.S. 122
Performance Space 122, New York is a not-for-profit arts
centre presenting dance, performance, music, film and video programmes.
- Perfo Puerto
A performance art festival featuring artists from USA, UK, Iran and Chile.
- Performa: New Visual Arts Performance
PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development,
and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world. PERFORMA commissions new
performance projects in visual arts, established a dedicated performance biennial, consults and
collaborates with art institutions and performing art presenters around the world to create dynamic
and historically significant performance programs. PERFORMA continues to build an ongoing platform
for expanding the knowledge and understanding of this critical area of visual and cultural history.
- Performance.lv
Latvian performance art web site, with information about 15 Latvian performance
artists or goups, who have been connected with performance art or who are active performance artists now.
- Performance Studies international (PSi)
PSi is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and
exchange between scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance.
- Practice as Research in Performance (PARIP)
Based at the University of Bristol, UK, PARIP is a five-year project directed by Professor Baz Kershaw
to investigate creative-academic issues raised by practice as research.
- Prema Arts Centre
Prema is a small, independent rural Arts Centre. Situated in a former Baptist Chapel,
it has a unique, intimate atmosphere, with dynamic live events and
a broad range of participatory arts opportunities.
- The Present Tense
A group active in organizing performance art events and festivals in the Boston (U.S.)area that
include the work of local, national and international artists working in experimental time- based media.
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- queerupnorth International Festival
Queerupnorth exists to support, produce and present queer arts and to make queer arts and
culture accessible and available to the widest possible audience.
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- Radiator
The UK's leading biennial festival for New Technology Art.
- ResCen
ResCen, the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts, is a multi-disciplinary,
artist–driven research centre. Established in 1999 it is designed to be a bridge between academia
and the practices of professional performing artists.
- Riverside Studios
A unique and historic West London based centre for contemporary and international performance
and cinema.
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- 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival
An artist-run collective formed in 1997 and based in Toronto, Canada.
- Serpentine Gallery
Serpentine Gallery is one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art.
- SIBMAS
An on-line resource, the SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts
(theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, pantomime).
- Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre is at the heart of an arts quarter stretching from the Royal National Theatre
and National Film Theatre to Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe. It includes the
Southbank Centre Archive, which aims to collect, manage and preserve and make available, as far
as possible, any information, documents or artefacts relating to events and exhibitions
held in the performing arts spaces of the Southbank Centre - including outdoors and the
foyers as well as all concert halls - since the Royal Festival Hall was opened in 1951.
- South London Gallery
A venue which offers regular seasons of UK and international Live Art, plus one off
events throughout the year.
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- TATE Britain Live Culture
As part of Tate's commitment to supporting diverse forms of contemporary artistic practice,
Tate Modern collaborated with the Live Art Development Agency on Live Culture,
which took place from 27 -30 March 2003. This initiative placed contemporary performance
against the context of the gallery's display of the collection for the first time.
Live Culture provided an opportunity to engage with the shifting nature of Live Art
practice in relation to the visual arts, by bringing together distinguished artists,
theorists and curators to examine the expansion of performance art across broader artistic
and social arenas, and its role in relation to cultural change.
- Te Puna Toi
Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, Te Puna Toi is a Performance Research Project established by the
Department of Theatre and Film studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Its aim is to
provide a centre for the production of and research into performance and film for artists and scholars
in New Zealand and internationally, devised in close collaboration with CPR.
- TEST Performance
TEST is a series of performance art events which take place between
two and four times throughout the year, produced by seven individuals living
and working in Boston.
- Theatre Institut Nederland
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, this superior Theatre Institut consists of support centre,
museum and library for the performing arts in the Netherlands.
- Theatre Institut Prague
Based in Prague, Czech Republic, this centre produces publications, holds archives on theatre
productions including photographs, reviews, periodicals, books and on-line databases.
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Theatre Museum (at the V&A) Theatre and Performance Collection
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Theatre Museum National Video Archive of Performance Recordings
National Museum of the Performing Arts website video listings.
- Time Out
Web version of the listings magazine, giving arts and events details for
more than 20 cities worldwide including Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and New
York.
- Trampoline
A regular platform in the East Midlands for new and experimental film, music and media.
- Tramway
One of the leading contemporary visual and performing arts venues in Europe. Current host to the
National Review of Live Art.
- Tremor
The annual Tremor event is a platform for experimental live art including performance art,
noise/sound/transmission arts, and multidisciplinary actions/interventions.
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- useblackinkonly.com
www.useblackinkonly.com is a flexible, curated view of contemporary art
practice in Wales. Selected by invited curators, writers, artists, etc, it provides a
critical look at a wide and diverse range of practice.
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- Manuel Vason
Website for renowned photographer Manuel Vason, whose fascination for the human body has found
its best manifestation when associated with the notion of performance.
- Vital (International Chinese Live Art Festival)
Begun in 2006, an international festival of Live Art in Manchester to raise awareness of the diverse,
exciting and challenging work being made by artists of Chinese descent from across the world.
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- The Zap Club
Founded in 1984, The Zap Club is one of the UK’s leading multimedia entertainment venues,
showcasing the best in comedy and performance art.
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