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- (in parentheses) - is aNew York based company producing adaptations of contemporary literary works and original plays in theater and film. The company for us is an umbrella from the main stream culture under which we research, experiment and offer an alternative; a parenthesis embedded deeply inside the main text but structurally and definitely independent from it.
www.inparentheses.org
- 127.0.0.1 - nyc performance art group with monthly open improv sessions, assembling content for web-based streaming productions to launch Fall 2001
www.purplefrog.com/~pink
- 15 Head - a theatre lab - Non-profit, professional, experimental theatre lab in Minneapolis, MN.
www.15head.org
- 20cent Fiction - A student run production company of all trades based at Umass Dartmouth.
www.angelfire.com/games/20centFiction
- 3 Legged Dog - is a non-profit media and theater group producing new, original works in theater, performance, media and hybrid forms. 3-Legged Dogs mission is to explore the new narrative possibilities created by technology, to examine the braided realities of language and structure, to foster self-expression and skill in young artists through practical educational initiatives, and to provide an environment for artists to excel across a range of disciplines.
www.3leggeddog.org
- Akari Morpheus Kollaborationz Inc. - multi media experimental performance theatre , non-profit artists resource and community outreach project
www.geocities.com/akarimorph
- Ash Girl Productions - NYC based theatre company dedicated to new and uncommon work.
www.ashgirl.org
- Axis Company - Greenwich Village, New York.
www.axiscompany.org
- Beyond the Proscenium Productions - A non-profit theatre company, presents works to "challenge the imagination and boundaries of both artists and audiences."
BeyondTheProscenium.org
- Big Art Group - An NYC performance company, formed in 1998 by Caden Manson, aggressively attacking the boundaries of performance though its explorations with structure, medium and process.
www.bigartgroup.com
- Blast Theory - A group of four artists based in London who make live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street. The group´s work confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules, using video and computers to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.
www.blasttheory.co.uk
- C&T - it stands for more than theatre - C&T: a UK based theatre company working in educational and community settings, combining New Technology and participation.
www.candt.uk.com
- Collapsable Giraffe - Williamsburg performance group.
www.collapsablegiraffe.org
- Collective Unconcious - An art collective, performance space, and theatrical venue administered by a confederation of 14 member-artists from various disciplines. C:U is committed to providing low-cost, high-value entertainment in the Lower East Side, and supporting the production of new material in the performing arts.
www.weird.org
- Curious Theater Branch - Curious Theater Branch. Original ideas. Original Theater. Changing the world, one imagination at a time.
www.curioustheaterbranch.com
- DADAnewyork - Founded in 1986 by the late John W. Wilson (an original Joffrey Ballet member and DADA scholar), the company is comprised of artists hailing from diverse backgrounds ranging from Broadway to Barnum & Bailey, from Samuel Beckett to The Living Theatre, from jazz to classical music. This collective palette of training and experience makes for a wild and nearly limitless canvas.
pws.prserv.net/dadanewyork
- deep ellum ensemble - Composed primarily of former Texans, founded in New York City. Work is made from plays, original ideas and various media, and includes native Southern storytelling, a capella singing and chant. Show schedule and profile provided.
www.deepellum.org
- Dixon Place - A non-profit organization providing a venue for literary and performing artists to present new works in live performances.
www.dixonplace.org
- Dogtroep - dutch theatre group DOGTROEP, plays on location, experimental, national and international.
www.dogtroep.nl
- Dr Jerungdu and the Jerungdu Theater Company - Go to Jerungdu Theatre for satire, artrock, fringe & avantgarde.
www.jerungdu.com
- Elevator Repair Service - Elevator Repair Service is a theater group based in New York City. See the schedule of upcoming shows, read what the press has to say, or get on the mailing list.
elevator.org
- Elizalde Area Code - Performance-Theatre Group based in Berlin, Germany, experimenting with new theatre forms. The basis of texts, songs, installations and choreographies is the difference of the group-members. Pop-, Experimental-, Environmental, Ambient-, Club-, Performance-Theatre.
www.geocities.com/elizaldeareacode
- EXITheatre - Working in non-theatrical spaces, breaking away from expected traditional forms of theatre.
www.exitheatre.com
- feeT oF claY - feeT oF claY is an ensemble of stage artists from separate walks of life and training. Formed in 2000, feeT oF claY has accepted a charge to show the extremes of life without filter and with creativity.
www.feetofclay.org
- Forced Entertainment - An ensemble of artists based in Sheffield, England working together since 1984 producing work in theatre, installation, digital media and film.
www.forced.co.uk/forced
- Funkopolis - Ensemble focused on the creation of original work, and dedicated to redefining the relationship between actor, director, designer, technician, and artist.
www.members.tripod.com/~funkopolis
- GAle GAtes et al - Founded in 1995 by theater and visual artist Michael Counts and performer/ choreographer Michelle Stern, GAle GAtes et al. has created 12 productions in New York, Japan and Thailand which are as much art installations as they are works of theater.
www.galegates.org
- Gertrude Stein Repertrory Theatre - Their goal is to re-invent the process of creating theater, from training and education to collaboration and production. They have a particular interest in international and multicultural projects, because they feel that the arts of the 21st century must be global.
www.gertstein.org
- Green Pig Theatre Company - Founded by English playwright Bathsheba Doran, Korean director Hansol Yoon and American dramaturg Sadie Foster in order to further the specific collaborative aesthetic that they began developing after meeting at Columbia University's Theatre Arts MFA program.
www.greenpig.org
- HamFisted! - A company based in Birmingham, UK, that creates new live theatre, performance art and cross disciplinary arts locally, and tours on a regional and national basis. History of the company, fanzine with biographies and pictures, and information about currect projects.
www.btinternet.com/~claire.marshall1
- HERE Arts Center - An award-winning and critically acclaimed performance and art center.
www.here.org
- Horse Trade Theater Group - Encompasses Kraine Theater, St. Marks Theater, and Red Room Theater in NYC: includes calendar, upcoming season, reservation and rental information.
www.httheater.com
- I 80 Drama Company - group of actors, directors, designers, and administrators collectively exploring the Amerian landscape through theater.
www.i80drama.org
- International WOW Company - Founded in 1996 by American director Josh Fox and a diverse group of theatre and dance artists from the United States, Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia, who met as participants of the Bangkok-Berlin-Bali Rendezvous of Arts Festival in Bangkok, Thailand.
www.internationalwow.org
- Intersection for the Arts - One San Francisco's original venues for new works in Theatrical, Literary, and Performing Arts. This site showcases all of the upcoming and current happenings.
www.theintersection.org
- Irondale Ensemble Project - An experimental/research theater ensemble. Information on productions, education, library, newsletters, funding, links and contacts.
www.irondale.org
- J. A. V. Theatre home page - Home page of J. A. V. Theatre - independent space for contemporary experimental art and theatre from Slovakia.
www.jav.sk
- Kee Company - Founded in 1996 by Canadian theatre artist Colleen Lanki, this Tokyo based theatre company does original, multilingual productions blending different theatrical styles and traditions.
www.keecompany.net
- konic thtr - Konic Thtr can be defined as a label for the production and realisation of artistic projects using interactive technology. Interactions body-sound-light and image, where the public will finish or modify the process that the authors initially proposed.
www.koniclab.info
- La MaMa Theatre - Performance space in the East Village, NYC
www.lamama.org
- Laboratory Theater, yvan greenberg artistic director - News on current and past theater projects that Yvan is involved in. Production photos, excerpts and descriptions of new theater projects. Yvan's professional resume.
yvan_greenberg.tripod.com
- Liebfrauentheater München (in German) - Theatre Projects by Sonja Breuer and Martin Leitner.
www.liebfrauentheater.de
- LISA D - Austrian fashion designer, based in Berlin. Has been presenting numerous happenings, performances and shows, in which she tells stories in the language of fashion.
www.lisad.com
- Lucky Pierre - Chicago based performance group
www.luckypierre.org
- Mabou Mines - Mabou Mines is an avant-garde theater company emphasizing the creation of new theater pieces from original texts and the theatrical use of existing texts staged from a specific point of view. Established in 1970 and based in New York City.
www.maboumines.org
- Michael Sakamoto - Butoh Dance Theater - Background information, repertoire, calendar, press and clips.
www.geocities.com/michaelsakamoto
- Nao Dada Baba - Documentation of live projects 1993-2001 including Genetic Wake, 9 adaptations from the novel Finnegans Wake; Glasgow Weekend, a curated programme of Urban Context performance and art at London Foundry; and Foundry/Dom London/Moscow Cultural Exchange programme.
invisible.gq.nu
- New World Performance Laboratory - A Center for Theatre Creation and Research. Experimental theatre productions and workshops conducted by James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta, former assistants to Jerzy Grotowski.
www.nwplab.org
- One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre - An adult oriented performance theatre company based in the Arts Centre in Calgary Alberta Canada.
www.oyr.org
- Ontological+Richard.Foreman - Information concerning current and future performances at the Ontological at St. Marks Theater, which is the permanent home of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
www.ontological.com
- Optative Theatrical Laboratories - A Montreal-based theatrical laboratory dedicated to theatrically challenging hegemonic thought-patterns and oppressive systems.
otl.20m.com
- P-Cult - An experimental theater and entertainment company of New York City artists, performers and designers specializing in pop-art and conceptual, pop-based extreme live imagery. Information about events, individual artists, picture gallery, and booking information.
www.pcult.com
- Peculiar Works Project - Offers "unusual, intelligent material for site-based performance."
members.tripod.com/peculiarworks
- PHENOMENONTHEATRE - platform for experimental theatre
www.phenomenontheatre.sk
- Planet SITI - SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration.
www.siti.org
- proto-type: theatre, media, insanity - NYC based multi-disciplinary performance company that combines video, theatre, music, and installation to create vivid live events relevant to people from all walks of life.
www.proto-type-home.com
- Rachel Rosenthal Company - Performer Rachel Rosenthal teaches her performance technique DbD (Doing by Doing) that integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and sets.
www.rachelrosenthal.org
- Radio Hole - Performing schizophrenia for the information age.
www.radiohole.com
- Reverend Billy's Church of Stop Shopping - A comic political site that hopes to resist the destruction of neighborhoods by malls and chaines stores.
revbilly.com
- Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players - The company strives to bring new forms of theater and performance to the public and to advance public awareness of live theater and further public understanding of theater practices including script-writing, actor processes and directing techniques.
www.nycplayers.org
- SCIATTO - As a group for stage action and a laboratory of architectural planning, Sciatto looks at social and urban borderlines as the last field for artistic performances.
www.ecn.org/sciattoproduzie
- Soho Repertory Theater - producing some of the most groundbreaking theater in New York City, a "hot house" for daring, intrinsically theatrical excellence.
www.sohorep.org
- SohoThinkTank - SOHO THINK TANK strengthens, nurtures and promotes an aesthetically and culturally diverse community of independent theatre artists and theatre companies, by producing, presenting, and programming new work at the Ohio Theater, in Soho
www.sohothinktank.org
- Stolen Chair Theatre Company - Committed to discovering new relationships between text, performers, and audiences, to exploring and exploding social mythology, and to creating a theatrical space where the familiar can give rise to the unknown.
www.stolenchair.org
- Teatrincorso - Trento-Italy based theatre company dedicated to multi media experimental performance theatre. The group makes live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street. It is working in educational and community settings. Elena Marino, Teatrincorso's director, is also writer of theatrical texts. Teatrincorso organizes the International Festival "Officine dei Teatri".
www.teatrincorso.com
- Temporary Distortion - presenting unique nonlinear combinations of text, image, and sound...creating strange new theatrical experiences.
www.temporarydistortion.com
- The Builders Association - Creates large-scale theater projects exploring the interface between live performance and media. Work re-animates theater for a contemporary audience, using current tools to interpret old forms. Productions combine historic and new texts with performance, sound, video, and architectural sets to create a world onstage which reflects contemporary culture
www.thebuildersassociation.org
- The Collection Agency - A performance ensemble that focuses on the creation of bold new works and adaptations. Works in a broad range of styles, forms, and media, with original projects that range from the standard straight drama to the cutting edge of performance art. Based in New York City.
www.geocities.com/thecollectionagency
- The East Village Experimental Theatre Company - A Philadelphia based company that is dedicated to developing interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative works that integrate visual, performing, and media arts in live performances, film, video, audio, and site specific events.
EastVillageETC.org
- The Fat House - Leicester, UK; produce devised performance work which avoids the constriction of a director or 'outside eye'.
www.angelfire.com/celeb/fathouse
- The Grassmarket Project, Edinburgh - The Grassmarket Projects aim is to provide new theatre, which combines the raw truth of life with technical excellence. We believe that truth is more important than fiction, and that ordinary people and their experiences can form the basis of powerful theatre. Edinburgh, Scotland.
www.gmp-theatre.demon.co.uk/main.html
- The Greylight Theatre - Homesite of one of the largest producers of new and alternative works in the US.
www.greylighttheatre.org
- The Independent Eye - A California-based touring company producing original work for stage and radio.
www.independenteye.org
- the industrial theatre co - Official site of a Bombay-based theatre company that aims to discover and popularize alternative spaces for theatre. Founded by Pushan Kripalani, Rehaan Engineer, Karan Makhija, and Nadir Khan.
www.geocities.com/industrialtheatreco
- The LIDA Project Experimental Theatre Company - Experimental theatre company based in Denver Colorado
lida.org
- The neo-futurists - The Neo-Futurists are an ensemble of artists who write, direct, and perform their own work dedicated to social, political, and personal enlightenment in the form of audience-interactive conceptual theater
www.neofuturists.org
- The Riot Group (UK) - produced original performance pieces which mix absurd comedy, political satire, and a unique confrontational acting style.
www.theriotgroup.com
- The Wooster Group - Theatre collective in NYC
www.thewoostergroup.org
- theater et al - creating visual, culturally diverse performances since 1997, theater et al combines world-premiere adaptations of neglected works (often in new translation) with an aggressive mix of movement, image, sound and music--seeking to reimagine the art of theatrical storytelling, on an epic scale, for a contemporary audience.
www.theateretal.org
- Tomee Theatre Company - Established in 1982. Experimental theatre, theatre education, drama reasearch. History, education, productions.
www.tomeetheatre.com
- Tornado Theatre - Broadcasting unique live shows over the Internet using a revolutionary 360-degree streaming video system. Visit the site to watch shows, contribute ideas, read about the artists or chat with fellow Tornado enthusiasts. It's online entertainment with a twist!
www.tornadotheatre.com
- Undermain Theatre - An ensemble of artists committed to providing our community with innovative, thought-provoking, professional theater.
www.undermain.com
- UNI Theatre - Artist run company focused on developing, exploring and producing thought-provoking expressive theatre works. Ontario, Canada.
www.uni-theatre.com
- Uninvited Guests - A United Kingdom/German live art company based in Bristol, England. Dedicated to making innovative collaborative work which challenges the boundaries between art-forms and opens live and digital work to new audiences.
www.uninvited-guests.net
- Via Theatre - Brian Jucha shares his projects and archive
www.jucha.com
- Virtual Reality Theatre Forum - Research club attempts to use an ideal model of 'Anytime, Anywhere, and Anyone can do Theatre'.
www.otr.co.kr/vrt/english.htm
- WaxFactory - An international group of artist dedicated to exploring a multiplicity of theatrical visions.
www.waxfactory.org
- Woven - Experimental theatre company performs a different show each night compiled from over 60 pieces combining original movement, music and dialogue.
www.wovenworld.com
- Hotel Pro Forma - The theatre company Hotel Pro Forma is a vehicle for dramatic composition at the boundary of theatre and exhibition.
www.hotelproforma.dk
- tg STAN - Founded in Antwerp in 1989. Its members want to put in scene themselves, as actors, with their capacities and their failures (acknowledged) in the center of the step that they revendiquent : destruction of the theatrical illusion, naked play, contradiction and the description of the possible divergences in the rigorous play and engagement with respect to the character and of what it tells.
www.stan.be/en/index.html
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