International Artists News

Sundance Institute today announced a significant expansion of its international cultural exchange programs for independent artists with a new, multi-year initiative to support theatre-makers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With the goal of creating new opportunities for cross-cultural connectedness and in-depth mutual artistic reflection and exploration, the Institute will expand its existing international Labs to include a pilot Theatre Lab in MENA, to take place in May 2016. Theatre artists in the U.S. and from MENA can submit their work for consideration for this Lab as well as a new Theatre-Makers Residency at the Sundance Resort in Utah in summer 2016 through October 15 at sundance.org/theatre in a new application process. Application guidelines are also available in Arabic and French.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is launching a star-packed 2015-2016 season next month with an exciting and eclectic array of international artists and performing superstars.

The Cultch Presents the World Premiere of Tetsuro Shigematsu's Empire of the Son Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, October 6 - 17, 2015. The performances are located at VANCITY CULTURE LAB AT THE CULTCH (1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC).

Teatro Paraguas launches its 12th season and its second appearance in the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Siembra Latino Theater Festival with a premiere production of Santa Fe playwright Alix Hudson's play Our Lady of Mariposas.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (September 10, 2015) - The third in a series of exhibitions about the human body in contemporary art organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala,Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art includes provocative artworks that address themes of trauma, loss, and transformation, while considering the possibility of an animating spirit that can exist independently of the body. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, photography, videos, sculpture and installations by a noteworthy roster of contemporary international artists and will be on view from October 30, 2015, throughFebruary 14, 2016.

The third in a series of exhibitions about the human body in contemporary art organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala, PHANTOM BODIES: THE HUMAN AURA IN ART includes provocative artworks that address themes of trauma, loss, and transformation, while considering the possibility of an animating spirit that can exist independently of the body. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, photography, videos, sculpture and installations by a noteworthy roster of contemporary international artists and will be on view in the Upper-Level Galleries from October 30, 2015, through February 14, 2016.

From today, September 11th, through Sunday September 13th at Long Island's Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Garden City, NY 11530 you'll be able to join international artists from Italy, Russia, Japan, China, Sweden, UK and more alongside thousands of art, music, and tattoo lovers as  Tattoo Lou Presents the United Ink Flight 915 Tattoo, Art and Music Festival sponsored by World Famous Tattoo Ink, NYZ Apocalypse, Tattoo Goo, Clean slate Laser, and Inked Magazine!

(West Palm Beach, FL – September 8, 2015)  The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today added a major new concert to its 2015-2016 performance schedule:

NEW YORK, NY - Marc Dennis will have seven paintings included in a major group exhibition, entitled, Hyperrealism: Nothing is Static at the Daejeon Museum of Art in Daejeon City, South Korea opening September 4, 2015 and running through December 20, 2015. The exhibition is intended to showcase the talents of an array of international artists from over ten countries and four continents who have respectfully established themselves as leaders in their respective brand of hyperrealism.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, an exhibition on view from September 5, 2015, through January 3, 2016, that focuses on the parallels and connections among international artists working in-and in reference to-Latin America and Eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.

A specially commissioned exhibition themed around local and international retail giant IKEA will form part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2015. 

Home, a new multi-disciplinary production from Physical Lab's Yorgos Karamalegos, will be premiered in Liverpool this Autumn.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces the cast and creative team for the U.S. premiere of Ride the Cyclone, a new musical with a refreshingly offbeat twist from Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond, directed and choreographed by multiple Jeff Award-winner Rachel Rockwell. Originating as a cult classic cabaret piece in Canada, this dark musical comedy is being further developed with Chicago Shakespeare Creative Producer Rick Boynton for its highly anticipated American debut, presented in the theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, September 29-November 8, 2015.

PS122, The Chocolate Factory and The Creek & The Cave present Adrienne Truscott's ASKING FOR IT: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her P*ssy and Little Else! Truscott's 'brilliantly bold and thoroughly engaging provocation'(The Times UK) that mixes humor, dance, video and p*ssy-puppetry while undoing the rules and rhetoric surrounding rape and comedy will have its longest yet New York City run.

La Jolla Playhouse announces additional projects for its second Without Walls (WoW) Festival on October 9 - 11, featuring more than 20 immersive and site-based works taking place simultaneously in and around the Playhouse Theatre District, UC San Diego campus and the surrounding neighborhood.

'It's a season that will ignite heated debate about sex, death and revolution, and bring a wide range of communities together through new works created by independent and international artists,' said Lutton.

Europe's leading producers, promoters and artists will convene in Great Yarmouth on 17 and 18 September to explore how circus and street arts talent can be supported and nurtured to thrive in the UK and European market place.

terraNOVA Collective and IRT Theater present the New York Premiere of LAST CALL, by Terri Girvin. Directed by Drama Desk Award nominee Michael Leeds (Broadway's SWINGING ON A STAR) with an integrated soundscape by Grammy nominated sound designer Phil Palazzolo (Broadway's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH), previews begin October 9 at IRT Theater. Opening night is slated for Thursday, October 15.

To celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month, Girls' Club hosts the sixth annual Art Fallout – a day to explore and support the production and presentation of contemporary art in Downtown Fort Lauderdale.