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Naked Stages

 

Naked Stages, sponsored by Intermedia Arts with support from the Jerome Foundation, is an intensive performance research program that gives artists space to dig deep into creative process. The program, developed and directed by artist and curator Eleanor Savage, is designed to give artists a supportive environment for building their performance and production skills while creating a new performance art piece. The showings with an audience are the final step in the program, giving the artists a true assessment of how their ideas are communicating through the form.

What is Performance Art?

Good question! No one agrees on an exact definition. Performance
art is not simply the addition of video as an element into a traditional
form such as theater or dance. Below is a lively summary adapted
from the essay “Fluid Landscapes,” by Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine.

Performance art is not a singular form of art, but an umbrella term
for work that pushes the boundaries of a diversity of disciplines.
Whether challenging the orthodoxies of visual art, exploring the
limits of theatricality, appropriating the idioms of mass culture,
pushing the boundaries of choreographic conventions, or exploring
the performativity of cyberspace, performance art practices converge
all kinds of mediums in a provocative discourse. Disrupting borders,
breaking rules, defying traditions, resisting definition, asking
questions, and activating audiences, performance art is a research
engine where the limits of art and ideas are tested and new
possibilities imagined.