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Our Development Director, Amanda Ewing, has had one of her essays published! The book is 'Arts and Popular Culture in History', and her essy is the final one in the book, 'Spatiality and Stories: Staging Memory in Post September 11th Performance'. 

It is available for purchase here at amazon.co.uk.

Guys! It’s here! That’s my name in print for the first time. :) I’m psyched.

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Going to have to read this soon. He was fantastic on Anthony Bourdain.

We’re giving away a few Advance Reader’s Copies of Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy on Goodreads. Mostly because we can’t stop thinking about it.

(Alexandra Fuller puts it best: “You wouldn’t think a book about the stinking decay of the American dream could be this engaging, this irreverent, this laugh-at-loud funny.”)

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Today, to kick off a weekend of conference fun, I am taking Chantel to visit The Heidelberg Project for the first time. I always like taking people to HP, I love to see a first time visitor's reaction, because it reminds me of my first reactions to the project. 

One of the brilliant, unique, and disturbing things for me about the project is that each time I go my feelings change and intensify. And to catch it in the changing seasons is even more fascinating.

The pictures above were all taken by me, and were included in my dissertation.

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Oh Yoko. What are we gonna do with you?

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Ask a contemporary college student about their average day, and they'll probably tell you they spend it multitasking. Classes here, academic clubs there, maybe a fraternity/sorority event, and then...

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Great talk on socially engaged art from Claire Bishop. Also, check out the the Living as Form website for other events. 

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This is an image from the Clod Ensemble's anatomy piece...

(via Hansjorg Schmidt - photo library)

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Samantha mentioned them at one point last night. They're a fascinating movement based performance group. 

Cold Ensemble’s contemporary dance show, previewing from the 28th - 20th September, is a study of not only the anatomy of the human body but also the anatomy of the theatre space. Using an audience of just 200 people (an tiny number in comparison to Sadler’s Wells’ capacity) the performance...

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I really love Goat Island and Every house has a door. They're wonderful artists.

BY LIN HIXSON

I direct collaboratively devised performance works. I have done this for the past twenty years with a company called Goat Island and currently with a group called Every house has a door.

Poetry, poetics, and poets have been my primary guides. As a director, I...

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Kishi Bashi is a master of building his music from the ground up, from live violin loops to layered singing to beatboxing, in order to create pocket symphonies steeped in classical music and 21st-century pop. He brings that ingenuity and songcraft to the Tiny Desk at the NPR Music offices.

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http://www.artservemichigan.org/opportunities/artists/capital-fringe-request-for-theatre-proposals/

A new project?

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His creativity and sheer talent are jaw dropping.

Interview with Kishi Bashi

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Street Art in Moscow