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Artsadmin
Based in London, UK, Artsadmin's Artists Advisory service supports artists working in Live Art, performance, time-based media and installation.
www.artsadmin.co.uk
Arts Archives
Based in Exeter, UK, the Arts Archives produced by the Arts Documentation Unit, is dedicated to documenting the processes at work within contemporary performing arts practice, a source provider for research purposes.
www.arts-archives.org
Arts Catalyst
Based in London, UK, Arts Catalyst is a Science Art Agency that works nationally and internationally to facilitate collaborative art/science projects, expanding new territories for artistic practice and setting up multidisciplinary research laboratories.
www.artscatalyst.org
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education is an organization of individuals and institutions that provides vision and leadership for the profession and promotes excellence in theatre education. ATHE actively supports scholarship through teaching, research and practice and serves as a collective voice for its mission through its publications, conferences, advocacy, projects, and through collaborative efforts with other organizations.
http://www.athe.org/
National Centre for Investigation and Documentation of Theatre, Rodolfo Usigli
Mexican Art Centre focussing on documenting and investigating Mexican Art. The Centre facilitates dialogues of research and publications to enrich theatre culture in Mexico.
www.cenart.gab.mx/centros/citru/home.htm
China Performing Arts Agency
Approved by the State Council and founded in 1957, China Performing Arts Agency, directly under the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, is the largest and most professional performing arts agency in China. Facilitates exchange of Chinese performance.
www.cppa.cn/english
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.
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about_bampfa/avantgarde.html
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. Sponsors residencies, workshops, artists talks, symposia, publications, exchanges and other projects that enhance understanding and encourage dialogue and opportunities for Canadian performance artists.
www.performanceart.ca/index/html
Fierce Earth
Based in Birmingham, UK, Fierce Earth produce the annual international Fierce festival of Live Art in venues across the West Midlands.
www.fiercetv.co.uk
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".
www.franklinfurnace.org
H-Net
H-Net is an online international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Their edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe.
www.h-net.org/
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
http://hemi.nyu.edu/
The International Federation for Theatre Research
The International Federation for Theatre Research exists to promote collaboration and the exchange of information between individuals and organisations concerned with theatre research. To this end the federation supports conferences and publications (including Theatre Research International) and assists its members in all such activities and projects.
www.firt-iftr.org/firt.home.jsp
The International Theatre Institute
An extremely useful resource, 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. Website includes ITI National Centres list and contact information for over 90 countries.
www.iti-worldwide.org
Japanese Society for Theatre Research
Site in Japanese.
www.tamagawa.ac.jp/GAKUBU/BUN/art/engeki/GAKKAI/gakkai.html
Laban Centre
Based in London, UK, the Laban Centre is one of the leading contemporary dance spaces in Europe. It brings together students, choreographers, designers, writers, researchers, artists and musicians from around the world, includes an archive library.
www.laban.org
Live Art Development Agency
Based in London, UK, the LADA offers a portfolio of resources, schemes and initiatives for the support of the Live Art sector.
www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk
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.
www.liftfest.org.uk
National Association of Artists Organisations
Based in Minneapolis, USA, NAAO is a membership organisation that works to strengthen artists' organisations by convening them, connecting them and championing their work. Produces an annual conference.
www.naao.net
National Resource Centre for Dance
The National Resource Centre for Dance (NRCD) is a non-profit national archive and resource provider for dance and movement. The NRCD aims to preserve the nation's dance heritage and enables, supports, and enhances the study and teaching of dance. Founded in 1981, the Centre is based at the University of Surrey Library, in Guildford, Surrey, UK
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/NRCD/nrcd.html
New Moves International
Based in Glasgow, UK, New Moves International is an arts production company principally involved in the presentation of new work within the context of international festivals. New Moves presents an annual festival entitled 'New Territories' and is made up of; An international premier programme, the National Review of Live Art, Elevator (emergent artists' programme supported by the Arts Council England) and a Winter School.
www.newmoves.co.uk
New Work Network
A national artist-led membership organisation that brings together artists, producers, promoters, venues, academics and others involved in the new work sector in England.
www.newworknetwork.org.uk
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.
www.beherenow.org.uk
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.
http://performa-arts.org/
Popstart
Web resource for Canadian interdisciplinary artists sponsored by the Quebec Interdisciplinary Arts Network.
www.popstart.ca/intro.html
Practice as Research in Performance
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.
www.bris.ac.uk/parip/index.htm
ResCen
Based at Middlesex University, North London, UK, ResCen is the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts.
www.mdx.ac.uk/rescen
Rossijskaya Gosudarstvennya Biblioteka Po Iskusstvu (Russian State Art Library)
Based in Moscow, Russia, this specialist library houses books, periodicals, plays on a wide variety of Russian theatre and performance.
www.liart.ru/
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).
www.sibmas.org/idpac/index.html
TAPRA
Theatre and Performance Research Association is based at the University of Manchester, UK. TaPRA is a new British and Irish research association founded in order to foster and sustain research in all theatre, performance and related areas in British and Irish Universities and allied institutions.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/drama/events/tapra/
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.
http://www.drama.canterbury.ac.nz/tepunatoi/
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.
www.tin.nl/eng/index.html
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.
http://institute.theatre.cz/default.asp
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