Performance Art Archives

Jackson 2bears Leween holding a clay mask with two hands in front of his face.

Jackson 2bears Leween. Courtesy of the artist.

Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe

Addressing questions of identity, the body, heritage, ancestry, and technology from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective

Dancer Marcus McGregor dancing in a white tall crown-shaped hat.

Dancer Marcus McGregor in Dan Safer's History of Empires. Credit Christopher L. Hicken.

The History of Empires

Cheerfully nihilistic dance/theater by the iconoclastic Witness Relocation/Dan Safer

A dark lit and highly saturated image of a forest.

Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.

The Conquered

A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology

Two ballet dancers in floral leotards and hat piece on stage.

Dancers of the Oakland Ballet Company perform at the Dancing Moons Festival at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, California, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022.

Ballet des Porcelaines

A story of magic, desire, and exotic entanglement

Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica. Credit: Brandon Perdomo.

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya

Performance installation exploring the juxtapositions of multiplicities and the power of rising

VALIS. Courtesy of Tod Machover.

VALIS

Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation

Lion's Jaw. Courtesy of the artists.

Lion’s Jaw

Creating an environment where risk, rigor, and rebellion can flourish through dance

Portrait of Adesola Akinleye. Credit: Foteini Christofilopoulou.

Adesola Akinleye

Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space

Lakaï Dance Theatre. Credit: Nadelle Scott.

Lakaï Dance’s The Block: An Afro-Musical

Sharing personal stories and narratives through movement

Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up

Clusters of red, blue, and green illuminated orbs.

UPAerial Credit: Pilobolus

Pilobolus

Dance company Pilobolus creates interactive performance with MIT robotics

A man stands in front of a wall of projected text.

Arnold Dreyblatt

Media artist and composer explores audio visual perception and memory

EVENING PERFORMANCE September 27, 2014 7:00 pm Media Lab, E14-674

A man examines a large device made of a long plastic tube and metal bars

Andy Cavatorta. Image courtesy of the artist.

Andy Cavatorta

Through the design of such complex and experimental instruments, Andy Cavatorta explores the ways in which we create meaning through sound.

A woman performs while holding parts of a rotary phone.

Pamela Z, Ars Electronica, 2008. Photo: Rubra.

Pamela Z

Transforming elegant physical gestures into complex aural and visual landscapes

BIC in concert at MIT. Credit: Caroline Alden.

As part of MIT Sounding, Haitian rapper, poet and singer BIC performs his work in collaboration with Jean Appolon Expressions, a Cambridge-based Haitian contemporary dance company. Photo by Caroline Alden.

BIC

Bringing Kreyòl music and digital poetry to MIT

Artist standing in front of a large wall painting.

Matthew Ritchie at the ICA, where the British-born, New York-based artist had an 18-month residency. Credit: Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe.

Matthew Ritchie

Artistic explorations of existence and scale

Thom Kubli with Black Hole Horizon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Credit: Argeo Ascani.

Thom Kubli

Exploring the boundaries of physical space and floating structures