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Thursday, March 20, 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) Ink premieres at Lincoln Center » Pitched at ISPA’s 2024 Congress, Ink from Huang Yi Studio+ has since premiered at Lincoln Center and toured to Texas Per...
Thursday, March 20, 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) Ghosts of Hell Creek tours to Jacob’s Pillow » Pitched at ISPA’s 2023 Manchester Congress, Prehistoric Body Theater’s Ghosts of Hell Creek is an embodied celebration o...
Thursday, March 20, 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) Three Marys visits the northern hemisphere » Pitched at ISPA’s 2024 Perth Congress, Three Marys is a piece from composer Andrée Greenwell, originally presented at Sy...
Thursday, March 20, 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight premieres in Shanghai » From producer Farooq Chaudhry, Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight pitched at ISPA’s 2024 New York Congress. The piece is a p...
Thursday, March 20, 2025 (0 Comments - view/add) Samsara – A Cine-Concert by Garin Nugroho featured at the Perth Festival » Pitched at ISPA’s 2024 Perth Congress, Samsara A Cine-Concert by Garin Nugroho has since had its premiere at The Espl...
Thursday, June 20, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Treemonisha receives numerous Canadian theater award nominations » Treemonisha from Toronto-based performance company Volcano pitched during its development at the New York 2017 Congres...
Thursday, June 20, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) The Waste Land tours to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore » The Waste Land was pitched by Amsterdam Sinfonietta and ISH Dance Collective at ISPA’s New York 2023 Congress. A centu...
Thursday, June 20, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Autofiction (now called The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner) presented by Factory Intl. and others » Autofiction , pitched at ISPA’s Manchester 2023 Congress, has been renamed The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner . It is a...
Thursday, June 20, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Mehek tours the UK and India » Pitched at the Manchester 2023 Congress by the Aakash Odedra Company, Mehek is a new mainstage work by two of the great...
Thursday, June 20, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) 12 Last Songs heading to Reykjavik, Glasgow and Perth » 12 Last Songs from Quarantine pitched at ISPA’s Manchester 2023 Congress. Part-performance, part-exhibition of people, th...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) SILENCE tours across Australia » SILENCE from First Nations Australian company BlakDance pitched at the New York 2022 Congress. A work of contemporary danc...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist coming to Lincoln Center » Pitched at the New York 2023 Congress, The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist is an opera-theater work commissioned an...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Black Lodge nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording » Pitched at the New York 2022 Congress, Black Lodge is an industrial rock opera written by David T. Little in collaboration...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) The Book of Life tours across the US and to Rwanda » Pitched at the New York 2023 Congress, The Book of Life is a work of theatre from Volcano and the Woman Cultural Center, R...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Bark of Millions » Bark of Millions: A Parade Trance Extravaganza for the Living Library of the Deviant Theme to have its US premiere at Broo...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) Hand to Earth heads to Berlin » Pitched in January 2021, Hand to Earth is a contemporary music collaboration from the Australian Art Orchestra. First Nati...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) The Royal Opera House presents Least Like The Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy » You may remember Least Like The Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy from the January 2021 Pitch New Works. Produced by I...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) Following its premiere, FORTUNE will have 30 performances in the Netherlands » The Indian/Dutch multidisciplinary collaboration FORTUNE pitched at the January, 2021 congress. Club Guy and Roni joins th...
Thursday, June 30, 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) Muziektheater Transparent’s The mass man to premiere in August » The January 2021 Pitch Project The mass man was produced by Muziektheater Transparant with co-producers Concertgebouw Brug...
Thursday, June 30, 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) Love to Death (Amor a la Muerte) tours the US in 2022 » Pitched at the New York 2022 congress, Lemi Ponifasio’s Love to Death (Amor a la Muerte) is a new multidisciplinary creati...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) First Stop For Live In-Person Performances: The Ice Rink! » Montreal-based contemporary ice skating company Le Patin Libre was first introduced to ISPA delegates at the New York 202...
Thursday, June 11, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Samsara: 6 months since they pitched in January 2020 » Did you attend our first virtual edition of Pitch New Works earlier this month? Today, we’re highlighting project news tha...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 Cion: Requiem of Ravel's Bolero has U.S. Premiere » Did you attend Pitch New Works at the recent congress? Today, we’re highlighting project news that we shared with delegate...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 (2 Comments - view/add) Our Time Machine, the Documentary » Today, we’re highlighting Papa’s Time Machine produced by PaPa Puppet Cultural Development Co, Ltd, introduced to ISPA...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Mummenschanz performs "YOU & ME" in Taiwan » Today, we’re highlighting the Swiss-based musicians of silence MUMMENSCHANZ and their recent project: YOU & ME . The wo...
Thursday, March 7, 2019 Crystal Pite's Anticipated Premiere for "Revisor" » Today, we’re highlighting the newly premiered collaboration by writer Jonathan Young and choreographer/director Crystal Pi...
Friday, February 8, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) "#JeSuis" To Tour Once More » Did you attend Pitch New Works at the recent congress? Today, we’re highlighting project news that we shared with delegate...
Thursday, December 13, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) Following Four-Year Development, "Under the Horizon" Launches with International Premieres » Today we’re highlighting a collaboration between Huang Yi , Ryoichi Kurokawa and Nederlands Kamerkoor , Under the Ho...
Friday, October 12, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) Yang Liping's "Rite of Spring" World-premiering at ChinaSPAF » Today we’re highlighting choreographer Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring , produced by Peacock Contemporary Dance Company (P...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) "Cerita Anak (Child's Story)" to Pitch Once More! » Today, we’re highlighting Ceritak Anak (Child’s Story) co-created by Polyglot Theatre and Papermoon Puppet Theatre whi...
Thursday, April 12, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) A Live Documentary: Witness the Kronos Quartet » Today we're highlighting A Thousand Thoughts , a live documentary with the Kronos Quartet written and directed by Sam G...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) "Remnants" off to Euroscene Festival » Did you attend Pitch New Works at the recent congress ? Today, we're highlighting Remnants produced by UK-b...
Thursday, February 8, 2018 "POP-UP Duets (fragments of love)" Launches International Tour » Did you attend Pitch New Works at the recent congress? Today, we’re highlighting project news that we shared with delegate...
Thursday, November 9, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) NeoArctic at European Capital Aarhus 2017 and more! » Today, we’re highlighting NeoArctic produced by Hotel Pro Forma, Latvian Radio Choir, and Riga Russian Theatre. You may...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Dystopian Dream Comes to Life in Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg World Premiere » Today, we’re highlighting Dystopian Dream created by composer Nitin Sawhney and choreographers/performers Honji Wang a...
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