Performing Arts
Cheap seats, but not for the poor
New research by Oxford University shows that understanding cultural consumption is a lot more complicated that identifying the haves and…
When worlds collide and lovers meet
Starting an arts career is like having a new lover – especially if you’ve hopped from one field to another,…
Outside the Square
Outsider Art? The term spanks of marginalization and disempowerment. Indeed this form of art has been known by many names,…
Crossover the road my friend
This week London's Medieval Baebes will be jetting across the Atlantic to begin their scarcely anticipated Canadian tour, but it's…
KISSS and tell – The Revolutionary New Performance Form
KISSS and tell – The Revolutionary New Performance Form. Can you see what they're thinking? No? Well why not find…
Play it again, Sam
The practice of borrowing from older works to create new ones is well-established among artists. And contemporary performers and artists…
But is it ethical?
According to Thomas Shanks, S.J., executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: "Ethics is intimately bound up with…
Meet Melissa Mostyn
Newest contributor to Arts Hub Melissa Mostyn is set to join us with the monthly column, Deaf Zone. Originally a…
Intellectual fakes
On November 23 and 24 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Italy's Ministry of Productive Activities and the Italian Institute…
Spect-actor power
As a young man during the 1950s and 60s, Brasilian director Augusto Boal wanted to use theater as a means…