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The Performance Group (TPG) was an experimental theater troupe that Richard Schechner founded in 1967 in New York City. TPG's home base was the Performing Garage in the SoHo district of Lower Manhattan. After 1975, tensions led to Schechner's resignation in 1980.
The Performing Garage is an off-off-Broadway theater in SoHo, New York City.Established in 1968, [1] it is the permanent home of the experimental theater company originally named The Performance Group (under Richard Schechner) that morphed in 1980 into The Wooster Group [2] (under Elizabeth LeCompte), and their primary performance venue.
The home of both is the Performing Garage in New York's SoHo district, a building acquired by Schechner in 1968. That year Schechner signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. [3] In 1992, Schechner founded East Coast Artists with whom he continues to work.
Rehearsal and performance took place in a "performing garage" which was rather a small metal stamping factory, but Schechner found "garage a much jazzier title". According to Schechner the group rehearsed for 5 months at least 6 days a week on average 6 hours a day including vocal training and psychophysical interactions (e.g. attack therapy ...
TDR: The Drama Review is an academic journal focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts. [1] [2] The journal covers dance, theatre, music, performance art, visual art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals, and performance in politics and everyday life.
The film records a performance of The Performance Group's stage play of the same name, an adaptation of The Bacchae. [2] [3] ...
With Schechner, Foreman formed a theater collective in 1968 called "A Bunch of Experimental Theaters of New York Inc," [6] which included seven theater companies: Mabou Mines, The Manhattan Project, Meredith Monk/The House, The Performance Group, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Section Ten, and Foreman's company, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre ...
A multi-use performance space is a single space intended for use by various types of performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. [citation needed]The intended multiple use of performing arts centers in this sense differentiates them from single-purpose concert halls, opera houses, or theatres, although the actual use of single-purpose spaces for other than their intended use is ...