More than 65,000 people - including artists, audiences, students and others - have encountered UpStage in the last four years.
“And Now … !” took place in UpStage on Saturday 8 March, celebrating international women’s day as well as the diversity and creativity of UpStage performances. The event began with the evening’s host, Helen Varley Jamieson, welcoming everyone and acknowledging the role of women in […]
"We need culture - like air to breathe" is the English translation of the title of an installation currently in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Graz (Austria).
Once again, UpStage will be presented at the annual Libre Graphics Meeting, this year taking place 28-31 May in Nuremburg, Germany.
For the six years of its life so far, UpStage has run from the same server. During this time, we’ve held three international festivals, countless online walk-throughs and workshops, and made numerous other presentations and performances – not to mention all the development work that […]
The fourth UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 101010 (10 October 2010). The call is now open for performance proposals. The 101010 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. […]
The showreel of excerpts from the 090909 UpStage Festival is now online. Thanks again to all the artists who created and performed the fabulous shows, to the organisers of the nodes, and especially to the volunteer documenters who recorded the shows and dan for the […]
A special session on how to use web cams in UpStage will be held on Tuesday 15 December at 9pm Western European time (find your local time here). If you are interested in attending this session, please email info@upstage.org.nz first, as you will need to […]
090909 performance The Dish was presented again, at the opening of the NEW TECHNOLOGIES 09 exhibition at the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo, Serbia, at 7.30pm (local time) on 29 December. You can see footage from the gallery opening here. Katarina Djordjevic Urosevic & Jelena […]
The next open walk-through in UpStage will take place next week on Wednesday 2nd December, at 9pm NZ time, which is 9am if you’re in Europe. Find your local time here. The open walk-through is an opportunity for you to learn about UpStage and gain […]
Tonight, Monday 26th, at 19:00 European time, there will be an opening of the installation Let ME Go at Skjern Bibliotek, Denmark and online here (find your local time here). To participate online, journey through the web site and you will arrive in the Underworld […]
The next open walk-through in UpStage will take place at 8pm UK time on Monday 26 October, which is 9am on Tuesday 27 October in New Zealand. Find your local time here. The open walk-through is an opportunity to learn about UpStage and how it […]
Following the 090909 UpStage Festival, we are gathering documentation and gradually adding it to the 090909 page. We are keen to receive links to reviews of the performances, and photos from the nodes. Screengrab from User Profile by Meliors Simms
“Let ME Go” is an on-site and online installation inspired by the Sumerian myth of Inanna’s descent to the underworld and created by theatre artists Antonella Diana and Helen Varley Jamieson. “Let ME Go” premiered in June 2009 and is being remounted in October 2009. […]
