We are delighted to announce the schedule of performances for the 101010 UpStage Festival! The festival begins at 8pm NZ time on Sunday 10 October (find your local time here) and runs until 4.30pm NZ time on Monday 11 October. There is a break in […]

Art’s Birthday is an annual exchange-art event celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world. This year we are joined in with a party in UpStage at 10am European time, 10pm NZ time on Sunday 17 January […]

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 […]

“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. […]

We are delighted to announce the performances selected for the 090909 UpStage Festival, which takes place online and at RL access nodes around the world on 9 September 2009. There will be eleven performances – six by artists who have previously created work in UpStage […]

At Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 9pm local time (find your local time here). “Salvation” brings together stories of rescue and redemption at the crossroads of land and water, New York and Venice, heaven and earth, literature and technology. Original lyrics in English feature the story […]

Digital Performance students at Wesleyan University (USA) presented six short virtual performances in UpStage. “We are testing the potential of the software for interactivity and live graphic storytelling. Students will be the ‘actors’ who will be moving the avatars, backgrounds, props, voice and sound that […]

On 29 March, Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow used UpStage and Skype in their performative presentation “Are You There?” at the Performing Presence conference, University of Exeter. Paula was on-site at the conference and Helen appeared from New Zealand. “Are you there?” begins a […]

we invite you to our cyberformance “Calling Home – Part 1” on UpStage (online performance platform) Tuesday July 1, 2008, find your local time here. eg: 5am NY, 10am UK, 7pm Bris., Melb., 9pm NZ, Meet Heather, Esme, Michael J Finch and Grand Uncle. Can […]

Cherry Truluck, Suzon Fuks, James Cunningham and Liz Bryce – now operating as activelayers will be presenting their new project, “Calling Home“, as part of the Mediatised Sites festival in Newcastle, UK. Four people, four geographies, one site. Meet Heather, Esme, Michael J Finch and […]