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About Caden Manson

Caden Manson is a performance maker, curator (Contemporary Performance and Special Effects Festival) and educator. Through the company Big Art Group, their performance work creates radical queer narrative structures and embodiments to construct and aid transitory generative critical space for participants and audience. Their work is dense, fast, multi-layered, and traverses multiple genres and forms, often using interference, slippage, and disruption strategies. Manson’s work has been presented throughout 14 countries and over 50 cities in Europe, Asia, and North America.  Their work has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, Pew Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow. Their writing, with Jemma Nelson, can be found in the publications PAJ, Theater Magazine, Theater der Zeit, and Theater Journal. Manson is the Director of The Theatre Program at Sarah Lawrence College, BA, MFA.

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Big Art Group’s Broke House Makes its European Premiere This Summer at La Biennale di Venezia Teatro June 26 & 27, 2022

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April 7, 2022
On a skeletal set webbed with video cameras, a family of characters and their hangers-on try to recall their given roles as the foundations of their dreams collapse, expelling them into a desert of their futures: part comedy, part ritual, part love spell.
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Caden Will Be Teaching Frameworks at La Biennale di Venezia Teatro June 27 – July 3, 2022

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March 31, 2022
This summer, Caden will be teaching at La Biennale di Venezia Teatro June 27 & July 3, 2022 as part of the Biennale College Teatro. They will be joining other esteemed teachers Milo Rau, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus), and more. For more information on the Frameworks techniques and strategies, visit the workshop page.
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Big Art Group in the NYTimes

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April 29, 2021
Big Art Group’s work with media is featured in an article…
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More fog please. more. more fog. no, more. MORE.
Just Announced! @bigartgroup will present BROKE HOUSE at @labiennale Teatro June 26 & 27, 2022.
"We are saturated with images of your pain. Volleys of arrows tipped with sorrow rained down, needles of connection, filling up hard drive sectors as fast as they can be voided— a saturated pornography of violence, flickering at supersonic rates. How your mayhem keeps staining us, captive audiences of record ratings, playing in endless syndication. "
Just Out! Listen to Machine Dazzle in Episode 03.02 of the @slctheatremfa 's SLC Performance Lab (Link in Bio)
help me raise funds for Big Art Group. we are working on our 2022 project, TROUBLE, and continuing our work with Contemporary Performance Network. 100% goes to Big Art Group!
Excited to share this next season with you. Thanks Miguel for joining us this month?
Office view of my two favorite brochures/posters from the last years of Castorf/Neumann at the #Berlin #Volksbuhüne
Excited for the new Reza Abdoh Book! I assisted Diane White, Reza Abdoh's producer & later my own company's @bigartgroup with her materials for the book. Reza and his collaborators were resilient & dedicated artists. Thankful this book exists! I put a link in bio of where to get it. Pictured: Law Of Remains 📸 Paula Court
Link in bio - One of the biggest pleasures I have as the Director of the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program is getting to invite amazing artists and organizers to the Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Theatre Program's Grad Lab. This year we invited Maiko Kikuchi, Carlos Soto, Emily Johnson, Alice Yuan Zhang, Tina Satter, Jibz Cameron, Caleb Hammons, Noel Allain, and coming up Jaamil Olawale Kosoko. The students create podcasts with them after their workshops and share them with the field through the SLC Performance Lab Podcast and Contemporary Performance

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LIVE WORKS V10 (Italy) Deadline March 20, 2022
Out Now! Listen to Machine Dazzle in Episode 03.02 of the SLC Performance Lab (Link in bio)
Discover and Explore Terms Of Performance In This Online Resource
Opportunities: The Orchard Project 2022 Lab Programs – Deadline January 14, 2022 (online)
MFA Degree in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Performance – 2-year program in New York – Sarah Lawrence College. Deadline Jan 1, 2022
Opportunities: Performing Arts International Residency in Italy (Domicella, Italy) Deadline – January 2022
Listen to the newly launched third season of Performance Lab Podcast. Online now! Our first interview is with performance maker, Miguel Gutierrez. Performance Lab Podcast is produced by Sarah Lawrence College MFA Theatre Program and Contemporary Performance.
Opportunities: Online Course "Decolonization Now: Activism/Artivism from the Ground" (online) Deadline – October 14, 2021 (Fee)
Opportunities: OPEN CALL 2022 | Annual Grant Residency Program ZARATAN AIR (Lisboa) Deadline – 10/11/2021

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