Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic re

Dramatic, Feminist, Flux, Intense, Intimate, Perverse, Rough, Sensual, Violent, Visceral

Bebe Miller formed the Bebe Miller Company in 1985. She has been making dances for over 25 years. She was awarded a Bessie award for Landing/Place (2005). Her work lends itself to investigating and defining a phsyical language for the human condition. She has used text and film in her work, and i

Beautiful , Complex, Feminine, Intimate, Political, Power, Primal, Sensual

In 1994 Dennis Potter knew he was going to die. The writer of such television theater masterpieces as "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies from Heaven" had just been diagnosed with untreatable cancer of the liver and pancreas. In a strange move, he agreed to talk with the BBC about his life and immin

Contemplative, Contemporary plays, Dense, Political, Profane, Witty

"I salute Antonin Artaud," wrote Andre Breton, "for his passionate, heroic negation of everything that causes us to be dead while alive." The French actor, director, poet, and theorist was an enraged man of arguable genius; nevertheless, his writings are seminal influences on experimental theater. Ar

Absurd, Experimental, Literature of transgression, Severe, Surreal, Surrealist theater, Theater of cruelty, Theater of the absurd