FEATURED PERFORMA EVENTS Performa Presents New York Premiere of Legendary Choreographer Yvonne Rainer's New Work Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 March 16–19, 2011, 8 pm Baryshnikov Arts Center 450 West 37th Street, New York City Tickets are $25.00 To purchase tickets, . Performa presents the New York premiere of celebrated choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s new work, Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 (2011) and a reprisal of her acclaimed work Spiraling Down (2009) at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The New York premiere follows the critically acclaimed French tour of Rainer’s work this past January and February 2011. Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 is in part derived from a collection of New York Times photographs, mainly from the sports section, accumulated by the choreographer over a period of two years. The work also includes three unexpected performers including the lighting designer, set designer, and Yvonne Rainer herself. Spiraling Down, which premiered during Performa 09, draws its inspiration from a variety of sources —including newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, and Rainer’s own disinterred dances from the 1960s —all of which contribute to the melancholic and contradictory assemblage of ideas, images, and texts, both spoken and recorded. For more information, . Image: Yvonne Rainer, Assisted Living: Good Sports 2, 2011. Performers left to right - Patricia Hoffbauer, Emmanuele Phuon, Sally Silver, Pat Catterson, and Keith Sabado. Photo courtesy Centre Pompidou-Metz. Upcoming Not For Sale Lecture, Staging Language, to Include Acclaimed Artists Adam Pendleton, Frances Stark, and Writer Tom McCarthy March 28, 2011, 6:30 pm Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square, Lower Level 1, New York City Tickets are free. Seating is limited. RSVP to notforsale@performa-arts.org For Performa's upcoming Not For Sale lecture, Staging Language, artists Adam Pendleton, Frances Stark, and writer Tom McCarthy will present projects that stage language in material form and ask, "What is borrowed from performance in this work?" Introduced and moderated by Performa curator Mark Beasley. Adam Pendleton will speak on his Performa 07 Commission The Revival (2007), which employed the ecstatic language of gospel, and his recent video, The Band (2010), a film constructed in the manner of a text. Frances Stark will discuss how she pulls snippets from literature, pop songs, and her own writing to rearticulate them in posters, publications, and theatrical lectures. Tom McCarthy will discuss his involvement with the International Necronautical Society, founded by the writer in 1999, which "inhabits and appropriates a variety of art forms and cultural movements," as well as his novels including Remainder (Vintage, 2007). Co-hosted by NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions and The School of Art at The Cooper Union. For more information, . Image: Vanesse Thomas, Adam Pendleton, and Renee Neufville in The Revival, 2007. Photo copyright Paula Court. Courtesy of Performa. About Performa Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, is dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. In 2005, Performa launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05, followed by Performa 07 (2007), and Performa 09 (2009). In 2011, Performa will present its fourth biennial, Performa 11 (November 1–20, 2011). Stay Connected Performa's Website Become a Fan on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Performa TV Get Involved You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Performa's newsletter. Performa 100 West 23rd Street, 5th Floor New York, New York 10011 212.366.5700 info@performa-arts.org Copyright 2011 Performa. All Rights Reserved.

LATEST NEWS FROM PERFORMA ––––– PERFORMA ANNOUNCES DATES OF PERFORMA 11 Performa will present its fourth visual art performance biennial, Performa 11, November 1–20, 2011, in New York City. Performa 11 will feature over 100 international artists,10 Performa Commissions, Premieres, and a host of new work by up-and-coming artists. Commissions to be announced in mid-April. For more information, . ––––– TWO NEW TRUSTEES JOIN PERFORMA'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS Performa is pleased to announce that Amy Cappellazzo and Amanda Fuhrman have joined its Board of Directors. Ms. Cappellazo is Deputy Chairman of Christie's Americas and International Co-Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art. Ms. Fuhrman was most recently Deputy Executive Director and Chief Legal Officer of the Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc. The new trustees join a distinguished Board including Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Chair), Toby Devan Lewis (Honorary Chair), Laurie Beckelman, Irving Benson, Todd Bishop, Wendy Fisher, Stephanie French, RoseLee Goldberg, Ronald Guttman, Barbara Hoffman, Michael Kantrow, David Orentreich, David Raymond, and Julie Thornton. For more information, . ––––– PERFORMA COMMISSION MUSIC FOR 16 FUTURIST NOISE INTONERS TOURS TO MAERZMUSIK FESTIVAL, BERLIN Produced by Performa, Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners will be presented at the MaerzMusik Festival of Contemporary Music, in Berlin, Germany, March 20, 2011. For more information, . ––––– ROSELEE GOLDBERG HONORED AT ART TABLE'S 30th ANNIVERSAY GALA Art Table will honor RoseLee Goldberg along with other influential women in the field of visual art at their gala benefit on April 16, 2011. For more information, . ––––– For all the latests news on Performa, including our upcoming biennial Performa 11, visit us at www.performa-arts.org.