Performance and Time Arts

Not your mother's PTA!

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Above: Judith Mikita and Dancers, Photo by Jason Hatcher

Announcing the 2010-2011 Performance and Time Arts Series, continuing Cincinnati's longest-running outlet for experimental art

It's not your mother's PTA!

A project of Contemporary Dance Theater, Performance and Time Arts is Cincinnati's longest-running performance art series featuring time-based art to entertain and tweak the brain.

In the laboratory setting of the 1890s College Hill Town Hall (home of Contemporary Dance Theater), both seasoned and emerging artists are given the opportunity to share their innovative, new work and experiments in the genres of poetry and spoken word, theatre, video/film, music, dance, to name a few.

WHERE: Contemporary Dance Theater, College Hill Town Hall at 1805 Larch Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45224
WHEN: October 1 & 2, 2010; November 12 & 13, 2010; and April 1 & 2, 2011 8pm curtain
HOW: Tickets purchased in advance are $12 general admission and $8 for students and seniors. At the door, tickets are $15 general admission and $12 students and seniors. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling (513) 591-2557.

Visit the PTA website and Performance and Time Arts Facebook Page!



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Above: Marc Governanti and Chris Reeves of Museum Gallery-Gallery Museum in "CRAIG"


Currently (and always) accepting applications


Have an original idea for a performance between 10-20 minutes in length? The PTA Committee welcomes proposals. Click HERE to find out how to apply.


The Performance & Time Arts series is Cincinnati's longest-running performance art series. It celebrates the time-based arts such as dance, performance, music, and poetry and combinations and permutations thereof. Presented in Contemporary Dance Theater's historic College Hill Town Hall performance space, PTA provides a forum for expression to artists working in experimental, time-based media. The series presents new work by talented, creative and original local and regional artists. PTA can be surprising, challenging, thought-provoking or (fill in the blank), but it always leaves the mainstream behind.

2010-2011 PTA Committee

The October program is being curated by Performance and Time Arts Series newcomer John P. Bruggen and Shirley Maul, performance and theatre artist. The November program is being curated by Kori Martodam, contact improvisation dancer and dance-maker. The April program is being curated by Bill Donnelly, physical theater artist, and Lacey Montgomery, video artist. The remainder of the Performance and Time Arts Committee also includes Jefferson James, Judith Mikita, and F. Keith Wahle.


OPERATING SUPPORT FOR CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATER and PERFORMANCE AND TIME ARTS (a project of Contemporary Dance Theater) COMES FROM
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Contemporary Dance Theater thanks the Fine Arts Fund
and the Ohio Arts Council for general operating support.