Abstract
This past March, the National Review of Live Art, the longest running international festival of performance art in the world, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. The National Review of Live Art, or NRLA, is part of New Territories, a larger, month-long festival devoted to experimental performance work in theatre and dance. It is a celebration of the most experimental live art, whether it is dance, theatre, film/video, or site-specific/installation. This year’s NRLA paid homage to the history of the festival. For the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary, Nikki Milican, the artistic director, invited a number of artists and artists’ collectives who were involved with the NRLA from its earliest years, including Alastair Snow, Alastair MacLennan, Neil Butler, Stephen Partridge, Anne Seagrave, Anne Bean, Robert Ayers, Richard Layzell, Akademia Ruchu, Marty St. James, Forkbeard Fantasy, and Forced Entertainment. Neil Bartlett, the first emcee of the festival, donned his traditional gown and heels once more to emcee the festival on Saturday night. Younger artists who had began their careers at the NRLA in the platform program such as Curious (Helen Paris and Leslie Hill), Sam Rose, Richard Dedomenici, FrenchMottershead, Kate Stannard, Francesca Steele, Sheila Ghelani, and Kira O’Reilly performed as well. International artists included Varsha Nair, Stelarc, Guillermo Gomez-Pena/La Pocha Nostra, Istvan Kovacs, Esther Ferrer, Ron Athey, Jamie MacMurray, Lee Wen, La Ribot, Monali Meher, Wladyslaw Kasmierczak and Ewa Rybska, Yann Marussich, Silke Mansholt, and Zoran Todorovic.
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