Live performance is the only way for the audience to really meet the performers. It allows them to share a moment and emotions that are every time unique. This is why the International Federation of Actors decided – after a successful first conference in 1999 – to focus once again on Live Performance. The FIA World Live Performance Conference, kindly hosted by Irish Equity / SIPTU and Equity, will be held from June 4th to June 6th, in Dublin, Ireland.
A live performance is a show performed live in front of an audience. Among them: plays, operas, musicals, ballets, circuses and street performances. Beyond the usual difficulties faced by the performers such as the employment duration, working time and wages, live performance artists have different needs and issues. They are working under specific conditions – most representations take place at night, the audience reactions as part of live conditions are unpredictable… –, a significant number of them tour, often abroad, and they face particular health and safety hazards. Performers are also very different from each other – actors, dancers, opera singers, circus artists… – and should thus obey to rules that respect their specificities.
Those elements – and many others – will be addressed during the World Live Performance Conference, in Dublin.
Registration for the conference is now open via the online form, so hurry up and register before February 23rd.
