Adam Gale, a dancer and performance artist, chronicled his own impending death as one of the makers of "Rubber Queen: An AIDS Docu-diary," a six-part documentary for public access television in Washington.
Black Box is the Hobart festival's home of experimental performance, where the Chronicles series has seen artists—Ta-Ku and Hiatus Kaiyote among previous bills address and showcase the narrative behind their work through music and visuals.
Pritchard's had an equally impressive year, with his most recent LP Under the Sun gaining widespread critical and public praise, and his huge Chronicles performance at Dark Mofo in conjunction with Boiler Room and Red Bull Music Academy doing much the same.
The performance-art solo chronicles his own history, his fascination with new-media technology and his relationship with his father, Charles C. Sr., who speaks from a large monitor at the side of the stage space.
The one-hour show, part of "Great Performances" on PBS, chronicles more than a half-century of American modern-dance history, from Asadata Dafora's "Ostrich" to the first section of Bill T. Jones's "D-Man in the Waters".
His disastrous performance is being chronicled minute by minute on Twitter with a hashtag dedicated to him -- #RomneyShambles.
The Metropolitan Opera did the same four years ago, adding an archive to its Web site, metopera.org, that it says chronicles each performance in its history, starting in 1883.
"I'm going to try and give Phil an 'A' in my course," added Burnham, founder and former editor of High Performance magazine, a Los Angeles publication that chronicles the performance movement.
The movie, which débuted in 1980, chronicles various performances from McCartney's 1976 American tour.
