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For all events, the Department of Performance Studies acknowledges the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
For all events, the Department of Performance Studies acknowledges the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
Come talk to a Study Away Advisor and Tisch Special Programs representative about the exciting opportunities available to you and what you need to do to get started on your global journey!
With the aim of better understanding how memory (individual and collective) has been mobilized in a variety of political performances of the past and what this implies for the present and the future of both politics and performance, scholars from NYU Performance Studies will join with historians from the International Society for Cultural History to discuss recent shifts in the theorization of performance relative to developments in transnational and "connected” histories.
In this lecture, Ölme will describe the interests in developing Artistic Research in an academic setting and will present a possible definition of the research field of Dance and Choreography and of the relation between the two subjects.
Department Chair André Lepecki invites all PS international students for a gathering and lunch!
Topics that will be discussed include classroom culture, office hours (or how to talk to your professors), study skills and learning strategies, reading strategies, and time management.
This session is open to all BA students interested in applying to our/other MA/graduate programs. Topics that will be discussed include creating an application timeline, registering for standardized tests such as the GRE, the Performance Studies MA application process, crafting an effective statement of purpose, financial aid and funding options, and current MA program trends.
Graduate of NYU Performance Studies Mady Schutzman returns to discuss her recent book Radical Doubt: the Joker System, after Boal. Schutzman proposes an approach to community building based on joke logic, strange loops, trickster tactics, irony, and even chaos.
Dan Callahan, the author of The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960, takes us through the evolution of acting for the camera: from Lillian Gish in the silent era to John Barrymore and Bette Davis in the sound era.
A Performance Studies Day of Community symposium with David J. Getsy, Jack Gieseking, Ricardo Montez, Christina B. Hanhardt, and Hentyle Yapp
We invite prospective students and their families to join us for NYU Open House, a series of events tailored to your academic interests. Throughout your day at Open House, you will have the opportunity to meet with faculty, admissions staff, current students, and financial aid representatives. You can also take a campus tour, shop at the University bookstore, and visit four NYU freshman residence halls.
Come talk to a representative from the Academic Support Office and learn more about the University Learning Centers at NYU!
Join luciana achugar, Julie Tolentino, and Amin Husain for a discussion of labor, aesthetics & identity as part of NYU Skirball's Marx festival.
Performance Studies faculty member Malik Gaines will participate in the #Marx Festival at NYU Skirball on Friday, October 26th, during his performance in "Courtesy the Artists: Popular Revolt".
The Department of Performance Studies invites parents to join us for Parents Day 2018.
Choral Marx is a singing adaptation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto for the Communist Party composed by Ethan Philbrick (M.A. '12, Ph.D. '18). It is a piece for mixed chorus—mixed not just in terms of gendered voice parts but also in terms of training and ability—made up of vocalists from both the contemporary music scene and socialist organizing communities, accompanied by the composer on cello.
Presenting material from the new book After the Party, Chambers-Letson (M.A. '04, Ph.D. '09) presents a eulogy and a manifesto that stakes out the life-sustaining and worldmaking powers of minoritarian performance.
This is an important session for M.A. and Ph.D. students applying for teaching jobs. A good syllabus reflects thoughtful course design, which begins with defining appropriate learningobjectives. Additional considerations include the responsibilities of instructor and students. Ph.D.'s interested in applying for adjunct positions at the Department of Performance Studies are strongly encouraged to attend.
Since the 1990s, Wen Hui, China’s leading independent dancer, choreographer, performance artist and filmmaker, has been exploring the body as archive and medium for the remembering and recovery of personal and collective history, especially women’s history. The day will kick off with a body workshop open to all audience members. It will be followed by screenings of documentaries by the three performers/filmmakers and a roundtable discussion.
This session is open to all M.A. and Ph.D. students and addresses the process of revising and submitting articles to journals, the preparation of book proposals and submissions, as well as how best to determine which journal is the best fit for your work.
A “danced conference” by Álvaro Restrepo, Marie France Delieuvin, and La Compañía Cuerpo de Indias.
The workshop is open to participants from any level of prior experience, but it is particularly designed for those who are new to theatre and performance. It will be directed in Farsi and we welcome any Farsi speaking enthusiast, regardless of national identity.
Prepare to wrap up your semester over lunch with the DUGS, Malik Gaines. Decompress with your cohort, share fall semester updates, and bring any questions you may have about academic life at PS!
This workshop series is a student-driven initiative for current students to collaborate on showcasing their work to the Performance Studies community.
The workshop is open to participants from any level of prior experience, but it is particularly designed for those who are new to theatre and performance. It will be directed in Farsi and we welcome any Farsi speaking enthusiast, regardless of national identity.
This event will feature a live in progress excerpt of Knot in My Name to be followed by a conversation with Ann about political and embodied transformations, and the role of performance in creating alternative politics.
The workshop is open to participants from any level of prior experience, but it is particularly designed for those who are new to theatre and performance. It will be directed in Farsi and we welcome any Farsi speaking enthusiast, regardless of national identity.
The workshop is open to participants from any level of prior experience, but it is particularly designed for those who are new to theatre and performance. It will be directed in Farsi and we welcome any Farsi speaking enthusiast, regardless of national identity.
This symposium will reassess the Judson group’s continuing influence on contemporary practice. The program features presentations, discussions, and sound improvisations by artists, scholars, and critics, including Fred Moten; K.J. Holmes and Ramsey Ameen; Malik Gaines; André Lepecki; Marina Rosenfeld with Eli Kessler and Greg Fox; Clare Croft; Barbara Clausen; Gus Solomons Jr.; and Philip Corner with Daniel Goode, David Demnitz, Leyna Marika Papach, Phœbe Neville, and Iris Brooks.
Join us to celebrate the new semester with an Open Mic Night! Perform a song, reading, or other performance! Curated by Director of Undergraduate Studies, Malik Gaines. All PS B.A. students welcome!
Save the date for PRAXIS 2019, February 9, 2019. PRAXIS, a special all-day Performance Studies community event, brings together current students, alumni, faculty, staff, prospective students and friends, to learn new skills, engage in important conversations, and stay connected with colleagues and peers.
A panel discussion to celebrate the publication of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press 2018) by Tavia Nyong’o, former Professor of Performance Studies at NYU, currently Professor of American Studies at Yale. The author will read briefly at the event, and a panel of scholars and artists will respond. All welcome and books will be available for the event.
Lindsay Eales and Danielle Peers dance a quartet that embraces critical disability and Mad theory, spoken word, dance, and film, offering critical reflections on the generative possibilities of disability and madness in the arts. Followed by a discussion with Hentyle Yapp (Art & Public Policy) and André Lepecki (Performance Studies).
Artist Baseera Khan will show an acoustic performance of her work Braidrage, as well as Prayer Rugs, and collages, she will then talk about what happens next. In addition to her presentation, Baseera will be in conversation with B.A. Candidates Manion Khun and Akeem Muhammad to speak on the implications, effects, and processes of her work.
Elisa Biagini lives in Florence, Italy. She has published 7 poetry collections. Her most recent book “Da una crepa”, The Plant of Dreaming, appeared in 2017. Her 2018 selection “The guest in the wood”, Chelsea Editions, received the 2014 Best Translated Book Award. She curates community poetry installations with words and images. Her poems have been translated into multiple languages. She teaches Writing at NYU-Florence.
A book launch & roundtable with co-editors Patricia Gherovici and Chris Christian and other contributors to the volume.
Anthropologist Esther Newton reads from her new memoir followed by a discussion with Ann Pellegrini (Professor, Performance Studies). Moderated by Faye Ginsburg (Professor, Anthropology).
Celebrate the publication of Shane Vogel’s Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze at this showcase of the performances that shape the book. The first cultural history of the calypso craze, Stolen Timeoffers a new framework for understanding the cycles of repetition and difference that shape race, entertainment, and mass culture during the Jim Crow era and charts new forms of diasporic exchange between the US and the Caribbean. The informal discussion will feature performances by midcentury performers Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen de Lavallade, Duke Ellington, Josephine Premice, and others.
Join us for a salon style conversation with André Lepecki, Barbara Browning, Malik Gaines, and Karen Finley as they remark on the life and work of the late Carolee Schneemann. Enacting a politics embedded in feminist sexuality and institutional critique, Schneemann’s expansive practice as a painter, photo/videographer, writer and performance artist continues to permeate the politics of the arts today.
Convened and imagined by Sarah Richter and co-sponsored by the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research and the Department of Performance Studies.
A Lecture by Dario Tomasello.