Spring 2018 Events
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Third Annual José Esteban Muñoz Lecture
with Judith Butler
NYU Performance Studies presents The 3rd Annual José Esteban Muñoz Memorial Lecture with Judith Butler, who will be presenting new work on "Susceptibility and Solidarity".
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Who Wants Money?: Politics, Performance, and the Conservative Turn in Brazil
A lecture by Marcos Steuernagel, Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is working on the intersection of performance and politics, Brazilian and Latin American theatre and performance, and the digital humanities. He is co-editor with Diana Taylor of the trilingual digital book What is Performance Studies? (2015), and a member of the editorial board of HemiPress, winner of the 2017 ATHE/ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship. His upcoming monograph traces the relationship between politics and aesthetics in contemporary Brazilian theatre and dance.
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Disability/Arts/NYC: 17 Lessons from 17 Months of Activism
A Dialogue with Simi Linton & Kevin Gotkin, Co-Directors of Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force (DANT)
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Zackary Drucker Discusses Jack Doroshow / Flawless Sabrina
with a Screening of "The Queen" (1968)
Artist and producer Zackary Drucker discusses the work of her mentor and friend, Jack Doroshow a.k.a. Flawless Sabrina, who passed away in 2017, and who left an incredible legacy of cultural, political, and artistic action. Flawless Sabrina influenced generations of artists in New York and beyond, including Drucker, whose own contemporary work in performance and media has been concerned with queer and trans genealogies.
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Being Brown: Race, Religion, and Violence in Trump's America
Scholars, activists, and journalists discuss how Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence, xenophobia, and white supremacy impact Muslim, Arab, Sikh, South Asian, and Latin Americans today.
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An Artist Talk with Carlos Motta
Artist Carlos Motta speaks about recent projects, which span sculpture, video, performance, social practice and publication. Motta’s work directs attention to the politics of gender and sexuality, from the pre-Columbian to the transnational present, “in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities.”
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Gob Squad: War and Peace
Co-sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies and NYU Skirball, Gob Squad returns to Skirball from March 29-31 and sets their sights on Tolstoy's "War and Peace".
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War & Coolness: A Between-Shows Skirball Salon
Join us for an informal discussion of Gob Squad’s "War and Peace" and Teatro La Re-Sentida’s "La Dictadura de lo Cool": their approaches to translation and adaptation; multimedia and the importance of being spectacular; and more.
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Third Annual Curating Performance Symposium: Curation As Collaboration
An international and multidisciplinary group of scholars, artists and curators from Singapore, Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US will gather throughout the day to discuss collaborative practices across the arts.
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The Between: Couple Forms, Performing Together
Hosted by the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, in association with Women & Performance
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A Lecture by Hans-Thies Lehmann
Working with Tragedy in the Theatre Today - Examples from Germany, England, Belgium and Greece.
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Performance Studies Salon Series
Our student-run Salon Series features Undergraduate and Masters Candidates in Performance Studies. Salon Series gives students the opportunity to share their practice/praxis or present their scholarly research in the spirit of a skill-share.
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Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, In Conversation
Brazilian Filmmakers/Artists Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s work celebrates—and reframes—vernacular cultural forms as they have manifested through time; as popular traditions become pop culture, for instance. Through photography and film, the artists examine a space in between, where cultural forms of the past adapt in response to changing economic conditions—particularly in emerging economies or post-colonial geographical contexts—and where popular genres persist through cultural mixing and diasporic refashioning.
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Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Until Our Hearts Stop
In Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods' "Until Our Hearts Stop," six performers and three musicians find themselves in a place that is both a nightclub and an arena: an unreliable, high-octane refuge, a place of desire and illusion, experiencing extreme intimacy at each other’s hands.
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2018 M.A. Final Projects Symposium
A three-day symposium featuring the final projects of Performance Studies M.A. Students.
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