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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.
Join the Women & Performance Journal for their annual Fall Mixer!
This fall we will be offering a series of bi-monthly, optional get-togethers for all students and faculty in the department.
Join the Women & Performance Journal for their annual Fall Mixer!
Join the Women & Performance Journal for their annual Fall Mixer!
Join the Women & Performance Journal for their annual Fall Mixer!
This fall we will be offering a series of bi-monthly, optional get-togethers for all students and faculty in the department.
Join us at our first Salon Series event of the school year! This workshops will be led by Shivani Joshi this workshop is an exploration of two Indian dance styles side by side. Together, we will learn the difference between classical and folk dance by learning the historical, practical, and social uses of Bharatnatyam and Garba. This workshop is beginner friendly, but will invite you to move around your space as we explore the movement in these two styles, so come prepared to move!
Join our first Salon Series Event of 2021! Community means more than just being together in a physical space. Connection can span across space and time, creating relationships with strangers you’ve never met before! Explore the art of letter writing with MA Candidate Sarah Guilbault. Join us with your favorite evening beverage and have a chat with us about letter writing. Make sure you bring all your fancy stationery with you!
While performance continues to ontologically transform with the digital rupture taking place since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and as theatres continue to remain shut, as borders continue to be more unjust limiting the mobility of those deemed unfavorable, and with proxy wars in Nagorno-Karabakh or in Yemen challenging how we can think of subjectivities and national frameworks of identity politics, PRICKS gathers thinkers to share their knowledge and to question modes of producing and disseminating knowledge at times of extreme crisis. This event was curated my Ph.D. candidate, Adham Hafez.
Please join us for a welcome back message from the faculty and staff, introductions from our Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies and more, and a chance to meet other students across cohorts to make new friends and create more opportunities to connect and hang out in the future!
This is an invitation for everyone interested in thinking and reflecting and practicing dance, movement, and choreography to gather for the first meeting of the PS Spring Dance Colloquium.
Celebrating “Queer Communion,” a retrospective of the work of Los Angeles-based performance artist Ron Athey at New York’s PARTICIPANT INC., Zackary Drucker and Arshia Fatima Haq will discuss Athey’s work and influence with the artist. Malik Gaines and Lia Gangitano will introduce the conversation.
Join the Department of Performance Studies as we celebrate Diana Taylor's new book, ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence. This event will feature a conversation between Diana Taylor, Fred Moten (NYU), Michelle S Castaneda (NYU), Anna Deavere Smith (NYU), Marianne Hirsch (Columbia), and Laura Wexler (Yale). We hope to see you there!
Join the Department of Performance Studies as we welcome William Parker and Cisco Bradley. This event will bring Bradley and Parker in conversation about Bradley's new book, Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker.
The Gay Divorcees is a band of real-life queer divorcees, led by composer Ethan Philbrick, who have come together during a pandemic to write songs about getting into and out of state-sanctioned intimacy in the 21st century.
PS Assembly: On Drafting with Professor CASTAÑEDA
Join the Department of Performance Studies for our annual community event. We invite our current student and alumni to share their talents during this skill-share event.
PS Assembly: On Craft with Professor Browning
Join the Department of Performance Studies in conversation about Sadia Abbas's novel, The Empty Room. Abbas will be joined by poet, fiction writer, critic, and translator John Keene and artist Shahzia Sikander. This conversation will be moderated by Professor Fred Moten.
This Longing Vessel: The 2019-2020 Studio Museum of Harlem Artists-in-Residence E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed in Conversation with Malik Gaines, Tavia Nyong’o, and Brittnay L. Proctor
This spring we will be offering a series of bi-monthly, optional get-togethers for all students and faculty in the department. Each session will be loosely grounded in a topic that helps us to imagine how performance studies works and works for a dynamic set of projects and practices.
PS Assembly: On Drama with Professor Gaines
Professor Fred Moten welcomes poet Kimberly Alidio to discuss her collection Why Letter Ellipses. They will be joined by Ronaldo Wilson, Jackie Wang and Edgar Garcia.
Join us for a virtual book launch and roundtable for the release of Professor Hentyle Yapp's new book, 'Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic'.
Join PS for our Fifth Annual Curating Symposium. The symposium will offer many thought provoking panels with guests from across NYU and NYC. Organized by the Department of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch in collaboration with Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, Wesleyan University; and with support from NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Join the Department of Performance Studies as we present our first annual Undergraduate Student Work Exhibition!
PS Assembly: on critical distance with professor lepecki
Join the Department of Performance Studies as the faculty and staff take a moment to celebrate our 2020 graduates! We invite the family and friends of our graduating B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., to take part in this virtual celebration.
The Department of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch is inviting high school counselors and college prep advisors with advisees who may be interested in majoring in Performance Studies to join us on Tuesday, May 25th for an info session!
Join TDR's Editor Richard Schechner and guest panellists William Huizhu SUN, ZHANG Bingyu and SHEN Liang in discussion on TDR's upcoming webinar!