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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.
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.
The Department of Performance Studies presents the Fourth Annual Curating Symposium: Curating Performance. This event will be followed by a book launch and celebration with NYU Press for the 10th Anniversary Edition of José Muñoz's “Cruising Utopia.”
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies Class of 2023! This event is designed for accepted students and their families. Join us at the Department of Performance Studies for an information session and celebratory reception!
Join our graduating B.A. students in a presentation of their Capstones on Friday, May 10th!
Join us for a night of cabaret performances! Featuring Performance Studies M.A. Candidates.
Performance Studies invites the PS class of 2019 and their families to join us for a graduation party!
Save the date for the Performance Studies Undergraduate Orientation. It will take place Wednesday, August 28th, from 9:30am to 11:00am at 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 613.
Incoming Performance Studies B.A students are invited for a special tour of The Whitney Museum of American Art.
The department welcomes our incoming students, returning students, faculty, staff and members of the Performance Studies Community to mix and mingle over food, drinks, pick up a copy of this shared text, Disidentification, and some fun!
A conversation with P.A. Skantze and Fred Moten about Skantze, new book.
Join us for a poetry reading by Matthew Fink
How do we make art, and sense, out of the often-uninvited things that happen to us? Choices in conditions not of our choosing? Please join us for a reading of Jennifer Doyle's "Letting Go," an account of the experience of being a stalking and harassment victim; a screening of Aliza Shvarts’ film Nonconsensual Collaborations, which documents performances with artists who did not agree to their participation; and a moderated discussion with Barbara Browning in which we explore different tactics for truth-telling and truth-shifting, as well as how narrative strategies can enact a reparative process.
Fourth Annual José Esteban Muñoz Memorial Event
A conversation about identity with Yarden Stern, Tali Keren, ita Segev, Shirly Bahar.
Get to know your PS faculty better over some coffee and sweets!