No where else in the world can you find the range of disciplines in one school. Over the last 50 years as we forged new programs, built our home in New York and expanded to our global academic centers, institutes emerged. Each are built with shared values, common goals, and a priority for putting students first. The result – a place where artists and scholars create the future.
*** The Department of Performance Studies will not be holding any in person events until further notice.
For all events, the Department of Performance Studies acknowledges the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
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*** The Department of Performance Studies will not be holding any in person events until further notice.
For all events, the Department of Performance Studies acknowledges the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
To access events only open to Tisch community members, use your NYU NetID to log in.
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.