2024 M.A. Symposium
Join the Department of Performance Studies for the 2024 M.A. Symposium! We are delighted to share the final projects of our 2024 M.A. cohort with the PS community! Please see the symposium schedule below to learn about the work the students will be sharing. You can read more about their projects on the symposium page!
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
Weds, June 26
Panel 1: 10AM - 11AM - "Storytelling: Activation, Aesthetics, Adaptation"
Jerrold Poon - The Unfeeling Action: De-Emotionalized Storytelling
Shreya Kulshereshtha - Framing ‘Monstrous’ Bodies: On the topics of Assemblages
Madi Rose Leigh - The Hymns are Stained with Red, White, and Blue
Panel 2: 11AM - 12PM - "Memory, Grief, and Monsters: On Haunting and Becoming"
Joel Sedano Jr. - “Unmasking the Villain: Crafting A Personal Poetics”
Nadia Hannan - “Grief-Time: Moving out of step, a different way of being”
Stacey Manos - “May Her Memory Be Eternal”
= LUNCH =
Panel 3: 1PM - 2PM - "Subject Matters: Dis/Assemblages of Bodies"
Emerson Olsen - Assembled Reflections: Violin and Human Relationality
Joey Mauro - Self-immolation as Performance: A Disassemblage of the Biopolitical Subject
CJ Barnes - How Many Goodly Creatures Are There Here?
Panel 4: 2PM - 3PM - “Love, Listening, and Observance: Becoming Something that Is Not Us”
Ellie Houlihan - “To Understand Revolution You Must Be Sound.”
Chloe Thorne - Plotted Bodies: Moving through the fault lines of representation.
Ray Yang - Embodiment of Instinct Love - A Conversation with Dawn Arnold for Self-Learning Reflection on Michael Chekhov Technique
Thursday, June 27
Panel 5: 10AM - 11AM - "Everyday Performances: At Work, in Transit, of Oppression"
Phoebe Fregoli - Economies of Intimacy
Savyon Vakin - Performance of Oppression - The Gestus of Israeli Necropolitics in Palestine
Kiki Chen - Poem in Motion: Autoethnography of Riding and Reading the NYC Subway
Panel 6: 11AM - 12PM - "Inside/Out: Reflecting on Practice"
Sujin Moon - How to Embrace ‘Barrier’; in Creating Musical Theater as an International Student
Jean Huang - “The Journey of Being Heard – Pride and Fright as a Solo Singer from a Choir Background”
Monika Błaszczak - The Inverted Portal: An Aesthetic Theory for Dancers