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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.
PS Assembly with Professor Karen Shimakawa
Join the Department of Performance Studies as we welcome double PS Alum Shanté Paradigm Smalls back to the 6th floor to discuss their first book, "Hip Hop Heresies."
Comedian and actress Kate Berlant will join the performance studies scholar Ann Pellegrini to discuss Berlant’s newest solo performance Kate. Topics of conversation may include performance art history, comedy, critique, gender, genre, and the politics of confession.
Join the Department of Performance Studies as we welcome MA Alum Nandita Dinesh, to discuss her new book, "This Place That Place."
Join the Department of Performance Studies as we celebrate Professor Barbara Browning's two new books!
Richard Schechner, one of the founders of the Performance Studies Department, is a performance theorist, theater director, author, editor of TDR will be hosting a lunch time conversation series right here at PS!
Join PS for our Graduate Open House to learn more about our M.A. and Ph.D. program.
PS Assembly: On Re-Gifting with Professor Barbara Browning
PS is thrilled to welcome Keioui Keijuan Thomas to the department for ‘How to Make an Object Speak in Tongues' on Thursday, November 10th at 7pm ET. This event will include an artist talk featuring screenings of selected work from Keioui Keijaun Thomas followed by a brief Q&A.
Richard Schechner, one of the founders of the Performance Studies Department, a performance theorist, theater director, author, editor of TDR will be hosting a lunch time conversation series right here at PS!
Join PS in celebration of Denise Ferreira da Silva's new book, Unpayable Debt, published earlier this year by Sternberg Press/MIT Press. The launch will consist of a reading by Professor Silva and a discussion between her and Prof. Paula Chakravartty, who teaches in Gallatin and Steinhardt.
Please join us on Monday, November 21st from 7-9pm ET for Rage, Rhythm, Renaissance: Performances of/in the Ongoing Iranian Revolution a panel discussion featuring scholars and artists Yasamin Rezai, Aida Shirazi and Nazanin Noroozi, moderated by PS Alum Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo (MA ‘17).
The Performance Studies department will host a Virtual Graduate Information Session on Thursday, January 5th, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM EST on Zoom.
This evening will feature musical performances by Lark, followed by a discussion between Lark and Dart about the feminist possibilities of staging sexuality and pleasure, using humor as a vehicle for feminist theory, and how of art and live performance plays a role in shifting the sexual culture
Justyna Wierzchowska will talk about the impact of the piece originally conceived as a social experiment by the Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska, this site-specific installation was meant to metaphorically bring the “vanished Jews back into the landscape of contemporary Poland” (Blacker 2014).
The Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts invites you to a candlelight vigil and memorial dedication as we remember Yujin Choi, Performance Studies B.A. Candidate.
PRAXIS, INC: Innovate, Network, Collaborate is the department's annual community event in which we invite current students, faculty and alumni to come together and share their skills in the field of Performance Studies, engage in important conversations, and stay connected with colleagues and peers.
In anticipation of the “Curating Performance” colloquium scheduled for next month, Professor Weiss thought it would be appropriate to present some reflections on the complexities of curating.
Vivian L. Huang (NYU PS PhD Alumna) will be joined by three preeminent scholars -- Karen Shimakawa (NYU), David Eng (U of Penn), and Susette Min (UCDavis) -- for an online discussion and celebration of Huang's recently published book Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian Inscrutability.
Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of The Arts is thrilled to welcome Amina Ross to our Department on Wednesday April 12th, 2023 at 7pm ET, for an evening of video work, with live sound accompaniment by Bao Nguyen, and conversation with Chip Kimura (PS M.A. Candidate ‘23).
Join the Department of Performance Studies for a screening of the documentary Arna's Children, about a children's theatre group in a refugee camp in the heart of the occupation in Palestine by filmmakers Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel.
In this Assembly, André Lepecki will propose a dance-historical delirium around a Simone Forti 1960 'dance construction’.
Ricardo Aleixo's performance will be based on the projection of the poemanto's records in photos and video fragments captured in places in Brazil and abroad and on the practical demonstration of the piece's development.
Performance Studies has been holding a yearly daylong symposium on curating performance to help define areas of focus, and develop future curricula and curatorial practices in this exciting new field.
The Department of Performance Studies is excited to share the 2023 B.A. Capstone Symposium with our community. We hope you will join us for the afternoon to see the presentations of the student's work that demonstrates the culmination of their time and studies here at PS!
Join the Department of Performance Studies for an afternoon of fun, music, food, and more as we celebrate the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. classes of 2023!
Join authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini as they discuss their new book, Gender Without Identity.
The Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, is hosting an informational session for high school counselors and college prep advisors on Tuesday, May 23rd, from 12:30-1:30pm EST.