Fall 2018 Events
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"After the Party: A Manifesto of Queer of Color Life": a Decolonizing Vision Series talk with Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
Presenting material from the new book After the Party, Chambers-Letson (M.A. '04, Ph.D. '09) presents a eulogy and a manifesto that stakes out the life-sustaining and worldmaking powers of minoritarian performance.
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The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960
Dan Callahan, the author of The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960, takes us through the evolution of acting for the camera: from Lillian Gish in the silent era to John Barrymore and Bette Davis in the sound era.
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Cultural History, Performance & Politics: A Dialogue
With the aim of better understanding how memory (individual and collective) has been mobilized in a variety of political performances of the past and what this implies for the present and the future of both politics and performance, scholars from NYU Performance Studies will join with historians from the International Society for Cultural History to discuss recent shifts in the theorization of performance relative to developments in transnational and "connected” histories.
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The Joker Runs Wild
Graduate of NYU Performance Studies Mady Schutzman returns to discuss her recent book Radical Doubt: the Joker System, after Boal. Schutzman proposes an approach to community building based on joke logic, strange loops, trickster tactics, irony, and even chaos.
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Day of Community Symposium: Queer New York and Urban Performance in the 1970's and 1980's
A Performance Studies Day of Community symposium with David J. Getsy, Jack Gieseking, Ricardo Montez, Christina B. Hanhardt, and Hentyle Yapp.
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Three Angles on Artistic Research: A Lecture by Rasmus Ölme
In this lecture, Ölme will describe the interests in developing Artistic Research in an academic setting and will present a possible definition of the research field of Dance and Choreography and of the relation between the two subjects.
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Choral Marx: Manifesto for the Communist Party in Eight Movements
Choral Marx is a singing adaptation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto for the Communist Party composed by Ethan Philbrick (M.A. '12, Ph.D. '18). It is a piece for mixed chorus—mixed not just in terms of gendered voice parts but also in terms of training and ability—made up of vocalists from both the contemporary music scene and socialist organizing communities, accompanied by the composer on cello.
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Courtesy the Artists: Popular Revolt
Performance Studies faculty member Malik Gaines will participate in the #Marx Festival at NYU Skirball on Friday, October 26th, during his performance in "Courtesy the Artists: Popular Revolt".
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The School of the Body: dancing between healing and expression
A “danced conference” by Álvaro Restrepo, Marie France Delieuvin, and La Compañía Cuerpo de Indias.
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Body as Archive: Body Workshop and Documentary Screening
Since the 1990s, Wen Hui, China’s leading independent dancer, choreographer, performance artist and filmmaker, has been exploring the body as archive and medium for the remembering and recovery of personal and collective history, especially women’s history. The day will kick off with a body workshop open to all audience members. It will be followed by screenings of documentaries by the three performers/filmmakers and a roundtable discussion.
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Fall 2018 Salon Series
This workshop series is a student-driven initiative for current students to collaborate on showcasing their work to the Performance Studies community.
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