2026 BA Capstone Symposium

Monday, April 27th, 2026
721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Richard Schechner Studio (Room 612)

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Opening Comments: 2:05pm

Panel 1: 2:10pm - 2:45pm

Presenter Title of Capstone Project
Sebastian Gutkin Be Where Your Feet Are
Clara Yang Still Here: Multimedia Performance
Clover Huize Zou 拾起 / 放下 (Pick Up / Put Down)

Panel 2: 2:45pm - 3:30pm

Presenter Title of Capstone Project
Miranda Santiago Huecología: Approximations and Memories
Scarlett Bridgen TBC
Bethany LeBerthon Bahay ni Nanay
Charlotte Siegel The Indexicality of "Craft" and "Fine Art": Impacts of Defining Creative Practices

5-Minute Break: 3:30pm

Panel 3: 3:35pm - 4:10pm

Presenter Title of Capstone Project
Varnika Mithal Ahmiyat = The Ritual of Adorning
Kristen Cornwall From Oríkì to the Booth: Hip-Hop Creolization and the Performance of the Embodied Repertoire in Black History
Elijah Walton The Body After(life): Necropolitics and Aesthetics of Black Disembodiment

Panel 4: 4:10pm - 4:45pm

Presenter Title of Capstone Project
Alexis Ashe Girls Night
Vela Zhu Performing Belongings: Nikki S. Lee and her Chameleon Identity
Chuxi Shui Breathing with the Wound

Panel 5: 4:45pm - 5:20pm

Presenter Title of Capstone Project
Madison Shi Planned Obsolescence
Kexin Wei Already Written
Janet Wang  The Performance of Rest: Lying Flat and Radical Inaction Across Cultures