Snap!“In effect, we live in a legal, social, and institutional world where the only relations possible are extremely few, extremely simplified, and extremely poor. There is, of course, the relation of marriage, and the relations of family, but how many other relations should exist…!”
-Michel Foucault
|
Stand Close
a conversation on feminist rage, artist-writer collaboration, and the archive — moderated by Tavia Nyong’o
Presented by the NYU Performance Studies Forum.
Wednesday, April 3rd 7 pm
Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Studio 612
Moderated by Tavia Nyong’o, Performance Studies, New York University.
In conjunction with “Stand Close, [...]
Justin Vivian Bond on the Good Life
Tuesday, February 5 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 621
Join us for the first Performance Studies Forum event of the semester: Justin Vivian Bond on the Good Life! Mx Bond will present on the the critical theme [...]
a two-day conference
March 30, Friday 5 to 7 pm
March 31, Saturday 8:30 am to 8 pm
For more information, please email cmep(at)nyu.edu.
Registration for the conference must be completed by filling out this FORM.
For full schedule, click here.
Show and Prove 2012 (S&P 2012) provides an opportunity [...]
a lunch talk with T.L. Cowan
February 8, Wednesday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
T.L. Cowan, Women’s and Gender Studies and English, University of Saskatchewan; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
The cabaret—or, more broadly, the variety show—is arguably the most open and resilient form of live [...]
Performing (at) the Body’s Edge: “This Is Just Like Life” New York University, 15 November 2011
The fall CSGS calendar of evening events ended on an amazing note, with a conversation between Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider, hosted by CSGS and NYU’s Department of Performance Studies. Jackson and Schneider, whose books include The Melancholy [...]
Presented by the NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum
Thursday, December 15 7 to 9 pm
The Performance Studies Studio Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Free and opent to the public, with reception to follow.
Julie Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including her time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and [...]
a conversation with Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider
Read a review of this talk!
November 15, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Shelley Jackson, writer and artist
Rebecca Schneider, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University
The question of the body — the body as question – is a recurring motif in the work [...]
THE POLITICS OF B-GIRLING AND BATTLING
A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Imani K. Johnson
October 18, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Imani Kai Johnson, Department of Performance Studies, NYU
In a dance culture like breaking, how does movement shape gender politics and the cultural meaning of b-girling?
41-51 East 11th Street, Room [...]
Transgendered Canadian performance artist Nina Arsenault has been characterized as cyborg, intellectual, and artist. After sixty plastic surgeries to feminize and beautify her originally male body, Arsenault has become an icon for a new queer generation. Her stage plays, electronic presence through videos disseminated online, website, blog, social networking presentation sites, her print media [...]
April 20, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 PM
NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum presents
André Lepecki and Richard Move discussing Move’s performances as Martha Graham.
NYU Department of Performance Studies Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
FREE
Non-NYU affiliated folks please RSVP to PSLectures@gmail.com
Produced with support from the Graduate Student Organization and [...]
|
|