Snap!“Whatever the ‘real’ differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.”
-Kate Millett
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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
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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 [...]
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