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Queer Rican Performance: An evening With Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora

Queer Rican Performance:An evening With Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora

Monday, November 15 6 to 8 pm

NYU Kimmel Center, Room 802 60 Washington Square South

For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157347347637869

Join Puerto Rican performers Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora as they celebrate Trans Awareness Week and Latino Heritage Month at NYU!

Dancer [...]

Staging Elizabeth Bishop’s Letters

Presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities; co-sponsored by the Poetics Group

Tuesday, October 5 6:30pm

For more information: http://www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/

In anticipation of the centenary celebrations of Bishop’s birth in 1911 and in connection with the upcoming publication of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence (forthcoming in 2011 by [...]

The Zany Science: Post-Fordist Performance, Gender, and the Problem of Fun

Eugene Lang College Gender Studies Lecture Series

Culture and Media Studies and Literary Studies Present:

The Zany Science: Post-Fordist Performance, Gender, and the Problem of Fun

September 27, 4:30 Eugene Lang College, Wollman Hall, 5th floor 65 W. 11th Street NYC

Sianne Ngai

Sianne Ngai shares work from her current book project, Our Aesthetic [...]

Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies: Eli Clare @ NYU

GAWKING, GAPING, STARING: LIVING IN MARKED BODIES

A performance by Eli Clare

October 4, Monday 7 to 9 pm

READ THE REVIEW! Eli Clare, “Building Community/Resisting Shame”: Another side of living in Marked Bodies

For more information: please contact the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services at 212-998-4424.

Disabled people, trans people, fat [...]

Ah Kua Show: A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood

The Ah Kua Show, a stage adapation of Leona Lo’s autobiography, From Leonard to Leona, A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood, was first staged in Singapore in August 2009. This year, the play will open at the New York International Fringe Festival at 4.30 pm on Saturday, 21 Aug [...]

Barbara Hammer: Performance/Reading/Signing

Presented by Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)

Wednesday, March 17 at 7pm

5 Washington Place, Room 101 (NYC)

Free Admission (but limited seating)

For more information, please call CLAGS at 212-817-1955 or visit them online.

HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and [...]

2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010

Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene [...]

Brooklyn-based choreographer Miguel Gutierrez

in conversation with NYU Performance Studies PhD student Jenn Joy

Monday, November 16 7-8:30 PM

NYU Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the third event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum

Miguel Gutierrez, an active figure in the New York scene for the past [...]

Between Psychoanalysis & Affect: A Public Feelings Project

A roundtable discussion with contributors.

November 19, Thursday 7:30 PM

NYU 721 Broadway Riese Student Lounge

Featuring: José Esteban Muñoz, Ann Pellegrini, Lisa Duggan, Patricia Clough, John Andrews, and Janet Jakobsen.

Presented by Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory and the NYU Department of Performance [...]