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PMA Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz will present his choreography at the 3rd Annual Latinx Movement Festival in Washington, D.C. Performances will take place at Dance Space on October 10–11. He will be sharing a work-in-progress called “Cuidado con el perro.”
Internationally renowned dancer and performer Miguel Angel Guzmán will perform "Dynamic" by iconic choreographer Deborah Hay, which was bestowed upon him when selected as one of twenty dancers from across the globe for Hay’s prestigious and final Solo Performance Commissioning Project in 2012.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for a dance theatre workshop led by Michael John Heatley, Artistic Director of Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company. Open to all students, the workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore the company's creative process while working with an acclaimed artist known for creating expressive, movement-driven…
PMA Professor Austin Bunn will screen his short documentary about an upstate burlesque academy, Getting Almost Naked, at the Buffalo Film Festival, on October 9. Getting Almost Naked (23 mins) focuses on the Bees Knees Burlesque Academy in Cortland NY, where five adults -- a punk rock hairdresser, custodian, Southern Baptist-bred college administrator, queer composer,…
PMA Professor J. Ellen Gainor will be giving 2 talks on plays by British Edwardian dramatist Cicely Hamilton, at the Mint Theater in NYC. During her first talk on Friday, October 23, Gainor will introduce a one night only reading of Hamilton’s play "Diana of Dobson's" (1908), about a shop girl and her financial struggles…
Join the Department of Performing & Media Arts for one of the following information sessions to learn more about the Cornell in Los Angeles program and the applications details.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: Q&A with Television Writer Jeff Drayer '93 on Wednesday, September 23, from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Location TBD. Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
PMA Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz has been awarded a 2026-2027 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Aldape Muñoz was one of 13 fellows selected from a competitive, national pool of candidates.
Female/Female-Identifying Vocalist for UK Dance Theatre Production "Suitcases" by Hit The Ground Running Dance Theatre Company.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences scholars are among the 42 faculty members and staff from 19 Cornell schools, colleges and units named Engaged Fellows for 2026-2027, the largest cohort since the program’s launch in 2013.
Cornell University alum Dominique Thorne '19 will visit campus Sept. 9-10 for film screenings, discussions and meetings with students. She’s the 2026 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist, a program of the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) in the College of Arts & Sciences.
PMA Department Chair and Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article by Isabel Bekele for Dazed called “Where are all the Black coming-of-age shows?”
Jeffrey Palmer, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, worked with President Barack Obama and his advisers to create two films for the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Three recent Cornell graduates were part of his production team.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) and Cornell Cinema will present a special screening of Power Alley (Levante), the acclaimed feature film directed by Brazilian filmmaker Lillah Halla, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The screening is free and open…
Austin Bunn, professor of performing and media arts in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed provost’s fellow for public engagement. He will work to advance Cornell’s public engagement mission and initiatives involving community-engaged learning and research.
Conjuring Memory, Reclamation & Community: How We Rewrite Our Narratives
PMA Professor David Feldshuh's Twelfth Night Adaptation Read at Illusion Theater
Enroll Now for PMA 1611: Rehearsal & Performance with Distinguished Guest Artist Jie-Hung Connie Shiau
PMA Professor Bruce Levitt and Phoenix Players Theatre Group to Host Community Events on August 23
PMA Ph.D. Alumnus Dr. Jimmy Noriega '11 Appointed Dean at Columbia College Chicago
PMA Professor Nick Salvato has published a new essay, “Everyday Camp: A Field Guide,” featured as the lead article in the summer 2026 issue of Theater magazine, a leading journal of performance and theater studies.
PMA Associate Professor Beth F. Milles recently directed a staged reading of End of the Century, a new play by Cornell alum Lee Rosenthal ’87.
PMA Professor J. Ellen Gainor has written an article called "Susan Glaspell, Actor" for the journal Coup de Théâtre, published by the French academic society RADAC. The article appears in a special issue called Susan Glaspell: Past & Present.