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Join us for a Professional Directions: A Conversation with Gabriella Mosses on Thursday, Feb 16 at 5pm in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (430 College Ave.)
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Locally Grown Dance (LGD) is an annual dance showcase performed by PMA dance students.
March 9th, 10th, and 11th, 7:30 p.m., Kiplinger Theatre
A staged reading of a work in progress, Soul Mining is a short meditation on emotion, connection, and sensation as we consider the entirety of our lives and the eventual trajectory of the natural world. More of an allegorical or abstract representation than anything else, the work follows four unnamed characters as they puzzle over what they have been left with and what they have left behind. Written by John Colie.
February 18th, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre
Dotun Ayobade is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He studies how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meaning of community, justice, and activism in late twentieth century West Africa. The title of Professor Ayobade's talk is Ethnographies of Serious Play: Sensing the Ludic in a Women’s History of Afrobeat Music
February 17th, 3:00 p.m., Film Forum
Professor Kristen Warner responds to the 11 awards nominations for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with caution: "we are still on an incremental set of progressions that can still only favor one racial group at a time."
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The 10th Annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented student filmmakers!
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The Heermans-McCalmon Dramatic Writing Competition is open to current Cornell undergraduate students now until noon on Friday, January 27, 2023.
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Invitation to Propose a Student Project - We invite you to propose work that you would like to present for AY 2023-2024.
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Llhuros – its relics, rituals, poetry, and music – as well as the academic commentary it inspired, "documents just one tiny little sliver of Cornell’s history. But it’s a fascinating one.”
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Now showing as a loop on the digital screen above the box office in the Schwartz Center lobby are the short films students created for the PMA 1410 Media Production Lab - Fall 2022 course.
Please join us for a screening of final films from the Environmental Film Production course of the Performing and Media Arts Department at Cornell. Student short films range in form and content, exploring ecological questions. At 5:30 we will have snacks and the screening will begin at 6pm.
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Save the Date! The Projects & Participation Kick-off for Spring 2023 is happening Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 7:30pm
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A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.
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Join us as students from PMA's film production courses screen their films in the Schwartz Center's Kiplinger Theatre.
… Mini Locally Grown Dance (MLGD) is PMA's annual fall dance production. This … students will present in their entirety at the March 2023 Locally Grown Dance. This year's MLGD is four works by …
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Join us for a special preview screening of the award-winning psychological horror fable, Nanny, on Tuesday, November 15, at 8pm, Cornell Cinema. A Q&A discussion with Keri Putnam (in person – former CEO & Executive Director, Sundance Institute; A.D White Professor-at-Large) and Nikyatu Jusu (virtual – Writer & Director, Nanny) will follow. This event is free and open to all.
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The film by Jeffrey Palmer and Austin Bunn has been entered into five film festivals; they’ll hear word of acceptance soon.
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Professional Directions: Q&A with Keri Putnam, Co-founder of ReFRAME and former CEO of the Sundance Institute. Moderated by Jessica Bardsley and Daniel Pfeffer. Free and open to the public and first-come, first-served
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This Professional Directions session will explore the current environment for scholar-practitioners from diverse backgrounds, and how socially conscious performance can or should contribute to making a change in the world.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
Schwartz center for the Performing Arts, Film Forum
430 College Ave Ithaca, NY 14805
Free and Open to the Public
Raelle Myrick-Hodges has worked as a stage director for over twenty-five years and as a producer/curator for more than ten. She is the founder of Azuka Theater in Philadelphia. In this Professional Directions, Raelle will discuss her work as a director and practicing theater artist.
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"Ghosts" tells the story of three Kiowa boys' daring escape from a government boarding school in Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1891, to attend a ghost dance ceremony at a distant Kiowa encampment.
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The Department of Performing & Media Arts is seeking theatre technicians to work backstage on two Fall 2022 productions.
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Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts is searching for a Production Stage Manager to support a range of productions, events, and teaching.
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The Asian American Studies Program will hold a symposium with second director Gary Okihiro and other events this year.
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Baby Rock is a bilingual children's musical adapted from the original Spanish play by Carlos De Matteis.
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HumaNatures is full of surprises, featuring nine actors playing various roles across ten one-act plays. From classic tales to new works of drama, a hilarious, moving, and dynamic look at who we are as a species, what we're not, and where we are going on this wild ride through the universe. HumaNatures features students from PMA 4801 Advanced Studies in Acting Techniques with Theo Black and Raelle Myrick-Hodges directing.
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On Saturday, October 8th, 2022 Professor Karen Jaime (LSP/PMA) launched Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love (Hemi Press 2022), a print and digital anthology including both prose and poetry that aims to celebrate the life and legacy of Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder, Miguel Algarín.
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Jaime launches Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love (Hemi Press 2022), a print and digital anthology including prose and poetry that aims to celebrate the life and legacy of Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder, Miguel Algarín.
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The internationally-renowned Indigenous Canadian Kaha:wi Dance Theatre will perform their poignant "The Mush Hole" at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 28.
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Dr. Kareem Khubchandani and Dr. Samantha Iwowo are the speakers for the Fall 2022 PMAPS Colloquium
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A series of special events, including visits from alumni involved in theatre, film and television, is being planned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Teatrotaller, a theatre troupe formed to promote Spanish, Latin American and Latino culture.
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Update: Due to travel-related issues, this evening's (10/14) Professional Directions with Tia Lessin '86 has been postponed to a later date.
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Tia Lessin '89 will be on campus Oct. 13 for a screening at Cornell Cinema.
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Once Upon a Time in A Place Called Now: An Interactive Storytelling Workshop for Artists, Activists, and Educators
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Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts seeks a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer or Assistant/Associate Professor of the Practice in Intermedia
Dance/Multidisciplinary Movement for a full-time position beginning July 1, 2023.
Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts seeks a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer or Assistant/Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Production for a full-time position beginning July 1, 2023.
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Heidi Latsky, Artistic Director and Founder of the Heidi Latsky Dance Company (a "physically integrated" dance company that brings together disabled and nondisabled performers), will be the Guest-Artist-In-Dance from October 12th to October 15th at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
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Cornell University welcomes the internationally-renown indigenous Canadian dance troupe Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, to perform their poignant and powerful theatrical dance performance, The Mush Hole.
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"After Nature Had Drawn a Few Breaths" was a three-channel video and nine-channel light installation that was on display on the outer walls of the Schwartz Center from April 14 - May 5, 2021.
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Congratulations to Dana Lerner '14, co-producer of COMPANY, for winning a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical!
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This year’s anniversary of Philippine martial law is momentous, says professor Christine Bacareza Balance.
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This year, 15 new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.
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Kristen Warner, Performing and Media Arts
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Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Performing and Media Arts
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Professor Karen Jaime's book The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021) was awarded a Silver Medal in The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Book category at the 24th Annual International Latino Book Awards
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Alumna Karen Jaime wins book award that recognizes greatness in literature honoring authors, translators, and illustrators.
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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Festival 24 features an array of plays written, directed, rehearsed, and performed by students in just 24 hours!
Produced by Taylor Bazos and Andrew Aman with assistant producer Ethan Ordower and technical director James Tallman.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts is hosting a Call for Actors - Fall 2022.
Thursday, August 25th 7:00PM
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Flexible Theatre
430 College Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850
Roles available for stage and screen. Meet directors in a low-stress environment and see what is of interest to you!
Open to all Cornell students, faculty and staff. For details and to sign up, go to the Callboard at bit.ly/PMAcallboard22