PMA Department Chair Samantha Noelle Sheppard Quoted in NYT Article
PMA Department Chair and Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article from the New York Times called “The Trumpification of Kristi Noem.”
PMA Department Chair and Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article from the New York Times called “The Trumpification of Kristi Noem.”
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Dance Film Lab, on Friday, April 19, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The Dance Film Lab is a screening of student-directed short dance films, facilitated by Shawn Bible, president of the Dance Films Association and executive producer of the yearly Dance on Camera Festival. Cash prizes will be awarded to the three best student dance films, judged by Shawn Bible, and selected submitted films will screen at the event.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Dance on Camera Festival Shorts Program: A Curated Screening of Short Dance Films, followed by a talkback with Shawn Bible on Thursday, April 18, from 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This showcase of award-winning shorts is curated and facilitated by Shawn Bible, president of the Dance Films Association and executive producer of the yearly Dance on Camera Festival.
In this episode, Leah and Chris welcome back PMA assistant professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz to discuss PMA’s upcoming event, The Alien Commons: Dance and Performance Beyond Citizenship.
The Alien Commons is a two-day event bringing together seminal artists making performances related to themes of borders, citizenship, and (im)migration—both legal and “illegal.” Featured artists include Tanya Aguiñiga, Zoë Klein, Gabriel Mata, and Liliana Gomez. Activities include an artist symposium and performance showcase.
PMA Associate Professor Karen Jaime will be giving a public lecture entitled, "Poetic Methodologies: Queer Memory Acts as Theory and Praxis," and perform her original poetry at Bucknell University, as part of their Colonial Entanglements Series. The lecture and reading will take place on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a PhD Candidate in PMA, will present her research surrounding the relationship between Danish social democracy and eugenics on Friday, April 12th at 3:00pm in the Film Forum.
On Tuesday, April 9, at 7:30 pm in the Film Forum, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will welcome Mike Chin, Maxe Crandall, and Hope Mohr for a screening of their film Before Bacchae Before, followed by a discussion of their collaborative dance theater project Bacchae Before. This project is an interdisciplinary, trans-centered response to Euripides' ancient tragedy, The Bacchae.
A professor in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts brought students to the Sundance Film Festival.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: with Stand-up Comedian and Performer Sam Morrison ’17 on Wednesday, April 10, from 5:00 – 6:00 pm, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Sam Morrison will take questions from the audience and discuss his work as a comedian, performer, and writer. The event will be hosted by PMA Associate Professor, Austin Bunn.
Come learn more about internship opportunities with Cornell in Hollywood on Tuesday March 19 at 5:00 p.m. This event will take place on Zoom.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts will host filmmaker Zhang Mengqi and her highly acclaimed film “Fairytale in 47 KM.” This is the ninth film of the “47 KM” series. Mengqi exclaims, “In 2019, I spent my tenth winter in “47 KM” village. On one of the village’s hills, a new space is coming into being, from children’s drawing paper to the solid ground, from a fairy tale to the reality. Why I named this film Fairy Tale? Why do we need fairy tales? In 2020, I started editing this film, it was a special year. It seems to me to be a reboot, a reconfirmation of the present and the future. After the screening Mengqi will then have an intimate talkback with students and guests.
Katherine Lynn-Rose’s musical short film Class Crush has been accepted to the 2024 TIFF Next Wave Film Festival and the 2024 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). TIFF will run from April 11-14 in Toronto, Ontario, and NFTTY will run from April 25-28 in Seattle, Washington. Full festival schedules to be announced.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: All About Animation on Thursday, March 21, from 6:00 – 7:00 pm, in Conference Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The event will be hosted by PMA Visiting Assistant Professor, Juanie Fowlkes.
Come learn all about the ins and outs of careers in animation. Jennifer del Rey, Chaz Bottoms, and Halima Lucas will be joining virtually to talk all about the process of animation and what it takes to make your favorite animated shows and movies! Students will have a chance to ask questions, learn more about animation production, and find pathways into animation as a career.
Directors from Film I & Film II will present their ideas for short film projects.
Actors will sign up to be in the films (no audition required).
Production for these projects will begin in late March.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions with Filmmaker Jason Goldman '03 and Colorist Greg Reese '02 on Friday, March 8, from 12:00 - 1:15 pm, in Conference Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
In this episode, Leah and Chris met with actor, director, and senior psychology and PMA major Fannie Massarsky to discuss her senior thesis and upcoming production of Aaron Posner’s Stupid F##king Bird.
PMA Ph.D. student, writer, and film producer, Rejoice Abutsa has published an academic article called Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022) in the Journal of African Cultural Studies.
PMA Associate Professor Christine Bacareza Balance will be giving a lecture entitled, "'Why Don't You Love Me?:’ A Feminist Killjoy Perspective on the Broadway musical HERE LIES LOVE," at Harvard University's Asia Center and as part of its Philippines Lecture Series. The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2024 and is free and open to the public.
PMA Professor Mendi Obadike delivered an artist talk with Keith Obadike on February 5, 2024 at The Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto. Their talk explored “the significance of the Obadikes’ substantial body of conceptual artwork in the context of Black and decolonial activism and knowledge production.”
Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.
CLOSER will begin by weaving together and through an Artist Talk, Live Performance, and Q&A Session. It will culminate in an open-level, community-centered Improvisation Jam in the second hour.
The Alien Commons is a two-day event bringing together seminal artists making performances related to themes of borders, citizenship, and (im)migration—both legal and “illegal.” Featured artists include Tanya Aguiñiga, Zoë Klein, Gabriel Mata, and Liliana Gomez. Activities include an artist symposium and performance showcase.
The Department of PMA is holding a competition for the best student dance films to be showcased at the Dance Film Lab, facilitated by Shawn Bible, president of the Dance Films Association and executive producer of the yearly Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center.
Spencer Whale ’14, a Performing and Media Arts alum who graduated with a Theatre Arts degree, will make his Broadway debut as the Assistant Director for the upcoming show, "LEMPICKA." The production comes to Broadway on March 19 at the Longacre Theatre in New York City."
In this episode, Chris and Leah met with production manager Andrew Deppen and production stage manager Alexa Alfonsi to discuss their recent arrivals here in Ithaca, what inspired them to work in their field and the emerging synergy between them as they prepare for upcoming stage film and dance productions in the 2024 spring semester.
Join the Department of Performing Arts from March 7-9 for four performances of Stupid F##king Bird, a play by Aaron Posner, directed by Fannie Massarsky ’24.
On Friday, March 15, at 7:30pm, join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for I Came Back for Molly, a solo performance written and performed by Molly Carden, directed by Abigail Zealey Bess, and choreographed by David Maurice Sharp. The event will take place in the Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Gloria Majule ’17, a Performing and Media Arts alum who graduated summa cum laude, is the winner of a 2023 Leah Prize for her play Culture Shock. The prize included a $5,000 cash award and the play had a public reading in July 2023 at Vassar College.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: So You Think You Wanna Produce? Event schedule and location To Be Announced. The event will be hosted by PMA Visiting Assistant Professor, Juanie Fowlkes.
PMA Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz is a featured artist speaker for the upcoming UC Santa Barbara Series Traverse: Moving & Making Beyond State & Colonial Violence, on February 15. His talk will be dedicated to performance studies and (im)migration. There will be a Zoom option available for those interested in joining remotely.
On Friday, April 12th 2024, the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will present a book talk by Professor Branden Buehler about his new book ‘Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media.’ The event will take place at 5:00pm in the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
The 11th Annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented student filmmakers for this year's competition.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: Women in Charge on Friday, February 16, from 5:00 - 6:15 pm, in Conference Room 220, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The event will be hosted by PMA Visiting Assistant Professor, Juanie Fowlkes.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for 'A Body in Places' a Solo Performance by Artist Eiko Otake and a Screening of 'No Rule is Our Rule' followed by a Q&A.
In this episode, Leah Ingalls, a junior in PMA major, met with recent Cornell graduate Alex ArbitalJacoby to discuss his time as a student at Cornell, his experiences in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, and to shine some light on his post graduation plans in New York City.
Scenic Design created by PMA Assistant Professor Jason Simms is featured in a production of A Raisin in the Sun that opened on January 30 and runs until February 18.
On Saturday, March 23, join Multidisciplinary Visual Artist and Journalist Isaac I. Scott for an Art Workshop followed by a screening of BEFORE TIME / AFTER TIME, introduced by Isaac I. Scott and Professor Bruce Levitt. Full event details below.
An In-Memoriam broadcast of American Masters, N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear produced and directed by PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer, will air on Saturday, 2/3 at 4:30pm EST on WNET/13, PBS’s largest affiliate station.
Four special guests, including Arts & Sciences alumni, will be honored at the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Baltimore in February.
On Friday, March 1, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will welcome Film Composer Dyani Douze for back-to-back events in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for PMAPS Colloquium: Sound, Structures, and Site by Mendi + Keith Obadike on Friday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m. in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. In this presentation, Mendi + Keith Obadike will discuss recent site-specific sound installations and public art projects as well as new works in development.
Join us for the Dance Town Hall on Monday, Jan. 29
The film focuses on the gendered implications of deepfake technology; a free screening Feb. 7 will be presented by the Milstein Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, partnering with Cornell Cinema.
“A Whale Who Drank a Fish Bowl,” a feature-length film directed by PMA Lecturer Doorim Kim, is an official narrative feature selection of the 19th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. It will premiere there on Monday, January 29 at 10:30 AM CST.
Thirteen student-community projects received grants through the Community Partnership Funding Board’s latest round of funding. Their shared goal: to bring social justice to the community.
Kristen Warner, who studies the impact of racial representation in the performing arts, highlights the shutout of Ava Duvernay’s “Origin” across the board, as well as racial politics of the Oscars.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts invited thirteen distinguished dance guests in Fall 2023 as part of the Choreographing Justice Series, which continues in Spring 2024. The Choreographing Justice Series is a collaborative project by Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo and Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz. A yearlong program of guest artist talks, curricular & extracurricular workshops, symposia, and live and multimedia performances, the series challenges to us think and move in more just ways. “How can dance and performance disrupt a space, a consciousness, a culture?” Russo asks. “How can the dancing body be a site of healing, empowerment, and resistance to systemic injustices and erasures? How can dance be a practice of justice?”
The veteran Hollywood exec boasts a resume including Oscar winners, ratings toppers and critical favorites.
Cornell Cinema's spring semester film slate features a mix of contemporary and classic films selected to spark curiosity, inspire understanding, and advance teaching across disciplines.
It's that time of the semester again... Festival 24! Festival 24 is a once-per-semester festival where Cornell students write, direct, and perform a compilation of 15-minute plays and films all within 24 hours! Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts on Saturday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.