Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Anna Evtushenko, PhD candidate in Information Science, has found joy and a home in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. In 2020-2023, she made 4 small-scale drama short films, which were selected for Cinequest, Beverly Hills Film Festival, and Chelsea Film Festival, among others. She learns by doing, and getting feedback. Come experience the work, share your thoughts on it, and learn about the production process.
In this episode, Leah and Chris met with Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo and visiting lecturer Olive Prince to discuss the 2024 Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series.
Sub-Basement Cinema is celebrating 35 years of student filmmaking! Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Student Film Screening, featuring the unique, beautiful, and empathetic works from Film I and Film 2 students. Let's come together and share a magical evening of storytelling through the language of cinema, 24 frames per second.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Honors Film Screening on Friday, May 3 at 7:30 pm in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The event will showcase two Honors Film Projects by the Cornell Senior class; DOOMSCROLL, an honors thesis film by Kenny Aune ‘24, and REMEMBERING COLIN STALL, an honors scholar film by Peter Levine ‘24. Support great storytelling and hear from the student directors themselves in a Q&A session following the screening.
PMA Graduate Student Isabel Padilla Carlo has won the 2024 Marvin Carlson Award for Best Student Essay for Theatre or Performance for her essay ”Si Tu No Sabe Kokobalé” and The Reclamation of Collective Memory as a Praxis of Liberation.
Kiana Cole will join virtually to discuss how student storytellers can face hardships in a challenging industry. Covering internships to first jobs, Kiana will speak with students about coping with rejection, pivoting when faced with adversity, and tuning into their self-worth.
Paige Chung and Lauryn Jones will present broadly about Black music and frame hip-hop and country music in modern time as a renaissance period.
Student-artists will reimagine the Kiplinger Theater in a work titled “This table has been a house in the rain,” through choreography and improvisation, innovative staging and ties to other art forms.
PMA graduate student and scholar specializing in dance and performance, Isabel Padilla Carlo has been selected to be a Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Fellow for 2024-2025. These fellowships “provide an opportunity for a select number of graduate students to engage with a broad, interdisciplinary community dedicated to the study of Latin American and the Caribbean,” according to the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Throughout spring 2024, a set installed on the Kiplinger Theatre stage for the short film “Remembering Colin Stall" doubled as an experimental zone for film and theater technology classes.
The new Off-Broadway play FISH features Scenic Design by PMA Assistant Professor Jason Simms and Assistant Scenic Design by PMA Alum Thea Goldman '22. Created by Kia Corthron and directed by Adrienne D. Williams, FISH opened on April 2 and runs until April 20.
Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.
In culmination of the yearlong Choreographing Justice Series and Cornell University’s Freedom of Expression Theme Year, the Department of Performing and Media Arts is pleased to announce the 2024 Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, from Thursday, April 25 through Saturday, April 27.
PMA Department Chair and Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article from the New York Times called “When Sean Combs Was ‘Living the American Dream.’”
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Sixty Years of Theatre Studies: A Talk by Dr. Marvin Carlson ’61 on Tuesday, April 16 at 4:30 pm, in Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to his talk, Marvin will be presenting the winner of this year's Marvin Carlson Award. A reception will follow.
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.
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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.
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.