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A Book Launch and Celebration! - The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida by Dr. Karen Jaime this Thu. Feb 24. 6 PM (EST)Join us for a book launch and celebration on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6 pm to honor Karen Jaime’s pathbreaking scholarship and reflect on the history of the New York institution that is the...
Save the Dates! Locally Grown Dance March 9-12, 2022Locally Grown Dance (LGD) will run from March 9-12, 2022, at 7:30 pm in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This year's Locally Grown Dance is an expression of both the students' and directors' drive to create and persevere despite the challenges of the pandemic...
Dr. Samantha Sheppard was recently a special guest host for Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Black History Month programming. Host Jacqueline Stewart, along with Dr. Samantha Sheppard, discussed the impact and importance of the films Lilies of the Field (1963), Freedom on My Mind (1994), and Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926) in wraparound segments that...
Research Talk by Dr. Kristen WarnerThe Department of Performing and Media Arts will host Dr. Kristen Warner, associate professor at the College of Communication & Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, for a talk titled Plastic, Plastic Everywhere: Locating Cultural Specificity in the Time of Plastic Representation, on February...
PMA Spring ‘22 Semester Casting CallTuesday, Feb. 22, 2022 starting at 5:00pmFlex Theatre (Class of '56 Flexible Theatre), Schwartz CenterWe are currently casting performers for the staged dramatic readings of the winning scripts at the Heermans-McCalmon awards, Water, staged dramatic readings of THE CLIMB by C.A. Johnson, and THE GULF by...
Acclaimed choreographer and dancer Mark Haim recently returned to Cornell after more than two decades to reprise his classic The Goldberg Variations with a new generation of Cornell dancers as a Whaley Aboaf Resident Artist of 2021-2022.Over the course of two very busy weeks, Haim worked with several dancers from across the university to teach...
