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Centrally Isolated Film Festival celebrates the work of student filmmakers from across the upstate and greater central New York region. This year submissions from around the world were accepted and programmed into this year's exciting line-up.
Situating Lesbian Desire is a live staged reading of C.A. Johnson’s The Climb and Audrey Cefaly’s The Gulf, two plays that investigate gender, sexuality, and place. The Climb synopsis: Marge is a photographer, and her wife, Tiffany, has been her sole photographic subject for seven years. When Tiffany goes on a month-long hiking trip to get...
WaterAn immersive media art installationConceived by Shanti Pillai, Thea Goldman, and Anastasia Kreisel April 22-23, 7:00 p.m.Black Box TheatreSchwartz Center for the Performing Arts Reserve times at SchwartzTickets.com. Admission times will be staggered in 5 minute intervals for groups up to 3. Parties larger than 3 will be split. This...
A writer is encouraged to “write what they know” and offer their own perspective on the multi-faceted world. That may prove daunting, like it does to Maria, the protagonist of A Chicano’s Guide to Navigation, a one-act show which ran at the Black Box of the Schwartz Center March 24-26. It’s a meta-theatrical journey into what stories to include...
PMA 1611: Rehearsal & Performance presentsHaunted Natures, Hidden Environments, an immersive-environmental performance.May 6-7, 7:30 p.m.Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (430 College Ave., Ithaca, NY)Haunted Natures, Hidden Environments is an immersive-environmental performance that will take place in several theatre/performance...
Learn about Grad School for Performance / Performance Studies. Sabrina Liu ‘20 is an Acting MFA at the University of California San Diego. Allen Porterie ‘20 is a Masters student at the University of Texas Austin. When: Friday, April 22, 12:30 pm - 2 pm Where: bit.ly/pma-panel22Please contact pma@cornell.edu for Zoom password.
Save the date! Come and enjoy our incredibly talented PMA Senior Class, as they present the PMA Thesis Film Screening. These incredible films represent the very best of the program and speak to complex issues and the current moments in our lives. Support great storytelling and hear from the directors themselves in a Q&A session following the...
In stillness and in turbulence, the world will always respond to the language of art! At least, this seems to be the belief of Xinlei Sha, Parijat Jha, Kat Roberts, Nia Whitmal, Ami Tamakloe, and Nadav Wall, students in Dr. Natasha Raheja’s Advanced Documentary Class, supported by media assistant Randy Hendrickson. These students choose the...
Submission Deadline:
Completed application forms (including your essay and list of dancers) should be submitted as soon as possible. Members of the PMA faculty will review the applications and choose the grant recipients. We will announce the winners as soon as the committee has made its selection. Rehearsals will begin mid-September.
If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Deppen, Production Manager at ald244@cornell.edu.
Samantha N. Sheppard, associate professor of performing and media arts, has been named a 2021 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Join us as students from PMA’s film production courses screen their films in the Schwartz Center's Kiplinger Theatre.
