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In a recent article in TheatreForum, Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts PhD student Joshua Bastian Cole discusses trans representation, trans casting, and explains the casting choices he made for his play Two Truths and Allie at Cornell in spring 2017."I knew from the start that I wanted to cast a trans man and a cis man...
Department of Performing and Media Arts assistant professor Karen Jaime's poem “A Political Statement” has been published in the anthology Latinas: Protests and Struggles in the 21st Century USA, edited by Iris Morales. The anthology from Red Sugarcane Press "is a timely collection of poetry and prose reflecting on women’s lived experiences and...
When: March 1–3, 7:30 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETS, or BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE only at the Schwartz Center box office, Monday–Saturday, 1:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.For Cornell University senior Danielle LaGrua, the intertwining of music and dance can lead to unexpected results. “As a performer, music...
Call for PlaysAttention all past, present, future, and non-linear playwrights! The time has arrived to see your work performed upon the stage. Submissions are now open for the 2018–2019 10-Minute Play Festival. Interested playwrights should submit their CV and an 8- to 11-page script to kbr42@cornell.edu by Thursday, March 15, 2018. Selected...
Rosalie Purvis, a PhD student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, directed and starred in a cross-cultural adaptation of José Rivera’s play The Winged Man in January 2018.Purvis collaborated with the Kolkata-based theatre company Chaepani, whose aim is to share stories across cultural boundaries to foster a sense of community. Purvis...
For Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts PhD student Kriszta Pozsonyi and sophomores Mihoko Sakanaka and Andraya DiMeglio, comedy is no laughing matter. For their work in PMA 1135: Screen Queens of Comedy in spring 2017, each received cash prizes from the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.Pozsonyi,...
When: March 1–3, 7:30 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETSThis year's Locally Grown Dance will run from March 1–3, 2018 in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Nightly performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. and select pieces will be accompanied by live music.Directed by...
NEW DATEWhen: Sunday, March 25, 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Where: Class of '56 Dance Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Ave.All are welcome to observe this audition workshop with Tony-winning director Sam Gold '00 and pre-selected students. This event is free and open to the public. Sam Gold will also be in conversation...
When: Monday, February 12, at 4:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us for a Q&A with editor/director Yaara Sumeruk.Yaara Sumeruk's short film Ringo premiered at The Locarno International Film Festival and is a Vimeo Staff Pick. She has directed videos for Google, Penguin Books, Park Hyatt, USPS, and has...
Given the open-to-interpretation themes “weather” and “mix and match” and 24 hours, students created and performed four plays and one dance at Festival 24, a biannual event which featured the culmination of dozens of Cornell performers’ work this Saturday.Co-producers Irving Torres-Lopez ’18 and Camilo Reynolds-Dominguez ’20 began recruiting...
What did you do in the 24 hours starting from Friday at 6:30 p.m.?A group of students were creating something incredible from scratch. Festival 24, which started in 2008 with only theatre productions, recently added film and dance performances to showcase the work of other students in the Performing and Media Arts department. Festival 24...
Due to the growth and expansion of creative work undertaken in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, access to dance spaces in the Schwartz Center will become more limited than in the past. The department values in its own work, as well as in work that is to be supported by PMA, the demonstration of ethical commitments and the careful...
When: Monday, January 29, beginning at 7:00 p.m., callbacks January 30 & 31Where: Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsOpen to all Cornell students, faculty, and staff! Sign up on the online callboard.Spring auditions for four productions will be held on Monday, January 29, starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Flex Theatre,...
When: Saturday, January 27, 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)Where: Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsCome join us for a free evening of theater, film, and dance!Festival 24 is in the Flex Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Students write, cast, choreograph, rehearse, and perform various plays, film,...
When: Thursday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.Where: Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsEarn Cornell credit while learning about carpentry, costumes, electrics, welding, lights, sounds & life!A Crew Meeting (PMA 1610/2610) is scheduled for Thursday, January 25, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in the Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the...
In a recently published Teaching Artist Journal article, Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts professor Bruce A. Levitt and graduate student Nick Fesette write about how "practicing collaborative prison theatre to cope with traumatic experiences constitutes a pedagogy of self-narrating, self-teaching, and self-humanizing." "The Phoenix...
Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts professor Bruce A. Levitt and graduate student Nick Fesette present a detailed description of the Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG), which comprises incarcerated men at the Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Auburn, New York.In this piece, Levitt and Fesette detail the...
President Martha E. Pollack has charged a 12-member committee of faculty from across the university to envision what Cornell’s presence in New York City might look like over the next decade.Part of the committee’s initial effort is to identify and recommend collaborative opportunities that complement, enrich and enhance the work of the Ithaca...
When: Wednesday, December 6, at 7:00 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz CenterPlease join students from Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts' film production courses for the screening of their films in the Schwartz Center's Kiplinger Theatre on Wednesday, December 6, at 7:00 p.m.The screenings will include films from the PMA 3570...
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) will host a series of lunchtime roundtables with its curatorial team of faculty in the arts to facilitate a conversation of duration and contemporary art. The CCA lunchtime roundtables will invite an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students to informally present their own work and research with the...
The Department of Performing and Media Arts is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017–2018 Heermans-McCalmon writing competition for plays and screenplays.SCREENPLAY1st place: In the Cold by Sarah Nixon2nd place: The Absence of No by Madeleine GrayHonorable mention: Love Trumps Hate by Janilya BaizackSTAGE PLAY1st place: I Did Something...
Attention all student filmmakers!The 5th annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF) is seeking submissions from talented student filmmakers for this year's upstate New York competition. Selected films will be screened at the Centrally Isolated Film Festival on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY, on April 13 & 14, 2018.Submission...
When: November 30, December 1 & December 2, 7:30 p.m.Where: Class of ’56 Dance Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETS ($5)Solemn to outrageous, still to manic, is how Jumay Chu, senior lecturer in the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) describes the range of short modern dance pieces...
"Climates of Change: A Living Newspaper Play" Performance ScheduleAll performances are free and open to the public.December 1: 7:30 p.m., Film Forum (B21), Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Ave., IthacaDecember 2: 2:00 p.m., Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Rd., IthacaDecember 2: 7:30 p.m., Film Forum (B21), Schwartz...
Congratulations to alumna Amanda Idoko ’10, who has been named as one of The Tracking Board’s 2017 Young & Hungry List of Hollywood’s 100 Top New Writers!“I’ve been writing non stop and hustling out here, so it felt great to be recognized for something I’ve worked so hard on. I’m excited to keep going and for my words to reach a larger...