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When: Saturday, October 29, 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.Where: Film Forum (B21), Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsFree and open to the publicFacebook eventFrom Cell to Cell: The Prison in Television and Performance is a one-day conference gathering scholars, artists, and activists to explore the intersections between theatre and performance-...
When: Monday, October 24, 4:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsALISON TATLOCK is a screenwriter and playwright whose credits include the critically acclaimed AMC drama HALT AND CATCH FIRE, the Netflix series STRANGER THINGS and the award-winning HBO drama IN TREATMENT (starring Gabriel Byrne and Debra Winger)....
When: Thursday, October 20, 5:00 p.m.Where: SB10, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsAdam Weinert is a performer, thinker and artist, and "living archive” who has brought into question the role of dance in the art world and the problematic nature of the archive in live performance.Click here for a video with additional links to other videos...
In 2003, Gregory Bright was exonerated after serving 27.5 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He shared his story of wrongful conviction and forgiveness with the Cornell community on Saturday evening in a one-man show titled, “Never Fight a Shark in Water.”This interview originally appeared in The Cornell Daily Sun.
When: Nasser (97 mins.)Tuesday, October 18, 20164:30–7:30 p.m.Film Screening and Q&A SessionSadat (57 mins.)Mubarak (58 mins.)Wednesday, October 19, 20164:30–7:30 p.m.Film Screening and Q&A SessionWhere: Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies & Research CenterBio: Filmmaker/author Jihan El Tahri is an award-winning director,...
When: Tuesday, October 18, 4:30 p.m.Where: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsTia Lessin '86 is the Academy Award–nominated director and producer, with Carl Deal, of Trouble The Water (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance), and Citizen Koch. She produced Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next and co-produced Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for...
Bruce Levitt, professor of performing and media arts and inaugural recipient of Cornell’s Engaged Scholar Prize, will deliver “Human Again: Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Redemption” Friday, Oct. 28, at 3:45 p.m. in 120 Physical Sciences Building. The lecture is free and open to all.Following the lecture, which will examine how a public...
When: Tuesday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETSYouTube clipThe music of innovative jazz musician John Coltrane, with its experimental, improvisational sound and political and spiritual inspirations, serves as the soundtrack for Brooklyn-based dance company Urban Bush Women in...
"In May 1988, girlfriends Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight were attacked while hiking the Appalachian Trail by a ‘mountain man’ named Stephen Roy Carr. Combining documentary and narrative material, In the Hollow tells the story of the shooting, Wight’s death, and Brenner’s desperate survival (and later transformation into an advocate for hate...
Richard Schwartz ’60, the namesake of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, died of pancreatic cancer complications this week at his home in Upper Nyack, New York. He was 77 years old.The Schwartz Center was dedicated in 2001, after the longtime donor made a variety of contributions to Cornell. Schwartz and his wife also endowed the Richard J...
When: Saturday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.Where: Flexible Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsIn 1975, Gregory Bright was wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Bright served 27-and-a-half years of that sentence. On Saturday, Oct. 15,...
Deadline for proposals (or at least drafts): Friday, October 14, 2016, 12:00 p.m.To submit a proposal, please follow the appropriate link: 2017–2018 P&E Faculty Proposal Form2017–2018 P&E Student Proposal FormThe Performance and Events Committee wishes to invite faculty and student directors, choreographers, filmmakers, designers,...
When: Thursday, September 29, and Saturday, October 1, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, September 30, 4:30 p.m. Where: Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsBUY TICKETSThe Association for Graduates in Theater (AGIT) and the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) at Cornell University announces its fourth annual 10-Minute Play...
BUY TICKETSListen to Desert of Light playwright Rama Haydar and director/PMA Assistant Professor Rebekah Maggor discuss the play with WHCU Talk Radio's Lee Rayburn.http://whcuradio.com/morning-newswatch/desert-of-light-this-weekend-only/Set outside Damascus in the Yarmouk refugee camp, Desert of Light reveals the tragic absurdity of the Syrian...
When: Thursday, September 22, 4:30 p.m.Where: Brockway Hall, Jacobus Lounge, SUNY CortlandSUNY Cortland English Department Distinguished Voice in LiteratureVan Burd Memorial Lecture in Literary Criticism byDr. Nick Salvato"Early Late Style in Roseanne's Nuts"Nick Salvato is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Performing and Media...
In this episode of TAP, a theatre and performance studies podcast from the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis, host Sarah Bay-Cheng talks to Sara Warner of Cornell University about Paula Vogel's recent completion of her PhD degree.Listen here.
“All of this beautiful space around you is space for you to dance in and explore,” instructed Jorge “Popmaster Fabel” Pabon, as funk music played and around 60 undergraduates, graduate students, Cornell staff, Ithaca residents and high school students spread out and experimented with popping moves.Pabon, a renowned hip-hop dancer and longtime...
When: Thursday, September 22, 4:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsSOONI TARAPOREVALA wrote the screenplays to Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, Girl Rising, and directed her script Little Zizou. She has written for Fox Searchlight, Hollywood Pictures, and Universal, among others.
BUY TICKETSCornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) presents Desert of Light, a black tragicomedy by Palestinian-Syrian writer Rama Haydar. The play was co-translated from the Arabic by the playwright and PMA Assistant Professor Rebekah Maggor, who also directs. Performances are September 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m. and...
Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will continue its tradition of student-led theatre, film, and dance performances with students serving as directors, writers, and choreographers, as well as artists, in its 2016–17 shows.A highlight of the fall semester will be the world premiere Sept. 22–24 of “Desert of Light,” a...
Cornell Performing and Media Arts (PMA) faculty members Nick Salvato and Aoise Stratford have co-written a new play inspired by a 1909 novel set in Ithaca, “Tess of the Storm Country.”Their play, “Storm Country,” will open The Cherry Arts’ 2016-17 season over two weekends, Sept. 9-11 and 16-18. The production is a “headphone play,” designed to...
When: Thursday, September 8, 4:30 p.m.Where: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsA walking tour of Auburn, NY, will take place on Friday, September 9. Participants will meet at 2:00 p.m. at the Cayuga County Historian's Office, which is at 10 Court Street in Auburn (just off of Genesee Street)."Black Childhood on Trial: The Tragedy...
Learn to pop and lock, as well as the story of the (r)evolution of NYC gangs into hip-hop culture, rock dance history, urban stylized lettering, and much, much more! Led by the Cornell Hip Hop Collection's fall 2016 Visiting Scholar, Popmaster Fabel (of the world-famous Rock Steady Crew).7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Wednesdays, September 7–October 5...
When: Tuesday, August 30, 7:00 p.m.Where: Black Box Theatre (SB21), Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsAuditions are open to all Cornell students, faculty, and staff.Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl Directed by David FeldshuhThe Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel Directed by Aleksej Aarsaether '1710-Minute Playfest Produced by Caitlin KanePrepare...
The Cornell PMA Performance and Events Committee is proud to present the following list of PMA Performances and Events scheduled for 2016–17. We look forward to seeing you in our audiences and working with you on our stages, in our production shops, and in our classrooms in what will be an exciting and challenging year of making and experiencing...