Performance Details
The Department of Performing and Media Arts presents:
Share In / Share Out
End-of-Semester Dance Showcase
Predominately student-devised dance works, specifically featuring Cornellians in PMA Dance Studio courses this fall semester: PMA 2300: Dance Composition and PMA 3210: Classical Dance Technique.
The Class of ’56 Dance Studio Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
430 College Avenue
Friday, November 21st, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 22nd, 2:00 p.m.
Department Note
The vision of the Department of Performing and Media Arts is to nurture and mentor artists, performers, writers, and thinkers through the process of event programming. We recognize that all people should see their stories represented, and envision their stories as valuable. We commit ourselves to creating spaces that actively seek to break down systems of oppression based on race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and place of origin and empower all to be involved. We seek to stimulate thoughtful discussion and enact social change within our productions and our audiences. It is our goal to make our events accessible to the wider Cornell and Ithaca community, to strengthen bonds and engage inquiry, dialogue, and impact around social and cultural expression.
In the 2025-2026 academic year we will help realize a wide range of students’ creative projects, from original plays, to solo performances, to readings, to choreographies, to acting, directorial, and curatorial projects. We are particularly happy that in addition to supporting live performances, we are now also supporting the production of student films. Enjoy the shows!
Program Note
Share In/Share Out is an end-of-semester showcase of predominately student-devised dance works, specifically featuring Cornellians enrolled in PMA Dance Studio courses this fall semester: PMA 2300: Dance Composition and PMA 3210: Classical Dance Technique. Each work is the culmination of a practice in studying, making, and performing dance rooted in personal meaning, critical inquiry, and intellectual curiosity.
This compilation of projects and portfolios is a part of "Dancing Home/Land," which is a yearlong series of live performances and activations, guest artist residencies and symposia, and extra/curricular experiences that engages artists, students, and communities in dialogue around memory, migration, and place—and where fantasy can serve as a site for re-worlding belonging and futurity.
Included in this event is the return of an original choreography by PMA's Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo in collaboration with Dr. Gabriela Gómez Estévez of the Cornell Department of Music and the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, performing Norman Dello Joio's "Choreography," which premiered on October 5, 2025 at Bailey Hall.
SPECIAL THANKS:
SHARE IN/SHARE OUT would not be possible without the support of our collaborators and community. Thank you to PMA Chair, Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard, and the department’s tremendous staff and production team. And, of course, thank you to our students, whose hearts and visions are at the center of what we do and why we do it.
Music in Motion: Cornell Chamber Orchestra
Violin I
Minh Nguyen, Physics ‘29, Concertmaster +
Alexandra Hui, Economics ‘29
Hailey Foster, Chemistry ‘27
Maxwell Shi, Computer Science ‘29
Sidney Nam, Dyson ‘28
Jenny Dong, Electrical and Computer Engineering ‘29
Helen Zheng, Mechanical Engineering ‘29
Alanna Zhang, Computer Science Grad
Violin II
Arvin Mou, Economics ‘29 *
Austin Zhang, Computer Science ‘29
Ella Yang, Biomedical Engineering ‘27
Anja Minty, Chemistry ‘27
Nandiniy Velayudhan-Dhamrait, Biological Sciences ‘28
Maxwell Swann, Biological Sciences ‘29
Howie Deng, Chemical Engineering ‘29
Giuliana Keeth, Comparative Literature & Spanish ‘26
Viola
Ava Murdock, Economics ‘29 *
Portia Wong, Entomology Grad
Ethan Oh, Biology & Society ‘29
Madeline Schatz-Harris, instructor
Cello
Aidan Yen, History & Biology and Society ‘27 *
Sage Baker, Undecided ‘29
Brian Chang, Economics ‘29
Christopher Suh, Undecided ‘29
Kate Sanders, Electrical and Computer Engineering ‘27
Bass
Sarah Orsinger, Archaeology Grad *
+ Concertmaster
* Principal
Spring 2026 Dance Courses
PMA 1611 Rehearsal and Performance is a dance and performance project course that culminates in the Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series for the Department of Performing & Media Arts (PMA). In Spring 2026, this course will run as a 9-week intensive during which students will learn, rehearse, and perform original choreographies by faculty and an acclaimed guest artist in a professionally produced mainstage show taking place on March 20 & 21, 2026. All genres, experiences, and levels are welcomed and embraced. Students seeking PMA Major or Minor credit should enroll for a minimum of 3 credits.
PMA 2221 Contemporary Dance Technique is an intermediate-level studio immersion in contemporary concert dance genres and methodologies germane to the 21st-century field. In-depth modules will extract and explore most notably from Bartenieff Fundamentals? and Countertechnique?, as well as ripen the sensibility and capacity for current trends and approaches to dynamic floorwork, such as Flying-Low?. The objective is to cultivate and champion a dynamic anatomy and body consciousness built on learned perception, sensation, and organization. This is achieved through the experiential research and framing of Total Body Connectivity, which is based on the perennial work of Irmgard Bartenieff: Breath, Head/Tail, Core/Distal, Upper/Lower Body, Body Halves, and Diagonal. T/R 2:00 pm -4:30 pm (3 credits)
PMA 3243 Making Dance on Camera is an interdisciplinary laboratory course where students acquire and apply fundamental camera, direction, editing, and production skills through the context and collaboration of dance/movement choreography. With studies and exercises ranging from dance film and cinema to music videos, screendance, and new media and digital platforms, students will develop both hands-on and conceptual skills to produce original projects in gaining a deeper, personal understanding of the practice, power, history, theory, and potential for the dancing/moving body and its story on screen. M/W 2:30 pm – 4:25 pm (4 credits)
Contributing Faculty
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Department of Performing and Media Arts, with research and teaching expertise in critical dance studies, (im)migration, and Latinx cultural production. In addition to writing about performance’s role in transforming society and ideas of citizenship, he’s a choreographer and dancer whose work has been presented internationally. He’s the former managing director of San Francisco’s Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. He is a 2024 writer and artist-in-residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). He sits on the Board of Directors for the Dance Studies Association.
Danielle Russo is an Assistant Professor of the Practice (Dance & Critical Dance Studies) at Cornell University. Her creative and scholarly research concentrates on aesthetics, philosophies, and thresholds of experimental dance/performance and interactive technologies for unconventional ‘stages’ and environments, frequently in the public realm and through socially engaged praxes. As a choreographer, she has been presented nationally at the American Dance Festival, Detroit Institute of Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts at Damrosch Park, The Oculus at the World Trade Center, and The Yard; and internationally in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Trinidad and Tobago. Residency and fellowship awards have included C.N.N. - Ballet de Lorraine (FR), Danscentrum Jette (BE), Independent Artists Initiative WUK (AT), Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation (US), Kaatsbaan (US), LEIMAY (US), Mana Contemporary (US), Nadine Laboratory for the Contemporary Arts (BE), New York Community Trust (US), Performing Arts Forum (FR), and Springboard Danse Montréal (CA), among others. She is a multi-year grant recipient of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Carnegie, Dance/NYC, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harkness Foundation for Dance, One Brooklyn Fund, and most recently, NYSCI with NYSCA and NYS DanceForce.
Driven by social and civic impact, she has been creative placemaking and producing large-scale performances and experiential artwork in architectural, historical, and politically-charged settings since founding Danielle Russo Performance Project/DRPP in 2010. Highlights include Armory Arts Week, Julian Schnabel’s Casa del Popolo, Governors Island, HERE Arts Center, The High Line Nine, La MaMA (fabNYC), LMCC River to River with Amy and Jennifer Khoshbin, Moynihan Station, Place des Arts, and Solange Knowles’s Saint Heron. Outside of her own devising, Russo danced with The Metropolitan Opera for several seasons. Prior to arriving at Cornell, she was faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, CUNY Queens College, University of Iowa, and The Joffrey Ballet School BFA and Professional Divisions. Since arriving at Cornell, she has been supported by the Cornell Council for the Arts, Society for the Humanities, and Arthur C. and Molly Phelps Bean Faculty Fellowship. Currently, she is a Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning with Cornell’s Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.