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PMA Graduate Student Isabel Padilla Carlo has been selected to be the Graduate Student Representative on behalf of the Dance Studies Association. She has also been selected for the 2024 Northwestern Performance Studies Summer Institute.
PMA Ph.D. student Jessie Taieun Yoon was selected as a runner-up winner for Biddy Martin graduate prize for best essay in LGBT Studies.
PMA Assistant Professor Jason Simms is the co-producer of a new play called Play of Delights, the culmination of a four-month theater project involving performers of all ages from Ithaca and Trumansburg. The production will take place on June 22 and June 23 at 4pm at the Youth Farm Project, 24 Nelson Road, Ithaca, NY.
PMA Associate Professor was quoted in an article from Primetimer called “Grey’s Anatomy Helped Redefine the Feminine Ideal for Millennials.” Grey’s Anatomy premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC, and recently concluded its 20th season.
PMA Professor J. Ellen Gainor has co-authored an academic article with Comparative Literature Visiting Lecturer John Un called “Jacques Copeau's “The Spirit in the Little Theatre”: Contexts and Texts” in the May 2024 edition of Theatre Survey.
Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz ’22 will be joining the faculty in the Department of English at Quinnipiac University this coming fall, teaching first-year writing.
PMA Alum and Visiting Lecturer Dr. Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz ‘22 has published an academic article called “You Can’t Go Home Again: Remakes as Trans Method” in the Arts & Culture section of the newest edition of Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ).
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
PMA Alum and Visiting Lecturer Dr. Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz ’22 has been invited to present at the Second International Trans Studies (SITS) Conference – the world’s foremost gathering of academic experts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and STEM committed to research on transgender and gender-minority issues.
The election recognizes Gainor as “a distinguished scholar of early 20th century American theater."
PMA Alum Nick Fesette ’18 has received tenure at Emory's Oxford College, where he teaches theater.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) is looking to hire a Visiting Lecturer in Dance for a one year, full-time position beginning August 16, 2024 and ending May 31, 2025.
Peter Levine is a performing and media arts & College Scholar major.
Ana Gabriela Carmona-Pereda is a performing & media arts major.
PMA/LSP Associate Professor Karen Jaime will be featured as a panelist at Lincoln Center discussing the opening of a new archives exhibition at David Geffen Hall. The exhibit, called "¡Oye! Puerto Rican Theater Breaks Through," focuses on the history of Puerto Rican theater in New York City.
PMA Alum L M Feldman ’01 has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference, for her play hand foot hand. The National Playwrights Conference will run from June 17 to July 14 in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, in Waterford, CT. L has also been selected as a Venturous Playwright Fellow for her play Another Kind of Silence. The Venturous Playwright Fellowship runs from 2023 to 2025.
PMA Alum Gloria Majule ‘17 has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference, for her play My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head.
In this episode, Chris and Leah met with student director and filmmaker, Kenny Aune '24, to discuss his honors thesis film, Doomscroll.
In this episode, Chris and Leah met with student director and filmmaker, Peter Levine '24, to discuss his honors scholar film, Remembering Colin Stall.
PMA Graduate Student Isabel Padilla Carlo will present her work at Northwestern University’s Graduate Student Conference, The Aesthetics of Race: Affects and Embodiments in Performance, on Saturday, May 4.
The creative team have worked for decades across music, text and visual art to explore complex histories and social tensions.
Congratulations to the three winners of the Dance Film Lab’s dance film competition!
First Place - Yiqi (Coco) Tan ’26 for "Through the Eyes of a Child"
Second Place - Penelope Day ‘24 for "Thought in Motion"
Honorable Mention - Jianing Zhao for "In Search of Flight"
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Acting Showcase Sharing presented by PMA 2800 Intro to Acting. Come and enjoy a selection of scenes and monologues from great plays!
Kelly Richmond, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts studies the role of live performance in responding to the climate crisis.
“A Whale Who Drank a Fish Bowl,” a feature-length film directed by PMA Lecturer Doorim Kim, will screen at the Houston Asian American & Pacific Islander Film Festival (HAAPIFEST) from May 30 to June 14, 2024. The movie will also screen at the Social World Film Festival in Vico Equense, Italy, from June 30 to July 7, 2024.
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Anna Evtushenko, PhD candidate in Information Science, has found joy and a home in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. In 2020-2023, she made 4 small-scale drama short films, which were selected for Cinequest, Beverly Hills Film Festival, and Chelsea Film Festival, among others. She learns by doing, and getting feedback. Come experience the work, share your thoughts on it, and learn about the production process.
In this episode, Leah and Chris met with Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo and visiting lecturer Olive Prince to discuss the 2024 Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series.
Sub-Basement Cinema is celebrating 35 years of student filmmaking! Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Student Film Screening, featuring the unique, beautiful, and empathetic works from Film I, Film 2 and Media Lab students. Let's come together and share a magical evening of storytelling through the language of cinema, 24 frames per second.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Honors Film Screening on Friday, May 3 at 7:30 pm in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The event will showcase two Honors Film Projects by the Cornell Senior class; DOOMSCROLL, an honors thesis film by Kenny Aune ‘24, and REMEMBERING COLIN STALL, an honors scholar film by Peter Levine ‘24. Support great storytelling and hear from the student directors themselves in a Q&A session following the screening.
PMA Graduate Student Isabel Padilla Carlo has won the 2024 Marvin Carlson Award for Best Student Essay for Theatre or Performance for her essay ”Si Tu No Sabe Kokobalé” and The Reclamation of Collective Memory as a Praxis of Liberation.
Kiana Cole will join virtually to discuss how student storytellers can face hardships in a challenging industry. Covering internships to first jobs, Kiana will speak with students about coping with rejection, pivoting when faced with adversity, and tuning into their self-worth.
Paige Chung and Lauryn Jones will present broadly about Black music and frame hip-hop and country music in modern time as a renaissance period.
Student-artists will reimagine the Kiplinger Theater in a work titled “This table has been a house in the rain,” through choreography and improvisation, innovative staging and ties to other art forms.
PMA graduate student and scholar specializing in dance and performance, Isabel Padilla Carlo has been selected to be a Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Fellow for 2024-2025. These fellowships “provide an opportunity for a select number of graduate students to engage with a broad, interdisciplinary community dedicated to the study of Latin American and the Caribbean,” according to the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Throughout spring 2024, a set installed on the Kiplinger Theatre stage for the short film “Remembering Colin Stall" doubled as an experimental zone for film and theater technology classes.
The new Off-Broadway play FISH features Scenic Design by PMA Assistant Professor Jason Simms and Assistant Scenic Design by PMA Alum Thea Goldman '22. Created by Kia Corthron and directed by Adrienne D. Williams, FISH opened on April 2 and runs until April 20.
Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.
In culmination of the yearlong Choreographing Justice Series and Cornell University’s Freedom of Expression Theme Year, the Department of Performing and Media Arts is pleased to announce the 2024 Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, from Thursday, April 25 through Saturday, April 27.
PMA Department Chair and Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article from the New York Times called “When Sean Combs Was ‘Living the American Dream.’”
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Sixty Years of Theatre Studies: A Talk by Dr. Marvin Carlson ’61 on Tuesday, April 16 at 4:30 pm, in Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to his talk, Marvin will be presenting the winner of this year's Marvin Carlson Award. A reception will follow.
PMA Department Chair and Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard was quoted in an article from the New York Times called “The Trumpification of Kristi Noem.”
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Dance Film Lab, on Friday, April 19, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The Dance Film Lab is a screening of student-directed short dance films, facilitated by Shawn Bible, president of the Dance Films Association and executive producer of the yearly Dance on Camera Festival. Cash prizes will be awarded to the three best student dance films, judged by Shawn Bible, and selected submitted films will screen at the event.
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for the Dance on Camera Festival Shorts Program: A Curated Screening of Short Dance Films, followed by a talkback with Shawn Bible on Thursday, April 18, from 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This showcase of award-winning shorts is curated and facilitated by Shawn Bible, president of the Dance Films Association and executive producer of the yearly Dance on Camera Festival.
In this episode, Leah and Chris welcome back PMA assistant professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz to discuss PMA’s upcoming event, The Alien Commons: Dance and Performance Beyond Citizenship.
The Alien Commons is a two-day event bringing together seminal artists making performances related to themes of borders, citizenship, and (im)migration—both legal and “illegal.” Featured artists include Tanya Aguiñiga, Zoë Klein, Gabriel Mata, and Liliana Gomez. Activities include an artist symposium and performance showcase.
PMA Associate Professor Karen Jaime will be giving a public lecture entitled, "Poetic Methodologies: Queer Memory Acts as Theory and Praxis," and perform her original poetry at Bucknell University, as part of their Colonial Entanglements Series. The lecture and reading will take place on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a PhD Candidate in PMA, will present her research surrounding the relationship between Danish social democracy and eugenics on Friday, April 12th at 3:00pm in the Film Forum.
On Tuesday, April 9, at 7:30 pm in the Film Forum, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will welcome Mike Chin, Maxe Crandall, and Hope Mohr for a screening of their film Before Bacchae Before, followed by a discussion of their collaborative dance theater project Bacchae Before. This project is an interdisciplinary, trans-centered response to Euripides' ancient tragedy, The Bacchae.
A professor in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts brought students to the Sundance Film Festival.