The Performance Research Workshop's last WIP (works-in-progress) of the term will be a presentation from Hershini Bhana Young (English), “Crossing the Mediterranean: Haptic Encounters with Berni Searle.” Please join us Thursday April 12, 2-3:30 in Clemens 904.
“Brothers’ Keepers: Notes from a Black Dance Dramaturg” Nadine George-Graves (UC San Diego) Brother(hood) Dance! is an interdisciplinary duo that seeks to inform its audiences on the socio-political and environmental injustices from a global perspective, bringing clarity to the same-gender-loving African-American experience in the 21st century. Brother(hood) Dance! was formed in April 2014 as a […]
A public debriefing on the visits of CAS Visiting Professor of the Arts Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin (U Georgia) and CAI artists-in-residence AT BUFFALO
Ivorian Koffi Kwahulé has authored some 25 plays that are among the most performed francophone works in Europe. Writing often with jazz music in the background, he seeks to build the kind of “monument to absence” that he believes jazz is: recognizing both its origins and its haunting presence. His play Jaz (1998), reveals a […]
Dr. Chloe Johnston is Associate Professor of Theatre at Lake Forest College, and a long-time member of the Chicago Neo-Futurists, an award-winning performance ensemble. Dr. Johnston is also a prolific solo performer, writer, teacher, and scholar whose work has been seen on stages in Chicago and Los Angeles and in the journals TDR, Liminalities, Theatre […]
Book Club: Emily Sahakian, Staging Creolization: Women’s Theatre and Performance from the French Caribbean (available through UB Libraries E-Books) in advance Sahakian's October 12th talk. Emily Sahakian (Ph.D., Northwestern University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales) is Associate Professor of Theatre and French at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Staging […]
In 1971, the Martinican writer Édouard Glissant created the avant-garde, educational play Histoire de nègre (Tale of Black Histories) with a group of Caribbean schoolteachers, and it toured throughout Martinique, reaching over 2,000 working-class spectators. In the following decades, however, the play and Glissant’s grass-roots theatrical activism would remain virtually untouched by critics and artists, […]
4:00 PM | Introductory Presentation, “Performing Feminism in Renaissance Venice” Sarah G. Ross | Professor and Chair, History Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 5:00 PM | Performance Seven women debate gender equality, the true worth of women and the responsibility of husbands, fathers, sons and lovers. From a 1600 book written by a Venetian […]
PRW discussion session with choreographer Netta Yerushalmy, an award winning Guggenheim fellow, in residence at UB with her interdisciplinary project Paramodernities, thanks to funding Rob Falgiano (Theatre & Dance) was awarded through the National Endowment for the Arts Limited seating – contact Christian Flaugh (cflaugh@buffalo.edu) by Tuesday, November 13 About: Netta Yerushalmy is an Israeli-born […]
“Mostess," a five course performance experience with J Dellecave, Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2018), Theatre & Dance Click here for more information on J’s work as an interdisciplinary performance maker, scholar and educator More details to come!
