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PS IN PRACTICE - Did you know that Women & Performance was founded by PS Students in 1983? Since the journal's inception, W&P has operated as a feminist collective, publishing interdisciplinary feminist scholarship on performance. PS students regularly contribute pieces featured in the journal in addition to serving on its editorial staff. 

Click link for more information: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/events-affiliations#

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PS IN PRACTICE - Performance Studies Department founder and Professor Emeritus, Richard Schechner, is the editor of TDR: The Drama Review. PS students have the exciting opportunity to work with the TDR team by contributing to their quarterly publication. A forum for radical performance and theoretical intervention, TDR's work  engages performance in its aesthetic, historical, social, economic, political, and theoretical contexts. 

Click link for more info on PS programs and affiliations: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/events-affiliations#

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Are you going to be in NYC this summer? Stop by PS! Classes might not be in session, but we are still here! Make an appointment with us to hear more about our programs and the student experience. 

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https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/contact

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Congrats to M.A.s on finishing your program and your PS:PS Symposium this week! Here are a few moments from the work that was shared this week from the M.A. Class of 2019! 

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PS in PRACTICE -Our department has a unique relationship with NYU's Hemispheric Institute. Hemi's Founding Director, Diane Taylor, is a PS faculty. Their mission of  "connecting artists, scholars, and activists from across the Americas and creates new avenues for collaboration and action. Focusing on social justice, we research politically engaged performance and amplify it through gatherings, courses, publications, and archives." Many PS students connect with this mission and have the opportunity to work with Hemi on their programs, events, and conferences. They have their next conference this month in Mexico City. Learn more here: https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/ 

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WHAT IS A PSE? - The Performance Studies Experience series is a chance for students to come together for informational meetings to learn about programs like Tisch Study Away, academic research opportunities, or sometimes just for a pizza party! PS is a tight knit community but it is still important to gather as a group! Stay tuned for our Fall 2019 series schedule to be set later this summer. 

Click link for more information: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/events-affiliations/pse

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#TheoryThursday "Dance exists as a perpetual vanishing point. At the moment of its creation it is gone. All the years of training in the studio, all the choreographer’s planning, the rehearsals, the coordination of designers, composers, and technicians, the raising of money and the gathering together of an audience—all these are only a preparation for an event that disappears in the very act of materializing. No other art is so hard to catch, so impossible." - José Muñoz (p 81 Cruising Utopia)

Graduate student @gwenrakotovaocompany performing at the @hrartfestival #35mm photo documentation and quote selection by graduate student, @hell_data_ (jess saldaña)

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DID YOU KNOW? - That all Performance Studies B.A. majors need to have a minor, and many students choose to have a second major because the program is so flexible.  The  minor in a “related field” allows students to expand their interdisciplinary knowledge base from which to consider performance as a situated, context-specific practice. The minor could be in the humanities, social sciences, languages, or other arts. 

Read more here about the curriculum and structure of the B.A: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/degree-programs/undergraduate-program 

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SAVE THE DATE! - Not Yet Here: Cruising Utopia @ 10! Click link for more information: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/events/not-yet-here--cruising-utopia---10

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WHY PS @ NYU? "Based on my experience, I do not think that there is any program equivalent to NYU Performance Studies. When I was applying to NYU, I knew that I wanted to learn how performance works from inside out and how art institutions function behind the curtain. I was curious about how performance art began and where it is heading, and how it is currently changing the landscape of the contemporary art world. Performance Studies seemed like a perfect place to learn all of this." - Maria Koblyakova, (B.A. '19)

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Congratulations to our Graduation Award Winners! Find out who won here! 

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https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/news/ps-gradawards-2019

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TONIGHT: Join B.A. Graduate and M.A. candidate Manion Kuhn tonight at the opening reception of her co-curated "you feel me??? thinking through affect, impulse, and sensation" with Grace Rogers, Gallatin B.A. 2019, at Gallatin Galleries."you feel me???" features work of PS students Isa Saldaña, M.A. 2019, solYchaski, B.A. (Sol, 2020).

Learn more about Manion: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/ba-students/manion-kuhn

Click here for more information on the event: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/news/mk-you-feel-me

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Congrats to our graduates who participated in Salute at Radio City Music Hall on Friday! We are so proud and can't wait to see what you do next! 

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Count Down to Salute! We will be counting down 5 of our favorite moments of the year to celebrate our graduates and a year of hard work! 

1 Day to Salute: PRAXIS 2019! This past February, we invited current students, faculty, and alumni to come together and share their skills at Praxis, INC. Alumna Nandita Dinesh (M.A. '08) closed out the day-long event!

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2 Days to Salute: Naming the Studio and Chair's Office! In February, the PS community honored Department Founder and Professor Emeritus, Richard Schechner, naming the studio in his honor. Room 612 is now known as the Richard Schechner Studio! The department also celebrated Professor Emerita, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, who served as the Department’s Chair for over twenty years. The department’s Office of the Chair has been named in her honor.

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3 Days to Salute: Curating Symposium - This April, we held the Fourth Annual Curating Symposium. The panels discussed curating and performance through the lenses of text, video, and photo. Our final panel of the day celebrated the 10th Anniversary edition of José Muñoz Cruising Utopia.

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4 Days to Salute: Salon Series - This December our annual  student-driven initiative invited PS students from all cohorts to come together, collaborate, and learn how other PS students are applying the field of performance studies to their own work with a day of peer lead workshops and performances.