October 19: ON YOUR MARX: luciana achugar: BRUJX

a dance by luciana achugar October 19, Friday, 7:30 pm NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place luciana achugar, choreographer Brujx, a world premiere, ritualizes the labor of the dancers, exposing and transcending it to unearth the powerful and primal magic brujx within them. As in all of luciana achugar’s work it proposes DANCE as the necessary …

Show & Prove: The Tensions, Contradictions, & Possibilities of Hip Hop Studies in Practice

a two-day conference March 30, Friday 5 to 7 pm March 31, Saturday 8:30 am to 8 pm For more information, please email cmep(at)nyu.edu. Registration for the conference must be completed by filling out this FORM. For full schedule, click here. Show and Prove 2012 (S&P 2012) provides an opportunity for a community of scholars, …

The Politics of B-Girling and Battling: Lunch Talk @ NYU

THE POLITICS OF B-GIRLING AND BATTLING A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Imani K. Johnson October 18, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Imani Kai Johnson, Department of Performance Studies, NYU In a dance culture like breaking, how does movement shape gender politics and the cultural meaning of b-girling? 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741 between …

Brooklyn-based choreographer Miguel Gutierrez

in conversation with NYU Performance Studies PhD student Jenn Joy Monday, November 16 7-8:30 PM NYU Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th Floor NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the third event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum Miguel Gutierrez, an active figure in the New York scene for the past twelve years, …