Perspectives on Performance

How did contemporary casting practices come into being? How did actors become freelancers? Do you know the sordid history of the headshot? How has casting changed in the internet era? Why do casting controversies figure so prominently in discussions about...

Join us for our first Perspectives on Performance talk of the semester: a dialogue between David Levine, Chair of Theater, Dance & Media, and American playwright Anne Washburn, about her immersive theater installation The Murder Room, which she is...

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes Shannon Jackson for its last Perspectives on Performance artist talk of the year, "Humans Performing More-Than-Human: Paradoxes in Ecological Aesthetics." If reckoning with the effects of climate change means challenging...

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes theatre critic Helen Shaw to the second Perspectives on Performance artist talk of the Spring 2024 semester! RSVP here. Please note this event will not be livestreamed. About Helen Shaw Helen Shaw is a theatre critic for...

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Theater, Dance & Media welcomes Catherine Quan Damman for the first Perspectives on Performance artist talk of the semester, titled "The Ramos Amendment." The talk is drawn from Damman's book project, Performance...

Perspectives on Performance welcomes artist Nick Mauss for his artist talk, "Staging Archives of Gestures." This event is co-presented with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and presented with the support of the Provostial Funds for the Arts and...

Perspectives on Performance welcomes Avery Trufelman, creator, host, and producer of Articles of Interest, for its first artist talk, "Performance of the Everyday," an examination of the role of clothing in daily existence, and what it means to dress...

Perspectives on Performance welcomes curator and art historian Megan Metcalf for March, with her artist talk, "Collecting Choreography: 1960s Dance in the Contemporary Art Museum." Perspectives on Performance is a series that invites prominent artists and...

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes cultural critic and historian Isaac Butler for its first Perspectives on Performance artist talk of the year, back in person! Please RSVP at the bottom of this page. Masks are strongly recommended for all audience members...

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes performer and compost-lover Alex Tatarsky. Alex will share some ongoing research into mask performance and the connections between clowns and dirt clods – considering their shared choreographies of falling down and falling...