Performance Studies

Contents

• About the Department
• Faculty Profiles
  • GSAS Faculty Search
• Graduate Program
  • Send mail to Tisch Admissions
  • Request an Application
  • Programs and Requirements
  • Courses
    • Tourist Productions
• Undergraduate Program in Dramatic Literature, Theater History, and Cinema
• Conferences
  • "Performance and Technology": The Third Annual Performance Studies Conference
• Resources
  • Dance Resources at Bobst
  • Performing Arts Resources at Bobst
  • NYU/NYC: Theater, Film and Video
  • NYU/NYC: Music, Dance and Poetry
• Financial Information
  • Financing Graduate Education
  • GIGS: Grants in Graduate Studies

About the Department

Chair of the Department

Associate Professor Peggy Phelan

Associate Chair

Assistant Professor Barbara Browning

Areas of concentration include: contemporary performance, dance, movement analysis, folk and popular performance, postcolonial theory, feminist and queer theory, and performance theory. Performance studies training can lead to careers in teaching, research, theatre and performance reviewing and scholarship, writing, editing, arts administration, and management of performing arts collections.

Students may serve on the editorial staffs of TDR: the journal of performance studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, which are produced within the Department of Performance Studies. The department also operates the Shubert Archive.

New York is not only a world center for theatre and dance, both traditional and experimental, but also the home of an extraordinary diversity of folk and popular performance traditions. Students in the program are encouraged to take full advantage of the city's unparalleled resources for research and professional development--museums, libraries, archives, live performances of all kinds, and a large network of performance professionals.

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